Daily Rule of St. Benedict

Read the Rule of St. Benedict the way it has been read for fifteen centuries: a short portion each day, three times through the year.

Daily Rule is a quiet, book-like reader of the Rule of St. Benedict, for oblates, religious, and anyone drawn to Benedictine spirituality. It is a companion for daily prayer and for lectio divina, and it keeps the pace the Rule was written for. No accounts, no ads, no network: the whole text lives on your phone and works entirely offline.

THE DAILY READING
• The traditional thrice-yearly cycle: the Rule in 122 daily portions (January 1 – May 1, May 2 – August 31, September 1 – December 31), leap years included.
• Choose your pace. Follow the calendar, or read in sequence, where the next portion waits until you have actually finished the one before it.
• The app remembers where you stopped, and offers a single gentle daily reminder if you want one.

THE TEXTS
• The complete Rule of St. Benedict in English, in Leonard J. Doyle's classic 1948 translation, and in the original Latin. Read either on its own, or English and Latin side by side.
• Dom Paul Delatte's celebrated Benedictine commentary, in Dom Justin McCann's translation, keyed to each day's portion and a toggle away.
• Standard verse numbers and scripture references, each of which can be turned on or off.
• The commentary is transcribed from the 1921 printing and collated against it page by page. Corrections to the text are listed in the app, under Notes on this edition.

THE BOOK
• Typography set like a fine print edition: drop caps, small capitals, old-style figures, and a calm paper-and-ink palette in light and dark.
• Three typefaces, including OpenDyslexic for dyslexia-friendly reading, and your own text size, independent of the system setting.
• Page-turning mode for e-ink screens, smooth scrolling everywhere else.
• A tap for distraction-free full screen. The text never shifts or reflows under you.

PRIVACY
• Fully offline: no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no network access at runtime. Your reading and your preferences never leave your device. The full privacy policy is in the app, under Settings, About.

Monastic reading is slow reading. The Rule of St. Benedict was written to be heard a little at a time, day after day, and this app keeps that pace and nothing else.