Best Divine Office Apps: 8 Breviary Apps Compared

The best divine office app is first a question of which book it carries. If you pray the modern Liturgy of the Hours, the free Divine Office app from DivineOffice.org has the best audio, Universalis is the most careful text with an English and Latin option, iBreviary is free and multilingual, and Laudate puts the hours inside a free all-purpose Catholic app. If you pray the traditional Roman Breviary of 1962, the field is much smaller: Divinum Officium on the web, Breviarium Meum on the iPhone, a small Android app drawn from Divinum Officium, and Iter Fidei. Here is every serious breviary app compared, with what each one really contains.

First question: which Divine Office?

Two different books go by the name of the Divine Office today, and no app can carry both as its daily book without choosing one calendar.

The Roman Breviary is the traditional Office of the Roman rite, whose last typical edition is that of 1962, under the rubrics promulgated by Pope John XXIII in 1960. It keeps the night Office of Matins and seven day hours, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline, after the word of the psalmist: "Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice" (Psalm 118:164). Since St Pius X's constitution Divino afflatu (1911), it prays all hundred and fifty psalms every week.

The Liturgy of the Hours is the Office as reformed after the Second Vatican Council and promulgated by Paul VI in the constitution Laudis canticum (1970); its volumes appeared from 1971. It has no Prime, turns Matins into an Office of Readings, spreads the Psalter over four weeks and follows the reformed calendar.

They are two books, not two translations of one book, and on many days they do not even keep the same feast. Our guide What Is the Divine Office? walks through the traditional hours one by one, and our article on the Liturgy of the Hours sets out the differences in detail. Almost every popular divine office app carries the 1971 book. That is not a fault; it is simply what they were built for. But it is the first thing to check.

What makes a good breviary app?

Once the book is settled, five practical questions separate one app from another:

1. Latin: can you pray the Office in the Church's own language, alone or beside your own?
2. Audio: is there a voice to pray with, for the car, the walk or the evening when your eyes are tired?
3. Offline: does the app work in a chapel, on a plane, in a hospital, without a connection?
4. Price: free, a single purchase, or a subscription?
5. Ease: does the app resolve the day for you, or must you know the rubrics to find your place?

That last point matters more than it seems. A printed Breviary asks you to move between the psalter, the proper of the season, the proper of the saints and the common; a good app does that work for you and simply shows the hour, in order.

The divine office apps compared

App	Book	Latin	Audio	Offline	Price	Platforms
Divine Office (DivineOffice.org)	Liturgy of the Hours (US edition)	No	Yes, every hour	Downloads each day's prayers	Free, donations welcome	iOS, Android, web, podcast
iBreviary	Liturgy of the Hours, partial 1962 section in Latin	Yes	No	Yes, after downloading	Free	iOS, Android, web
Universalis	Liturgy of the Hours	Yes, alone or beside English	Paid add-on	Yes	Free website; app $9.99 on iPhone	Web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows
Laudate	Liturgy of the Hours	Yes, separate Latin version	Podcasts	Partly	Free	iOS, Android
Divinum Officium	Roman Breviary, rubrics from 1570 to 1960	Yes, beside English	No	No	Free	Web
Breviarium Meum	Traditional Roman Breviary (1962 or earlier)	Yes, beside a translation	No	Up to a week ahead	$0.99	iPhone, iPad (separate HD app)
Divine Office (St Anselm Technologies)	Roman Breviary, 1960 rubrics	Yes, beside English	No	Yes, Office through 2030 included	Free	Android
Iter Fidei	Roman Breviary 1962, all eight hours	Yes, beside English	For the Rosary	Yes	Free	Android (iOS to follow)

Prices and features are those listed by each publisher in October 2026; check the stores for current figures in your country.

Divine Office (DivineOffice.org)

The Divine Office app is the one most people mean when they search for a divine office app, and for good reason. DivineOffice.org records the hours of the Liturgy of the Hours, read and sung by a rotating community of voices, with hymns, so that you can pray along as if in choir. You can change the speed of the audio, and the same recordings are published as a podcast and, since 2022, as Alexa skills. The app and the website are now free, sustained by donations. It uses the English Liturgy of the Hours approved for the United States.

