YUTorah vs My Omer
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.
My Omer
This app helps you count the 49 days of Sefiras HaOmer with daily insights and exercises. It offers reminders, blessings, meditations, and a progress tracker to deepen your understanding of spiritual attributes.
- Daily Omer counting
- Personalized insights and exercises
- Daily reminders
- Omer blessings and meditations
- Progress tracker
- Private journal
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An Omer Counter with daily insights and exercises for the 49 days of Sefiras HaOmer. Refine your personality based on Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s classic “The Spiritual Guide to Counting the Omer”. Reminders, Omer blessings, daily meditations and more. Never miss counting the Omer with two smart daily reminders. Prayer text available in Hebrew, English. Spanish, French and Russian Progress tracker Private journal for recording notes ABOUT: Take advantage of this powerful span of time to explore your psyche, refine your life and elevate your soul. The spectrum of human emotions divide into 49 different attributes, each one corresponding to one day in this 49-day period. Unlike other Omer counters, The My Omer app is the first of its kind to provide daily meditations and exercises to enhance your life and personal relationships based on thousands-of-years of Kabbalistic wisdom.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: YUTorah at none against My Omer's 1. YUTorah also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (62% vs 41%). My Omer's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. My Omer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. YUTorah asks for nothing beyond the download.
YUTorah holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 63 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of YUTorah's written reviews are positive against 41% of My Omer's.
YUTorah ships an update every 2 months, My Omer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YUTorah | My Omer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (61 ratings) — better | 3.6 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews — better | 40.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YU Office of Alumni Affairs | Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim Inc |
Customer experience
YUTorah
My Omer
Bugs and requests
YUTorah
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
My Omer
Reported bugs
45 issues- App doesn't work
- App crashes
- App doesn't open
- App freezes and closes
- App shuts off
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- App crashes when interacting
- App crashes upon use
- App crashes when hitting purple button
- App crashes when trying to open
- App crashes when accessing day's count
- App crashes when starting Omer count
- App crashes on launch
- App hangs on title page
- App keeps closing immediately
- App is glitchy
- App sends wrong days
- App restarts counting part way
- App is a day behind
- App displays Yom instead of Sefirah
- App defaults to last year's count
- App is not updated for current year
- App is stuck on day 11
- App has typos in Hebrew
- Hebrew paragraphs out of order
- Some words are scrambled
- Meditation page doesn't scroll
- Audio for video missing
- Faulty notifications are confusing
- Notifications mix up days
- App rearranges days
- Settings crashes app
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Crashing even after update
- Cannot be used
- Sends back to home screen
- Crashing my phone
- Useless after update
- Latest update made worthless
- Deleted calendar entries
- Nothing works on my phone
- Wrong count
- Crashing my iPhone
- Wrong day of Omer
- Needs more gevurah and less hesed
Requested features
18 requests- Fix the app to be reliable
- Upgrade app for better function
- Make app more engaging
- Make app more user-friendly
- More options with notifications
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- Nightly and morning reminder
- Twice a night reminder
- User-customizable notifications
- Fix meditation page scrolling
- Fix audio for video
- Add Horachamon after count in Hebrew
- Add notification at proper time
- Change to next counting at nightfall
- Sync with personal calendar
- Progress tracker
- Updates at sunset for new day
- Customisable local notification system
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
YUTorah
No in-app purchases
My Omer
- Full version$0.99
