Shalom Table vs Quillday

Shalom Table helps you prepare for, host, and share Shabbat and Jewish holiday meals — whether it is your first time or your thousandth. It answers four questions the moment you open it: what is coming next, exactly when it begins and ends where you are, what to prepare, and what your family can read and talk about at the table. TIMES YOU CAN CHECK Candle lighting, sunset, and Havdalah for your location, with the reasoning shown. Not just "6:58 PM", but "6:58 PM — Phoenix, Arizona — 18 minutes before sunset — general Diaspora setting". Every time names where it applies and how it was worked out. Customs are not universal, so they are settings rather than assumptions. Choose the Israel or Diaspora calendar, your candle-lighting practice, and how Havdalah is determined — or say you are not sure and get careful general defaults with a nudge to confirm with your own community. Where a time genuinely cannot be calculated — far-northern locations in midsummer, for instance — the app says so plainly and points you to local guidance. It will never show you an invented time. A HOST'S PLAN A preparation timeline that counts backward from candle lighting, so you know when to finish cooking and when to set the table. An editable checklist that adds holiday-specific items on its own. Roles you can assign around the table and reuse each week. READY BEFORE IT BEGINS Many households prefer not to use a phone once Shabbat starts. So the printable packet is a core feature, not an afterthought: times, dates, the order of the evening, the blessings, the reading, and discussion questions — on paper, before you need them. Everything also works offline. A DUAL CALENDAR Hebrew and Gregorian together, with holidays, Torah portions, fasts, and Rosh Chodesh. It shows clearly that a Jewish day begins the evening before, so a holiday never appears to start at midnight. FOR THE WHOLE TABLE The weekly Torah portion with a short passage and discussion material written for who is actually there — young children, older children, teenagers, adults, or a mixed family where the conversation moves through all of them in turn. All 53 weekly portions have material for every one of them, at five lengths from a single question to a full source sheet. Where a passage or a piece of material has not been written and reviewed yet, the app says so plainly rather than filling the gap with generated text. BLESSINGS Hebrew with and without vowel marks, with transliteration you can read aloud, alongside English, with the instructions for each step. Every text shows its source and license. WIDGETS AND SIRI Candle lighting and the Hebrew date at a glance on your Home and Lock Screen. Ask Siri when Shabbat ends. PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No advertising. No data sold. Nothing is collected about children — you pick an age range for content, never a name or a birthday. Your location is used to work out times and is not kept as a history, and you can delete all location data in one tap. ABOUT PRACTICE Jewish practice varies by community and family. Shalom Table shows its sources and labels its assumptions, and it is not a substitute for your rabbi or your local community's guidance. Where our defaults and your practice differ, yours governs. Free, with no in-app purchases.

Quillday is not a Quillday.com membership. There is no Quillday account and no public feed. Your pages, photos, and optional audio live on this iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — with an encrypted copy in your own iCloud that Land Tech cannot open. What makes Quillday different • Time Capsule letters you seal until a date you choose (the notice never quotes the letter) • A real Apple Watch companion: speak or type a short page, mood check-in, optional Health snapshot after you save — pages land in the free journal on iPhone • Encrypted backup in your iCloud Documents, sealed with a key only your Apple ID holds • Quillday Plus can merge iPhone and Mac through your CloudKit vault — if both devices edited the same page offline, Quillday keeps both versions as a Conflicted copy instead of overwriting • Ask your journal and Companion stay on this device by default; an optional key you paste only sends excerpts after you confirm Send • Import history from other journal apps, then keep writing here Write today • Pages with headings, lists, and emphasis, plus a title, date, and time • Photos from the camera or library, including photos from this day after you tap that action • Tags, favorites, pins, search, and a calendar • Optional place and weather when you add them • Passcode and Face ID or Touch ID lock • Daily writing reminder if you turn it on • Export as text (.txt or .md), PDF, JSON, or CSV • Passphrase-encrypted .qday archive you can share or restore • Merge two journals into one, or move a page to another journal Free on this device One journal with photos, tags, search, calendar, lock, local export, a daily prompt, a writing streak, and On This Day (including an optional morning notice). The app opens into writing — there is no paywall on launch. Watch can always save a quick page into that free journal. Quillday Plus (optional yearly subscription) • Unlimited journals • Audio and video attachments • Templates and the full prompt library • Encrypted cloud sync and merge across your Apple devices • Writing insights and year in review • Mood charts from your local check-ins • Private companion and Ask with a key you paste (on device by default) • Life stories and Time Capsule letters • Print a book from a journal • Extra widgets and Watch complications beyond the free write-today tile Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription auto-renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Apple Account subscription settings. Restore Purchases is on the Plus screen and in Settings. Legal Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://landtechwebdesigns.com/quillday-privacy-policy/ Quillday Terms: https://landtechwebdesigns.com/quillday-terms/ Privacy Journal text, photos, audio, mood check-ins, and precise location stay on this device unless you export them. Quillday also keeps one encrypted copy in your own iCloud so a reinstall brings your pages back — sealed with a key only your Apple ID holds, which we never receive. Weather uses Open-Meteo only after you add a place. An optional model key you paste may send a short pack of recent notes, or Ask matching excerpts, to the AI provider you choose — only after you confirm Send in the app. Land Tech does not host your diary and cannot recover a lost passphrase. A native Mac client is a separate Mac App Store binary and is not this iPhone download.