כוונה
every day
Today's word
One paragraph. Fraunces italic. Yaniv breaks down a Hebrew idea so you can chew on it between coffee and the inbox.
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Jewish, Your way.
Every day.
Your Jewish day, in one place. No rabbi tone. No guilt trips.Just Yaniv, showing up like the uncle who actually answers his phone.
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shema
shabbat candles
parasha
tehillim
tefillin
kavana
yahrzeit
hebrew birthday
ha-motzi
havdalah
kaddish
rosh chodesh
shema
shabbat candles
parasha
tehillim
tefillin
kavana
yahrzeit
hebrew birthday
ha-motzi
havdalah
kaddish
rosh chodesh
What's inside
The everyday Jewish stuff. Just the good parts.
No LLM. No AI chat. No infinite scroll. Yaniv's commentary is hand-written by an actual person. The sacred texts come from Sefaria's open library, with attribution. nothing is invented. nothing is hallucinated.
פרשה
every week
The parasha, plain
What happens. What it means. What to actually do this week. No hour-long shiur, no corporate wellness energy.
שבת
every friday
Shabbat, on time
Candle lighting and Havdalah for your zip code. Live countdown. One tap to share "shabbat shalom" as a poster anyone would screenshot.
תפילה
every nusach
Shema · tefillin · brachot
The canonical Hebrew with niqqud. Transliteration on a toggle. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi. Yaniv knows the difference.
תהילים
by mood
Tehillim that match the day
Scared. Grateful. Raging. Grieving. Yaniv picks a psalm David already wrote for the feeling. No theology degree required.
זיכרון
your dates
Yahrzeits + Hebrew birthdays
Once a year, on the right Hebrew date, yaniv reminds you to light a candle and say tehillim 121. That's the whole feature.
The voice
Yaniv's the uncle At the end of the table.
He was secular, became religious. Slowly, on his own terms. He pours you arak. He asks how you're doing, and he means it.
He's not the rabbi. He's the one who makes the rabbi's teaching feel like it's for you.
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I was you. Drove an audi to the kotel. Ate at jeff's on a Tuesday. I kept showing up because Someone has to keep this thing alive. let's do it together.
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Yaniv
Your Sephardic uncle, on call
never
- rabbi tone
- “you should...”
- guilt trips
- ashkenazi-default copy
- AI-hallucinated halacha
- dating-app vibes
always
- ach yakar / achot yakara
- boker tov, yalla, achi
- lowercase everything
- every nusach respected
- real sources, sefaria-cited
- the cool sephardic uncle
Screen by screen
Every screen Earns its place.
No settings labyrinth. No blue notification dot at 11pm. Yaniv shows up when you open it, and gets out of the way when you don't.
today
your jewish day, at a glance.
shabbat
candles, havdalah, parasha. for your zip.
parasha
this week, in plain language.
calendar
hebrew and gregorian, finally aligned.
library
everything yaniv keeps within reach.
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Chai math
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חי
Chai · the Hebrew word for life · numerical value of 18
Free. all of it.
Every prayer, every parasha, every candle time. For everyone.
No card. No catch. Yalla.
What free covers
- every screen above. every day.
- shabbat candle times, location-aware
- parasha + tehillim + brachot in three nusachs
- yahrzeit + hebrew birthday tracking
- morning flow (60s, opt-in)
- shul + mikveh map, near you
- hebrew calendar with gematria
- app lock, until you do one small thing
What we will never do
Sell your data. Show ads. Paywall a bracha. Add an LLM and call it kavana.
So how does it stay free?
Inside the app there's a quiet "send a chai" Button. Eighteen, or a few times that, whatever feels right. It unlocks nothing. It just keeps the lights on. At shul the honors go for a chai; this is that box.
Ask yaniv
The questions People actually ask.
yes. yaniv knows ashkenazi, sephardic, mizrahi, persian. tefillin pages branch by nusach. parasha pulls the haftarah your tradition reads. the voice is sephardic-leaning because that’s the voice. but the halacha respects whatever shul your grandmother went to.
today they live on your iphone and nowhere else. i am building a backup so a lost phone doesn’t lose them, and when it ships this page will say so plainly. either way the analytics never see a name: what gets recorded is that a memorial screen was opened, never whose.
from Sefaria.org, the open library of Jewish texts. parasha, tehillim, the Hebrew of the brachot. all properly attributed in the app. Shabbat times come from Hebcal. yaniv didn’t invent any of it. he just brought it to you in the right voice.
not yet. v1 is iOS only. built native in swift and swiftui because that’s how this experience deserves to feel. android is on the roadmap but no date yet.
no. there are zero generative features. yaniv’s commentary is hand-written by an actual person. yaniv doesn’t hallucinate halacha at you. there are no chatbots, no “ask yaniv anything”. just a daily companion with content somebody actually thought about.
no dark mode in v1. the cream aesthetic IS the brand. it’s warm, it’s legible at 6am, and it doesn’t feel like another notification competing for your nervous system. maybe v2.
when it’s on the app store. this page and the app go live the same day, so if you’re reading this, you can download it. and yes, it’s free.
a small team that grew up sephardic in la and got tired of either austere prayer apps or christian-coded habit apps. we’re building the thing we wanted on our own phones.