In this devotional app, you can read and listen to daily reflections and prayers. Includes categorization by year and quarter, dark mode, and synchronization across devices.
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20% review manipulation risk
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Many low ratings mention paywalls or pricing
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High negative review ratio
32% of sampled ratings are 1–2 stars
About Portals of Prayer
What’s New?
Welcome to the NEW Portals of Prayer App. There have been many updates to help make your experience seamless, from the subscription feature to how the devotions are displayed. Here’s a list of all the new features:
Navigation Bar
Two features from the original navigation bar have now moved. The bottom still contains “Devotions” and “Favorites.” “Prayers” has now been renamed “Resources” to better represent its offerings. This tab will still be located on the bottom navigation bar. “Search” and “Settings” have been relocated to the top navigation bar.
Devotions
An updated design allows for a sleek and modern devotions screen. Press the Play button in the middle of the image to hear your audio devotion. Swipe right or left to see previous or future devotions.
Archives
Not only can you search based on topic or month, but devotions are now also categorized based on year and quarter to make finding a devotion from the print version that much easier.
Resources
The “Prayers” tab is now called “Resources” and includes daily prayers, prayers for special occasions, and author biographies.
Settings
The app now offers a dark mode for your reading convenience.
Favorites
The app now syncs your favorites across all your devices so long as you use the same Concordia Publishing House account.
About Portals of Prayer
Portals of Prayer is a quarterly print devotional that has been a favorite for generations of readers. Since 1937, the meaningful daily devotions and ending prayers have offered a daily moment of time with God, comforting believers through their lives.
Concordia Publishing House Portals of Prayer App Subscription
While the Portals of Prayer App is free to download, you need a subscription to access all the amazing features. A new subscription is $9.99 per year and can be purchased through the app. Here’s what each subscription includes:
- Over 10 years of Portals of Prayer content
- Daily audio and textual devotions
- Meaningful daily prayers
- The ability to mark the devotions you like best as “Favorite”
Your yearly subscription will auto-renew unless the auto-renew feature is turned off. To avoid being charged with the auto-renewal, it must be turned off at least 24-hours prior to the renewal date. You can see the end date of your subscription in the app’s “Settings” tab.
A subscription to the Portals of Prayer App does not, and is not, included in the print subscription to Portals of Prayer. These subscriptions are separate entities.
Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
Please visit https://www1.cph.org/portals/terms.aspx to view the terms and conditions of the Portals of Prayer App.
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Reviews for Portals of Prayer
Groups gone
Background music and droning voice
Why do religious apps think they have to have a musical background. It’s annoying. It’s also an accessibility issue for hard of hearing people. In addition, a very slow ponderous read detracts from the message. We have only listened to two, and already considering abandoning the app.
Squiggles00247
Helpful resource
I was excited to discover that this app exists and I fully understand the need for the yearly cost for this work and find it a reasonable amount. I’m hopeful that a “share“ functionality might be added.
