# Siddur and Zmanim — siddur daily tefillah, zmanim > siddur daily tefillah, zmanim (iPhone/iPad app by David Bouganim.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/siddur-and-zmanim/id6792869199 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [David Bouganim](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896533784) - Category: Books, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 12 MB - Languages: American English, French (France) - Released: 2026-08-25 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/siddur-and-zmanim/id6792869199/reviews.md ## What is Siddur and Zmanim? A complete siddur that works offline — in the tradition of the Ben Ish Hai. The day's text, times computed on your device, and nothing to set up. THE DAY'S TEXT, AND ONLY IT Ya'aleh VeYavo, Al HaNissim, the Ten Days of Repentance, Tachanun, fast days, Chanukah, Purim, Rosh Chodesh: every conditional passage appears on the day it is said, and is gone otherwise. No more deciphering a rubric mid-prayer to find out whether a passage is yours today. FOURTEEN ZMANIM, COMPUTED ON THE SPOT Alot HaShachar, Misheyakir, Netz, latest Shema and latest Tefila (Magen Avraham and GRA), Chatzot, Mincha Gedola, Mincha Ketana, Plag HaMincha, Shkia, Tzeit HaKochavim, Chatzot HaLayla. A built-in solar engine, no server queried. YOUR PLACE, EVEN WITHOUT GPS Pick your city from a list of 240 — France, Israel, French-speaking communities — or let GPS find it. You can also check Jerusalem before you travel: the times show at Jerusalem's own time. THE SERVICES, AND WHAT SURROUNDS THEM Shacharit, Mincha, Arvit. The Selichot from 2 Elul to the eve of Yom Kippur. The Monday and Thursday Torah reading, split into Kohen, Levi and Yisrael. The Rosh Chodesh service set in its place within Shacharit — Hallel after the Amidah, Musaf, then Barchi Nafshi. TWENTY-EIGHT MORE PRAYERS Birkat HaMazon, Al HaMichya, Tefilat HaDerech, Birkat HaLevana, the Omer count, Perek Shira, Shir HaShirim, Megillat Esther, Tikkun Rachel and Tikkun Leah, the blessings of the home and of life's occasions. A TWELVE-MONTH CALENDAR Shabbat, festivals, Chol HaMoed and fasts, each with its entry and exit times, and the week's parashah. REMINDERS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE The evening before each fast, each evening of the Omer, during the Birkat HaLevana window, as festivals approach. Adjustable family by family, and never on Shabbat or Yom Tov. WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT The names you carry in prayer appear on their own at the Refaenu blessing, in all three services. Your personal request, your name verse. None of it ever leaves your device. YOU FIND YOUR PLACE AGAIN Reading resumes where you left it, and any prayer can be bookmarked. Birkat HaMazon, the bedtime Shema and Tefilat HaDerech open in one gesture — through Siri, a shortcut, or Control Center. COMFORTABLE READING Pointed Hebrew or Sephardi transliteration, French and English translation. Adjustable size and line spacing, pinch to zoom, a night light for the ashmoret, light and dark themes. VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout. No account, no ads, no tracking, no third-party SDK. The siddur, the times and the calendar all work with no connection whatsoever. One exception: if you ask GPS to find your city, the system queries its geocoding service to name it — picking your city from the list avoids that entirely. Dedicated to the elevation of the souls of Messod, Yitzchak and Maimon, sons of Miryam. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.17.0 — 2026-08-30 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. ### 1.15.0 — 2026-08-26 ### What’s New **Prayer time limit** The latest time for the prayer you are currently viewing is now displayed directly in the reader. **“Which Berakha?”** Quickly find the Berakha before and after for more than 100 foods. **Motzaei Shabbat** Havdalah and Veyiten Lekha are now available in the app. **Birkat HaGomel** Content and references have been completed for a clearer experience. **HaMotzi** The Berakha for bread is now available in the app. This release also improves content consistency and coverage to better support you in your daily practice. ### 1.14.1 — 2026-08-26 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. You can also check Jerusalem before you travel, at Jerusalem's own time. SELICHOT, IN FULL The Edot HaMizrah rite joins the siddur: 31 prayers, from 2 Elul to the eve of Yom Kippur, at the head of the list and never on Shabbat. Pointed Hebrew, transliteration, French and English. FOUR MORE ZMANIM Latest Tefila according to the Magen Avraham and the GRA, Plag HaMincha, and Chatzot HaLayla — solar midnight, the hour of the Tikkun, which the app left unsaid although it carries Tikkun Rachel and Tikkun Leah. MORE COMFORTABLE READING The text responds to pinch. The controls move within thumb's reach, and the rest of the screen fades away at a touch. A night light for the ashmoret and dawn services. And resuming now takes you down to the berakhah instead of back to the top of a thirty-passage prayer. FINDING THINGS FASTER "Other prayers" goes from twenty-eight flat lines to six named groups. Birkat HaMazon, the bedtime Shema and Tefilat HaDerech open in one gesture — through Siri, a shortcut, or Control Center: these are said at the table, in bed, in the car. GETTING STARTED First launch says what the app does and asks for your location before anything else. The French translation is on from the start, and a page in Settings lists everything the app can do. THE TEXT, UP CLOSE Birkat Kohanim is laid out as three distinct, named passages, depending on whether the Kohanim go up to the duchan or the leader says the blessing in their place. Tikkun Rachel only appears on the nights it is said. And in Birkat HaMazon, the abbreviated Hebrew directions are finally spelled out: "with ten or more", "in an undertone". FIXED Touch did not respond on the Hebrew text. The Birkat HaLevana reminder did not open the text. The calendar mixed French and English, on screen and read aloud. And the date on the times screen did not follow the chosen language. ### 1.9.2 — 2026-08-25 No release notes. ## More apps by David Bouganim - [Tehilim David](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tehilim-david/id6768043533) All apps by David Bouganim: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896533784 --- *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 2026-08-31.*