That was me and it appears to be a mischaracterization of what I was talking about. The app in question was brevmeum and here is the passage:
Breviarium Meum allows you to pray the traditional (1962) Latin breviary of the Catholic Church wherever you go. Just pull out your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, select the hour to pray, and begin. You can download the texts up to a week in advance, so you can pray even when you don't have a network connection. So if you’re on a mountain top making a retreat, or down in a valley to celebrate Mass in an isolated village, you can still keep up with the office, even if you left your printed breviary at home.
The breviary contains a particular type of prayer which includes psalms and other readings, ideally it is for communal prayer. It's also called the "Divine Office".
Can’t Catholics just talk to God?
Do they really need someone to write the canned prayers for them?
Is God really interested in someone basically reciting poetry or prose at Him that someone else wrote and calling that prayer?