# Learn Hebrew Pod — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of Learn Hebrew Pod by Language Fountain, rated 4.80/5 from 163 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-hebrew-pod/id677068672/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-hebrew-pod/id677068672.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 137 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Learn Hebrew Pod? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 📚 Comprehensive curriculum with gradual difficulty progression - 🎯 Effective teaching methodology with grammar breakdown - 🗣️ Clear, native Israeli pronunciation by speakers - 👍 User-friendly interface with customizable options - 🎮 Engaging games and practice exercises - 🙏 Includes Jewish prayers and liturgy content - ⚡ Self-paced learning at individual speed - 📱 Cross-platform accessibility (app and desktop) - 💬 Conversational dialogue style with vocabulary reinforcement - 🎧 Multiple audio speed options (slow, medium, fast) - 🔤 Flexible display options (vowels, transliteration, font sizes) - 🎤 Male and female voice options - 💰 Good value for money compared to alternatives - 👨‍🏫 Excellent customer service and support - 📖 Includes PDF transcripts and grammar explanations **Cons** - 💸 Expensive subscription pricing - 🐛 App crashes and freezes occasionally - ⚙️ Outdated UI/UX design - 🔌 Slow loading times - 🔐 Session management issues (random logout) - 📱 Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices - 🎤 Default male voice speaker (difficult to change default) - ⏱️ Excessive pause time between phrases - 📊 Limited customization for default settings - 🔄 Requires repurchase for desktop access **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes randomly - Audio playback issues and broken computer voice - Subscription status not recognized despite being logged in - PDF navigation traps users with no way back to main menu - Slow performance and loading times - Incompatibility with newer iOS versions - Last update was 1.5+ years ago (outdated) - Glitchy behavior on newer devices **Most requested features** - Bookmark/save progress within lessons - Improved audio controls (skip forward/backward 10 seconds like podcasts) - Female voice as default option - More Biblical Hebrew content - Additional prayers in siddur order - Prayer melodies/music included - Lesson completion tracking and marking system - Single purchase for cross-platform access - Better UI/UX design updates - Extended content for advanced learners ## Newest reviews (14 of 85) ### 5/5 — Default to Female? *2022-02-09, version 1.3.6* Love the app, but like prior comments it’d be appreciated if I, as a course purchaser, could make the default speaker female. Kind of a hassle having to do it over and over and over… ### 5/5 — Works for me *2021-11-10, version 1.3.6* As a senior learner,this app allows the repetition that helps me retain what I learn. And it is fun. This could be a model for other learning apps ### 5/5 — Great app! *2021-07-08, version 1.3.6* I just love how easy it is to navigate around. It is very clear and simple to use! Thank you ### 5/5 — Comprehensive *2021-06-13, version 1.3.6* Excellent format. Comprehensive and well thought out. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2021-04-17, version 1.3.6* Would love more prayers and Biblical Hebrew in the format! ### 5/5 — Great app *2020-08-20, version 1.3.6* Thoughtfully and competently designed. Love it. ### 5/5 — Really a great app and I do recommend it 100% *2020-05-28, version 1.3.6* Awesome app the lessons are short and easy to follow with fun attitude. The info is very retainable and the positive environment the teachers convey through their tones and voices makes all the difference 👍 wish they start designing similar models for other languages as well 😊 ### 4/5 — Great app *2020-02-16, version 1.3.6* It help a great deal ### 5/5 — Good app to accompany a great language course *2019-05-13, version 1.3.6* The app is good and handy in and of itself, but the real value is the course that u can subscribe to. The instructors are phenomenal teachers and very engaging. U can download the lessons onto your pc with pdf files of the transcripts and grammar explanantions. ### 5/5 — What I was looking for *2019-05-01, version 1.3.6* I learned to read Basic Hebrew through taking a course. Once I could read with the nikkud, I looked for an app to help me practice my reading and expand my vocabulary so I could learn Hebrew better. This App is wonderful. I like how I can do the reading lessons and eliminate the transliteration and how to say it so I could practice it myself without cheating. When you press on the words they say the word slowly and clearly first, the English translation, and then they say it normally so you can repeat it and memorize it. ### 5/5 — Amazing App With Some Updates Needed *2019-04-18, version 1.3.6* This app is a blessing! I found it through Apple Podcast and loved being able to listen and practice speaking on my drive to school/work, as well as when I’m walking around. I am currently doing a “1 month trial” of beginner steps and will probably purchase all 3 levels through the website. They are super simple and straight-forward. What is missing, and that which would make a difference, is for the audio to be set up like Apple Podcast where you can move forward or backwards 10 seconds and pause/control that when the screen is locked (like with iTunes or iPodcast). This would be much more user-friendly. The UX/UI could definitely use an update (both app and desktop) because it feels slightly lower quality and loads super slow. Hopefully you get more money to make these changes, as the audio lessons are super great quality and easy-to-follow. I have yet to try the writing pieces. ### 5/5 — Great app👍 *2018-09-27, version 1.3.6* I am enlisting in the IDF in a couple months and started this program knowing a couple basic elements of Hebrew. I am thoroughly impressed with learn Hebrew pod because it always surprises me how I learn something new each lesson even if I knew some of the words already. Unlike most language apps that just teach you a word bank/ vocabulary, learn Hebrew pod breaks down all the grammar including the suffixes and prefixes to words and why exactly they are added. With each lesson I gain more confidence that I will be able to learn another language- specifically the one I need for moving to Israel and being in the army. Highly