App Profile: Pealim — Hebrew Verb Forms

Rafa Jb

Rating: 5/5

Edit - This is an update on my first review. The feature I was missing before is there now. The developers heard new ideas and implemented them, you can’t really ask for more than that. I go to this app a thousand times a day, absolutely love it. It’s just really useful and straight to the point. It has a nice clean interface that makes it easy to find what you’re after. That’s it, I’m a happy custumer. Thanks! ——— I hoped this would have the same functionalities as the website, it doesn’t. For this price, I would expect that. The most important part for me, that sets Pealim apart from all other websites for Hebrew conjugation and what keeps me going back to it again and again it is the ability to search for words in their transliterated form, so that us learners that are hearing the word for the first time and have no idea how it’s written, or know how to say it and simply forgot how to write it, can go straight to it, without having to spend precious minutes first finding out if it’s א or ע and ט or ת and ק or כ etc. This makes a huge difference if you’re looking up 30 words a day. That key functionality isn’t there and I wouldn’t have bought the app had I known that.

NDror

Rating: 5/5

Great app with extremely responsive developers! I use the website regularly and think this version is excellent. Interface is clean, aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. As with the website I can search by conjugated forms to get an original word plus all it's conjugations and related words. Also words have transliterations, and searching by shoresh is possible. It's incredibly useful. The first thing I noticed upon purchase was the lack of a feature. When I messaged the developer about it, he responded in less than a week! That feature is now part of the app. In fact, it looks like missing features listed in other reviews have generally been added. I found: Search by shoresh, "See also" sections, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and binyanim pual and hufal within the current release. I'm generally skeptical of paying for apps with free website alternatives, but I'm very happy to have bought this. I'll be recommending it to the other students in my ulpan.

erinvang

Rating: 5/5

Most Hebrew students have to dig through dog-eared copies of 201 or 501 Hebrew Verbs only to find that the one they need is missing—or it’s there but they can find it because they don’t already recognize a form of it as belonging to it and thus can’t find it. If they do find it, they need a magnifying glass to decipher it, and many of the books don’t explain the layout of their pages. And then there’s all those times you don’t happen to have the frustrating book on hand. No more! This app solves those problems AND it’s already in your pocket.