Tempora Romae vs Smart Brachot

What day is it in the Roman calendar? Tempora Romae shows you. See today's date as the Romans wrote it, with Kalendae, Nonae, and Idus. Browse a full monthly calendar in authentic Roman format, complete with day names in Latin. The app uses your location to calculate temporal hours: the variable length hours the Romans actually used, divided equally between sunrise and sunset. Watch them tick on a sundial visualisation. Free features: • Roman date with Kalendae, Nonae, and Idus • Monthly calendar view • Latin day names • Home screen and lock screen widgets • Apple Watch app and date complication • Roman holidays and festivals • Day classification (dies fasti, nefasti, comitiales) • Nundinae (market day cycle) Tempora Romae Pro (one time purchase): • Temporal hours with sundial • 16 civil day periods, from Media Nox to Concubia Nox • Military night watches (Vigiliae) of the Roman legions • Roman wind rose with classical wind names • A.U.C. year (Ab Urbe Condita, from the founding of Rome) • Julian calendar mode • Day starts at sunrise option • Additional widgets and watch complications No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Just Rome.

There is a blessing for thunder. Another for a rainbow, for the sea, for the first fruit of the season. A hundred a day. The hard part was never knowing them — it is remembering in the moment. Don't search for the words. Barkai knows when. THE SKY TELLS YOU This is what no other blessings app does. Barkai reads the real sky over your city — with Apple Weather — and tells you the moment: a storm rolls in and the thunder blessing is ready. Rain with a low sun: rainbow conditions. The first rain of the season. An earthquake. The waxing moon in its window. And when the three stars come out at the close of Shabbat, it tells you it is time for Havdalah. Arrive at the sea, a river, a mountain, and "the place calls you." Your precise location never leaves your phone. IT KNOWS THE HOUR Open the app and find what fits now: Modeh Ani on waking, the table at noon, the close of the day at night. Halachic hour and Hebrew calendar, read together with the sky — if the weather contradicts what it was about to suggest, it stays quiet rather than get it wrong. "I'M ABOUT TO EAT" One tap, pick your foods, and Barkai lays out the halachic order of your table's blessings — with the after-blessing waiting for you. WHAT ARE YOU LIVING? Type it — "I'm about to eat fruit," "I saw the sea" — or take a photo, and Barkai tells you whether there is a blessing for this. The photo is recognized inside your phone; the image never leaves it. YOUR CHAIN Every blessing said threads itself in: a living strand that joins the chain of the generations — three thousand years — and grows with you. Your goal starts where you can; the full norm is one hundred. The chain never breaks on Shabbat: the day of rest counts whole, and the app goes quiet with you. WHAT'S INSIDE All one hundred brachot — berachot, brochos, however you spell them — in clear Hebrew with nikud, transliteration and translation: Modeh Ani, Asher Yatzar, Netilat Yadayim, HaMotzi, HaGafen, the blessings for fruit and earth, Birkat Hamazon, Shehecheyanu, Hamapil. And the year's: Shabbat candles, Havdalah, Chanukah, Purim, Pesach, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur. Zmanim for your city, the Hebrew date, Friday's candle-lighting reminder. ALWAYS FREE All 100 blessings, complete, to read and say whenever you want. The texts are never charged for. PREMIUM: THE LIVING APP (USD 2.99/mo, or yearly at ~20% off) The sky alerts, the suggestion by hour and calendar, your table's seder in one tap, and your counter with your chain. No trial days: the free catalog is the trial, forever. WHY "BARKAI" In the Mishnah (Yoma 3:1), "Barkai!" is the call at the Temple at first light: there is enough light to begin. Meah berachot — a hundred blessings a day — is the world's oldest gratitude practice (Menachot 43b). This app exists so the moment does not pass you by. From the house of My Jewish Day. Rigor with warmth: real sources, zero sermons. SUBSCRIPTIONS Barkai Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Each plan's title, duration and price are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID upon confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://myjewishday.com/barkai/privacy/