Daily Prayers and Meditations can sit on your phone like an app, with its own icon on your home screen. Open it each morning and the day’s readings are waiting for you, one tap away.

It is free. There is nothing to download from an app store, no account to create, and nothing to pay. It takes about thirty seconds.

On an iPhone or iPad

1. Open prayersandmeditations.com in Safari, the compass-shaped browser that comes with your iPhone.
2. Tap the Share button: the square with an arrow pointing up. On an iPhone it is at the bottom of the screen; on an iPad, at the top.
3. Scroll down the list that appears and tap Add to Home Screen.
4. Tap Add in the top corner. The icon now sits on your home screen, named Daily Gospel.

Don’t see “Add to Home Screen”? Scroll to the very bottom of the list, tap Edit Actions, and add it from there. On a recent iPhone you can also do this from Chrome, through its Share button.

On an Android phone or tablet

1. Open prayersandmeditations.com in Chrome.
2. If a message appears offering to Install or Add to Home screen, tap it and you are done.
3. Otherwise, tap the three dots (⋮) in the top right corner.
4. Tap Add to Home screen (on some phones it says Install app), then tap Install or Add.

On a computer

In Chrome or Microsoft Edge, look for the small install icon at the right end of the address bar (a screen with a down arrow), or open the browser menu and look for Install. It will open in its own window, like any other program.

What you get

• One tap from your home screen, opening full screen without the browser’s address bar and buttons.
• Always up to date. Nothing to update: whatever is new on the site is there each time you open it.
• It uses almost no space on your phone, and it asks for nothing: no location, no contacts, no notifications.

To remove it

Press and hold the icon, then choose Remove App (iPhone) or Uninstall / Remove (Android). Nothing else on your phone changes.

If it doesn’t work

Nothing is lost: the website works just the same in your browser. You might bookmark it, or ask a family member or friend to walk through the steps above with you. Older phones sometimes don’t offer the option at all.

Also from us: put Spiritual Break on your phone too, for reflections, poetry and ways to pray.