Its limits follow from its purpose: it is English only, it follows the reformed calendar, and it carries nothing of the 1962 Breviary. For a Catholic who prays the modern Office and wants a voice beside him, it is the best audio breviary app there is. Do not confuse it with the Android app of the same name described below, which carries the traditional Office.

iBreviary

iBreviary, created by Fr Paolo Padrini, is a free app with the Breviary, the Missal and the Lectionary of the current rite, in several languages, Latin among them. Texts can be downloaded in advance for offline use. Its Latin settings also contain a Vetus Ordo section with hours of the 1962 Breviary, which its developers describe as still being expanded, in Latin only. It is text-first, sober and widely used by priests. For the old Office, its Vetus Ordo section is a help to a Latinist, but its calendar and daily structure follow the reformed books.

Universalis

Universalis is the most polished text-based liturgy of the hours app: every hour, the Mass readings, a full calendar with many local calendars, and an option to pray in English, in Latin or in both side by side. The website is free; the iPhone and iPad app is a single purchase of $9.99, the Android app a single purchase on Google Play, with computer versions by registration code. Spoken audio of the Hours is a paid add-on. It works entirely offline. It is quiet, careful and dependable, and it carries the 1971 Office only.

Laudate

Laudate is the free generalist among Catholic apps. It holds the Liturgy of the Hours in English and in a separate Latin version, with the daily readings, two Bibles, the Rosary, chaplets and a large library of prayers, without a subscription. Its interface is crowded and some sections need a connection, but it costs nothing. Like the others above, it follows the reformed rite.

Divinum Officium

Divinum Officium is a free, open-source website that reconstructs the traditional Office and Mass for any date, under the rubrics of several eras from 1570 to 1960, with Latin beside a translation. For anyone attached to the old Office it has long been the reference, and several of the traditional apps draw their texts from it. Its limits are those of a desktop website: dense on a phone, no audio, and no offline use.

Breviarium Meum

Breviarium Meum (Latin for "my breviary"), by Giovanni Manelli, is the established traditional breviary app on the iPhone, with a separate HD version for the iPad. It carries the traditional Latin Breviary, with a parallel translation in English or several other languages (some of them incomplete), and lets you download the texts up to a week ahead to pray without a connection. It costs $0.99. It is a faithful, modest tool; its last update dates from June 2023, and it has no audio.

Divine Office (St Anselm Technologies, Android)

On Android, a free app called Divine Office, published by St Anselm Technologies, brings the 1962 Roman Breviary under the 1960 rubrics to the phone, with its texts taken from Divinum Officium. It gives the eight hours in Latin, English or both side by side, with the Mass propers of the day, and bundles the Office through 2030 in the app, so that it works offline with nothing to download. It is a simple text reader, and a useful one; its shared name makes it easy to confuse with the DivineOffice.org app.

A 1962 breviary app built to be prayed: Iter Fidei

Every app above has its place, and several are made with real devotion. But the apps with the best design and audio carry the 1971 book, and the apps that carry the 1962 Breviary are, for the most part, plain readers of the Divinum Officium texts. Iter Fidei is our answer to that gap: the Divine Office app of a project built solely for the traditional Roman rite, a 1962 missal and breviary app in one.

• The eight hours of the 1962 Breviary: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline, resolved for the day on the 1962 liturgical calendar, with no rubrics to work out.
• Latin and English side by side, laid out to be prayed rather than decoded, so that the Latin is learned by praying it.
• Offline, for the chapel, the train and the sickbed.
• No feed, no streaks, no meditation branding.
• Set in the whole traditional day: the Mass of the 1962 Missal in our Latin Mass missal app, the Rosary of fifteen mysteries with synchronised audio (we compare the dedicated ones in our guide to the best rosary apps), the litanies and the novenas, and the Vulgate beside the Douay-Rheims, which our comparison of the best Catholic Bible app options sets against the others.

