# Sefaria: Jewish Texts Library — user reviews > 213 indexed App Store user reviews of Sefaria by Sefaria, rated 4.50/5 from 768 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sefaria-jewish-texts-library/id1163273965/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sefaria-jewish-texts-library/id1163273965.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 625 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 57 ## What do users think of Sefaria? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Just works! - 🚀 Great app - 🚀 Amazing app - 🚀 Fantastic has everything - 🚀 Brilliance!! - 🚀 Exceptional resource! B"H - 🚀 The best app ever - 🚀 Torah Lishma and it's great! - 🚀 Thanks for this tremendous resource! - 🚀 So thankful I found Sefaria!! - 🚀 Polished efficient fantastic - 🚀 Best JEWISH App ever - 🚀 Changed the World - 🚀 A Chest of Treasures - 🚀 Excellent resource! - 🚀 THANK YOU - 🚀 PERFECT TIMING - 🚀 A Wonderful Gift - 🚀 Excellent! **Cons** - 🐛 Can't open it - 🐛 Sheets are crashing the app now - 🐛 Gets stuck, when opening a book instead going from paragraph to a new it keeps repeating again and again - 🐛 Crashes often - 🐛 Translation Disappear - 🐛 Beware! Sefaria is a conservative organization - 🐛 Appalled ! - 🐛 Occasional crashes - 🐛 High battery consumption **Commonly reported bugs** - Can't open it - Sheets are crashing the app now - Gets stuck, when opening a book instead going from paragraph to a new it keeps repeating again and again - Crashes often - Translation Disappear - App not functioning - Won't open - Can't open app - Please fix the app! - Não abre no IPhone 14 Pro Max - doesn't work - Doesn't work - My Sefaria App Hasn't Worked In A Month - Can't open the app, please advise ASAP - App not working at all on iPhoneXs **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Colored Highlighters Please - Tabs for multiple texts - Transliteration - Audio option - Hebrew calendar - Bookmarking, highlighting and notes - Ability to send text to other apps - Multiple tabs for different texts - Dark mode - Translate in French please !! - Portuguese Brazilian Please!!!! - Niqqud/נקוד Toggle Please!! - Source sheets on the app - Prioritize English texts - Split screen and side-by-side app support - Translate to Spanish - Translate to Italian - Translate to Russian ## Newest reviews (15 of 213) ### 4/5 — Review *2026-05-28, version 6.7.4* Used to have access to dictionaries and the like while in offline mode. Now I do not, in spite of having them all downloaded. Otherwise, great app! ### 4/5 — Best option for finding specific texts *2026-04-28* I love this app more than any other app that’s like it - nearly everything you need just a search away. I do however have one request, and that is a dark mode for night time/dim lighting reading because otherwise the app can be unwieldy to read even with the screen dimmed. Dark mode, please! ### 2/5 — Has gotten buggy *2026-03-28, version 6.6.0* Lately every time I try and open the app it gives me an error message. Used to be a useful resource, now, not so much… ### 5/5 — Dark mode *2025-12-14* Please add a dark mode option to the app and website. **Developer response:** Hi - To switch to dark mode, tap the A/א menu and select black under the "Color" heading. - Team Sefaria ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2025-12-01, version 6.4.60* This app is amazing. No words other than a true treasure. And I never write reviews. ### 4/5 — Colored Highlighters Please *2025-11-23, version 6.4.60* I enjoy using this app but I wish there was an option to highlight verses and passages with different colored highlighters. I see other Bible apps with this option, it would be great if highlighters were a feature on this app too. ### 5/5 — Un indispensable *2025-10-26* Une application tout simplement indispensable pour tout type d’étude. Tout y est : Tanakh, Guemara, Mefarchim, Halakha, Tefila etc. Le tout parfaitement organisé. Le plus pratique, c’est qu’en sélectionnant un passage, on accède aussitôt à tous les commentaires et textes qui s’y rattachent — très pratique pour étudier en profondeur. Simple, fluide et sans publicité : un vrai plaisir à utiliser au quotidien. ### 3/5 — a bit tedious for looking up pesukim *2025-10-19, version 6.4.57* overall great but needs better search tools and the ability to copy the Hebrew texts. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-09-26, version 6.4.57* Amazing app ### 5/5 — Fantastic has everything *2025-09-14* This is a fantastic piece of software completely free has all texts in English and Hebrew at no cost they simply ask for donations. Must have for notes as you can create your own notes and publish them if you wish so. We must support them as they are doing something extraordinary especially if you cannot afford the entire Talmud and commentaries etc. **Developer response:** Hi, we're so glad to hear you're enjoying the app! We are constantly updating and adding new features, and we love hearing from our users when we're heading in the right direction. Please feel free to reach out with any more comments or suggestions. -Team Sefaria ### 5/5 — Sensacional *2025-09-04* Perfeito ### 5/5 — Brilliance!! *2025-08-11, version 6.4.55* What an app ### 4/5 — Offline access updates need work *2025-08-06, version 6.4.55* Great overall tho updating offline access is buggy with downloads just getting stuck/hanging sometimes have to retry a few times ### 5/5 — Exceptional resource! B"H *2025-07-20, version 6.4.54* Thank you all for this incredible app! 