Oratide — Help and questions

Oratide is a bell, not a feed. It keeps the hours you set, shows you what the Church keeps today, and gets out of the way. This page answers the questions people ask most. Where the app cannot do something, it says so here in the same size type as everything else.

Everything below describes Oratide 1.1.1, which is on Google Play for Android phones and on the App Store for iPhone. Where the two differ, this page says which it means. If something on this page and something on your screen disagree, the screen is right and we would like to hear about it.

How the hours work

Oratide has three tabs: Today, The Rule, and Intentions. Settings is behind the sliders icon at the top right of each of those three screens.

Today shows the day in the Church's year — the feast or the weekday, its rank, its colour, and the season — and the next hour that is due. Below that are your hours for the day, the Rosary's mysteries for the day, and the feasts coming up. All of it is computed on your device from your Rule and the calendar. Nothing is fetched.

The Rule is your rule of life: a handful of named time blocks, each with a time, the days it belongs to, a bell, and an ordered list of what is prayed in it. A fresh install comes with five:

The weekend is deliberately unlike the week. Lauds is a weekday hour; Saturday and Sunday begin with the Rosary instead. Every one of these is a starting point. Change any of it.

When a block's time comes, a card appears at the bottom of whatever screen you are on. It names the hour and the time and offers three things: Pray now, In 15 minutes, and Skip today. It is not a modal — the screen behind it keeps working, and ignoring it is a complete and legitimate response.

Pray now opens the whole block, in order, on a screen with nothing else on it. A prayer that has a Latin original can show it under the English (the controls sheet on the prayer screen, "Show the Latin"). The controls also set the pace, the length of the silence between prayers, and a sleep timer. When the block ends there is no chime and no celebration — on an Android phone, one soft vibration if you have left that switched on — and the screen says "Finished at" the time. That is all.

In 15 minutes puts the bell back by a quarter of an hour. You can do it more than once. The card never shows a count.

Skip today makes the bell go away until tomorrow. The skip is remembered only until the day turns, changes no number, and no screen in the app mentions it afterwards.

A bell stays "due" for thirty minutes after its time. If you open Oratide within that half hour, the card is waiting. After that it is gone — a bell four hours old would be an accusation, and the app does not make those.

Changing the Rule

Open The Rule and tap a block to edit it. Each block has four parts:

• The hour — what you call it, and the time. "Lauds", "The school run", "Before bed" are all fine names.
• The days you keep it — see the next section.
• The bell — whether this block calls you, and which bell it is named for. A switch, "Ring a bell for this hour", decides whether it calls you; with it on, the four bells are Single bell, Angelus peal (three strikes, three times over), Hand bell (small and quiet, made for Compline) and Struck hours (the count of the hour). Silence — the switch off — is a setting, not a failure to choose one. A silent block still appears on Today at its hour; it just will not call you.

What a bell is, in this version, said plainly. The bell is struck by the app itself — synthesised from a bell's own partials, not played from a recording — so nothing is downloaded to ring it. When a block comes due while Oratide is open, the card described above appears, the block's chosen bell sounds once, and an Android phone gives one soft vibration. If the sound is held until you touch the screen, the card says so. In the block editor, "Hear" beside each bell strikes it before you choose.

• What is prayed — the queue. "Add to this hour" opens the whole corpus, in the order a reader would meet it. Whatever you add goes to the end; drag it where you want it.

An item in the queue is either the same prayer every time, or a cycle that changes by itself: the Rosary's mysteries change with the day of the week, Compline changes with the day, and the Psalter goes through in order, one psalm further each time the block is prayed. The block never changes; what the slot resolves to does.

Add a time to pray makes a new hour. A block can be duplicated (a copy is how most people build a weekday/weekend pair) and deleted. If you delete one of the five that ship with the app, a "Put back" button appears on the Rule screen until you use it. If you delete all of them, the Rule offers "Start with these five" or "Make my own, one time at a time".

The bells are also reachable from Settings → Bells → When each will ring next, where each block has a switch and a sentence saying exactly when it will next ring. You can silence a block there without touching your Rule.

Days of the week

Every block belongs to a set of days, and it rings on those days and no others. Under "The days you keep it" there are three one-tap patterns — Every day, Weekdays, Weekends — and seven toggles, Sunday first, for anything else.

