# Selichot Pure Intention — Selichot, Vows, Greeting Cards > Selichot, Vows, Greeting Cards (iPhone/iPad app by Yechiel Ben David.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/selichot-pure-intention/id6801909106 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Yechiel Ben David](https://appshunter.io/developer/1863307655) - Category: Reference, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-20 - Data updated: 2026-09-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/selichot-pure-intention/id6801909106/reviews.md ## What is Selichot Pure Intention? Selichot Pure Intention reads the Hebrew date and opens on the Selichot said today — in two rites: Sephardic (Edot HaMizrach) and Ashkenaz. It is the only app that carries both rites in full. A home or a shul where both are said needs one app, not two. It also makes a Shana Tova card: ten designed templates, write a blessing and share it on WhatsApp. THE DAY IS COMPUTED, NOT PICKED FROM A LIST In the Sephardic rite one order serves all of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance, and the button hides itself on Shabbat, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, when Selichot are not said. In the Ashkenaz rite the app works out the actual Selichot day: • The start on Motzaei Shabbat before Rosh Hashana — a week earlier when Rosh Hashana falls on Monday or Tuesday • Days one through seven • Erev Rosh Hashana • The Fast of Gedaliah, including its deferral when it falls on Shabbat • Each of the Ten Days of Repentance, by weekday • Erev Yom Kippur BOTH RITES IN FULL Sephardic — the complete order after the Torat Emet edition. Ashkenaz (Lita) — all 14 day-orders as separate texts, from the Wikisource edition. You can also browse any day freely, not only today's. HATARAT NEDARIM IN BOTH RITES The Ashkenaz order, and the Sephardic order including the annulment of curses after the Jerusalem custom — the Erev Rosh Hashana text, without hunting for it on a phone in shul. SHANA TOVA GREETING CARDS Ten designed templates with gouache illustrations: Classic, Pomegranates, Apple & Honey, Starry Night, Jerusalem, Challah & Honey, Shofar, Royal Tekhelet, Olive Branch and Modern. Type a recipient, a blessing and your name; the card is rendered on your device and sent through the system share sheet, so it lands in WhatsApp exactly like a photo. The card has its own language switch, so an English interface can send a Hebrew card and the reverse. SET LIKE A SIDDUR Vocalized text in FrankRuehlCLM, justified to both edges, gold headings on cream paper, full right-to-left Hebrew. A table of contents opens from the reader and jumps to any piyut — Peticha, Ashrei, the Thirteen Attributes, Selicha alef, Ashamnu, Avinu Malkenu. HEBREW OR ENGLISH The interface language follows your device and can be changed. The prayer text is always Hebrew, and so are the piyut names — these are names of prayers, not navigation. In English mode the translation appears beneath the Hebrew. FREE, NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT The app collects nothing, asks for no permissions and makes no network calls. The texts, the Hebrew calendar, the fonts and the artwork are bundled inside it — it works on a plane, in a shul basement, and abroad with no data. TEXT SOURCES Edot HaMizrach Selichot — Torat Emet edition, public domain. Ashkenaz Selichot and Hatarat Nedarim — Hebrew Wikisource, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Full attribution appears in the app under "Sources". ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-09-04 A fix for the Ten Days of Repentance. Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat this year, and the four orders — the 2nd through 5th of the Ten Days — were being picked by weekday instead of in sequence, so each came up on a day that was not its own, and Friday 7 Tishrei showed no order at all. They now follow in sequence, as the printed edition has them, and Friday is covered. The app also opens from an external link now, straight onto today's Selichot. Nothing changed in the texts, the rites, Hatarat Nedarim or the greeting cards. And at the foot of the card screen there is now a link to Igeret, our card app for every occasion in the Hebrew year. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-01 Three new greeting-card templates. Royal Tekhelet is a deep blue sheet with the ornament stamped in gold, like a printed invitation. Olive Branch puts a painted olive arch over the greeting with a dove at the top, and uses olive green where the others use gold. Modern has no frame and no ornament at all — a gold band top and bottom, wide margins, and the lettering. Starry Night changed too: its stars are painted now rather than drawn in code, and the moon is gone. Ten templates in all. Every card is still made on your device and sent through the share sheet. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-21 No release notes. ## More apps by Yechiel Ben David - [Snippet: Templates Keyboard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/snippet-templates-keyboard/id6762194618) - [Minimal Clock — Retro Widget](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/minimal-clock-retro-widget/id6776292230) - [Siddur Pure Intention](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/siddur-pure-intention/id6777882475) - [PureOpen — Markdown Editor](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pureopen-markdown-editor/id6800787472) All apps by Yechiel Ben David: https://appshunter.io/developer/1863307655 --- *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 2026-09-08.*