Comparison

Kol Yaakob vs ובלכתך בדרך

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kol Yaakob

This app provides an official Sephardic daily Siddur based on Syrian customs. It includes a full table of contents with prayers for the entire year, weekdays, holidays, and special occasions. Features GPS location services to orient prayer direction and display sunrise/sunset times.

Highlights
  • Official Sephardic Siddur
  • GPS prayer orientation
  • Sunrise & sunset times
  • Full table of contents
  • Prayers for all occasions
  • Aleppo, Syria customs
Features
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Kol Yaakob is a weekday Siddur app built around the Kol Yaakob Siddur and the Aram Soba (Aleppo) tradition, redesigned with a clean book-style interface for faster daily use. Browse the Siddur by organized sections, switch between Hebrew-style and English-style book lists, and open the original scanned pages in a focused reader. The reader supports PDF, horizontal or vertical reading, full-height page display, page scrubbing, a section picker, fullscreen double tap, and page bookmarks. Find what you need quickly with search across section names, Siddur text, and page numbers. Keep important pages saved in the dedicated Bookmarks tab, and use customizable home-screen shortcuts for Zemanim, Search, Bookmarks, and common Siddur sections such as Shacharit, Mincha, Arbit, Birkat Hamazon, Bedtime Shema, Counting the Omer, and Hallel. Kol Yaakob also includes a full Zemanim tab based on your current location or a fixed location. View the Hebrew date, Perasha, Shabbat and holiday times, candle lighting, Shabbat end, and morning, afternoon, and evening zemanim. Today's Prayers guidance shows practical reminders for Tachanun, Hallel, Al HaNissim, Ya'aleh VeYavo, seasonal Amidah changes, Sefirat HaOmer and a new jump to Torah feature that takes you right to the Perasha of the week when appropriate. Tap many zmanim and prayer rules for short explanations, and export the current Zemanim page as a PDF. Fixed-location settings include ZIP lookup, current-location autofill, latitude, longitude, altitude, Israel/Diaspora mode, and candle-lighting offset. Settings also show upcoming candle-lighting times. Additional tools include a direction-to-Jerusalem compass, light/dark/system appearance options, and reader controls for the way you prefer to use the Siddur. This app is intended for weekday use and should not be used on Shabbat or Yom Tov.

About

ובלכתך בדרך

This app offers a vast digital library of Jewish religious texts, including the Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, and various commentaries. It provides daily learning features and a user-friendly interface for easy navigation and reading.

Highlights
  • Daily learning schedule
  • Extensive collection of Jewish books
  • Multiple commentaries for texts
  • User-friendly interface
  • Night mode
  • Split-screen commentary view
Features
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לימוד יומי אוטומטי לפי התאריך העברי פרשה, תהילים, חוק לישראל, דף יומי ----------------------- ארון הספרים היהודי מגיע לאייפון ובגדול, ובלכתך בדרך - מאגר הספרים היהודי, המאגר הגדול ביותר לספרי יהדות בסלולר בחינם, ====================================תנ"ך מקראות גדולות: תורה - אונקלוס, תרגום יהונתן, רש"י, רמב"ן, אבן עזרא, ספורנו,בעל הטורים, אור החיים נ"ך - רלב"ג, מצודות דוד וציון משנה - עם פירוש רבי עובדיה מברטנורה, והתוספות יום טוב תלמוד בבלי - עם רש"י ותוספות מדרשים - רבה, תנחומא ושמעוני ספרי הלכה - טור, שו"ע (משנה ברורה וביאור הלכה), ערוך השולחן, ילקוט יוסף ועוד מוסר - מסילת ישרים, אורחות צדיקים, שערי תשובה ועוד מחשבה - נפש החיים, כוזרי, ברסלב, תניא ועוד קבלה - זוהר מתורגם ועוד למעלה מ-70 ספרים בנושא. סידור - ספרד, ספרדי ואשכנז סליחות בנוסח ספרדי וע"מ חוק לישראל ממשק: לחיצה כפולה למסך מלא מצב לילה בחירת פרשנים תצוגת פרשנים מפוצלת ועוד. כל התוכן נלקח ממקורות חיצוניים חלקם מוגהים יותר וחלקם פחות וייתכן מאוד שנפלו בו שגיאות, נשמח על הארותיכם והערותיכם. On Your Way - the bigest free jewish iphone hebrew reader, conatains: the bible with Rashi, Onkelus, Eben Ezra, Ramban Seforno and more Mishan - with Bartenura and Tosfot yom tov Talmud - Rashi and tosfot Midrash Raba, Tanchuma and shimoni lots of other books, all for free, enjoy.

