Comparison

Smartlist Local Directory vs Ultimate Zmanim

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

Head to head
About

Smartlist Local Directory

This app provides a comprehensive directory of Jewish communities, offering residential and business listings. It integrates with your contacts for caller ID and allows for easy searching, sharing, and offline access to community information.

Highlights
  • Integrated caller ID
  • Dial pad search
  • Residential & business listings
  • Offline database access
  • Share & export listings
  • Direct contact options
  • Community updates
Features
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Smartlist - The Comprehensive Jewish Community Phone Directory Stay connected with Smartlist, an app fully integrated with your contacts and our extensive community lists, providing seamless access to residential and business information across 30 Jewish communities. Key Features: • Outgoing and Incoming Calls: Integrated with Contacts and SmartList listings for complete caller information. • Dial Pad: Conveniently search both Contacts and SmartList while dialing. • Residential & Business Listings: Easy search by name, address, or phone number. • Offline Database: Access listings and caller ID without internet. • Share & Export a Listing: Share information via email or message; export to your contacts. • Direct Contact: Call, message, or map directly from the app. • Community Updates: Receive notifications about events and promotions. • Global Support: Includes over 20 Jewish communities, with more being added regularly. —— This directory includes the local Jewish communities of • Antwerp • Baltimore • Bergen County • Bloomingburg • Bobov 45 • Boro Park • Canvey Island • Catskills • Chicago • Cleveland • Five Towns & Far Rockaway • Flatbush • Gateshead • Golders Green • Israel Newcomers • Kiryas Tosh • Kiryas Yoel • Lakewood • Manchester • Melbourne • Monsey • Montreal • Passaic - Clifton • Seagate • Stamford Hill • Staten Island • Toronto • Viznits (Monsey) • Westchester County Privacy: Your contacts never leave your device.

About

Ultimate Zmanim

This app provides accurate Jewish calendar times, including Shabbat candle lighting, holidays, and daily prayer times, with customizable reminders and offline functionality. It offers a user-friendly interface with timeline navigation and Apple Watch integration for convenient access to important halachic times.

Highlights
  • GPS-based zmanim calculations
  • Shabbat candle lighting times
  • Holiday and weekly parashah information
  • Daf Yomi tracking
  • Customizable daily reminders
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Ultimate Zmanim is the premiere zmanim app for iOS, now with even more features. iOS Features: - GPS-based calculations - Calendrical information, including Shabbat candle lighting times, weekly parashah, chagim, and daf yomi - Daily reminders, scheduled based on zmanim - Beautiful printouts for your shul's bimah or your fridge - Over 100 calculations to customize according to - Companion watch app featuring complications - Today widget in Notification Center - Intuitive timeline navigation - Force touch shortcuts to quickly access alarms, location settings, and more - Split-screen multitasking support on iPad watchOS Features: - Native to watchOS, so it's faster than ever - Expanded complications - Tap a zman for a detailed explanation of the calculation - Force touch menu options, including one to reload your location --- Description: Ultimate Zmanim calculates times using your GPS for maximum accuracy. There's also a rich location picker, so you don't have to be online to set it up. Ultimate Zmanim always works, even when there's no internet. Ultimate Zmanim doesn't stop with the daily zmanim - it also lists chagim, the weekly parashah for both in Israel and out, candle lighting times, and daf yomi. Today's zmanim fade out as they pass, so you can tell what's next at a glance. Ultimate Zmanim also runs on Apple Watch, so you can get notifications, and information about the next upcoming zman right on your watch. With Zmanim Alarms, Ultimate Zmanim can remind you of important zmanim throughout the day. Shema, t'fila, and weekly candle lighting are all covered. Ultimate Zmanim supports printing of the daily Zmanim via AirPrint. You can use this to hang them up in public places, such as your shul, school, or mikveh. You can look up zmanim for any day by tapping on the timeline or the Hebrew date to show a date picker. Tap again to hide it. You can also drag in either direction for convenient access to the previous or the next day. The timeline also supports both the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars. Open the date picker to switch between them. Ultimate Zmanim will remember your selection across app launches. Ultimate Zmanim has been a long time in the making, and I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed building it! --- What users from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are saying: "Best zmanim app out there, gorgeous and intuitive, thanks!!" - tzviki123 "This is my favorite Zmanim app. It's got a beautiful design and the widget is also super helpful. Keep up the great work!" - Bmw1821 "This app nails the difficult challenge of making spiritual software. I love going through my day knowing that my phone will alert me to all the ritually important times." - portal keeper "Great presentation of halachic zmanim with really nice apple watch interface" - Paul Claman "I live in England and I carry it around with me where ever I go. It's got all the info you need including what day of daf hayomi it is.... 5*****" - Rubi roxx ---

