App Profile: Siddur – Linear Edition

Adler-San

Rating: 4/5

I love the format. The ‘smart’ feature that shows the relevant parts of davening (Rosh Chodesh inserts on Rosh Chodesh) are great. However, they don’t work on the bedtime Shema. (Days without Tachanun should have parts omitted ) Otherwise an awesome app!

Bobby frown face

Rating: 5/5

I bought this version while waiting for the Annotated Siddur to have the English translation added. I have been happily using the annotated version for years. This is an excellent alternative. I used it for davening today and it worked well. It also offered pleasant, unexpected surprises. Glad I bought it. UPDATE: April 2018. Still using this app almost every day and still satisfied. However, I noticed 2 issues: 1. On my iPad pro there is a rare occasional crash. I also notice some occasional “blinking” of the screen. I don’t know if these are related. 2. It seems to me that the Omer count is one day behind. I counted 3 days of the Omer tonight after Maariv but this app indicated 2 days. BUT, I enjoyed finding the Omer section inserted into Maariv. Very nice touch!

Shmuelik

Rating: 2/5

First the good things: Thought this was a great way learning the prayers with this translation. And it works because every hebrew sentence is translated and it’s easy to follow. It has all the prayer you need. The bad: 1. The text is not native to the app. Meaning to say you can’t increase the text size or change font. It’s just basically PDFs that you can zoom in and out but you have to scroll then horizontally while praying. 2. When you scroll further down and you want to get back all the way to the top of the prayer usually you would swipe up and tab the top bar and it would scroll all the way to the top of the page. Not in this app. Especially painful since the texts are long. 3. At the current state the price is very high. If this would be $0.99 it might be a slight different story. In the end I would like to have a great app and pay for it. See how the Rusty Brick siddur did all of it much better.