Evangelizo

Evangelizo is a Catholic daily app that brings you the day's Gospel, the Mass readings, the saint of the day, and prayers, in ten languages.

Each day you get the readings for Mass, the Gospel, a commentary from the Church Fathers or a saint, and the life of the saint the Church remembers that day. You can switch the whole thing between French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, German, Arabic, Italian, Polish, and Armenian, which is rare to find in one place. It is the app side of the long-running Evangelizo daily email service.

The commentaries set it apart. A lot of daily-readings apps stop at the text, but this one pairs the Gospel with words from a saint or Father of the Church, which gives you something to actually chew on. I find that a short, ancient reflection does more for me than a modern paragraph trying too hard to be relevant.

It is good for daily Mass-goers, for keeping up your prayer in another language, and for households where more than one language is spoken.

It is not a full Bible or a Liturgy of the Hours app, so if you want the whole Office you will need something else alongside it. The design is plain and a little dated, but it is clear and does not get in the way.

It is free, from the Catholic service Evangelizo. On the App Store here: Evangelizo. A steady, faithful daily companion, especially if you pray in more than one language.