# Bedtime Shema -Jewish Children — user reviews > 67 indexed App Store user reviews of Bedtime Shema by RustyBrick, Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bedtime-shema-jewish-children/id586319358/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bedtime-shema-jewish-children/id586319358.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (11 of 67) ### 4/5 — Cute! *2014-10-24, version 1.1.3* I downloaded this app for the full shema for myself but my kids so get a kick out of it as well. This app is very cute but the shema is rushed and garbled with many of the classes childhood errors. A re-recording of it clearly and slowly would be much appreciated. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-04-13, version 1.1.3* My kids love it ### 4/5 — . *2014-01-28* Im in college and I really just wanted an easy shema app so i dont have to use a flashlight and a siddur! Anyways this app is what i found and its super useful! But perhaps you could make a similar app just for adults without all the sounds and animations and things. If not, then i would super appreciate if there was a way to permanently shut off the sounds without shutting the sound on my whole phone. Thanks and great app! ### 5/5 — Thanks *2013-12-11* This a great app! It's especially useful when I am in bed and extremely tired so that I don't have to turn on the lights to say shma. Additionally it's great if you don't have a siddur around. ### 5/5 — The kids love it! *2013-09-30* My kids (2 & 3) love this app and ask for it every night at bedtime! Thanks from the UK ### 4/5 — Help! *2013-09-30, version 1.1* Not working on ipad 1 since the update please help! ### 5/5 — Beautifully Done *2013-09-22, version 1.1* Unbelievable learning tool for kids and fun too! ### 5/5 — Best app ever!!! *2013-07-31, version 1.0.1* This makes our bed time! Thank You. What a beautiful way to remember your mother. May her memory continue for a blessing. ### 5/5 — Love!!! *2013-07-14, version 1.0.1* We love this app! It's teaching me and my daughter! Love love love! ### 5/5 — good app *2013-06-01, version 1.0.1* I enjoy this app but it keeps crashing after they brush their teeth. please fix. ### 5/5 — Loving this app! *2013-05-17, version 1.0.1* I thought this idea was really nice in honor of your mother/grandmother. It's so sweet that her grandkids recorded the shema. Me and my friends talk about how adorable this app is. Thank you for making me able to say shema anywhere I go! May her Neshamah have an Aliyah!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Great app, but randomly doesn’t work *2019-05-31* Great app in many ways. Sometimes the sound just doesn’t work. And sometimes it just does work. I have no idea why. If someone can please direct me as to why this happens and what we can do. ### 1/5 — Always crashes *2013-01-07, version 1.0* While the concept is great, every time I try to start the story it crashes. I'm hoping this will be fixed. ### 3/5 — Why no sound???Great app, but randomly doesn’t work *2026-03-29* Great app in many ways. Sometimes the sound just doesn’t work. And sometimes it just does work. I have no idea why. If someone can please direct me as to why this happens and what we can do. ### 3/5 — Okay but..... *2013-10-17, version 1.1.2* After the kids brush their teeth the app shuts down!!!! It's a really cute app but isn't that good cuz it shuts down in middle. Please fix!!!!! ### 3/5 — Needs better recording too fast unclear *2013-09-11* With all due respect, the Shema should be said clearly, not rushed, not with words blending together and all letters pronounced. (Do it over?) The "girls" version is a little better, but again, it is very bad to learn improper pronunciation first - only to need to be re-taught with proper pronunciation later in addition to breaking the habits of saying words incorrectly. Perhaps utilize children ( or grown ups ) that understand how to halachically say the Shema properly; especially since this is the only part of Jewish liturgy that absolutely must be said in Hebrew (first two lines). Ask any scholar or rabbi about this. Better yet, have a rabbi or Torah scholar check the recording before releasing any updated soundtrack. I hope this doesn't offend the kids or the parents of the kids, but this is serious stuff. Nice to see the option to skip the brushing teeth and turning off the light etc. could make it more user friendly after the initial use of the app for continued use, since if a child will be using this night after night for a while, it may become tedious to get right to the business of saying Shema with needing to go through the other "cute" clutter. ### 3/5 — Love the app, but so loud! *2013-07-18, version 1.0.1* There should be a way to turn off the sound so the kids can quietly recite Shema before drifting off to sleep. There are no settings to be found! ### 4/5 — Excellent *2018-12-05* Very intuitive. Good job. Unfortunately it doesn’t play audio on my iPhone SE, but on my wife’s iPhone 7 it does. ### 4/5 — Please add transliteration! *2018-02-24* Love this app but would be able to use it with a transliteration to English please. (Not translation.) Thank you! Sweet kids’ voices! ### 4/5 — Authentic voices *2016-02-22* I love this app. The developer used actual non-professional children to sing the prayers. There is both Hebrew and English (love the Hebrew accent!). It is very sweet...at one point you can even hear one of the kids pausing to catch his breath. ### 4/5 — My son loves it *2015-11-17* I must say this is a lovely app while I was looking for a bedtime prayer for my toddler and I came across this, we don't speak Hebrew but for some unknown reason my son love it,specially the shema , he's so into it and that make want to learn it. I understand this a Jewish app but it would be marvelous if we could have it ( shema ) in both languages English &Hebrew so we could understand the prayer . I really hope that you guys updated it soon. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Small app with big heart *2023-10-14* Love the app. I’ve never seen any useful and comforting application like this one. ### 5/5 — Love It *2021-10-28* I love this app!!! ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2018-10-24* This app is a powerful tool to aide parents in encouraging the proper bedtime ritual for their children. The activities and the friendly graphics are enticing for children of all ages as they say their nightly prayers. ### 5/5 — This is a great app!! *2017-07-05* I've used this app many times over the past year or 2 since I downloaded it. It has the full text of Krias Shema, which is very useful! Highly recommend this app to anyone that wants to say Shema before going to sleep and would like to have the text easily accessible. Thank you to the makers of this app! ### 5/5 — There is nothing wrong with this app! *2016-08-16* This can also be used for adults it is very nice and I like how there are no ads!! Thank u for making this app I bless u makers of this app! More... ### 5/5 — Tizku l'mitzvot!!! *2016-07-29* Incredible app! Great for young and old. I will share this with everyone. May your mothers neshama have an incredible Aliyah through the tefillos that come because this app is here. ### 5/5 — Shema in Hebrew & English *2015-05-28* Within the past 5 years I have learned that the Torah is still valid and started being Torah observant and I have just recently this year learned the 1st 2 lines of the Shema in Hebrew & I have yet to learn Hebrew (a work in progress). I have a grandson that will be arriving in September and would really love for him to be able to hear the Shema in Hebrew and English. Is there any way to add a English version of the Shema? I will be using this app with him! Thank you so much for doing this! And I love your reasoning behind doing it! So glad you were blessed with a wonderful mother! Shalom! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2014-05-12, version 1.1.3* Perfect for adults too ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2014-05-05* Super awsome apps my jewish children loved it they beg me for more every night ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2014-05-02, version 1.1.3* This app is great for Jewish kids! They get to do bedtime routines and at the end say the Shema! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*