Underneath, one sentence says what will actually happen next and which days stay silent. Set a block to weekdays on a Friday evening and it reads "Rings on Monday at 6:30 AM. Not tomorrow, which is Saturday. Weekdays. Silent on Saturday and Sunday." That sentence is the point of the feature: you can read that the rule is working without waiting to find out.

A block with no days chosen is a real state. The editor says so and the block never rings until you choose at least one.

The Rule screen has a week strip along the top. Tap a day to see which blocks belong to it and which are silent that day. Absence is shown, not hidden.

Why a bell did not ring

This is the question every prayer app gets and the one most of them answer badly, so here is the whole of it.

Oratide is on Google Play for Android and on the App Store for iPhone. On both, a bell reaches you inside the app while it is open. What can happen with Oratide closed depends on the phone, so each has its own part below.

Inside the app, on either phone. While Oratide is open, the bell comes on time: the card, the block's bell (if it has one) struck once by the app, and on an Android phone one soft vibration. If the sound is held until you touch the screen, the card says so. The schedule is worked out on your phone from your Rule and the clock, sixty days ahead, with no server involved and nothing to fetch. Airplane mode changes none of it. The app checks the clock at least every fifteen minutes and again the moment you come back to it, so a bell that came due while your phone was locked is waiting when you pick it up again — as long as that was within the thirty-minute window above.

On Android, as a notification — when you turn it on. Tap Allow the bell at the end of first run, or open Settings → Bells → When each will ring next, tap Where the bell can reach you, and turn on Show bells as notifications. Android asks once whether Oratide may send notifications. Allowed, Oratide hands Android the times of your hours, up to sixty days ahead and topped up every time you open it, and Android posts each bell in the bell you chose for that hour, with Pray now, In 15 minutes and Skip today. Ringing at the exact minute needs Android's Alarms & reminders setting for Oratide; without it Android rings near the hour, at a moment it chooses. Reminder Health says which you have.

On Android, with Oratide closed — yes, once bells are notifications. Android holds the bells and rings them with Oratide swiped away, and again after the phone restarts. Two things stop it: turning notifications off, and force-stopping Oratide in Android's settings, which cancels everything Android was holding until you open Oratide again. With bells kept inside the app, a closed Oratide rings nothing; open it within thirty minutes of a bell's time and the card is waiting.

On iPhone. While Oratide is open, it rings on time: that is what Oratide promises. Allow notifications and Oratide also hands your iPhone your next bells, up to 58 at a time: about two weeks of the starting Rule, renewed each time you open it. To allow them, open Settings → Bells → When each will ring next, tap Where the bell can reach you, and turn on Show bells as notifications; iOS asks once whether Oratide may send notifications. An iPhone keeps at most 64 waiting notifications for an app, so Oratide hands over 58 and keeps the other six for "In 15 minutes" and the test bell. Reminder Health shows how many your iPhone is keeping and the day the last of them falls on; after that day, nothing more is set until you open Oratide again.

We have not yet heard one of those bells ring on an iPhone with Oratide closed, so the iPhone app does not promise it. Reminder Health says so in its own words: "We have not yet heard a bell this way on an iPhone with Oratide closed, so we promise only the bell while Oratide is open." Open Oratide within thirty minutes of a bell's time and the card is waiting.

Some lines in the app were written for a web browser and still say "this browser" or "a limit of the web". In the Google Play and iPhone apps, read them as "this version of the app".

Reminder Health

Settings → Bells → Reminder health (also reachable from the Bells screen) checks every part of this on the phone you are holding, right now. It does not fetch anything.

• Send a test bell posts a real notification two seconds ahead, through Android or, on iPhone, through iOS, the same way a bell is handed over.
• Here, right now lists findings, each marked Working or Needs your hand.
• The last bells lists the most recent bells that came due here, each marked in plain words — "Rang", "Rang, as a notification", or "Oratide was closed". It is a record of delivery, not of prayer.
• The details shows the raw state: notification permission, how the app is running, how many bells your phone is keeping and the last day they reach, the next one it will ring, whether Android lets Oratide ring on the minute (on iPhone, how many bells an iPhone keeps for an app), how many bells are set for today, the next bell, and your time zone.

If bells have been due for three days and none reached you, Reminder Health says so on its own — in words about the delivery path, never about you.

