PowerSefer for iPhone

By robertpass | August 1st, 2011 | Category: Hebrew, iPhone/iPad, Miscellaneous | No Comments »

PowerSefer for iPhone is a Hebrew e-reader designed specifically for seforim (traditional Jewish books).

All seforim downloads are free, in-app and instantaneous. The one-time app purchase gives you unlimited access to shelves of sefarim reset in crisp, clear modern typefaces. You can write in them, bookmark unlimited pages, and make the text as large as you need. Search in one sefer or the whole library at once.

We are committed to building a library of thousands of e-seforim, instantly searchable and accessible, and available anywhere in the world. New books are added weekly. (See our website for a complete list of currently available seforim.)

Features include:

Powerful full-library search
Adjustable text size (8 sizes)
Personal notes and bookmarks
Word help (Roshei Teivos Hebrew dictionary available now, Hebrew-English Talmudic dictionary coming soon)
Lightning-quick in-app download of seforim
Easy navigation with detailed table of contents

Currently available seforim include:

Chumash with Targum and Rashi
Tanach with Rashi
Mishna with Bartenura
Talmud Bavli with Rashi and Tosafos (partial)
Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanchuma, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi
Mishne Torah of the Rambam
Orchos Tzaddikim, Mesillas Yesharim, and many more mussar seforim
Rishonim and Achronim on Shas
Meforshim on Chumash
and more

Review: “Newest Jewish App: Power Sefer – Get an eSefer Mishna Free till August 4th” by Shoshana Raff

Power Sefer is a revolutionary new App for Jewish Torah learning. Yehoshua Levin, the author, has put together an entire Jewish Book Case for your iPad or iPhone (version 4+). It contains the entire Torah, Mishna, Nach, Chazal, Talmud (Babli & Yerushalmi), Halacha, Kaballa, Moadim, – this is a list of the broad categories. Within each of these categories there are many seforim containing many different commentaries (Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rambam, Chaim Vital to name just a few) as well as the following additional seforim: Nefesh Ha Chaim, Mesillas Yesharim, Likutei Amorim Tanya, Sefer Yetzira, Sefer Kuzari. The seforim (books) are all in Hebrew and a beautiful Hebrew keyboard for searching and note taking comes with the App as well as a Hebrew-English dictionary.

When you fire-up your App you’re presented with a graphic of a bookshelf (which starts off empty just like in your personal house) and you can then download onto your iPad/iPhone each of these Sefarim (Jewish Books). Once you’ve downloaded a sefer its added to your graphical bookshelf and looks as pretty and clear as the real thing. Each book has been graphically bound as uniquely as the content of the books themselves. You can see the care, quality, love and detail that has been poured into this incredible App.

You touch a book from your bookshelf on your screen, open it, and the first thing that strikes you is the very clear and easy to read fonts which you can make larger or smaller with another touch of the finger. The quality is as clear as an open book from the top eReader Apps around (Amazon Kindle, Kobo), except that this eBook is an eSefer, all in Hebrew print and Rashi script, formatted just as you would expect from the original hard copy book. You can make notes on the pages, bookmark and run searches.

You can get the Sefer Mishna (all the books of the Mishna) for free all week long (regularly priced very reasonably at $1.99). Once you fall in love with your Mishna Power Sefer, you can upgrade and purchase the entire Power Sefer series for $29.99 for iPad and $14.99 for iPhone. PowerSefer is also available for your PC desktop, Android or Blackberry. My husband admits that once you experience the quality, volume and depth of Power Sefer, it is well worth the price.

Power Sefer is for serious learners and beginners alike. You can take your entire book-case with you on vacation, to work, during your commute – and never miss a second of your learning. Power Sefer is a serious and wonderful addition to Torah Learning.

(This review first appeared on the The Kosher Shop-a-holic blog by Shoshana Raff)

App: PowerSefer for iPhone by PowerSefer

Compatible: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Category: Books
Released: July 24, 2011
Publisher: PowerSefer
Price: $14.99 (buy app)