iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch
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Either Buy for £9.99 ($9.99 or €9.99)
- Get Universalis from the App Store.
- It lasts for ever and you never need to pay again.
- One purchase covers all your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
or – Subscribe for £0.79/month ($0.99 or €0.99)
- Get Catholic Calendar from the App Store.
- One month’s free trial before you need to subscribe.
- One subscription covers all your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
or – Free trial
- Get Catholic Calendar from the App Store.
- Use it for a month.
- At the end of the month, decide if you want to buy Universalis or take out a monthly subscription to Catholic Calendar.
- If you don't do anything, you won't be charged. You'll still have a free Catholic calendar with articles about the saints and feasts of each day.
or – Free if you have already bought a Universalis registration code.
Content & features
Full liturgical calendar including many national and local calendars.
About Today – pages for every saint and feast.
Liturgy of the Hours – Psalms, prayers and readings from every Hour: Morning Prayer, the three daytime Hours (Terce, Sext and None), Evening Prayer, Night Prayer and the Office of Readings, in English or Latin or both. Translations: The readings are from the Jerusalem Bible and the psalms are the Grail version, which is used across the English-speaking world.
The Order of Mass – The new English translation of the Order of Mass, which came into use in 2011. You can optionally view the text in Latin and some other languages side by side with the English.
Readings at Mass – First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel Acclamation and Gospel, plus the antiphons and prayers for the Mass of the day, in English or Latin or both. Translations: You have a choice between the Jerusalem Bible readings with the Grail psalms (used in most of the English-speaking world) and the New American Bible readings and psalms (used in the USA).
Mass Today – A single page that gives you the whole of the Mass of the day: the Order of Mass with all the readings, antiphons and prayers filled in.
Lectio Divina – The Gospel of the day arranged for private or shared meditation.
The Angelus
Music & audio
You can get the following music and audio from within the app.
The Gospel at Mass spoken in English (Jerusalem Bible translation) – on subscription for £1.99 per month ($1.99 or €2.49) or £18.49 per year ($19.99 or €21.49).
Compline (Night Prayer) – £3.99 ($3.99 or €4.99). Sung Latin Compline (Night Prayer) for Sundays from the Schola Cantorum of The London Oratory School, which is one of the leading liturgical choirs in Britain. The boys have recorded this music especially for use in Universalis. Here is a short sample.
Spoken Hours in English – on subscription for£2.99 per month ($2.99 or €3.49) or £27.49 per year ($29.99 or €31.99). All the hours, for every day.
The spoken daytime Hours in Latin are also available.
The Angelus – free. You can listen to it in either English or Latin.
Free samples are available in the app before you buy. This page has more information about music and audio.
- You do not need an Internet connection to use this app.
- There are no time limits: you can view any date, past, present or future.
- The pages are formatted for best appearance on your device.
- You can choose to scroll up and down, like a web page, or turn the pages, like a book.
- You can easily change the font and type size to suit your needs.
- For reading at night, you can make the text appear light on a dark background.
- If you are blind, VoiceOver can read the text out loud for you.
- If you have the Apple Watch, you can read the Gospel of the day on it, and see the saint of the day at a glance.
- Lets you create a Universalis Automatic events calendar containing the saint or feast of each day.
- Lets you set up the automatic daily email service.
Older versions of iOS
The current version of the Universalis app works on iOS 9.3.5 and above. If you have an older version of iOS, the App Store will let you download an older version of the Universalis app. Here are Apple's instructions. Apple Insider has a longer article about this, with an accompanying video, but it may not be fully up to date.