Olam: Jewish AI Companion
Jeremy Garcini Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Olam: Jewish AI Companion is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Jeremy Garcini. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 25, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 28 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 25
- 2026 · v2
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About Olam: Jewish AI Companion
Olam is your intelligent Jewish companion — designed to help you live a more meaningful and connected Jewish life, wherever you are. Whether you're just beginning your Jewish journey or deepening a lifelong practice, Olam is here to guide, inform, and inspire you every day. ASK OLAM ANYTHING Have a question about Halacha, prayer, Jewish holidays, or traditions? Olam's AI companion gives thoughtful, sourced answers in a non-judgmental way — like having a knowledgeable friend available 24/7. DAILY JEWISH DASHBOARD • Today's Tehilim chapter with Hebrew and English • Daily Daf Yomi (Talmud study) • Weekly Torah portion (Parasha) • Hebrew date with Sefirat HaOmer count • Zmanim (prayer times): Shacharit, Mincha, Maariv, Sof Zman Shema, and more • Upcoming Jewish holidays countdown SHABBAT & HOLIDAYS • Candle lighting and Havdalah times for your location • Full Jewish holiday calendar with Hebrew dates and categories • The app keeps Shabbat — Olam rests from Friday night to Motzei Shabbat PRAYER & LEARNING • Full Tehilim (Psalms) in Hebrew, English, or both • Full Torah cycle — browse all Parashot by book and date • Built-in reading with nikud (vowels) toggle COMMUNITY • Share questions, reflections, and moments of Jewish life • Join topic-based rooms for conversations that matter to you • Like, comment, and follow replies to your posts • A respectful, simple, and welcoming space for Jewish connection FIND YOUR DIRECTION • Live Mizrach compass to find the direction of Jerusalem for prayer — from anywhere in the world MIKVAH CYCLE TRACKER (NIDDAH) • Private and precise cycle tracking • Know your Hefsek date and upcoming Onot • Tailored to your minhag (Ashkenaz or Sephardic/Mizrahi) WIDGETS & NOTIFICATIONS • Home screen widgets: Shabbat times, next holiday, Tehilim chapter, and more • Gentle daily reminders for prayers and Shabbat FIND A MIKVEH • Locate a mikveh near you Olam is completely free. No subscriptions, no paywalls — just a beautiful, thoughtful app for the Jewish community.
What’s new
Version 2 · Updated September 25, 2026
- [FEATURE] My Dates: track yahrzeits, Hebrew birthdays and family celebrations. Enter the date once and Olam shows every future Hebrew-calendar date (Adar and leap years included), with reminders and a home widget. - [FEATURE] Bar/Bat Mitzvah calculator: enter a birth date to get the Hebrew date, the civil date and a countdown. - [FEATURE] Sefirat HaOmer: a full Omer count with the day's sefira, the blessing and a 7×7 progress grid, plus a home banner during the 49 days. - [FEATURE] New Jewish calendar: a month grid with holidays, Rosh Chodesh, fasts, candle lighting and Havdalah times, the parasha with its aliyot, maftir and haftarah, a Hebrew ⇄ Gregorian date converter and "Add to Calendar". - [FEATURE] Today's learning: follow Daf Yomi, 929, Mishnah Yomit and other programs, with a home widget and an optional daily reminder. - [FEATURE] Deeper study in the reader: tap a verse to see commentaries (Rashi and more), Midrash, Talmud and related sources, or look up any Hebrew word in the dictionary. - [FEATURE] Redesigned Learn space: a browsable library, "Continue reading", this week's parasha and a guided "Start here" selection. - [FEATURE] Search for any book, prayer or verse (e.g. "Deut 16:18") and go straight to the passage. - [FEATURE] Texts cited in Olam's answers now appear as chips that open directly in the reader. - [FEATURE] Redesigned Prayer hub: prayers suggested for the time of day and Shabbat, following your nusach. - [FEATURE] Redesigned Taharah calendar: a step-by-step guide through the hefsek taharah, the seven clean days and the mikvah night, with onot perishah, rules for each minhag (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Chabad), and editing or deleting cycles. - [FEATURE] New Shabbat Times widget for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. - [FEATURE] New notifications: Yom Tov start and end reminders, and a daily learning reminder. Reminders are skipped during Shabbat and Yom Tov. - [FEATURE] Olam now rests during Yom Tov as it does on Shabbat. - [FEATURE] Conversation history: find your recent chats in the sidebar. - [IMPROVEMENT] Brand-new onboarding with a live preview of each feature. - [IMPROVEMENT] A clear explanation before we ask for your location, since Shabbat, holiday and zmanim times depend on it. - [IMPROVEMENT] New floating tab bar that shrinks while you scroll. - [IMPROVEMENT] Hebrew titles now use a dedicated Hebrew font. - [IMPROVEMENT] The "Western Wall" widget is now called "Mizrach". - [BUG] Holiday and fast times now always match the holiday you asked about, even in follow-up questions. - [BUG] Without a location, widgets and the app no longer show another city's times (such as Jerusalem's). They ask you to enable location instead. - [BUG] Widgets now update correctly right after you enable or change your location. - [BUG] Hebrew dates now roll over correctly after sunset. - [BUG] Various stability and performance improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Jeremy Garcini, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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