
Siddur and Zmanim
siddur daily tefillah, zmanim
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1.17.0
August 30, 2026
YOUR PLACE, EVEN WITHOUT GPS Pick your city from a list of 240 — France, Israel, French-speaking communities. Without GPS, the times quietly stopped being yours: they were Paris's. THE DEADLINE, WHILE YOU READ The app works out fourteen zmanim and knows which prayer is in front of you. It finally joins the two: the morning Shema shows its latest time in the header, the Amidah its own. It informs and does not rule — once the hour has passed, it tells you what that hour was, and nothing more. WHICH BERAKHAH? 105 foods, the blessing before and the one after, with the text taken from the siddur itself rather than copied out. The table has not yet been reviewed by a competent authority, and the screen says so. THE SIDDUR FOLLOWS THE HOUR Lighting the Menorah rises to the top of the home screen on the afternoon before each of the eight nights of Hanukkah. Reading the Megillah, on the evening Purim begins and again the next morning. Tikkun Rachel and Tikkun Leah between Chatzot HaLayla and dawn — Rachel only on nights when Tachanun is said. Nothing is moved: these texts stay in the catalogue all year. THE BEDTIME PRAYER HAS ITS OWN ENTRY It is said in bed, often hours after the service and without having prayed it. Reaching it meant scrolling past the four prayers of Arvit; it now sits just after them, in its place. MOTZAEI SHABBAT Havdalah and Veyiten Lecha join the catalogue: the end of Shabbat, the first moment of the week when the phone comes back on, and the app was empty exactly there. Birkat HaGomel too, which until now pointed to a text it did not carry. YOUR DATA COMES WITH YOU iCloud backup, optional and off by default: your refuah list, your verse, your personal request, your bookmarks and your reading preferences come back after changing devices. On your own iCloud account, never on a server. Turned off and erased in one gesture. READING AND FINDING On a large screen, the translation moves alongside the Hebrew instead of being stacked underneath. Swiping the header changes prayer. Search folds away behind a magnifier and gives its space back to the day's card. And Selichot can be reached all year from "Other prayers", while their siddur entry stays seasonal. FIXED Chatzot HaLayla was wrong between midnight and its own hour: at 1 a.m. the app announced the following night's, while the one for the Tikkun was fifty minutes away. HaMotzi existed nowhere — the most frequently said blessing was the only one missing. The setup carousel did not offer the city list. Name fields opened pure black in dark mode, and the Hebrew first-name field opened a Latin keyboard. Three labels stayed in French when the app was set to English.
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