PocketTorah

This app is really good. It’s really helped me practicing for my bat mitzvah. The only problem is it can be laggy at sometimes and crash but if you just exit out of the app and delete the tab that can easily be fixed.

This week’s Haftarah, Vaeyrah, the chanting does not match the text, which should be Kings 4: 1-37.

I got this app as a way to learn my Torah portion better, and this seemed to be the one most recommended, And yeah, for the first minute of opening the app it works great. You can click on words if you want to hear it repeated and it’s chanted slowly enough that you can easily pick it up. However, if you’re trying to play it again, it begins to glitch A LOT. Sometimes the pause button doesn’t work or is super delayed. Or the highlighting will be out of sync with the chanting. Either way, it’s immensely frustrating and it’s super hard to learn on it because you have to exit or close the window every time. Honestly, you might be better just learning on YouTube. It’s too bad, because this app would have been great without the bugs…

My daughter has Zachor as her haftorah and it is not in the app. Please add the special portions!

A great, great help in preparing to read. One demerit: crashes on my iPad Air 4 (but not on my iPad Air 2) when I select “This Week’s Torah Readings”.

CHECK YALLS SPEELEN YA GOT ZEN TYPOS IN MA PARASHAT BOI!!!!!

This is a really great app but the only downside is not being able to search for your portion and it not letting you save it as your portion

The pause button rarely works. I tried re-downloading and that did not help.

I was Bar Mitzvah in 2022 at age 68. I have read Torah a few times since then, and it has been difficult. Several months ago a friend recommended Pocket Torah. Your app made all the difference. The recording and the ability to switch between the prayer book font with vowels and the script in the Torah scroll make preparation so much easier. On Giving Tuesday I donated to AJWS to pay it forward. You’re the best.

Pocket Torah is my most favorite app, I use it whenever I’m reading if I need to make sure I’m reading my trope right or anything else. But I have to close the app every 4 or 5 times I read a section or verse because the yellow highlight stops being in sync with the words being chanted. And then the pause button or back button don’t work either. You can only have so much time practicing before you have to reboot everything. It’s quite frustrating to have to close and reload the app every time, on top of having to re-find my portion. PLEASE fix the bugs!!!! But otherwise, a really great app.