3.168
2026-09-07
If you are using the Greek text of the New Testament in the Readings at Mass page, it is now more easily legible than it was.
3.167
2026-07-23
Some updates to the calendars for Singapore and the Discalced Carmelites.
3.166
2026-07-09
A more modern experience on the Apple Watch.
3.165
2026-06-09
Some improvements in layout and a clearer explanation of the 2-year cycle.
3.164
2026-04-30
The Fonts screen now offers you access to many additional Apple-supplied fonts (on iOS 26 only).
3.163
2026-04-01
We have added the liturgical calendar for Portugal.
3.162
2026-02-20
Happy Lent! On every day in Lent, the top of the About Day page has a special Lenten prayer for the day.
3.161
2026-01-29
We have added some explanatory texts about the liturgical celebration of the Vietnamese New Year.
3.159
2025-12-15
The app now checks for updated audio a little more often.
3.158
2025-11-06
You can now have coloured backgrounds (instead of white) in day mode and coloured text (instead of white) in night mode. Tap the rightmost button in the toolbar to open the Fonts screen, and you will see a colour-selection slider on top of the sample text.
3.157
2025-10-21
The Universalis widgets now work in light, dark, clear and tinted modes. Plus some small corrections.
3.156
2025-10-18
The Universalis widgets now work in light, dark, clear and tinted modes.
3.155
2025-10-13
Bug corrections and minor updates.
3.154
2025-10-03
You can now play the podcasts, and review old ones, directly from within the app. The Podcasts command is in the Information menu in the toolbar.
3.153
2025-09-09
On Memorials, you can now more easily choose between the available texts for the Hours.
3.149
2025-07-03
We have made some minor corrections to the Mass texts.
3.148
2025-06-09
We have updated some of the texts and calendars, notably the one for Scotland.
3.147
2025-05-09
There is now a Podcasts page in the “circled-i” information menu, and the app checks more often to see if there are new podcasts.
3.146
2025-04-08
Minor updates and corrections.
3.145
2025-03-26
The Universalis widget now works correctly again.
3.144
2025-03-23
We have sorted out a bug which affected people whose phones use the Thai Buddhist calendar.
3.142
2025-02-09
We have polished the experience when playing spoken audio.
3.141
2025-02-03
We have improved the CarPlay experience for users of iOS 18.
We have made a change to the ESV Responsorial Psalm for Sunday 9 February.
3.140
2025-01-12
Podcasts are now easily reachable from the “circled-I” menu on the left-hand side of the toolbar.
Optional readings are now provided for Waitangi Day in New Zealand.
3.138
2024-12-12
When you scan a Universalis QR code, it once more opens the exact page the code refers to.
3.135
2024-11-20
Some improvements connected with England, Wales and Scotland.
3.134
2024-10-30
Updates to some of the local calendars.
3.133
2024-10-16
Further corrections and updates.
3.132
2024-10-02
We have corrected a bug for Apple Watch users in Watch OS 11.
3.131
2024-09-25
Corrected a bug which affected people using the Spiritual Reading page.
3.129
2024-08-12
We have improved the experience for people who use the “Two-year cycle” setting in the Office of Readings.
3.128
2024-07-30
England, Wales and Scotland only: if you look at dates from 1 December 2024 onwards, you will see the Mass readings according to the new English Standard Version lectionary.
We have corrected the Responsorial Psalm in English for Sunday 4 August.
3.127
2024-07-27
England, Wales and Scotland only: if you look at dates from 1 December 2024 onwards, you will see the Mass readings according to the new English Standard Version lectionary.
3.125
2024-07-21
General updates and corrections.
3.124
2024-07-03
Some of the Danish readings have been updated, and Independence Day has been added as a Memorial in the United States. A problem has been resolved which prevented psalm responses in Yoruba and Malayalam from being shown.
3.123
2024-06-17
You can now use the Search button in the toolbar to search for words not just in the current Hour but in all Hours at once.
