Siddur vs HebrewBooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Siddur
Access the classic Tehillat Hashem Siddur with a smart layout. Features all prayers and blessings, a Zmanim calculator for halachic times, a hyperlinked table of contents, Tefillin mirror, and a Mizrach compass.
- Classic Hebrew Siddur
- Smart suggested prayers
- Halachic Zmanim calculator
- Hyperlinked table of contents
- Tefillin mirror
- Mizrach Compass
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The classic Siddur you love is now available wherever you are. Features the Tehillat Hashem Siddur (Classic Hebrew Edition) now with a smart siddur layout. Features: * All the prayers and blessings with smart suggested prayers based on halachic times for your location * A "Zmanim" calculator that will give you the proper Halachic times for your location. * Hyperlinked table of contents * Tefillin mirror * Mizrach Compass The Siddur that's always there for you. סידור תהילת ה' במהדורה המקורית הקלאסית ניתן להשיג את הסידור שהתרגלתם לו מאז ומתמיד בכל מקום שהוא כולל את סידור תהילת ה' (המהדורה הקלאסית) כולל : • כל התפילות והברכות עם ניווט קל • חישוב אוטומטי של זמני ההלכה בכל מקום • מפתח התוכן עם קישור אוטומטי • ראי לתפילין • מצפן למצוא את ה"מזרח" הסידור שתמיד לצידך.
HebrewBooks
Access a vast digital library of over 65,000 religious texts optimized for mobile. Browse, download, and read seforim with an intuitive interface, even offline. Contribute to its development as it's currently in beta.
- Complete digital library access
- Tens of thousands of seforim
- PDF download for offline use
- Enhanced mobile reading experience
- Intuitive navigation and gestures
- Community contribution welcome
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HebrewBooks.org – The Ryzman Edition Experience the entire HebrewBooks digital library—beautifully optimized for mobile—in The Ryzman Edition of the official HebrewBooks.org App. Access over 65,000 digitized seforim from anywhere in the world, now in a powerful, modern, mobile-friendly interface designed for learners, researchers, and lovers of Torah scholarship. Features Complete HebrewBooks Library (The Ryzman Edition) Browse and download tens of thousands of seforim across all genres of Torah learning. PDF Download Download seforim in PDF format to share and learn without an internet connection. Enhanced Mobile Viewer Enjoy a clean, fast, mobile-optimized reading experience. Smooth, Intuitive Navigation Navigate seforim with intuitive gestures and mobile-optimized controls. Community Collaboration and Feedback The Ryzman Edition of the HebrewBooks.org App is currently in beta. As we move to a full release, we warmly invite developers, designers, and contributors to help improve and expand the app. Whether you want to enhance performance, add new features, or help refine the user interface, we welcome your contributions. To learn about contributing, or to suggest feedback, please email app@hebrewbooks.org. Join us in building the next generation of HebrewBooks mobile learning tools. Acknowledgments We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Daniel Farkas, whose expertise, dedication, and countless hours of development brought this Ryzman Edition of the HebrewBooks App to life. His work has helped make the wealth of our Torah heritage accessible to learners everywhere. About HebrewBooks.org HebrewBooks.org—The Ryzman Edition—is a project of The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books, dedicated to the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of seforim. Our mission is to ensure that rare, out-of-print, and essential Torah works remain accessible to Jews around the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HebrewBooks at Free against Siddur's $5.99. HebrewBooks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 69%). Siddur's advantage is chart position (#97 vs unranked) and ratings volume (25 vs 5). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
HebrewBooks is free to download; Siddur costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HebrewBooks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Siddur has 25 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Siddur's written reviews are positive against 100% of HebrewBooks's.
Siddur ships an update every 3 months, HebrewBooks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Siddur | HebrewBooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #97 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Chabad.org Jewish Apps | Hebrewbooks.org |
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Siddur
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









