A Catholic Bible and Prayer App for iPhone
A Catholic reader opening most Bible apps finds a 66-book Bible and a calendar that belongs to somebody else. Quiethaven makes the tradition a setting that actually changes things: the canon, the calendar and the prayers all follow it.
Seventy-three books
Choose the Catholic tradition and you get the full canon — including Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and the longer forms of Esther and Daniel that a Protestant Bible omits. In English the Catholic text is the Douay-Rheims; in Spanish, Santa Biblia Libre. If you would rather read the deuterocanonical books in more familiar English, the King James Version with Apocrypha is there too.
The Church year, not a generic one
The app shows the current season and the next feast on the Catholic reckoning: Advent, Christmastide, Lent, the Triduum, Eastertide, Ordinary Time, with the movable cycle computed from the Western date of Easter. Our liturgical calendar page lays out how that differs from the Orthodox reckoning and why the two Easters usually fall apart.
On readings, the honest version: the app carries the Sunday cycle (A, B and C) and the major solemnities, not the full weekday lectionary. Days it does not cover show nothing rather than an approximation.
Prayer that does not gamify itself
The Hail Mary and the Apostles' Creed have their own pages — the text, where each half came from, and how they are prayed. There are pages for morning and night prayer, and for the Peace Prayer, including the awkward fact that St Francis did not write it.
A prayer timer runs one to twenty minutes with a soft start and end. No streaks, no guilt mechanics, no notification chasing you afterwards.
When you need to talk to someone
Pastoral counseling connects you to a verified priest or pastor by call. It is not confession and not therapy — the app states that plainly instead of leaving it implied, because the distinction matters.
What it costs
Reading Scripture and the prayer features are free on iPhone; the paid tier covers pastoral-counseling calls. Nobody hits a paywall trying to read a chapter.
Read the 73-book canon and keep the Church year — free on iPhone.
Download on the App StoreKeep reading
- The liturgical calendar across three traditions
- Which Bible translation should you read?
- Christian prayers, with their history
- What is Lent?
- All the books of the Bible
Frequently asked questions
Does it include the deuterocanonical books?
Yes. Choose the Catholic tradition and the Bible is the 73-book canon, including Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and the longer forms of Esther and Daniel.
Which Catholic translations are included?
The Douay-Rheims in English and Santa Biblia Libre in Spanish. The King James Version with Apocrypha is also available if you want the deuterocanonical books in more familiar English.
Does it show the liturgical season and feasts?
Yes — the current season, the next feast, and the movable cycle around Easter, computed for the Catholic calendar rather than borrowed from another tradition.
Does it have the daily Mass readings?
Not the full weekday lectionary. The app carries readings for the major days and Sundays on the A/B/C cycle, and shows nothing rather than something approximate on days it does not cover.