Rebbe Responsa vs RabbitHole
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rebbe Responsa
Access a vast collection of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's English letters, offering unique insights and guidance on a wide range of life topics. This app provides a comprehensive, searchable database of these profound letters, making timeless wisdom accessible and practical for everyone.
- Comprehensive database of Rebbe's English letters
- Searchable by topic
- Insights on marriage, health, education, and more
- Practical advice based on Torah
- Easy and convenient access
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Over the years the Lubavitcher Rebbe corresponded with countless individuals who sought his counsel and guidance. These letters contain his unique insight and advice on nearly every topic. From marriage and relationships, physical and mental health, philosophy and education, business and communal work - the Rebbe illuminated every subject with the timeless truths of Torah and boundless concern for his correspondents. The Rebbe Responsa App is a revolutionary platform that compiles the Lubavitcher Rebbe's letters written originally in English. The English letters are unique in style and content. They explain profound and deep concepts in a plain and simple manner, understable and practical to all. This platform is the first comprehensive database of this treasure. With an elastic search and divided by topic, this platform provides an easy and convenient access to these letters.
RabbitHole
Explore true historical events through interactive stories where your choices shape the outcome. Dive into a vast collection of facts, follow individual lives, and learn about history from Prehistory to today.
- Interactive true historical stories
- Choice-driven narratives
- Extensive history facts database
- Follow individual lives
- Offline functionality
- Multi-language support
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True stories. Your choices. See where you end up. RabbitHole now opens on Holes: real history told as a story you fall into, one chapter per screen. At the turning point, where history itself split, you choose which way to follow, and each way leads to its own ending. A ship crushed in Antarctic ice: sail for help in a lifeboat, or stay behind with the men on the island. A diamond that kept changing hands: follow it to England, or follow the boy king who wore it. 16 STORIES, ALL TRUE Shackleton's Endurance, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, the Mona Lisa theft of 1911, the man who never was, the soldier who fought until 1974, Tutankhamun's tomb, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Vasa, the strangest Olympic marathon, the Golden Stool, Mathias Rust landing in Red Square, the lost book of Archimedes, the Rosetta Stone, Mansa Musa, Zheng He's treasure fleet, and the family that missed the 20th century. Every chapter is written from its sources and checked against them. Nothing is invented, and nothing is softened. FOCUS: ANY PLACE, ANY TIME Tap anywhere on the world map, slide to any era from Prehistory to today, pick a topic, and you get two facts. Tap the more interesting one and go a level deeper, then deeper again. • 15,000+ history facts across 27 regions, 8 eras and 8 topics: Food, Art, War, Literature, Science, Politics, Philosophy and Culture • Tap any highlighted name to find out who or what it is: 13,000+ people, places and terms PEOPLE: FOLLOW A LIFE Step through the lives of 1,500 people from history, from birth to legacy, with dates and ages, then follow the people they met. Browse everyone by era, or search for anyone. CAREFULLY SOURCED Every fact, card and life is written from Wikipedia and checked against its source article; many story chapters also cite a museum, archive, library or university. Each fact and chapter shows where it comes from. CALM BY DESIGN • No ads, no accounts, no tracking, no in-app purchases. Ever. • Works completely offline, on a plane, underground or anywhere • In English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: switch any time in Settings • Light and dark mode, large text and VoiceOver support • A daily reading streak, with titles you earn along the way Swap ten minutes of scrolling for a true story you get to steer. You'll actually remember it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rebbe Responsa at 4.9 against RabbitHole's 4.0. Rebbe Responsa also leads on ratings volume (69 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). RabbitHole's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rebbe Responsa holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rebbe Responsa has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Rebbe Responsa's written reviews are positive against 100% of RabbitHole's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rebbe Responsa ships an update every 8 months, RabbitHole every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rebbe Responsa | RabbitHole |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (69 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | REBBE RESPONSA INC. | GABRIEL ADES |
Customer experience
Rebbe Responsa
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In-app purchases
Rebbe Responsa
No in-app purchases
RabbitHole
No in-app purchases
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