Shalom Table

Everything you need to prepare for Shabbat

When to light, what to say, what to read, and what to discuss — personalized for your location, language, and family.

Coming to the App Store iPhone · free · no account See what it does
  • No account, ever
  • Free — no ads, no purchases
  • Works offline
  • No location history kept

This Shabbat

Shabbat Parashat Re’eh

Friday evening through Saturday night

Candle lighting
6:58 PM
Havdalah
7:55 PM
Phoenix, Arizona 4 hr 18 min until lighting

18 min before sunset · General Diaspora setting · updated today

Illustration of the app’s Today view. Every time in Shalom Table names the location and the method used to calculate it.

What it does

Four questions, answered before the candles are lit

Hosting Shabbat means knowing a handful of things at the right moment. Shalom Table keeps them in one place, set up once, for your household.

  • When to light

    Candle lighting and Havdalah for your city, on the calendar you keep — Israel or Diaspora — using the timing custom you choose. Every time states its location and method, so you always know what you are looking at.

  • What to say

    Blessings in Hebrew, with transliteration and English side by side: candle lighting, Kiddush, Hamotzi, the blessing of children, Birkat Hamazon, Havdalah. A step-by-step guided table walks a first-time host through the evening.

  • What to read

    All 53 weekly Torah portions, with the Haftarah reference, in one-minute, three-minute, five-minute and longer forms — most portions carry several lengths, so the reading fits the table you actually have. Every passage shows its source and its license.

  • What to discuss

    Discussion material written for who is at the table: young children, older children, teenagers, adults, or a mixed-family sequence that moves through all of them. Every portion of the weekly cycle has it, at five lengths from a single question to a full source sheet.

Built around your household

Set up once. It stays yours.

Setup takes about two minutes and asks seven questions. No account, no email address, nothing to remember.

Your location, your calendar, your custom

Pick your city — or let the app use your location while you are using it. Choose the Israel or Diaspora calendar. Choose a timing custom: eighteen minutes before sunset, a recognized city custom, or a time your synagogue publishes.

Timing customs are a single profile, not a scatter of settings. Change one thing and every displayed time and every reminder updates together.

General local custom 18 min before sunset
Jerusalem 40 min city custom
My synagogue’s published time Entered by you

Profiles are presented as customs — never as claims about which practice is correct.

Hebrew, transliteration, and English together

Every blessing shows the Hebrew, a transliteration in Modern Israeli / Sephardi pronunciation, and an English translation. Nothing assumes you already know the words. Ashkenazi and Chabad renderings are planned; the app asks for your tradition during setup and saves the choice for when they arrive.

Transliteration is written separately for each interface language, because a Latin transliteration built for English readers does not serve a Spanish or Russian reader.

Kiddush

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן:

Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha’olam borei p’ri hagafen.

Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.

Hebrew from Sefaria, Siddur Sefard, public domain · English from the Sefaria Community Translation, CC0

A plan for Friday, not just a time

A timeline works backward from candle lighting to a finish-by target you set yourself, with a checklist and shareable roles. The buffer is labeled as your preference, not as a religious calculation.

Reminders can be set for each step, and no engagement notification is ever sent during Shabbat or a holiday.

4:30 PM · nowSet the table, prepare candles
5:30 PMConfirm challah, wine, prayer materials
6:43 PM · your targetPersonal finish-by buffer
6:58 PMCandle lighting

Holidays, not only Shabbat

Complete hosting guides for Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Passover, Shavuot, and Purim, plus guided material for Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, and the minor observances and fast days.

Two-day holidays, holidays that run into Shabbat, and fasts that begin the preceding evening are handled explicitly rather than approximated.

רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָהRosh Hashanah
סוּכּוֹתSukkot
חֲנֻכָּהHanukkah
פֶּסַחPassover

How it behaves

Honest about what it knows

Religious timing is not a place for a confident guess. Where the app cannot be certain, it says so.

  • It refuses rather than estimates

    At high latitudes where the sun does not set, no time is shown at all. The app explains why and points you to a community schedule or a manual entry — it will never generate an approximate candle-lighting time.

  • Manual entries stay labeled

    A time you type in is always shown as manually entered. It is never styled to look like a verified calculation.

  • Content carries its source

    Every liturgical text records its source, its license, and its review state. Text that has not yet been reviewed by a human advisor is displayed with a visible banner saying so — what that banner means.

  • It works with the network off

    Core Shabbat content is stored on the device. Losing signal on a Friday afternoon does not cost you the times or the blessings.

Privacy

No account. No profile. No advertising.

Shalom Table does not ask who you are. There is no sign-in, no user ID, and no advertising of any kind. Your coordinates are rounded on your device to about a kilometer, then sent to the Hebcal calendar service to compute times for your location — and no location history is kept.

Read the privacy policy

Status

Not released yet

Shalom Table is in development for iPhone. It is not available on the App Store today, and this page will be updated when it is. The app will be free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription.

If you find an error in a time or a text — before or after release — there is a way to tell us.

Report a correction Read the FAQ