A short checklist

1. Was Oratide open at the time, or did you open it within thirty minutes? If not, the app itself could not ring it. On Android, a notification rings it only if Show bells as notifications is on and Oratide was not force-stopped; on iPhone, see the part above.
2. Is the block's bell switched on, and does the block belong to today? Settings → Bells → When each will ring next shows both, and the sentence under each block says when it rings next.
3. Did the card say the sound was held until you touched the screen? It rings on your first touch.
4. Did you change time zone or cross a daylight-saving change? The schedule recomputes itself on your phone; check "Next bell" in Reminder Health and it should already be right.

The calendar: 1969 and 1962

Oratide is a Catholic app in the Roman rite. The one thing it cannot guess is which form of the Roman calendar you follow, because that changes which feast is kept on which day. It asks once, on first run, and the answer lives in Settings → The calendar. Changing it never touches anything you have written. The app takes no position on either.

• The General Roman Calendar — the calendar of 1969, with the proper calendar of the dioceses of the United States. This is the default, and what most parishes announce on a Sunday morning. Epiphany and Corpus Christi are kept on their Sundays; Ordinary Time is green. With this calendar there is a second setting for where the Ascension is kept: the Seventh Sunday of Easter (most of the United States) or the Thursday (Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, Philadelphia).
• The calendar of 1962 — the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the Code of Rubrics of 1960. Epiphany is the sixth of January; Septuagesima and Passiontide are kept; the Ember Days and the older ranks apply; Prime is an hour.

Both calendars are computed on your device, for any date, with no network. The Settings screen shows today's celebration under whichever you have chosen so you can check the change took.

What the 1962 calendar does not yet carry, said plainly. It has the whole temporal cycle and the first-, second- and third-class feasts of the universal calendar. It does not carry the proper calendars of nations, dioceses or religious orders, the full third-class sanctoral of the Martyrology, or the rules for concurring Offices at Vespers. Where a day has no entry it returns the ferial office, which is what the Missal itself prescribes. We would rather list this than round it up.

If you find a wrong feast on either calendar, tell us the date and the calendar you had set. One wrong day in Holy Week matters more to us than most bugs.

Text size, the look, and night mode

All of this is in Settings, under "The look" and "The size of the prayer". Everything takes effect the moment you touch it.

Theme. Two choices: Match my phone (the day's colour, whether your phone is set light or dark) and Parchment (ink on parchment, the daytime look). The accent colour is not a choice — it is the liturgical colour of the day, so the app turns violet in Advent and Lent, green in Ordinary Time, gold on feasts, red for martyrs and Pentecost, and rose on Gaudete and Laetare.

Compline, or night mode. The night office is prayed in the dark, so Oratide has a third palette for it: true black, warm-shifted ink, and no white surface anywhere. Three settings:

• After the evening bell — from half past eight in the evening until five in the morning, the app goes to the Compline palette, unless you chose Parchment, which is kept at every hour. This is the default.
• All the time — for a dark room, a night shift, or eyes that simply prefer it.
• Never — keep the ordinary palette after dark.

Prayer text size. Five sizes, from Smallest to Largest, with a specimen of the Douay–Rheims under them so you can see the size before you choose it. Only the prayer body scales; navigation stays where your thumb learned it. This sits on top of your device's own text-size setting: if you have made text larger for everything, this makes the prayer larger again, and at the largest of both nothing in the app clips or moves out of reach. The size control is on the Free Core Covenant's list of what is free.

Buying, restoring and refunds

What there is to buy. One thing: Oratide, bought once, a single in-app purchase of $9.99 in the US. Each store shows the price in your own currency, and the app's buttons show the store's own price. It is the same purchase on Google Play and on the App Store, and today it adds one thing: room to carry more than seven intentions at once (see "Intentions", below). Every prayer, every bell, the whole calendar and everything else on the Free Core Covenant is free whether or not you buy.

How to buy. Open Settings (the sliders icon at the top right of Today) and tap Support Oratide, at the foot of the page. That row is hidden while you pray and for two minutes after a prayer ends, and while the store cannot be reached; come back to Settings after that, with a connection. On the next screen, Buy Oratide names the price once the store has given it; tap it, then Confirm — pay, and the purchase is finished on the store's own screen: Google Play's on Android, Apple's on iPhone. Oratide does not see your name, your email address or your card.

Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel. Oratide is bought once. There is no subscription, no renewal, no trial and no second charge, so there is nothing to cancel, in the app or at the store, and there is no cancel button in Oratide. The purchase screen says it in its own words: "Nothing renews, and there is no second charge."