3.122
2024-05-03
We have corrected a bug in the mechanism which downloads the spoken audio in advance of the time when you will be listening to it.
3.119
2024-03-07
You will now be alerted in the About Today page whenever a new podcast is published.
3.118
2024-01-29
St Patrick falls on a Sunday this year. We have now accounted for the complications this causes for the calendars of Ireland and New York.
3.109
2023-08-02
Some updates to the foreign-language texts.
3.108
2023-07-03
Some updates to the foreign-language texts.
3.107
2023-06-26
A correction to the Dominican calendar for Australia.
3.106
2023-06-19
Minor bug corrections and improvements.
3.105
2023-06-04
Corrected a rare problem with setting up the daily emails.
3.104
2023-05-30
Minor bug corrections and improvements.
3.102
2023-02-17
Updates to some of the calendars and foreign-language texts.
3.96
2022-10-13
Improvements in some foreign-language texts.
3.92
2022-08-26
If you are subscribing to the spoken audio of the Liturgy of the Hours, and are using the RSV translation of the scripture readings, you will now hear them spoken in the RSV translation and not (as previously) in the Jerusalem Bible version.
If you are in the USA then from September 5 onwards you will be able to hear daily clips by the author of “The Creed in Slow Motion” in advance of the US publication of the book on October 18, briefly describing the theme of each chapter. They appear in the About Today page each day.
The same applies to Australia and New Zealand, starting on September 12 in advance of publication on October 25.
3.91
2022-07-13
Updated the local calendar for Liverpool, and the text of some foreign-language versions.
3.90
2022-06-20
To conform to the printed Ordos in Australasia, we now show St John the Baptist as being celebrated on 25 June in Australia and New Zealand this year (as opposed to 23 June in the rest of the world).
3.89
2022-06-15
Better integration with Shortcuts on iOS.
3.88
2022-05-26
Updated the Danish-language texts.
3.87
2022-05-22
Some technical improvements under the hood.
3.86
2022-05-16
A new Daily Book, “The Mass in Close-Up” by Father Antony Jones. See the Daily Books menu in the toolbar for details.
Better audio download performance in cases where the Internet connection is unreliable.
Daily reminders for the forthcoming printed book "The Mass in Slow Motion" will be available in the app from 18 May to publication day, 30 June.
3.85
2022-05-10
Smoothed out a few rough edges.
3.84
2022-04-25
Modernised access to the spoken audio of the Readings at Mass. If you’d like to listen to a free sample, go to the beginning of the Readings at Mass page and press the Play button which you will see at the bottom of the screen.
3.83
2022-04-15
Various corrections, and some small improvements.
3.82
2022-04-01
A better experience with spoken audio when not connected to the Internet.
3.81
2022-03-28
Several corrections and improvements, in English and in foreign languages.
In the spoken Hours, hearing a spoken Hymn is now optional.
3.80
2022-02-16
Various bug corrections.
3.79
2022-02-11
Some more calendar updates; and a better way to copy and paste.
3.78
2022-01-12
Updates to some of the more exotic local calendars.
3.77
2022-01-07
People who listen to the spoken audio of Vespers can now hear the Invitatory Psalm if it is selected for that hour.
3.72
2021-09-10
More foreign-language texts have been added.
3.61
2021-01-12
The Mass Today page now contains two Spiritual Communion prayers for those who are following a Mass remotely.
3.60
2020-12-29
We have moved the Epiphany in Scotland to Sunday 3 January 2021.
3.59
2020-12-08
In the daytime Hours it was not always possible to choose correctly between the psalms of the day and the complementary psalms. Now it is.
3.57
2020-10-27
We have updated some more foreign-language texts.
The Daily Books feature contains a new book, “Revelations of Divine Love” by Julian of Norwich.
3.56
2020-10-12
We have corrected a crash which affected versions of iOS older than iOS 12.
3.55
2020-10-09
Two widgets are now available for your iOS 14 home screen: a small one with text, and a wide one with a picture.
3.50
2020-08-19
Some subtle bug corrections.
