YUTorah vs SefirApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YUTorah
Access over 180,000 Torah lectures and articles from thousands of speakers worldwide. Download content for offline learning, adjust playback speed, and personalize your experience by saving favorite speakers and series. Easily browse and resume your learning sessions.
- Offline shiurim downloads
- Adjustable audio speed
- Personalized favorite content
- Resume playback
- Easy browsing and search
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The YUTorah® App is made possible by Adina Katz in loving memory of her husband Marcos Katz z"l and is a project of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future. It offers more than 180,000 Torah shiurim and articles from over 2,000 speakers, including YU Roshei Yeshiva, faculty, staff and other Torah luminaries from hundreds of synagogues, yeshivot, seminaries and schools from around the world. Enjoy your favorite content from the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site with great new features: - Download and save Shiurim for offline learning - Adjust audio speed - Personalize to see your favorite speakers, venues and series - Stop a shiur and come back to the same spot when you start again - Easy to browse listings, customized to help you find what you want as easily as possible. The opinions and views expressed are solely those of the author or lecturer and should not be attributed to Yeshiva University.
SefirApp
This app offers a daily reminder to count the Omer, incorporating meditative practices based on Kabbalistic Sefirot. It guides users toward self-understanding, compassion, kindness, and personal growth over several weeks.
- Daily Omer counting reminder
- Meditative practices
- Kabbalistic Sefirot insights
- Self-understanding and emotional growth
- Guide to compassion and kindness
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This app provides a daily reminder to count the days of the Omer as well as a few meditative practices to better understands ourselves and our emotions through the lenses of the various Sefirot brought down through Kabbalah. It can be enjoyed by everybody as a simple reminder to count or as a guide to compassion, kindness and growth over the next several weeks. This app is being made with the help of Hashem by two friends without any affiliation to a larger organization. Enjoy this app and may it bring blessings and long life to every soul.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SefirApp at 4.4 against YUTorah's 3.8. SefirApp also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). YUTorah's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 7). 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.
SefirApp holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YUTorah has 59 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of YUTorah's written reviews are positive against 60% of SefirApp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
YUTorah ships an update every 2 months, SefirApp every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YUTorah | SefirApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (59 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YU Office of Alumni Affairs | RIFIGY LLC |
Customer experience
YUTorah
SefirApp
In-app purchases
YUTorah
No in-app purchases
SefirApp
No in-app purchases