Screenshots

Kol Yaakob4 screens
ובלכתך בדרך3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Kol Yaakob at 4.4 against ובלכתך בדרך's 3.9. ובלכתך בדרך's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kol Yaakob holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 118 and 107 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Kol Yaakob's written reviews are positive against 87% of ובלכתך בדרך's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kol Yaakob ships an update every 4 months, ובלכתך בדרך every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kol Yaakob versus ובלכתך בדרך: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKol Yaakobובלכתך בדרך
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (118 ratings) — better3.9 (107 ratings)
Positive reviews63.5% of reviews86.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings118 — better107
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB373 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSephardic Heritage FoundationRoi Reshef

Customer experience

Kol Yaakob

All ratings118 ratings
Positive80.5%
Neutral9.3%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive63.5%
Neutral16.2%
Negative20.3%

ובלכתך בדרך

All ratings103 ratings
Positive69.9%
Neutral11.7%
Negative18.4%
Written reviews198 reviews
Positive86.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative7.6%

User reviews

Kol Yaakob

From 118 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great app for Sephardim
  • 👍 Useful for travel
  • 👍 Daily use
  • 👍 Community service
  • 👍 Familiar layout

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashing frequently
  • 🐛 New UI not user-friendly
  • 🐛 Old UI was better
  • 🐛 Losing place after swipe
  • 🐛 Text too small

ובלכתך בדרך

From 107 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📚 Comprehensive Jewish text library with extensive seforim collection
  • 💰 Free access to premium content
  • 🎯 Offline functionality for learning anywhere
  • 👍 User-friendly interface and easy navigation
  • 🔍 Powerful search functionality across texts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App freezes and becomes unresponsive after periods of inactivity
  • 📱 Incompatibility with recent iOS versions (iOS 14+, iOS 18)
  • 🔄 Requires frequent reinstallation to function properly
  • 🌐 Language switching functionality broken
  • ⚠️ Navigation issues after iOS updates

Bugs and requests

Kol Yaakob

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • New update crashes
  • New update loses place
  • Bookmark issues
  • Added pages not available
  • Missing words in birchat hamazon
Show 15 more
  • App crashes after loading
  • App crashes when turning page
  • App crashes on opening
  • Dark mode has lines of non-dark mode
  • App stops working after update
  • Page turning bug (historical)
  • Index and bookmarks not referred to correctly
  • Index is off
  • Hebrew/English translation of index is off
  • Bookmark titles incorrect
  • Swipe to turn page doesn't work well
  • Text blurry when zoomed
  • Text doesn't wrap around screen when zooming
  • No rotation for biggest screen
  • No magnification option

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add Tehilim
  • Open amida at designated time
  • Use microphone for live cursor
  • Add tefillah times
  • List of shuls and prayer times
Show 7 more
  • Shabbat times
  • More sections for daily prayers
  • Option for pinch zoom
  • Landscape mode support
  • Larger text option
  • Sub-sections in index
  • Copy index from Keter Shelomo

ובלכתך בדרך

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes and freezes after weeks of inactivity
  • iOS 18 compatibility issues causing app crashes
  • Language switching to English causes app to crash or malfunction
  • Cannot navigate back from certain screens
  • Blank screen display issues
Show 7 more
  • Mefarshim not displaying despite being enabled
  • Duplicate text passages in some seforim
  • Missing nekudot (vowels) in certain texts
  • Constant update notifications appearing every 2 minutes
  • App incompatibility with iOS 14.2, 14.3, and newer versions
  • Screen freezing on iPhone 16 and newer devices
  • Navigation buttons unresponsive after updates

Requested features

15 requests
  • Update app layout for iPhone X and newer devices
  • English language interface and translations
  • Search functionality across all texts
  • Bookmark and tab management improvements
  • Daf Yomi format for Talmud (Tzuras HaDaf)
Show 10 more
  • Additional seforim including Kaf HaChaim and complete Tur
  • Automatic holiday readings
  • Chutz La'aretz calendar option
  • Landscape mode support
  • Better cut and paste functionality
  • Highlighting current tab indicator
  • More Chabad Chassidus content
  • English translations for texts
  • Haftarah content
  • Improved mefarshim organization and consistency

In-app purchases

None

Kol Yaakob

No in-app purchases

None

ובלכתך בדרך

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kol Yaakob free?
Kol Yaakob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ובלכתך בדרך free?
ובלכתך בדרך is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kol Yaakob or ובלכתך בדרך?
Kol Yaakob is rated higher. Kol Yaakob averages 4.4 out of 5 from 118 ratings, while ובלכתך בדרך averages 3.9 from 107 ratings.
Do Kol Yaakob or ובלכתך בדרך have ads?
Neither Kol Yaakob nor ובלכתך בדרך shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kol Yaakob or ובלכתך בדרך?
Kol Yaakob ships an update every 4 months, and ובלכתך בדרך every 2 months. Most recently, Kol Yaakob was updated on November 1, 2026 and ובלכתך בדרך on November 1, 2026.

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