💕🖖🇮🇱💕 ### 5/5 — Sefaria *2025-05-30, version 6.4.28* The best app ever, in any subject area anywhere. Brilliantly designed and executed, and in every detail clearly a labor of dedication and love. Kol hakavod to the entire Sefaria crew. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Problem *2026-06-10* Following latest update, app no longer working. I’ve offloaded and reinstalled it twice, to no avail. Hope you release corrected update soon thank you ### 1/5 — I can't find my source sheets or anything anymore *2026-02-27, version 6.6.0* I've been using the app for years, and now it's telling me to find Voices to find the source sheets, but there's no voices in the app so now what ### 1/5 — Can’t open it *2025-12-14, version 6.4.60* Can’t open it ### 1/5 — Great app but glitchy *2025-11-25, version 6.4.60* I’ve honestly never had an issue with this app until recently. I deleted the app awhile back and wanted to redownload it. However when I try to download the offline library it gets stuck on “connecting”. I’ve tried to uninstall and reinstall the app as well as shutting off my device and turning it back on, nothing helps. I have an iPhone 17, I’m not sure what’s going on with this app but my review will remain a one star until that is fixed. ### 1/5 — Traduzione sbagliata *2025-11-10, version 6.4.60* ma potrò io sapere cosa dice Moav???? No perché la traduzione is so baddddd🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 ### 1/5 — Not 100% the words of God. *2024-03-12* It’s clear how people wrote things and said this is from God. ### 1/5 — Canada *2024-01-29* Why is this no longer available in Canada App Store?? ### 1/5 — App not functioning *2024-01-15* I can’t get past the dedication page. **Developer response:** Hi - We are aware of some users having issues launching the app. While we work on addressing these issues, we recommend to our users to fully uninstall and reinstall the app as a workaround. - Team Sefaria ### 1/5 — doesn’t work *2023-10-14, version 6.0.15* stuck on load screen doesnt work. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-10-07, version 6.0.15* App no longer works with iPhone 15 or newest operating system ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-16* Can’t believe this is all available for free! It’s so extensive and well done. ### 5/5 — So helpful! *2026-08-06, version 6.7.12* What a wonderful resource, and so thoughtfully designed! I’d love to see an Apple Shortcuts action for invoking a search inside Sefaria so I can integrate it with other search functions on my device. ### 5/5 — Outstanding resource!! *2026-07-17* This app amazes me the more I use it. I’m a “gentile Christian” or follower of Yeshua but I use this since the texts and rabbis and sages are incredibly important and valuable—and this app has everything. Even with my background and going in blind, it has great resources included that help you understand how to read and learn from the texts as well as give amazing biographies on who has written. It’s incredibly organized, easily searchable, and I feel like again; I find something new or different about it whether the ability to make changes in fonts and written language between English, Hebrew, or both together—it’s great, and then easy verse by verse parallels to various texts and authors when to tap to select the verse. Incredible app, incredible resource, and I can’t believed it’s offered for free! Amazing work Sefaria, thank you! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-06-07* It’s unfortunate to see (at least one) negative review, that is offensive. Here’s my 5 star review of light to vanish the darkness of that negative review 🥹 ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-05-11* Sefaria is extraordinary. A very effective and easy to use library of so many Jewish texts that I find fascinating and often inspiring. It’s free to use but I have often donated to the site because what it is providing is just so good and helpful to my study. ### 5/5 — bug alert!! *2026-03-27, version 6.6.0* rashi on proverbs 8 crashes the phone. it says the internet connection is bad and that you need to restart the app and delete it and redownload i’ve done that multiple times but it’s the same consistent issue ### 5/5 — New *2026-03-03, version 6.6.0* Ive been lost for a long time. Long. My best friend finally got to me and told me to start reading. It has been the best life change I have ever had. Talked with many rabbi with many changes to my life. This has been a great way to read and study at work. Sh’me Israel. ### 5/5 — Just works! *2026-01-30, version 6.5.6* Very useful resource, it has a simple UI and I’ve never had issues accessing it - not much to say except that it does its job well. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-01-05, version 6.4.60* Tizku limizvos ### 5/5 — Thank you for fixing the issue *2025-12-17, version 6.4.60* iPhone 17 definitely had issues with downloading the offline library so I’m happy you guys fixed it, much appreciated. --- *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 2026-09-03.*