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One inbox, answered by the person who wrote the app. If your question is not below, write in and say what your parish is, because most calendar questions turn on that.
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First check which calendar you chose during setup. Open Settings inside the app and look at your parish or jurisdiction. Greek, Antiochian, OCA, Romanian and Bulgarian parishes usually keep the new calendar for fixed feasts; Serbian, Russian and Georgian parishes keep the old one. Changing it there changes every screen at once. If it still differs, write in with the date and what your calendar says. It may be a mistake in the app, which I want to fix, or something your own church or parish keeps, which your priest can explain.
Because they are fast days through the year, outside the fast-free weeks, and leaving them off is a common complaint about fasting apps. They are marked on the month grid, in the agenda and on Home, from one value, so they cannot appear on one surface and not another.
Then your priest is right and the app is not. Askesis states the general discipline of the Church. It cannot know your health, your circumstances or what you have been blessed to do, and it says so on the way in and again in Settings.
Every day of 2026 and 2027 carries its appointed readings in Slavic practice, and in Greek practice through August 2027. Later years come in updates.
The fast levels are tested on every day of 2026 and 2027. Greek practice is checked against the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese's planner, which is published through August 2027; the last four months of 2027 are rebuilt from the planner's earlier years until it publishes them. Slavic practice is checked against a calendar kept to the OCA's rubrics, with each disputed day checked against the text of the Typikon. Scripture is the Brenton Septuagint for the Old Testament, keeping the Septuagint psalm numbering, and the World English Bible for the New. The prayers are in modern English with three sections from Isabel Hapgood's Service Book of 1906. How this is tested, and how to report an error, is on the page How is Askesis checked?
For the first week after you finish setting up, all of it. After that, Home and the calendar stay free forever: the day's fast level in food words, where you are in the fast season, the feast and the saints, the appointed readings, every fasting Wednesday and Friday marked on the month, and the line about your priest. Setting the app up and changing your settings stay free too, as do the reminders the evening before a fast or a feast.
The prayer rule, the scanner, the Kitchen, the lives of the saints, Holy Scripture, Discover and search, habits, favourites, the commemoration list, name-day reminders, rule-time reminders and the widgets.
$39.99 a year, or $59.99 a year for the whole household through Family Sharing, both including the free week. $7.99 a month, or $11.99 a month for the household, both starting straight away. Those are United States prices; Apple charges the local equivalent everywhere else, so trust the figure the app shows you over this page.
That is deliberate. A locked area shows the real thing behind a blur rather than vanishing, so you can see what a subscription adds instead of guessing. Nothing behind it has been deleted.
Open Settings inside the app and tap Restore. If you bought it under a different Apple Account, sign in with that one first. If it still will not unlock, write in with the date of the purchase.
In your Apple account settings, which is the only place iOS allows it. The app has a row that takes you straight there. Cancelling deletes nothing: your commemorations, your kept marks, your habits and your favourites all stay, and they come back unblurred if you subscribe again.
Yes, through Apple's own Family Sharing group. The two single plans do not. If you are not sure which you bought, the subscription screen inside the app names the plan and says whether it arrived through Family Sharing.
Then it genuinely could not read enough of the label to answer. The app would rather say so than tell you a half-read ingredient list contains nothing the fast sets aside. Try again with the label flat and well lit. It shows you the text it actually read, above the verdict, so you can see what it was working from.
English, Serbian, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian, German, Spanish and two dozen more. Labels printed in the Greek or Georgian alphabet cannot be read.
No. That was built and then removed, because it could not be made reliable enough, and a scanner that is confidently wrong about food is worse than no scanner. It reads printed ingredient lists.
Wine is not detected at all. Many parishes permit shellfish on fast days, though not all, so the scanner names it as a note and never turns a verdict red on it alone. Oil is detected in every language it reads and named on a strict day, and it does not drive the verdict either.
Inside the morning rule, at the traditional point, on the page that reads the whole occasion in order. The Commemorations card on the Prayers screen is where you add and edit the names.
Correct. There is no alert, no red state and no interruption when a streak ends. An unkept day is an unfilled dot. Get up and continue.
Check that notifications are allowed for Askesis in iOS Settings, and that the particular reminder is switched on inside the app. Name-day and rule-time reminders need a subscription; fast-eve and feast-eve reminders do not. Every reminder is scheduled on your device, so they keep working in Airplane Mode.
The Kitchen holds 224 fasting recipes. "Fits today" shows only the dishes the day's fast allows, and you can filter by fast level or by course. It is part of Askesis Pro.
An iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later. A camera is needed only for the scanner. iCloud is optional.
No. There is no account, no sign-in and no email address to give. See the privacy policy.
Completely. The calendar, prayers, scripture and saints are all inside the app. Nothing is fetched, so nothing can fail to load.
Both devices need to be signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on for Askesis. Sync is Apple's, and it can take a moment. Nothing is lost while it catches up.
No. It is measured from when you finished setting up, and that moment syncs with the rest of your data, so reinstalling neither resets it nor extends it.
A correction to the calendar is more useful than a compliment. If a day is wrong, send the date, your jurisdiction, and what your own calendar says. That is enough to reproduce it and fix it.
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