Excellent tool
Very good tool for checking myself on a few things when I think I may be a bit off tune. No substitute for knowing trope but otherwise extremely helpful.
Leon
This app has allowed me to read and learn the Torah while listening and appreciating the trope. For someone whose first language is not Hebrew, and was not brought up in a Yeshiva, this is a fantastic tool.
Recordings are Wrong
This app is a great concept, but the recordings get a LOT of things very wrong. In some cases things are said completely incorrectly, and sometimes a completely different word is said instead of the correct one. I strongly suggest to anyone who created this app to redo all the recordings because I actively get annoyed when it gets 1/5 of the words wrong, and sometimes even gets the trup wrong. If the point of recordings is to teach people how to lein properly, the recordings should not be completely incorrect.
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Weekly Reading
I’m only giving this a low rating because every time I open the app and click on weekly reading, the app just automatically closes.
This app is really good
This app is really good. It’s really helped me practicing for my bat mitzvah. The only problem is it can be laggy at sometimes and crash but if you just exit out of the app and delete the tab that can easily be fixed.
Please fix
This week’s Haftarah, Vaeyrah, the chanting does not match the text, which should be Kings 4: 1-37.
Good in theory but way too glitchy
I got this app as a way to learn my Torah portion better, and this seemed to be the one most recommended, And yeah, for the first minute of opening the app it works great. You can click on words if you want to hear it repeated and it’s chanted slowly enough that you can easily pick it up. However, if you’re trying to play it again, it begins to glitch A LOT. Sometimes the pause button doesn’t work or is super delayed. Or the highlighting will be out of sync with the chanting. Either way, it’s immensely frustrating and it’s super hard to learn on it because you have to exit or close the window every time. Honestly, you might be better just learning on YouTube.
It’s too bad, because this app would have been great without the bugs…
It’s too bad, because this app would have been great without the bugs…
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Very good
It’s a first time for me reading the Torah and this app is great for me as a beginner. I would however suggest that there is an option to play it in English and other languages perhaps also.
Missing Haftorah
My daughter has Zachor as her haftorah and it is not in the app. Please add the special portions!
Extremely Useful
A great, great help in preparing to read. One demerit: crashes on my iPad Air 4 (but not on my iPad Air 2) when I select “This Week’s Torah Readings”.
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CHECK YALLS SPEELEN YA GOT ZEN TYPOS IN MA PARASHAT BOI!!!!!
It is good
This is a really great app but the only downside is not being able to search for your portion and it not letting you save it as your portion
Another bug
The pause button rarely works. I tried re-downloading and that did not help.
Thank you so much.
I was Bar Mitzvah in 2022 at age 68. I have read Torah a few times since then, and it has been difficult. Several months ago a friend recommended Pocket Torah. Your app made all the difference. The recording and the ability to switch between the prayer book font with vowels and the script in the Torah scroll make preparation so much easier.
On Giving Tuesday I donated to AJWS to pay it forward. You’re the best.
On Giving Tuesday I donated to AJWS to pay it forward. You’re the best.
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Please fix bugs!
Pocket Torah is my most favorite app, I use it whenever I’m reading if I need to make sure I’m reading my trope right or anything else. But I have to close the app every 4 or 5 times I read a section or verse because the yellow highlight stops being in sync with the words being chanted. And then the pause button or back button don’t work either. You can only have so much time practicing before you have to reboot everything. It’s quite frustrating to have to close and reload the app every time, on top of having to re-find my portion. PLEASE fix the bugs!!!! But otherwise, a really great app.
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Highlighted word is not what is being spoken in some text
Highlighted word is not what is being spoken in the Hebrew highlighted text. After all highlights are done, it keeps going on with more words. Some Hebrew words are completely missed in pronunciation. While, these are small bugs on the surface, they are going to be a nightmare to fix. So far I noticed the most mistakes in. Parashas Vayeira maftir alyiah
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Great app, wrong haftorah?
The app itself is great shower two things I noticed. The app gives no way to provide feedback to the developer when a mistake is found. And I found a big mistake - for parshah vayera (fourth parshah in the first of the five books of the Torah) the wrong haftorah is provided both in words and chanting - you have it as 1 kings 4:1-37 but it should actually be 2 kings 4:1-37
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Crashes sometimes
Nice app but kind of buggy. Needs an update
Timely Request
This is a fantastic app. Truly helpful. That said, i wonder if they might consider re-recording the Haftarah for this week, Shabbat Chazon (parshat Devarim) to incorporate the Eicha trope switches that are traditionally used in chanting it. I think it would be a great help.
Very helpful
Wonderful app, except maybe consider a dark mode?
