Daily Watchword

Appearance

Choose how the app looks. “Follow device” switches with your phone’s own light/dark setting; “Auto” goes dark at sunset and light again at sunrise, by your phone’s clock.

Light Dark Follow device Auto

Daily reminder

Entirely optional. Pick a time, then add a repeating event to your phone’s calendar — it reminds you every day, even when the app is closed.

Prefer a phone alarm instead?

IPHONE

1. Open the Clock app and go to Alarms.
2. Tap +, set your time, and under Label type “Daily Watchword”.
3. Tap Save.

ANDROID

1. Open the Clock app and choose Alarm.
2. Tap +, set your time, and name it “Daily Watchword”.
3. Make sure it repeats every day.

Christmas star

A hanging Moravian star that appears just for fun from Advent to Epiphany (early January). Give it a swing — or switch it off here if you’d rather not have it.

Show the Christmas star

About the Christmas star

The many-pointed Moravian star is a treasured Christmas tradition, first made by pupils at a Moravian school in Germany in the 1800s as a geometry lesson, and now hung in Moravian homes and churches through Advent as a sign of Christ, the Light of the World, and the Star of Bethlehem.

This little star is just for fun, from Advent to Epiphany. Tap it, give it a swing — and if you’d rather not have it, switch it off above.

Add to your home screen

Installed, the app opens full-screen from its own icon and works without a connection.

IPHONE & IPAD (SAFARI)

1. Open this page in Safari.
2. Tap the Share button — the square with an arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen.
3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
4. Tap Add in the top corner.

ANDROID (CHROME)

1. Open this page in Chrome.
2. Tap the three dots menu in the top corner.
3. Tap Add to Home screen (on some phones: Install app).
4. Confirm with Add or Install.

COMPUTER (CHROME OR EDGE)

1. Look for the small install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar.
2. Click it, then click Install.