Lauds concept previews
Concept previewAt the hour you set, today's readings are on your lock screen — saint, season, Gospel, how long it takes. The habit starts before your feet hit the floor.
Concept previewSerif type, real margins, a thin progress line — and a listen button for the walk to work. No video player between you and the psalm.
Concept previewOne delivery time, a lock-screen widget, everything downloaded for the week so it works on the train or in the pew — and a quiet record of the mornings you kept.
Concept previewMorning and Evening Prayer, the Rosary mysteries for the weekday, the Angelus — the prayers the calendar already prescribes, without a second app.
Want this to exist?
Four quick questions so we build this for the way you actually pray.
Is Lauds available yet?
It is being built now and is in testing. This page is how we measured whether it was worth building — your quiz answers and signup were the vote, and waitlist members get first access. On the App Store the app is listed as “Lauds: Daily Prayer”.
The readings are free on the USCCB website. Why an app?
They are, and that page will always be there. What people tell us is that a website doesn't make a habit: it isn't waiting for you at 6:30, it doesn't work offline in the pew, and it reads like a website. Lauds is the app-shaped version of the same daily calendar — that's the whole product.
Which translation will it use?
The readings follow the official lectionary calendar. For the words themselves, Lauds opens the official USCCB text for the day inside the app — so what you read is exactly what is read at Mass. For offline reading there is also a page in a public-domain Catholic translation, clearly labelled as such.
How is this different from Hallow, Ascension or Laudate?
Those are good apps, and mostly about something else — guided prayer and meditation, Bible in a Year, a broad library. Lauds does one thing: today's readings, every morning, on a page built for reading, with the day's prayers a tap away.
What will it cost?
The readings themselves are free. If Lauds ships, a small subscription would cover the extras — the Rosary and evening prayer read aloud (by a synthetic voice, and we say so), a daily line from the Church Fathers, sacred art and a candle on your widget. We're asking you in the quiz which of those, if any, is worth paying for.
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