Restore purchases, on a new phone. The purchase belongs to your store account: the same Google account on Android, the same Apple Account on iPhone. A purchase made on Google Play does not carry over to an iPhone, nor one made on the App Store to an Android phone. When Oratide opens it asks the store quietly, so on a new phone or after a fresh install the purchase can come back by itself. If it does not, tap Restore purchases: under the Buy button on the Support Oratide screen, or on Settings → Your purchase → Charges and refunds. It asks the store whether your account has already paid and brings the purchase back if so, at no charge; on iPhone the App Store may ask you to sign in. Like buying, it is refused while you pray and for two minutes after. Oratide itself has no account or password, so there is nothing of Oratide's to sign in to.

Refunds. A refund is made by the store, under its own rules, back to the payment method that was charged. Oratide cannot issue one itself.

• On Android, ask Google Play, through Google Play's own refund process, from your Google Play order history.
• On iPhone, ask Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com or from your App Store purchase history.

In the app, Settings → Your purchase → Charges and refunds lists a charge made on this phone with its date, and for thirty days Ask for a refund beside it says where to ask. Once Oratide sees the refund — on Android when it next checks with Google Play, on iPhone when you next tap Restore purchases — it goes back to the free app: every prayer, every bell, the whole calendar and every name you have written stay, and you can still read and save the names; the only change is that the limit of seven carried at once is back. If a request falls outside the store's own window, write to us; a person reads it.

What the money is for. Today, the one thing above. The purchase screen also names what the money goes towards: seasonal companions, Oratide's own writing for Advent, Lent, Eastertide and Ordinary Time. Not one has been written yet. The app says so, at body size, beside the name and under a heading that says they are not part of what you buy, and it carries no date, because a date we could not keep would be the same untruth in a different tense.

What was withdrawn. Before 9 September 2026 Oratide was planned as a subscription at $39.99 a year, promising four other things: recorded human readings, sung settings, offline audio, and household sharing. Three of them needed people Oratide does not have — a narrator, a schola, a studio — and the fourth needed an account and a server, which Oratide does not have either. They were deleted on 9 September 2026 rather than deferred, and the planned price became $9.99 once at the same time. No one was charged for any of them. The Covenant screen's own change log records the withdrawal inside the app.

Nothing is sold while you are praying. From the moment a prayer begins until two minutes after it ends, the app is unable to show anything commercial — not a banner, not a price, not the support row in Settings — and it refuses a purchase or a restore in that time. That is enforced in the code, and a test fails the build if it is broken. Nothing asks for money when the app opens: first run says once, with no price and no button, that buying is under Support Oratide in Settings. Once, after you have completed prayers on three different days, a single full-screen invitation may appear after a prayer, once those two minutes have passed, with "Continue free" in ordinary type; dismiss it and it does not come back on its own.

Intentions, and taking them with you

Intentions is the third tab: the names you carry. Tap Name someone to add a name, an optional note, and the day of the week you carry it on, or every day. When a prayer is answered, give thanks for it; it moves to With thanks and stays there, with the date, for as long as you like.

Free, you carry seven names at a time — one for each day of the week. Giving thanks for one makes room for another. The limit is on how many you carry today, never on how many you may ever name, and no name is ever taken away.

Buying Oratide takes the limit away, so you can carry more than seven at once (see "Buying, restoring and refunds", above). Either way, every name you have written stays yours to read and save.

Export. Reading, editing, giving thanks and exporting are free in every tier, whether or not you have paid. Under "Keep a copy" on the Intentions screen:

• Save a copy — writes the names as plain text: a file you can read in twenty years on a machine that has never heard of us, print, or fold into a missal.
• Look at it first — shows the whole document before it leaves, To read (plain text) or To bring back into Oratide (the same names as JSON, a form another app, or a future Oratide, can read back), with Save a copy and Copy the text.

Files are named oratide-intentions-YYYY-MM-DD.txt or .json. The file does not repeat the privacy promise inside itself; the Intentions screen says it once, at its foot. If your browser or device will not save a file, the preview shows the whole document in a box you can select and copy, so the promise holds even when the download does not.

The same two exports are in Settings, under "The names you carry".

Everything at once. Also in Settings, under "Saving and erasing": Save a copy of everything writes your Rule, your intentions, your record and every setting to one file, oratide-everything-YYYY-MM-DD.json. Bring back a saved copy merges a copy you saved before; what is on the device now is backed up first, and nothing is overwritten that the file does not name. Erase everything in Oratide does what it says, after one confirmation, and keeps one copy of what was erased in the app's own storage, in case that was a mistake, until the next import, erase or data migration replaces it. There is no copy anywhere else, because nothing was sent to one.

