My Omer vs Second Temple
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Second Temple
Explore an interactive 3D re-creation of the ancient Jewish Temple based on historical and archaeological evidence. Navigate the detailed model, zoom in on specific areas, and learn about its worship and ceremonies.
- Interactive 3D re-creation
- Historical and archaeological accuracy
- Detailed exploration controls
- Aerial map view
- Multi-language support (English, Spanish)
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Experience the first century temple period like never before with this in-depth, interactive 3D re-creation of the temple based on historical archaeology, and Jewish sources. Use this incredible companion tool to enhance study, interaction, and engagement with this ancient holy site and the important worship, ceremonies, and services that took place there. We’ve combined historical documentation, archeological evidence, biblical insight, and rabbinical records to create as accurate a model as possible, including specific measurements and topography. Because this is a 3D scene, you have complete freedom to explore every detail. Pinch to zoom, rotate the camera, use the interactive joystick to view the structures from different angles, use the jump arrow to more easily navigate the stepped terrain, and enjoy an aerial map view to give you a better perspective of ancient Jerusalem and the various locations you can explore and interact with through the app. We designed the app so you can have fun as you explore and learn. Controls - Joystick to move Slide Finger to Look Around Jump Arrow for quick access up levels Turn off UI for Presentations Map View for quick travel Languages : English and Spanish
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Omer at Free against Second Temple's $9.99. Second Temple's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 41%) and rating (4.9 vs 3.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
My Omer is free to download; Second Temple costs $9.99 up front. My Omer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Second Temple asks for nothing beyond the download.
Second Temple holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of My Omer's written reviews are positive against 86% of Second Temple's.
My Omer ships an update monthly, Second Temple every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Omer | Second Temple |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (60 ratings) | 4.9 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 603 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim Inc | Immersive LLC |
Customer experience
My Omer
Second Temple
Bugs and 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
Second Temple
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Omer
- Full version$0.99
Second Temple
No in-app purchases
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