iBirkat

July 21 Update: As of today iBirkat is #1 free app in the Lifestyle section of the Israeli Appstore. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

We are excited to announce the second update to our extremely popular free bencher (after meal blessings) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In this version we added the option to choose from the following Nusachim (traditions): Ari (Chabad), Sefard, Edut HaMizrach, and Ashkenazi.

We removed the splash screen and shortened loading time in this version. We also changed the way some of the hebrew text appears on the screen.

In this version we also began the implementation of location awareness. We have released location based descriptions of the app, to localize it to the various regions of the iTunes App Store. Now when you download iBirkat (or upgrade)  the app will ask you permission to send us location data. No personal data is transferred, on our end we simply get a notice “someone in France downloaded iBirkat”.  We hope to use this information to better cater to you, our audience, with location and language specific translations of relevant Jewish texts.

We have a lot of great ideas for more free Jewish apps for the iPhone/Touch and iPad, and are always interested in hearing what ideas you guys can come up with. Please feel free to drop us a line at info@appstudio.co.il

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added Chabad (Arizal), Eidut Hamizrach, and Sefard in addition to Nusach Ashkenaz. Enabled location awareness, localized app description by location. Changed interface language to Hebrew. Removed splash screen. Improved loading time. Please “Allow iBirkat to use your Location” this location information will allow us improve the localization of iBirkat and our future products

improved images and text layer

released with weekday and rosh chodesh for ashkenazi