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Armenian Apostolic Church

KhachkarA cross-stone, carried.

The Bible, the prayers, the saints and the whole liturgical year of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in one app that works with the signal off. Named for the carved cross-stones that have stood on Armenian hillsides for a thousand years.

Download on the App Store iPhone & iPad Android coming soon

Free. No account. Nothing leaves your phone.

The Khachkar home screen, showing the verse of the day over an icon of Christ Pantocrator and a countdown to the next fast.
Every morning

The day, before you ask for it

A verse, the saint whose feast it is, how long until the next fast begins, and the chapter you stopped at last night. One screen, before you have tapped anything.

Two home-screen widgets carry it further: the verse of the day, and a live countdown to the start or the end of the nearest fast. Tap either and it opens exactly where it says.

The fasting guide, counting down days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Fast of the Holy Cross of Varak, with the foods it allows and avoids.
Scripture

The whole Bible, in five languages

Sixty-six books plus 1 and 2 Maccabees, as the Armenian canon has them. Bookmark, highlight, take a note; search across every translation at once.

The Russian is the Synodal text of 1876, mapped verse by verse against the Septuagint psalm numbering the Synodal Psalter follows, so Psalm 23 is the shepherd and not the psalm after it.

John chapter 1 open in the Bible reader, set in a serif face on a dark ground.
The year

Feasts and fasts, kept properly

Every movable and fixed date of the Armenian calendar, with the rule for each fast written out: what it allows, what it asks you to leave, and who is excused.

Set a reminder and it arrives in your own language, naming the feast rather than buzzing at you.

The liturgical calendar for September, with feast days marked and the Fast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross listed below.
Inside

Saints, apostles, and seventeen centuries

Lives and teachings beside the icons that carry them, the Twelve and where each of them went, and the history of the Church from Thaddeus and Bartholomew to the cathedral consecrated in Yerevan in 2001.

The saints list, each with an Armenian Orthodox icon.
Saints
A grid of the Twelve Apostles in Byzantine and Armenian icons.
The Twelve
Church history, opening on the apostolic foundations of the first century.
History
The prayer list, showing the Havadov Khostovanim cycle.
Prayers
Churches and monasteries, opening on the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin.
Monasteries
A map of Armenian Apostolic parishes across Europe, with a searchable list below.
Parishes
Five languages

Read it in the one you pray in

Not the interface only. The scripture, the prayers, the lives of the saints, the history and the Divine Liturgy are each written out in full, in all five.

On your phone, and nowhere else

No account. No upload. No tracking.

Khachkar runs entirely on your device. Your name, your birthday, what you read and what you marked stay in the app's own storage and are never sent anywhere. There is nothing to sign in to, because there is no server to sign in to.

Which also means it works on a plane, in a crypt, and on the drive to a monastery with no bars of signal.