The Siddur — the Jewish prayer book — is one of the essential texts in every Jewish home and is an important part of daily Jewish life both at home and beyond. It can be found in cars, briefcases, purses and backpacks of Jews of all backgrounds.
To the uninitiated, however, the constantly shifting set of daily prayers can sometimes be confusing. Even experienced users at times may need to flip back and forth within the siddur, searching for the right prayers for a given day.
Chabad.org in partnership with Kehot Publication Society, are therefore pleased announce the latest in Chabad.org’s suite of apps: The Annotated Siddur Tehilat Hashem – Linear Edition, an innovative new “smart” siddur app.
Kehot Publication Society, the publishing arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and publisher of its popular annotated linear siddur, has partnered with Chabad.org to make these prayer books available in the palm of your hand with a clear focus on making the prayer experience as seamless and accessible as possible.
The Chabad.org team worked for two years together with the Kehot team, researching and developing a fully functional ‘smart siddur,’ presenting the various insertions of weekday prayers in a single ready-to-use format. Thus prayers for the Rosh Chodesh, weekly Torah readings and special insertions for fast days appear seamlessly in their proper place. Of timely note, the app will include the Eicha and Kinot texts for the 9th of Av.
Strategic alerts remind the user of these additions while scrolling past the page.
At the backbone of this app is a highly customized engine that controls the logic and algorithms for the smart siddur display. The app allows for continued customizations by the siddur team, leaving the potential open for future upgrades to support varying traditions such as the Ashkenazi and Sefardic rites.
The Siddur uses a fresh clean typeface and will be available in three flavors: Classic Hebrew edition; Hebrew/English edition; and a Linear Hebrew/English edition. The first app being released now is the Linear Edition.
The app takes advantage of the user’s location, displaying the halachic times for prayer right on the homescreen of the app. Additional features include, an intelligent Hebrew and English search function, a compass for orienting prayer towards Jerusalem and a tefillin mirror that uses the phone’s front-facing camera to properly align tefillin on the head.
The app was dedicated by an anonymous donor in honor of Asher Dovid Milstein. Chabad.org’s family of apps are made possible by the generous partnership of Dovid and Malkie Smetana, Alan and Lori Zekelman, the Meromim Fund, and Moris and Lillian Tabacinic.
The Linear edition of the siddur is currently available for download on both iOS and Android for early adopters at the special pre-release price of $3.99 until September 1st. Other editions, including the Classic Hebrew and Hebrew/English are currently still being finalized.
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I just listened to a Shiur on this–since there’s no permanence to the letters, the phone does not retain any Kedusha.
Obviously if you get a call/text during davening ignore it, and shut off your ringer.
I saw that the Siddur was English/Hebrew, so I got excited at the thought of English Kinot. Alas, it’s not to be 🙁 only in Hebrew. Just FYI.
I like that the time shown in the picture of the phone is 6:13.
The latest update on the Siddur app fixed all the issues and missing parts. Install the latest updates
I use the Hebrew app that’s available. Is the siddur copywrited and if so, does he have permission to use it or is it not copywrited?
It’s right after today’s Torah reading.
I just checked it out and all those prayers that you said are missing are indeed all there !!!
How do I download the texts for nine AV? The screen becomes black before I can even type in three letters to search. It is not listed in the table of contents. Can somebody help I would like it for tomorrow morning. Thank you!! besides this, it is really beautifully done! Can anybody help the answer to my question?
The App is missing parts of davening such as Hareini Mekabel, Mah Tovu, Adon Olam, half of Karbanos etc. The table of contents links to wrong data. For example Pirkei Avos goes to Birchas Hamazon. When Chabad.org does a project, please do it properly and fully. How does a Siddur missing many parts of davening help someone who would use a Siddur like this?
I downloaded this app aver 7-8 months ago (beta version) the fixed up the app allot
If you daven from your phone do you kiss the phone, like you would a siddur?
Would the same rules apply to a regular siddur, like not bringing it into the bathroom or what about all the inappropriate online content being on a phone too, or if you get an incoming call/texts while davening.
Mixed feelings
This is an amazing app that allows non Hebrew speakers to see what the prayers they’re saying means and has many great features!
Kol hakavod
How about a transliterated siddur?
They cannot make a 30 day free trial??
This is an amazing app that allows non Hebrew speakers to see what the prayers they’re saying means and has many great features!
Kol hakavod
this already exists
Currently when I download the app on my phone which I paid for it says that with the next uodate I will not be able to use this app. I hope itll be done very very soon.
When will it happen?