Pocket Luach is a productivity utility for Jewish calendar conversion, prayer times, and liturgical text access on iOS and Android.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to manage religious scheduling and daily prayer requirements according to specific halachic customs, which standard calendar apps cannot accommodate.
For Observant Jews and business professionals who need to coordinate schedules with Jewish calendar dates and holidays.
What does it look like?
Key features
Converts dates between the Jewish and Civil calendars for scheduling purposes
Calculates prayer times based on GPS location with customizable rules for specific customs
Displays text for morning, afternoon, and evening prayers, including travel and meal blessings
How much does it cost?
The iOS model uses a one-time purchase to gate the application, while the Android version operates as a free, ad-free utility.
Velocity
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The development momentum is classified as zombie status due to the lack of recent activity. The last recorded release occurred on March 20, 2025, and there have been no updates since that date. Given the current date of May 2026, the app has remained dormant for over 14 months. There is no evidence of active maintenance or feature development.
Who built it?
Haim Tebeka
3 apps tracked · Productivity
Les Cours de Torah
Pocket Luach DeluxeUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate comprehensive calendar and prayer time features provide significant utility for daily religious observance, but report frequent application crashes on startup prevent access to core features following recent operating system updates.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Comprehensive calendar and prayer time features provide significant utility for daily religious observance
- Frequent application crashes on startup prevent access to core features following recent operating system updates
52 of 52 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Pocket Luach - The Jewish Calendar (siddur, zmanim)
How's the Productivity market?
Pocket Luach holds a #31 Paid rank in category 6007 (IL), but the 2.6-star rating on iOS indicates significant friction compared to the 4.5-star Android build. This performance gap suggests the iOS paid-gate is failing to deliver the stability expected by users.
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Dominates the niche with over 11,000 reviews and consistent, long-term maintenance since 2010.
- Maintains a massive, long-term user base that creates a significant barrier to entry for new tools.
- Offers a highly polished, localized experience that caters to both Hebrew and English speaking Jewish communities.
- Provides a comprehensive feature set that has been refined through over a decade of user feedback.
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Key takeaways for Pocket Luach - The Jewish Calendar (siddur, zmanim)
Where is it heading?
The religious utility market is consolidating around apps that offer high-frequency updates and cross-platform synchronization. Pocket Luach is currently exposed due to its multi-year update gap on iOS, which will continue to erode its user base until the stability issues are addressed.
- Persistent startup crashes on modern OS versions prevent access to core features, which compounds the rating drag already visible on iOS.
- The Android version maintains a 4.5-star rating, suggesting the underlying logic is sound if the platform-specific implementation is addressed.
The SWOT
- Customizable calculation rules for halachic customs sustain niche retention.
- English transliteration support would expand the addressable user base.
Next best moves
Rebuild startup sequence because crash reports are the #1 churn driver → restore 2.6-star rating baseline.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's low rating is not a failure of the feature set…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Cross-platform calendar synchronization (available in MyZmanim but missing here)
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined due to critical startup crashes, forcing a pivot from pricing strategy to immediate technical remediation.
Bottom line
Pocket Luach provides essential religious utility but fails on basic stability, so the PM must prioritize a technical audit of the startup sequence to prevent further churn to more reliable competitors.
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