Comparison

YUTorah vs Scroll Anytime

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Offline shiurim downloads
  • Adjustable audio speed
  • Personalized favorite content
  • Resume playback
  • Easy browsing and search
Features
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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.

About

Scroll Anytime

Access an endless stream of short Torah lessons from chosen rabbis. Features include personalized feeds, read-along transcripts, and offline playback. Build a daily learning routine and save meaningful clips to your personal library.

Highlights
  • Endless Torah lesson feed
  • Choose your rabbis
  • Personalized learning feed
  • Read-along transcripts
  • Offline playback
  • Save clips to collections
  • Daily learning goals and streaks
Features
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You were going to scroll anyway. Make it Torah. Scroll Anytime is an endless feed of short, real Torah lessons — one swipe at a time, from the rabbis you choose. No noise, no distractions. Sign in once, pick your rabbis and your daily seder, and Torah is playing. CHOOSE YOUR RABBIS Pick the voices you love and the feed becomes theirs. Every clip carries the rabbi's name — real Torah from real rabbis, shared with permission. IT LEARNS WHAT YOU LOVE The more you watch, the better it gets. Finish a clip, follow a rabbi — the feed quietly learns and brings you more of what moves you. It never runs out. READ ALONG On clips that have them, tap CC and the words light up as the rabbi says them, gold on the current word — and you can read the whole transcript on its own, tapping any line to jump there. More of the library gains captions every week. FOLLOW, SEARCH, COLLECT A Following feed of just your rabbis. Search by rabbi, by topic, and inside the transcripts we have. Save clips into your own collections — Shalom bayit, Emunah for hard weeks, whatever you're building. YOUR WEEK OF TORAH A daily seder goal with a gentle streak (one shmita day of grace each week), a weekly recap, and beautiful share cards for the moments worth sending. SAVE WHAT MOVES YOU Double-tap any clip to keep it in My Torah — your personal library of the moments worth returning to. Clips you save for offline play with no connection. BUILD A DAILY SEDER Set a daily learning goal — ten minutes, twenty, or no limit. Watch your streak grow day by day, with a calendar of every day you learned. Miss a day once in a week? A Shmita day keeps your streak whole. WORKS OFFLINE The clips you save for offline, and the last few you watched, stay with you, connection or not. Sign in with Apple, Google or email, and your saves, rabbis and streak follow you to every device. No ads. No tracking. Nothing else — just endless Torah.

Screenshots

YUTorah4 screens
Scroll Anytime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Scroll Anytime at 5.0 against YUTorah's 3.9. Scroll Anytime also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). YUTorah's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 8) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Scroll Anytime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YUTorah has 61 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YUTorah ships an update every 2 months, Scroll Anytime every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
YUTorah versus Scroll Anytime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYUTorahScroll Anytime
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (61 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYU Office of Alumni AffairsAbie Azizo

Customer experience

YUTorah

All ratings61 ratings
Positive68.9%
Neutral13.1%
Negative18.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative38.2%

Scroll Anytime

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

YUTorah

No in-app purchases

None

Scroll Anytime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YUTorah free?
YUTorah is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scroll Anytime free?
Scroll Anytime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, YUTorah or Scroll Anytime?
Scroll Anytime is rated higher. YUTorah averages 3.9 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while Scroll Anytime averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do YUTorah or Scroll Anytime have ads?
Neither YUTorah nor Scroll Anytime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YUTorah or Scroll Anytime?
YUTorah ships an update every 2 months, and Scroll Anytime every 4 days. Most recently, YUTorah was updated on October 23, 2026 and Scroll Anytime on October 31, 2026.

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