Siddur – Linear Edition

I love the format. The ‘smart’ feature that shows the relevant parts of davening (Rosh Chodesh inserts on Rosh Chodesh) are great. However, they don’t work on the bedtime Shema. (Days without Tachanun should have parts omitted ) Otherwise an awesome app!

I bought this version while waiting for the Annotated Siddur to have the English translation added. I have been happily using the annotated version for years. This is an excellent alternative. I used it for davening today and it worked well. It also offered pleasant, unexpected surprises. Glad I bought it. UPDATE: April 2018. Still using this app almost every day and still satisfied. However, I noticed 2 issues: 1. On my iPad pro there is a rare occasional crash. I also notice some occasional “blinking” of the screen. I don’t know if these are related. 2. It seems to me that the Omer count is one day behind. I counted 3 days of the Omer tonight after Maariv but this app indicated 2 days. BUT, I enjoyed finding the Omer section inserted into Maariv. Very nice touch!

First the good things: Thought this was a great way learning the prayers with this translation. And it works because every hebrew sentence is translated and it’s easy to follow. It has all the prayer you need. The bad: 1. The text is not native to the app. Meaning to say you can’t increase the text size or change font. It’s just basically PDFs that you can zoom in and out but you have to scroll then horizontally while praying. 2. When you scroll further down and you want to get back all the way to the top of the prayer usually you would swipe up and tab the top bar and it would scroll all the way to the top of the page. Not in this app. Especially painful since the texts are long. 3. At the current state the price is very high. If this would be $0.99 it might be a slight different story. In the end I would like to have a great app and pay for it. See how the Rusty Brick siddur did all of it much better.

For those of us who don’t have an actual Shule nearby that we can go to everyday.. this Siddur makes it possible to know what to do and when..I had to pull some shenanigans (bluestacks) to get it on my surface pro.. but worth it!!!! It literally is the only Siddur I use .. except Shabbat an holidays.. but I have a Rabbi on those days.. this is the one!!!! Needs to have a “not praying in minyan option” but otherwise.. perfect

I love it. I like that it shows you on the home page either the prayer for Mariv or Minja or Arbit depends on what time it is or it shows you the Omer. You have easy access to the prayer that you need on the time that you need them. However on the menu you can find a Table of Contents if you are looking for something else. Do you have a Spanish - Hebrew Version?

I love everything about this app. However, it doesn’t seem to obey the daylight savings time settings now that the app has experienced its first transition through one. It still shows DST times in the Halachic Times menu, and on the home screen. I look forward to the update that will make this app even more useful!

Dear developer thank you for making the app can you please make a black screen with a white text so it’s easier to read. Thank you. Eliyahu

Is not possible to use this app with the VoiceOver screen reader. It only reads the menu items but I can’t read/navigate through the content, that is the most important and the reason why this app exists.

I use an iPad. The app was fine before the most recent update, and now immediately closes after opening.

Not working so well past week. Random parts of davening just pop up. Once they fix it I’ll give it 5 stars.

The content, design, and text layout is great. Would be wonderful if the designers of this app created a similarly styled Tehilim. Thank you!

Before I purchased this it said it was transliterated but it is not.

Such limited settings. Also baught this by mistake instead of the other much better version without the english

I can’t believe they released this and charge us. I also can’t believe I fell for it and bought it! The Hebrew font is way too small to be useful to pray.

This App is advertised as providing linear translations. I downloaded specifically for Kinot just to find that Kinot were in Hebrew only. Disappointed.

Crashes all the time. Will not open.

There is no payers for Shabbat or holidays

This is a great siddur and it is very similar to a rusty brick siddur I bought. My only suggestion would be to have the option of turning off the English translation of the siddur. I understand this is Kehos but when you have the English and Hebrew side by side on the phone it is hard on the eyes to read the Hebrew so far away.

I was initially apprehensive to download another siddur app. After having searched high and low for a siddur that was beautiful and useful, I have not found that which my soul seeks - until now. This beautiful siddur has all of the instruction and visual appeal of the print version. Where it truly shines though, is the fully automated and seamless additions for seasonal and daily changes in the prayer. It is simply fantastic. The integrated zmanim section - brilliant. The only thing it could improve would be to have the times offline. EDIT: after reaching out to the developer, they responded that zmanim times are downloaded offline for 30 days!! All in all, Kehos and Chabad.org did not disappoint on this one. The aesthetic beauty of Kehos' latest offerings married with the technological prowess of Chabad.org have produced a true wunderkind of a siddur!