The best Torah apps for iPhone in 2026, and what each one is for

We make Torah Feed, which is one of the five. We use the other four too, and this is the comparison we would want to find: what each app is for, what it costs, and which job each one does best.

The short version is that these apps do different jobs. One is a library, two are daily lesson services, one is a lecture archive, and one is a reader. Most people who study regularly end up with two of them.

The comparison at a glance

Sefaria

Sefaria is the reference shelf. It is run by a nonprofit, it costs nothing, and it holds the Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, halachic codes and thousands of commentaries, much of it with English. Tap any verse and it lists every text in the library that quotes or discusses it.

That breadth shapes how it feels to use. Open Genesis 1 and you are one tap from dozens of commentators, which is wonderful when you have a question and a little much when you wanted to read ten verses on a train. It is a library, and it behaves like one. The public-domain texts in Torah Feed come from Sefaria, and we are grateful for them.

Chabad.org Daily Torah Study

Chabad’s daily study app delivers the day’s lessons from Chabad.org: the daily section of the parasha with Rashi, Tehillim, Tanya, Hayom Yom and Rambam. The parasha is divided by its seven aliyot, one for each day of the week, so by Shabbat you have been through the whole portion.

Its strength is that it decides for you. You open it and today’s reading is there. If you want that daily cycle, and especially if you want the rest of the Chabad curriculum with it, this is the app. It is less suited to reading outside the cycle, say working through Judges or Psalms at your own pace.

All Parsha

All Parsha comes from the Orthodox Union, which also makes All Daf and All Mishnah. It gathers audio and video classes on the week’s portion from a long list of speakers, along with daily Chumash with Rashi and printable parsha sheets. If you learn best by hearing someone teach, start here. The OU Torah app covers the other daily programs, including Nach Yomi, a chapter of Prophets or Writings each day.

TorahAnytime

TorahAnytime is a very large archive of recorded shiurim, with playlists, playback speed control and CarPlay. It has no texts to read. It turns a commute into a class, so pair it with something you read, which is where Torah Feed sits.

Torah Feed

Torah Feed is ours, and it does one narrow thing. It shows the Tanakh one pasuk per screen in a vertical feed, Hebrew with full nikud above the JPS 1917 English, and you swipe to the next verse. Rashi sits one tap away on every verse of the five books, in Hebrew and English. It keeps your place in every book, shows how far through each one you are, and lets you save verses with notes. All the text ships inside the app, so it works on a plane. There is no account and there are no ads.

It is built for the daily read, so it goes deep on the text rather than wide on the library: the whole Tanakh, Rashi on all five books of the Torah, and nothing between you and the next verse. Keep Sefaria beside it for the day you want to chase a source through the Talmud; the two do different jobs. Torah+ is $39.99 a year, about $3.33 a month, or $9.99 month to month, and the annual plan's first 3 days are free. Torah Feed is for the person who has a library installed and still is not reading every day, because a library waits for you to come back and a feed asks you to. We wrote more about that in the doomscrolling post.

Which one should you install?

Choose by how you learn. If you want to be taught, All Parsha or TorahAnytime. If you want a set daily curriculum, Chabad.org Daily Torah Study. If you want a library to look things up in, Sefaria. If you want to read the text itself, a few verses at a time, every day, and watch your progress through each book, that is Torah Feed. Start the free trial, read one pasuk tonight, and read the next one tomorrow.

You can also read the full text free on this site: every chapter is on the Tanakh pages in Hebrew and English, and each week’s portion has a summary under Parasha.

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