Iter Fidei is free and available on Android, with iOS to follow. Before installing anything, you can pray today's Lauds from the 1962 Breviary on our site.

If you pray the Liturgy of the Hours, DivineOffice.org and Universalis will serve you well. If you pray the Breviary of the saints, in its traditional form and in the Church's own language, that is what we built.

Free divine office apps for iPhone, iPad and Android

Most people searching for a divine office app download free will find plenty of choice, as long as they know which book they want:

• Free, 1971 Liturgy of the Hours: Divine Office (DivineOffice.org), iBreviary and Laudate, on iPhone, iPad and Android; Universalis is free on its website, paid as an app.
• Free, 1962 Breviary: Divinum Officium on the web; the Divine Office app of St Anselm Technologies on Android; Iter Fidei on Android.
• On the iPhone and iPad for the 1962 Breviary: Breviarium Meum for $0.99, with a separate HD app for the iPad.

For a free divine office app for Android in the traditional rite, then, there are two choices; on the iPhone, Breviarium Meum remains the established one for now.

Is there an audio breviary app?

Yes, for the modern Office. DivineOffice.org is the leader, with the hours recorded and sung, free; Universalis sells spoken Hours as an add-on. For the 1962 Breviary we know of no app that reads every hour aloud. The traditional Office was meant to be chanted in choir, and its Latin hymns and psalm tones are a world of their own; the nearest thing on a phone is still to pray the text yourself, slowly, in a quiet place. Compline, largely fixed and short, is the best place to begin, as our page on Compline explains.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best divine office app?

For the modern Liturgy of the Hours, DivineOffice.org is the best for audio and Universalis the best for text, with Latin. For the traditional 1962 Breviary on a phone, the choice is between Breviarium Meum on the iPhone, the St Anselm Technologies app on Android and Iter Fidei, which lays out all eight hours in Latin and English on the 1962 calendar.

Is the Divine Office app free?

Yes. The DivineOffice.org app is now free on iPhone, iPad and Android, and the project is sustained by donations. Its audio of every hour is included.

Is there a breviary app for the 1962 Roman Breviary?

Yes, a few. Breviarium Meum carries the traditional Latin Breviary with a translation on the iPhone and iPad; on Android, the St Anselm Technologies app and Iter Fidei carry the 1962 Breviary in Latin and English, offline. On the web, Divinum Officium gives it for any date.

Does Universalis or iBreviary have the traditional Breviary?

Universalis does not: its Latin texts are those of the modern Office. iBreviary has a partial Vetus Ordo section in Latin, but its calendar and main texts follow the reformed books.

Can I pray the Divine Office offline?

With most apps, yes. Universalis works entirely offline, iBreviary and Breviarium Meum let you download the texts ahead of time, and the St Anselm Technologies app and Iter Fidei carry the Office on the device. Divinum Officium, being a website, needs a connection.

Is there a divine office app for the iPad?

Yes. The DivineOffice.org app, iBreviary, Universalis and Laudate all run on the iPad for the modern Office. For the traditional Breviary, Breviarium Meum has a separate HD edition designed for the iPad, also at $0.99, and Divinum Officium opens in any iPad browser.

Which divine office app has Latin and English side by side?

Universalis offers English and Latin side by side for the modern Office. For the 1962 Breviary, Divinum Officium, Breviarium Meum, the St Anselm Technologies app and Iter Fidei all set the Latin beside a translation.

Iter Fidei carries the eight hours of the 1962 Divine Office, the Mass of the day and the prayers of the Church, in Latin and English, even offline. Join early access here.

Sources. Holy Scripture, Douay-Rheims: Psalm 118:164. Breviarium Romanum, editio typica 1962; Missale Romanum, editio typica 1962; St Pius X, apostolic constitution Divino afflatu (1911); Pope John XXIII, motu proprio Rubricarum instructum (1960); Paul VI, apostolic constitution Laudis canticum (1970).