Screenshots

Smartlist Local Directory4 screens
Ultimate Zmanim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smartlist Local Directory at none against Ultimate Zmanim's 1. Smartlist Local Directory also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (7.7K vs 131). Ultimate Zmanim's advantage is device support (5 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Ultimate Zmanim sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Smartlist Local Directory asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smartlist Local Directory holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smartlist Local Directory has 7.7K ratings behind it against 131, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Smartlist Local Directory's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ultimate Zmanim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smartlist Local Directory ships an update every 3 weeks, Ultimate Zmanim every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Smartlist Local Directory versus Ultimate Zmanim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartlist Local DirectoryUltimate Zmanim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.7K ratings) — better4.3 (131 ratings)
Positive reviews79.8% of reviews — better77.9% of reviews
Number of ratings7.7K — better131
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLionscribe Software LLCMoshe Berman

Customer experience

Smartlist Local Directory

All ratings7,641 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.1%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive79.8%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.2%

Ultimate Zmanim

All ratings131 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral9.2%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral12.8%
Negative9.3%

User reviews

Smartlist Local Directory

From 7.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 📞 Helpful for finding numbers and addresses
  • 💯 Accurate and up-to-date information
  • 🗺️ Covers many communities

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🔍 Limited search functionality
  • 🗺️ Missing some locations and businesses
  • 💰 Paid features/unlocking required
  • 🔔 Annoying notifications

Ultimate Zmanim

From 131 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🌟 Accurate Zmanim calculations
  • 🌍 Global Zmanim data
  • ✨ Clean and intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Customizable options

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes/doesn't open
  • 🐛 Location issues
  • 🐛 Watch app/complications not working
  • 🐛 Incorrect Zmanim times
  • 🐛 Updates breaking the app

Bugs and requests

Smartlist Local Directory

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Blank screen on launch
  • Incompatibility with older devices
  • Outdated information for certain areas

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more cities and communities
  • Improve search and filtering options
  • Provide an option to report changes or errors
  • Implement a dark mode
  • Allow sharing of contact information

Ultimate Zmanim

Reported bugs

28 issues
  • App keeps alerting with LA time instead of current location
  • White screen when opening app on iPad
  • App will no longer open on iPad
  • Update broke the app
  • Winter time displayed after upgrade
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  • Error in the app
  • First update messed up Zmanim, widget info incorrect, Zmanim same for Jerusalem and Brooklyn
  • App shuts right off after new update
  • App doesn't open since the update
  • App does not open since the last update
  • Version 11.7.1 did not completely address the issue with iOS16 update, gets 'stuck'
  • 'Reset To Today' function does not bring back to the current date
  • One day discrepancy in Zmanim including calendar calculations since iOS16 update
  • Omer counting is wrong on some days
  • Zmanim alerts giving alerts for a location five hours ahead
  • Hebrew titles in the widget not working
  • Bug in Chanukah: started a day early, repeated Light 1, repeated Light 3, others a day late, ended a day late
  • Watch complication not available for most watch faces
  • iOS 14 widgets not found for Infograph and Infograph modular watch faces
  • Zmanim are all off on Apple Watch 5, no complications
  • Watch os versions keeps on uninstalling itself
  • Cannot do anything like print
  • Ad's background music
  • Location resets to current waypoint when trying to check other cities
  • If location services are off, Zmanim are not shown
  • Latest version contains a mistake: changing location does not hold, reverts to current location
  • Crashes on iPhone 5c with iOS10.3, blank screen
  • Cannot check Zmanim for anywhere else, switches back to current location

Requested features

15 requests
  • Mizrach compass
  • Apple Watch face complication to display custom Zmanim
  • Customization to carry over to watch app
  • Daf Yomi (Yerushalmi) option
  • Hebrew date in the widget
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  • Alert/alarm for Sunset (Shkiah)
  • Pull to refresh option
  • Add Jewish holidays
  • Dark mode support
  • iOS 14 widgets
  • Jewish calendar for holidays
  • Ability to add and title Jewish dates (birthdays, yahrtzeits)
  • Option to choose what to show on iWatch complication
  • Support for Infograph watch faces
  • Reminders for Maariv/Tzeit Hakochavim

In-app purchases

None

Smartlist Local Directory

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Ultimate Zmanim

One-time1
  • Premium Pack$2.99

Questions

Is Smartlist Local Directory free?
Smartlist Local Directory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ultimate Zmanim free?
Ultimate Zmanim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smartlist Local Directory or Ultimate Zmanim?
Smartlist Local Directory is rated higher. Smartlist Local Directory averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.7K ratings, while Ultimate Zmanim averages 4.3 from 131 ratings.
Do Smartlist Local Directory or Ultimate Zmanim have ads?
Neither Smartlist Local Directory nor Ultimate Zmanim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smartlist Local Directory or Ultimate Zmanim?
Smartlist Local Directory ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ultimate Zmanim every 2 weeks. Most recently, Smartlist Local Directory was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ultimate Zmanim on October 21, 2026.

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