The Free Core Covenant

Settings → What we promise → The Free Core Covenant. It is a numbered list of everything that is free, versioned and dated, with a change log. Version 1.0 was first published on 24 August 2026; the current version is 1.2, published on 9 September 2026, and no item has ever been removed — v1.1 (4 September 2026) added, to two of them, the sentence that they have not been built yet, and v1.2 recorded the withdrawal of four paid promises and that the price stopped recurring, touching nothing on this list. The ten items:

1. Every prayer text, all of it. The Office, the Rosary, the litanies, the devotions, the Latin. Every word Oratide ships, with its edition, its year and its translator printed on the page.
2. Every bell, and as many as you want. Unlimited time blocks, unlimited Rules, day-of-week scheduling, snooze and skip. Scheduling is free. This is the plainest promise Oratide makes.
3. The whole liturgical calendar. Both forms of the Roman calendar, computed on this device, with the rank, the colour and the season of every day. No network, no account, no charge.
4. All of it with no signal. Airplane mode is a supported way to use Oratide, not a degraded one. Nothing above needs a signal.
5. Every transcript, the day there is one. Time-synced and human-checked, for every recording Oratide ever publishes. A recording without a transcript cannot ship at all — and a transcript is not for sale, because for some people it is the prayer.
6. Every accessibility feature. Dynamic Type, screen reader labelling, high contrast, the prayer text size control, the whole of it. No accessibility feature has ever been sold here.
7. Seven saved intentions. One for each day of the week. Yours to read and save a copy of, for good, whether or not you ever pay.
8. Widgets and the watch, the day they exist. The next hour and today’s feast, refreshed from the schedule already on your device. Free when they arrive, like everything else on this list.
9. Your own words, saved in one tap. Plain text and JSON, whenever you like. Your intentions and your record are yours; Oratide is only holding them.
10. The last day of every series. No novena, no season and no series ends behind a price, and its last day is not locked.

The function in the code that decides whether anything is locked reads this list first and returns "not locked" before it looks at what you have paid. The Covenant screen runs that check live every time you open it and prints the state it is running under. Each version of the list is dated in its change log.

Two honest notes. Items 5 and 8 name things that are not in this version, and the Covenant screen says so beside each. There is no widget or watch face in Oratide. No person has recorded anything, and the app marks the transcripts as not made yet; since the 9 September 2026 decision that Oratide will never have a narrator, no such recording is planned. The Covenant puts those things on the free list before they exist. It does not say they exist.

Where the texts come from

Oratide prints public-domain text only. Every prayer names, on the page, the edition it comes from, its year and its translator, and Settings → What we promise → Sources gathers all of it into a catalogue you can search by prayer, by edition, by translator or by year. There is no modern licensed translation anywhere in the app.

The editions in use:

• The Holy Bible, Douay–Rheims Version — Challoner revision, John Murphy Company, Baltimore, 1899. Our English scripture, and the whole Psalter: all 150 psalms, numbered as the Vulgate numbers them, each carrying its Hebrew number too.
• Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis — the Sixto-Clementine edition of 1592, as printed in the Roman liturgical books. The Latin column.
• Missale Romanum and Breviarium Romanum — Latin liturgical texts in the typical editions in use before 1929.
• The Roman Breviary in English — translated by John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute; second edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1908. The backbone of Compline.
• The Hymnal Noted — John Mason Neale's translations of the Latin office hymns, 1852. The Compline hymn.
• The Raccolta — the English edition of 1910, in Ambrose St John's translation. The household prayers in the traditional English most English-speaking Catholics were taught.
• The Litany of Loreto as it stood in 1917, the Litany of the Sacred Heart (1899), and the Litany of St Joseph (1909). Invocations added after 1929 are left out, and each entry names which ones and why.
• The Way of the Cross of St Alphonsus Liguori — Eugene Grimm's English translation, Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887. The prayers at each Station are his.
• The Fatima decade prayer in its traditional English.
• Oratide's own text — the meditations beside each Rosary mystery, at each Station and in the Examen, and the rubrics and connective lines. These are ours, are dated 2026, and are marked as ours everywhere they appear so that nobody mistakes an editorial paragraph for the received text of the Church.

