InPrayer by CPH

I heard good things about the previous app, and had hoped that the trouble I’d heard about this app was exaggerated. Unsurprisingly it was not. It is understandable that not everything can be free, or without a subscription, but it is disappointing that there are no resources available free at all when so many others are free. Once again, as has become the norm for CPH, the material is not made easily available to the people.

The apps used to be able to be purchased. Now they are being phased out and replaced by this subscription app.

Good to have additional resources all in one place. Yet, to charge more per year for access to what was formerly in “PrayNow” (Treasury of Daily Prayer) is sad. Was nice to have PrayNow handy in addition to my physical copy of the Treasury. I hope that CPH reconsiders this move.

Yet another offering showing that CPH doesn’t understand the technology or their market — the now deprecated Pray Now app was properly designed to work on both iPhones and iPads. The new one is is not made to work/adjust to iPads/iPadOS, which also means that it can’t be easily run on a Mac. This shoddy design of an “app” that’s just a shell to sell overpriced content is yet another indicator that CPH just doesn’t get it.

Pray now had Orders of Daily Prayer where you could do the whole Treasury of Daily Prayer for morning and Close of Day, where InPrayer does not. A welcome addition is Selected Readings from Book of Concord. I would love both but Orders of Daily Prayer would certainly be a welcome addition to make me change to InPrayer.

This is an app advertised as being a devotional app. It is actually just a way to sell digital copies of their other publications. Extremely disappointing

The laborer is worthy of his hire. Hence my willingness to pay for the predecessor version of this app, Pray Now, which includes all the materials in the Treasury of Daily Prayer usefully laid out for each day. But Pray Now is discontinued, and in its place comes InPrayer, which requires a subscription (monthly or yearly) to access the same content. Shameless money grab. “And he told those who sold the pigeons, ‘Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade’” (John 2:16).

This app has no actual content of its own. It is just a place where you can buy content from CPH. It’s not actually a new devotional app. It’s actually just another way for CPH to sell you their devotional content.