Playing the Hours

Quiet, fully offline apps for daily spiritual reading.

Daily Rule of St. Benedict

The Rule of St. Benedict, read the traditional way: a short portion each day, three times through the year, in the very divisions Benedictine monasteries have used for centuries.

• English and Latin — Doyle’s plain modern translation and the Latin text, separately or interleaved.
• A classic commentary — Dom Paul Delatte’s chapter-by-chapter commentary, matched to each day’s portion, in book-quality type with the print’s own italic Latin.
• Read like a book — page turning or scrolling, drop caps, three serif faces (including OpenDyslexic), full dark mode.
• Yours alone — completely offline. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, nothing collected. A daily reminder, if you want one, that stays silent once you’ve read.