recommend!!! I started with beginners first steps and finished in a couple days.. now I am on lesson 15 ( doing a lesson a day) and I can feel myself comprehending more and more each day and now even being able to form sentences combining what I have learned through each lesson. Also with a subscription to the program, it works with both the iPhone and computer so I switch off how I learn depending on where I am. I use the app when I am driving in the car and it is great for long drives. Anyways- great app! And the voices are lovely and pleasant and completely understandable. ### 5/5 — It works *2017-09-17, version 1.3.6* I tried other courses and this is the one I'm sticking with. I'm on lesson 10 now. I especially like that the first lesson is free, the next few are available as a trial and then you can decide on the whole course. Their confidence in themselves is justified. ### 5/5 — At my pace - *2017-06-15, version 1.3.1* My schedule with family and other responsibilities dictate that I have to be able to move along at my own pace. This allows me to do just that. If you are tempted to skip a lesson because of the topic, don't. It will include vocabulary that you will need. I am a Gentile Christian, so, yes, this is for anybody and everybody who wishes they could read and understand the Tanakh and to speak Hebrew. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — $$ *2025-08-16, version 1.3.6* Way too expensive ### 1/5 — Complete scam, don’t waste your money. *2021-11-11, version 1.3.6* I repeatedly was promoted to purchase a paid membership — even after I paid. There is no customer service to speak of. The app is a piece of garbage. ### 1/5 — It's A Bad App *2017-08-15, version 1.3.5* They do try to rope you in so a person can purchase from them. I am going to take the app out because it isn't that good. ### 1/5 — Doesn't Work *2014-11-18, version 1.3* The content is wonderful. However, I tried the first conversation lesson and thought I would check out the PDF of the conversation. I cannot navigate back to the main menu. I am stuck in the PDF, with no way back to the main page the APP is no longer of any value. I want my money back. ### 2/5 — Outdated with bugs *2016-08-18, version 1.3.1* The app has a few bugs causing audio to not work. Also not optimized to work on newer ios devices. Last update was year and half ago. Optimize and fix the bugs and ill give it a 5 star! ### 2/5 — Learning the alphabet, can't understand *2016-02-16, version 1.3.1* The computer voice is so broken and scratch it's terrible. Oy Vay ### 2/5 — Good Info; Poor app *2014-11-22, version 1.3* I just upgraded to the iPhone 6, and I have the latest software version. This app did not work well on my iPhone 5, and it doesn't work any better on the 6. It's slow and glitchy. ### 3/5 — Not free *2020-01-20, version 1.3.6* You can only use the first two lesson before you have to pay. ### 4/5 — Amazing app! *2022-10-08, version 1.3.6* This app is great. Learning Hebrew is getting easier thanks to this app. I just wish the app could keep you signed in. ### 4/5 — Mostly great minus the sexism *2021-01-29, version 1.3.6* It wonderful. Best I’ve come across. somebody should design other language jobs like this. However, I really failed to understand why I can’t, as a female subscriber, make the feminine voice my default voice. I shouldn’t have to change it back to a female voice every time I use it or even change a setting. that’s not building a wall around the Torah it’s building a wall around the *great unwashed*🙄 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Potential *2026-03-08, version 1.3.6* A lot of these apps like Rosetta Stone and others like it have a better user interface. But what makes it a 5 star for me is the prayers. Knowing how to say them is essential. I truly appreciate the app and everyone involved in making it a reality. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Intuitive and effective *2025-09-10, version 1.3.6* This is an excellent tool to build habits. ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-10-13, version 1.3.6* Really a very nice surprise. Finally I find the Hebrew class I was looking for ### 5/5 — Advanced quicker and further than I ever expected! So thankful for this app *2024-03-23, version 1.3.6* The gradual increase in difficulty and wide range of subject matter is absolutely brilliant as is the conversational style of the dialogues and frequent use of newly learned vocabulary allowing me to pick up words without forcing them into my brain through rote memorization. I don’t write reviews but this was worth my time to write ### 5/5 — A great program *2024-01-20* I use this program in my conversational Hebrew class because every student can progress at their own pace and level. All the needed materials are there, presented gradually, clearly with enough fun practice games to consolidate the knowledge. ### 5/5 — Highly recommended *2023-10-16, version 1.3.6* Best app for Learning Hebrew. Having the A, B and C let’s you cut the rest of the chatter once you already understand the concept and just repeat the phrases ### 5/5 — best app for learning *2023-08-26, version 1.3.6* i just re downloaded this app to brush up on my hebrew. Their website, app, and youtube videos are always the best and most helpful out of all other companies. I haven't used the app in awhile but it was always great when i did use it ### 5/5 — Truly an excellent app *2022-12-12, version 1.3.6* It is a beautifully put together, organized, friendly, comprehensive, and effective app. I would recommend memorizing the Hebrew alphabet before you start. They will help you with rest!!! ### 5/5 — Excellent learning tool *2022-10-31, version 1.3.6* Fantastic language program. I’ve been using the LHP app for several months now and can’t say enough good things about it. The multiple ways of learning (listening, watching, reading) and range of exercises offered with each lesson are so well thought out, organized and presented and my comprehension and conversational skills continue to improve - at a pace I can handle (and faster as lessons advance). So glad I discovered these podcasts - many thanks to Jonathan and his team for making them available. ### 5/5 — Excellent method of teaching *2022-06-17, version 1.3.6* A lot of thought has gone into this course and it is fantastic to learn so much at such a low cost. Thank you. --- *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 2026-08-09.*