The “About Today” page’s brief biographies of authors are now complete.
3.47
2020-07-19
Bug corrections for the hymns at Lauds and the “Resurrection Is Now” book.
3.45
2020-06-26
Bug corrections.
If you scan a QR code, it will now open directly in the Universalis app.
3.42
2020-05-31
If you are using the “Universalis Automatic” feature in the app settings to add liturgical events to your iPhone or iPad’s calendar, you can now choose whether to have every day listed or only the most important feasts.
3.41
2020-05-11
Corrected some readings for Eastertide.
3.37
2020-03-20
We have corrected a bug which was affecting users of very old devices running iOS 9.
3.36
2020-03-17
Updates and minor bug corrections.
3.35
2020-03-03
We now have some instructional videos for Universalis. You can see them by going to the information menu in the toolbar and selecting “Video Instructions”.
3.34
2020-02-20
Some minor corrections and updates.
3.33
2020-02-05
The Slovenian calendar has been added, and some bugs have been corrected; notably one which tended to interrupt the playing of audio when displaying the text in page-turning mode.
The “Contact Us” command is now available even if you are not using Apple’s Mail app.
3.32
2020-01-24
Some more Danish texts have been added, and also the local calendar for the diocese of Northampton.
3.31
2020-01-16
Some minor corrections and updates.
3.30
2020-01-03
Danish-language texts are now available for the Liturgy of the Hours.
3.29
2019-12-09
There are now more of Dom Henry Wansbrough’s commentaries available for the readings at Mass during Advent.
3.28
2019-12-03
We have corrected a bug which prevented iPad users on iOS 13 from adding a picture to a Remembrance Card.
3.27
2019-11-25
The new Rosary page is now fully active, including illustrations and spoken audio from Downside.
There are various other improvements and bug corrections.
3.26
2019-10-21
Some misprints have been corrected, and a few small bugs.
3.25
2019-10-10
There is a new page in Universalis, “Spiritual Reading”, which gives a variety of readings for today.
Blind users on iOS 13 should be able to use VoiceOver again.
3.24
2019-09-18
We have added support for iOS 13.
3.23
2019-09-11
The “About Today” page has a “Novena for Newman” in the run-up to the canonisation on 13 October. (The first day of the novena is 4 October).
3.22
2019-09-05
Updates and bug corrections.
3.21
2019-08-16
A couple of small bug corrections, and some fine-tuning of the appearance when you use the app in its “night mode”.
A local calendar for Malaysia has been added, and also the Order of Mass in parallel English-Hungarian, for the benefit of travellers.
3.20
2019-07-29
Illustrations have been added for the month of August.
3.19
2019-07-17
Some bug corrections and minor updates.
3.18
2019-07-02
Where alternative readings are available in the Readings at Mass, the page is now laid out more clearly and simply.
3.17
2019-05-28
Some more foreign-language texts have been brought up to date.
3.16
2019-05-23
Illustrations have been added and some bugs have been corrected.
The Igbo version of the Order of Mass now has the new translation, which is due to come into use at Pentecost.
3.15
2019-05-03
Illustrations have been added for the first part of May.
Commentaries on the readings at Mass are now available. To see them, turn on “Add Commentaries” in the Readings at Mass section of the Settings screen.
3.13
2019-04-15
A few updates and textual corrections, and some more illustrations.
3.12
2019-04-01
Illustrations now continue into April.
We have corrected the Exsultet and other parts of the Mass Today page for the Easter Vigil.
There are now some more options for the hymns in the major Hours during Lent. Tap the menu button beside the hymn to see what is available.
3.11
2008-07-11
With the permission of the Vatican, the Irish bishops have moved this year’s solemnity of St Patrick to Sunday 17 March in Ireland, replacing the 2nd Sunday in Lent. The Irish calendar in Universalis has been updated to reflect this change.
3.10
2008-07-11
We have corrected a bug which affected the display of psalms on the Apple Watch.
3.09
2008-07-11
Some small (but useful) corrections.