Oratide
Oratide: Catholic Hours
The Catholic hours, kept on your phone.
A Catholic app of the hours. Oratide shows what the Church keeps today, rings a bell at the hours you set, and opens straight into the prayers, from named public-domain editions.
- Get it on Google Play
- Works offline
- No account
- No streak
Today: the feast, the season, the colour.
Today opens on the feast, the season and the colour of the day, then the next hour you have set. The calendar is the General Roman Calendar of 1969 with the proper calendar of the United States; the calendar of 1962 is in Settings.
The colour of the app follows the colour of the day.
Your Rule: named hours, set by day of the week.
Your Rule is a set of named time blocks, each holding a queue of prayers. Oratide starts you with five: Lauds on weekdays, the Rosary at the weekend, the Angelus at noon, Vespers at six and Compline before bed. Every one is yours to change.
The bell is a bronze bell struck by the app itself rather than played from a recording: one strike, the Angelus peal, a hand bell, the struck count of the hour, or silence, chosen for each block.
What is in it.
- Compline in full, a different office for each night of the week.
- The Rosary, with the mysteries of the day chosen for you.
- The Angelus, and the Regina Caeli in its place through Eastertide.
- The 150 psalms, numbered as the Vulgate numbers them, with the Hebrew number beside each.
- The Litanies of Loreto, the Sacred Heart and Saint Joseph; the Examen; the Morning Offering; the creeds; grace at meals.
- Latin under the English, wherever a text has it, if you want it.
A record, not a scoreboard.
There is no consecutive-day counter anywhere in Oratide. The record is off until you turn it on: a calendar of days prayed, a count for the month and a lifetime total, and none of them can go down.
Every text names its edition.
The Douay–Rheims Bible of 1899, the Clementine Vulgate, the Marquess of Bute’s Roman Breviary in English of 1908 and the traditional English of the 1910 Raccolta. Each text carries its edition, its year and its translator, on the prayer and again on the Sources screen.
The Douay–Rheims scripture is compared word for word against a public transcription of the 1899 edition. Most of the rest is not collated yet, and the Sources screen says which. There is no modern licensed translation in the app, and it is not the current official English breviary.
What is free.
The Free Core Covenant is a list in Settings, versioned and dated, of what is free. It includes:
- Every prayer text
- Every bell, as many as you like
- The whole calendar, in both forms
- All of it with no signal
- Seven saved intentions
- Your own words, saved
No account, nothing sent
Nothing asks who you are: no sign-up, no email address, no name, no age, and no question about your religion. Your hours, your intentions and the record of days are kept on your phone, and the app sends them nowhere. Android’s own backup, if you have switched it on, may include them in your Google account.
No advertisements, no analytics, no crash reporter, and no third-party code that reports on you.
Offline is the normal way
Airplane mode is a supported way to use Oratide. The calendar, the texts and the bells all work with the network off.