Hebrew Calendar

Hebrew Calendar displays the current Hebrew date as a persistent lockscreen notification and home screen widget, with Jewish calendar information and optional halachic prayer times.

Calendar
• Hebrew date in Hebrew script (כ״ב ניסן תשפ״ו) or English transliteration
• Jewish holidays — Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, Rosh Chodesh, fast days, and minor holidays
• Fast days show start and end times
• Shabbat label with weekly Torah portion (parsha)
• Upcoming parsha displayed throughout the week, not only on Shabbat
• Omer count during the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot
• Diaspora and Israel holiday modes

Calendar screen
• Full month grid — browse by Hebrew or Gregorian month
• Both the Hebrew and Gregorian date shown in every day cell
• Tap a day for its details: holidays, fast start/end times, and zmanim for that date
• Links from the day sheet open the parsha, haftarah, and daily Tehillim directly in the reader

Shabbat & Yom Tov
• Candle-lighting time with a live countdown on Friday and Erev Yom Tov (18, 20, 30, or 40 minutes before sunset)
• Havdalah time by your chosen opinion: 8.5°, 42 minutes, 50 minutes, or 72 minutes (Rabbeinu Tam)
• Shabbat Shalom banner on the lockscreen during Shabbat and Yom Tov

Sun, moon & direction
• Sun arc for today showing where the sun is heading, the time left until sunset, and the current sha'ah zmanit (halachic hour)
• The moon drawn in its current phase, with its illumination, and the Birkat HaLevana window with its text
• Jerusalem compass, measured from true north: direction and distance to Jerusalem from your city

Zmanim (Prayer Times)
• Halachic times calculated by KosherJava — Alot HaShachar, HaNetz, Sof Zman Shema (GRA & MGA), Chatzot, Mincha, Shkiah, Tzet HaKochavim, and more
• City selected from a built-in database covering hundreds of Jewish communities worldwide
• Next upcoming zman highlighted in the collapsed notification
• 12-hour or 24-hour time format

Torah & Tehillim Reader
• Daily Tehillim (day-of-month cycle) and weekly parsha buttons on the widget and notification
• Translucent reader overlay with right-to-left flowing text and pinch-to-zoom
• Nikkud and te'amim toggles; Hebrew or English text (Sefaria editions)
• Tikkun mode: unvocalized STaM sofer script with authentic Torah-scroll line layout (tikkun.io)
• Parsha shown by chapters or by aliyot, including double portions
• Original scroll spacing (petucha/setuma) display option
• Customary Elul Tehillim: three additional daily chapters through Yom Kippur
• Switch between Tehillim and Torah without leaving the reader
• Continuous scrolling — reach the end of a chapter and the next (or previous) loads automatically
• Haftarah of the week alongside the parsha
• Navigation dial to jump to any chapter or parsha
• Offline downloads of upcoming readings on Wi‑Fi (mobile data optional)

Display
• Persistent lockscreen notification — always visible without unlocking
• Home screen widget with adjustable background transparency
• Gregorian date shown alongside the Hebrew date
• Survives Do Not Disturb and Bedtime mode with optional DND bypass permission

Privacy
• No analytics or tracking
• Location used only once to match the nearest city; stored locally and never transmitted
• Calendar and zmanim work fully offline; the text reader fetches from the Sefaria API and caches locally for offline rereading