Is today a fast day?
Your phone can tell you.
Strict, or wine and oil? Fish allowed? Orthodox Daily Companion gives the fasting rule for the date you are standing in, on the calendar your parish keeps.
Free to download for iPhone & iPad · From the publisher of the Lives of the Saints calendar, since 1995
The fast, plainly,
every day of the year.
A plain answer for today
Is today a fast? Strict? Fish and wine? A clear, per-day answer from the Church calendar - not a chart to decode.
On your calendar
The fixed fasts move with the Old and New calendars. The app follows the one your parish keeps, every feast marked under both.
Through the whole year
Great Lent and Holy Week, the Apostles', Dormition, and Nativity fasts, the fast-free weeks, and the ordinary Wednesdays and Fridays in between.
Beside the rest of the day
The fast sits with the saints, the readings, and the prayers, so keeping it is part of the day rather than a separate chore.
A widget and reminders
A Home Screen widget and prayer reminders bring the day to you before you go looking for it.
Your priest comes first
The app gives the traditional rule. How strictly you keep it is a question for your priest or spiritual father.
Less arithmetic,
more fasting.
The Orthodox fast follows two cycles at once: the fixed feasts of the calendar and the moving cycle of Pascha. Working out where a given day falls - and on which calendar - is exactly the kind of thing a phone should do for you.
Orthodox Daily Companion is made by the family that has printed the Lives of the Saints calendar, with its daily fasting guidance, since 1995. See everything in the app.
Before you download,
the honest answers.
- Is there an app that tells me if today is an Orthodox fast day?
- Yes. Orthodox Daily Companion shows the fasting rule for each day - whether it is a fast, and whether it is strict or allows wine and oil or fish - on the calendar your parish keeps.
- Does it work for Old Calendar churches?
- Yes. The fixed fasts fall on different civil dates on the Old (Julian) and New (Revised Julian) calendars, and the app follows whichever your parish keeps.
- Should I follow the app or my priest?
- Your priest. The app gives the traditional rule of the Church calendar; practice varies between parishes, and how strictly you keep the fast is a question for your priest or spiritual father.
- Is there an Orthodox fasting app for Android?
- Orthodox Daily Companion is for iPhone and iPad only. On Android, the Lives of the Saints web app carries the fasting rule in any modern browser.
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Download Orthodox Daily Companion for iPhone and iPad, free - or open the web app in any browser.