eGohm is the prayer and liturgy app of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Frankfurt e.V., made for the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Southern Germany: multilingual prayer texts, season-aware hymns, the Coptic calendar and the readings of the day – fully offline, on every device.
Free on Google Play and the App Store · no sign-up · no ads · all content ships with the app and works without an internet connection.
Extensive content
Agpeya, Euchologion, Psalmodia, Katameros, deacon responses, doxologies, sacraments, ordination rites, spiritual songs, feasts and fasting periods – the library covers the liturgical life of the Coptic Church in the German-speaking diaspora.
Features
eGohm takes the searching out of praying: the app knows today's liturgical day and shows exactly the prayers, hymns and readings that belong to it.
Every prayer, hymn, intercession and tune that depends on the church season is assembled automatically for the current day – fasts, the Holy Fifty Days, feasts, eves and monthly commemorations included. Seasonal notices help explain the context of special liturgical seasons.
Coptic and Gregorian dates side by side, with feasts, fasting periods and season information. Pick any date – the entire app follows it.
The Katameros for Vespers, Matins and the Holy Liturgy: psalms, gospels, Pauline, Catholic and Praxis readings – including which Katameros the reading comes from.
Prayers that exist in several anaphoras can be switched between St. Basil, St. Gregory and St. Cyril right inside the text – without leaving the book.
Every prayer, book and daily reading has its own link. Shared links open exactly that spot – in the app or in the browser, with a preview image in the messenger.
German, Coptic and Arabic – each with transliteration – in columns you choose yourself. Every generation can pray the same liturgy together.
Slide-show mode, full screen and continuous font scaling: eGohm is made for projection in church just as much as for a phone in your hand.
Priest, deacon and congregation are colour-coded. For the bishops you set once who is celebrating with you today: number, rank, name and form of address are then correct throughout the text – in German, Coptic and Arabic at the same time. If no one is present, those passages simply do not appear.
All texts live inside the app – no account, no trackers, no network traffic while you pray. Works in the crypt, on the train and on a plane.
Season & calendar
The Coptic calendar, the fasting periods and Easter calculated the Coptic way form the backbone of eGohm. The selected date determines the season – and the season determines which prayers, hymns, tunes and readings appear.
Readings of the day
The readings for every service of the day are ready – with references, full text and provenance. The German Bible texts come from licensed translations; psalms follow the Septuagint numbering of the Coptic tradition.
Liturgies
Many prayers exist in different versions across the liturgies of St. Basil, St. Gregory and St. Cyril. In eGohm one tap on the switcher is enough: the text changes at exactly that place and the book stays open.
Library
The library follows the grown structure of the liturgical books – from the Euchologion with its three anaphoras to the Psalmodia with doxologies, psalies and theotokias. Anyone who knows the books will feel at home immediately.
Languages
The same line from the prayer for forgiveness – the way eGohm shows it side by side. Every column can be switched on or off individually, including transliterations for everyone who does not read Coptic or Arabic.
Ich habe gesündigt, vergebt mir, meine Väter und Brüder.
Ⲁⲓⲉⲣⲛⲟⲃⲓ ϯⲙⲉⲧⲁ̀ⲛⲟⲓⲁ̀ ⲭⲱ ⲛⲏⲓ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ⲛⲁⲓⲟϯ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲁⲥ̀ⲛⲏⲟⲩ.
Ai-ernowi ti-met-anoia koo nie-i ewol na-joti nem na-esnie-ou.
أخطأت يا آبائي وإخوتي سامحوني.
25t2t ja 2aba2i ua-e5uati sam7unj.
The user interface itself is available in German, English and Arabic – independently of the text languages you choose.
Get it
eGohm is available on Google Play, on the App Store and as a web app in the browser – all from a single codebase.
Available on the App Store; on the Mac the same app runs in the browser.
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No ads, no subscription, no data collection. If you would like to support the work, you can donate – the money goes exclusively into new hardware and AI subscriptions.