Ultimate Zmanim vs Brochos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 ---
Brochos
Access a comprehensive, searchable database of Jewish blessings for food and other items. Explore blessings alphabetically, by category, or by popularity. This reference tool works offline and is continuously updated.
- Searchable blessings database
- Browse by alphabet, category, popularity
- Offline functionality
- Continuously updated database
- Request new food items
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This is the official Brochos.com (Jewish Blessings) app for iOS. Features include: * Fully searchable database of Brochos information on Food and many other items * Browse, and explore the various items: alphabetically, categorically, by popularity, and randomly * Based on the ever-expanding and continuously updated database at Brochos.com * Works offline as well * Did we mention it's free? If you think of a feature you would like to see implemented, please contact us. To get more food added to the database, use the "Send Request" feature on the app's dashboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Brochos at free against Ultimate Zmanim's free with in-app purchases. Brochos also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (89% vs 78%). Ultimate Zmanim's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (5 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brochos holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 132 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Ultimate Zmanim's written reviews are positive against 89% of Brochos's.
Ultimate Zmanim ships an update every 2 weeks, Brochos every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ultimate Zmanim | Brochos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (132 ratings) | 4.6 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 132 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moshe Berman | Yossies Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Ultimate Zmanim
Brochos
Bugs and requests
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
Brochos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Zmanim
No in-app purchases
Brochos
No in-app purchases






