InPrayer by CPH

Consistently crashes before I can even read the daily readings. It’s the most updated version of the app and I tried restarting my phone, nothing helps. This has been going on for weeks.

This app is a handy way to keep Portals of Prayer and Today’s Light devotionals always at hand. They include the scripture text for the day’s devotions; allows you to select a desired date; and includes the multitude of prayers for special dates and events in Portals of Prayer. The price for these devotionals is quite reasonable, not sure why so many expect these materials to be free. My only complaint/suggestion is that there are not more materials available for the app. Specifically, the small catechism (not as subscription but a one-time purchase) would be great; also subscriptions to Martin Luther’s “Day By Day” and the “Faith Alone” daily devotionals would be appreciated options. Hopefully more materials will be added over time. CPH, are you listening?

Update: Ok, now I know what everyone is so upset about - add me to the list. PrayNow is a superior app and it has been replaced by this unusable app. Glad I still have PrayNow on my phone!! InPrayer requires purchases of everything and doesn’t offer the same devotional content as PrayNow did. InPrayer is unstable - crashes upon opening after last update-hope it’s fixed soon! I guess I’ll look elsewhere for daily devotions, sadly.

Crashes on load, rendering the app useless.

So the thought is nice. I like having all my info quickly available on an iPad or iPhone but getting the software to cooperate and not crash is the problem. I can’t actually rely on it to be available when I want to use it.

This is a convenient way for me to have access to Portals of Prayer devotional and also the Treasury of Daily Prayer. There are other devoptionals as well which you can access with a yearly subscription, but you must pay for each publication separately. What I would like to see is a feature similar to the Hallow app which focuses on prayer itself, and guides one into prayer. Using writ prayers from Luther and other Saints, psalms, etc. Also, it would be nice to have hymns and chants available to listen to through the app in audio files. I know I'm probably asking a lot, and this would probably run into a lot of money, but it's just something to think about if CPH would like to improve the app.

Adding a charge to the Pray Now app took away my ability to use it as a part of outreach to neighbors, etc.

I purchased the older version “Pray Now” before this change. I still have access to the app and the daily prayers. So I downloaded this new app and found I have to pay again for content I already paid for on the previous app. I will continue to use the older Pray Now for now.

The app content is fine. Going to the next section is a bit wonky. I have to tap the arrow several times for it to go to the next section—New Testament reading, writing, etc.

I can only read a devotion if my iPad is in landscape. I don’t like using my iPad this way, so I wish it could handle both orientations.