Mass Times for Travel 4+

Solid app; little differentiated functionality versus website

I appreciate developers bringing this app to market. It’s a solid app with a clean user interface. Areas of opportunity for future improvement include adding functionality that differentiates the app from the website. Examples may include the app allowing the user to store a list of favorite church locations so they don’t need to be re-queried every time. Without differentiations such as these one may just simply set a Safari favorite to the website itself.

Change does not necessarily mean improvement

This was a great app. Anytime we traveled I would look up and see where the closest church was and what time their Mass was. However, now it doesn’t work that way. Now, Masses are indicated by the time not the location. This caused me to miss Mass at the closest church this weekend, and have to drive more than twice the distance because the app did not tell me that the closest church only had Mass on Saturday evening. I do not appreciate the change. Now you are inundated with a lot of superfluous information while just hunting for a close church.

I received a response from the developer and was advised that you COULD still find Masses by location. The problem is that it is difficult to locate. You need to go to the Mass Menu and select ALL. I would have never found that without their reply. Hopefully it will become part of the filters option.

Upgrading my review from one to three stars. I would love to upgrade it to five. I sincerely appreciate assistance in finding Mass while on vacation.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for leaving a review, Acwiz56. There is a new default sorting order: churches having Mass for the current day, sorted by time of day. You can easily change the sorting order back to churches by distance by selecting "All" in one of the filters ("Mass" or day). That will take care of your navigation question. We'll soon introduce a one-click switch to change the sorting order between time and distance.


2023-09-05 update: we now have a separate "sort by" time/distance filter for easier searching by time of day or by distance from the point of the search.

A Must Have for Every Catholic Person!

Thank you so much for making this app!!! I use it not only when I travel but also every day. I have decided now that my kids are grown up, I will have time to go to church on weekdays as well... well, I have just the app for that! It tells me which church offers weekday masses!
My only complaint is the phone number on each church, every time I click on a church to check out their mass times, I always seem to click the phone number instead!!! So maybe if someone can change it so that the phone number link to call will be only shown after you click for the church's more info?
Thank you so much!