The Orthodox day,
in your pocket.
Daily prayers, scripture readings, the lives of the saints, the fasting rule, and the wisdom of the Church Fathers — gathered into two purpose-built experiences you can open before the rest of the world wakes up.
Mobile when you want a companion.
Web when you want the full library.
Orthodox Daily Companion is the native iPhone and iPad app. Lives of the Saints is the browser-based web app. Each has its own access, features, and subscription.
Orthodox Daily Companion
The native Apple app, with a Home Screen widget, prayer reminders, and a private on-device journal.
Download on the App StoreLives of the Saints Web App
The browser experience for desktop, tablet, or phone, with a seven-day trial of the complete devotional library.
Open the web appSix things that make
an Orthodox day.
These practices span the mobile and web experiences; exact library access, premium features, and pricing vary by app.
Daily Scripture & Readings
The appointed Epistle and Gospel for the day, in an easy-to-read font. Each with short commentary from the Holy Fathers.
Lives of the Saints
A full life for every saint of the day — not a stub. Written to be read slowly with morning coffee, not skimmed in a panic.
Morning & Evening Prayers
A traditional rule of morning and evening prayer in readable layouts shaped for a phone screen or a quiet browser window.
Fasting Rule
Is today a fast? Strict? Fish and wine? Get a clear, per-day answer based on the Church calendar.
Ask the Fathers
Carry the wisdom of St. John Chrysostom, St. Isaac the Syrian, the Desert Fathers, and other patristic classics into the day.
A Private Journal
A quiet place for the day's reflection, a prayer intention, or the name of someone on your heart. The mobile journal stays on your device.
The browser experience,
shown up close.
A quiet opening to the day
The Today view gathers the saint, the feast, the readings, and the fast into one page. No notifications to clear, no feed to scroll — just what the Church set before you this morning.
- The saint of the day with a full life
- Gospel and Epistle for today
- The fasting rule, answered plainly
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The Daily Office, shaped for a phone
Morning and evening prayers laid out so you can actually pray them — not wrestle with PDFs or hunt through a website. Large, readable type; rubrics that don't get in the way.
- Morning & evening prayers in English
- Trisagion, Psalms, Creed, commendation
- No ads, no paywalled prayers
Ask the Fathers, get a real answer
Every answer cites the author.
- Philokalia & patristic classics indexed
- Every quote linked to its source
- Works for catechumens and lifers
Built for Orthodox Christians —
not a generic devotional.
Most “Christian apps” assume a single evangelical default. These experiences don’t. Orthodox Daily Companion and the Lives of the Saints web app are built from the ground up for Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians — Greek, Antiochian, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, OCA — with the typicon, the saints, and the fasting tradition the Church has kept for two thousand years.
Whether you’re a lifelong Orthodox Christian, a catechumen reading your way toward Chrismation, or an inquirer discovering the Church for the first time, the daily rhythm is the same: open your chosen app, pray the morning prayers, read the appointed scripture, meet the saint of the day. Thirty years of calendar craft, available in your pocket and in your browser.
The morning routine of
thousands of Orthodox homes.
“I open it before I open anything else in the morning. It's changed the shape of my day.”
“As a catechumen, this app is the reason I haven't felt lost. The lives of the saints are written like real stories.”
“Finally, an Orthodox app that doesn't feel like a side project. The Fathers search alone is worth it.”
“My wife and I pray the Daily Office from this each morning. It's become part of our marriage.”
The web app: seven days free,
then less than a coffee a week.
- The full Daily Office — morning & evening
- Every saint of the day with a full life
- Gospel & Epistle with patristic commentary
- Fasting rule
- Ask the Fathers — Philokalia & classics
- Private journal and full devotional library
Prefer the native mobile app? Orthodox Daily Companion is free to download, and optional premium features are purchased and managed separately through Apple.
Before you sign up,
the honest answers.
Across the two experiences you can follow the saint of the day, appointed scripture, morning and evening prayer, fasting guidance, patristic wisdom, and private reflection. Exact library access and premium features differ by app; the comparison above links directly to each one.
Orthodox Daily Companion is free to download from the App Store and includes the daily synaxarion, prayers, and a daily saying; optional premium features are purchased through Apple. The Lives of the Saints web app offers a separate seven-day trial of its complete devotional library.
Orthodox Daily Companion is the native mobile app for iPhone and iPad. The Lives of the Saints web app works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, or phone. They are distinct experiences, so features, accounts, and subscriptions may differ.
Especially then. Every prayer and reading includes context, and the lives of the saints are written as stories — not reference entries. Thousands of catechumens use it to learn the rhythm of the Church before they ever step into a parish.
The mobile app keeps its private journal on your device. Some library and premium features require a connection, and the browser-based web app requires internet access.
More from the tradition.
Meet the saints
Hundreds of lives — martyrs, ascetics, and wonderworkers of the Church.
ExploreOrthodox countries
How the faith is lived and kept across the Christian world.
ExploreRead the Journal
Feasts, fasting, and the rhythm of the Church year, explained.
ExploreThe 2026 Calendar
A saint for every day of the year — printed, bound, and shipped.
ExploreBegin tomorrow morning
with the Church.
Download the native iPhone and iPad companion, or begin a seven-day trial of the full web app. Pick the experience that fits the way you pray.