What has been checked, and how. The corpus was first set from renderings we did not trust, so we checked it:

• Every cited English scripture passage was compared, word for word, by a script against the Project Gutenberg transcription of the 1899 Challoner Douay–Rheims (ebook 8300). At the time of writing that is 35 passages: 33 match exactly, one is a shorter excerpt of a longer passage (Compline's reading from 1 Peter 5), and one is the liturgical form of a verse as Compline uses it. The Psalter was generated from that text rather than typed. A test fails the build on any divergence.
• Every Latin scripture line with a citation was compared the same way against a public-domain electronic edition of the Clementine Vulgate (the Tweedale text): 35 passages, of which 32 match exactly, one is the liturgical form of its verse, one has no Latin line, and one — Compline's short reading from 1 Peter — could not be checked yet because that book has not been fetched. A test fails the build on any divergence among those checked. The fixed Latin prayers — the Pater noster, the Ave Maria — have no single Vulgate locus and were not machine-checked.

What has not been done, and the app says so. A person has not yet sat down with a printed copy of any of these editions and collated the words against it. The Sources screen marks every edition Collated, Checked mechanically or Not yet collated, explains what each means, and will name the printing checked when one is. Even the Douay–Rheims entry says plainly that its check was against a digital transcription, not a physical printing, and that a transcription error would be inherited. Several editions — the Raccolta and the Bute Breviary among them — are additionally marked Printing to confirm, because the specific printing or scan we work from has its own provenance still to be confirmed by a person. The "What is still open" section at the bottom of Sources is generated from the register itself, so it shrinks as the work is done and cannot go stale.

What Oratide does not print. Much of the English a Catholic hears every week is under licence: the New American Bible readings, the current English Liturgy of the Hours and the Grail psalms printed with it, the 2011 Missal texts, and most contemporary English Bibles. They are not ours to reprint, so Oratide prints the older editions, names them on every prayer, and stops there. A test reads the shipped build and fails it if a line of that material has found its way in. If you were expecting the wording you hear at Mass, this is why it is different, and we would rather you knew before installing than after.

Recordings. One recording ships in this version, and it is a computer voice, badged as one wherever it plays: it reads the reflections Oratide wrote for the Examen, and not one line the Church wrote. Every other prayer is read on the screen. No person has recorded anything, and since the 9 September 2026 decision that Oratide will never have a narrator, none is planned. The code holds any recording to these rules: a computer voice is badged on the track and is refused for scripture and liturgy; a recording by a person cannot be published without a time-synced transcript; every recording is bound to the same edition printed beside it; and only our own recordings are published.

Your data

There is no account, and nothing asks who you are. Your Rule, your intentions, your record and your settings are written to your device's own storage and read back from it. Oratide does not upload them. If you have switched on Android's own backup to your Google account, Android may include them in that backup; on iPhone, if iCloud Backup is on, iOS may include them in the iPhone's backup. The privacy policy says more. Oratide adds no analytics of any kind — no events, no crash reporter, no session recording — and no advertisement, nor any slot one could be put into. The app makes no network request of its own when it opens. It does ask the store, through the phone's own billing service, whether your account owns the purchase, and buying and restoring need a connection; everything else runs with the network off.

The About screen (Settings → What we promise → About Oratide) lists the libraries inside the web app — there are two, and both only draw the screen — and a test fails the build if that list and the web app's real one disagree. The Google Play and iPhone apps also carry the Capacitor shell that holds the web app, with three plugins in it: one hands your bells to the phone's own notifications, one tells Oratide when you come back to it, and one opens the store's own purchase screen. About lists those too, for the version you are holding.

The record. Off unless you turn it on (Settings → Your record → Keep a record). When on, it is a calendar of days prayed, a count for this month, and a lifetime total. There is no streak, no consecutive-day counter — not even a hidden one — and no number in the app can go down. A day you did not pray is simply a day. Rest days are part of the picture, not a gap in it.

Who we are

Oratide is an independent project. It is not an official publication of any diocese, religious order, publisher, or the Holy See, and it carries no imprimatur. It is not spiritual direction and does not stand in for your parish. It is a clock with the right texts in it.

We do not use your attention for anything but the bells you set. There is a second class of notification — occasional messages from Oratide, off by default and capped at one a week, with the cap shown in the app — and there is no third.

Getting help. Write to: support@chibuapps.com

A person reads every message. If you write about a charge or a refund, a person answers it. We have not yet published a response-time promise; when we do, it will be here and in the app, not in a policy document.

Replies to store reviews will be signed with a name.