Shabbat now reaches your Lock Screen. Turn on the countdown and Derekh Learning counts down to candle lighting, then to Havdalah, right where you'll see it. And Home now opens with a Right Now card: the one thing that matters today, whether that's Shabbat prep, a holiday in progress, or this week's parsha. Also in this update: • Dvar Torah Writer. Pick the parsha or holiday and shape a Dvar Torah in your own voice. Two a month are free. • Parsha Workbooks. A year-round library of family and classroom booklets, with a free preview of each. • Chanukah Companion. Tonight's candle count, lighting time and blessings, with a nightly reminder. • Talk it through. Every lesson now ends with a short back-and-forth with your Chevruta. Ask, or let it ask you. • On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, each lesson gets key points, a glossary of its terms, a Simplify option, and three questions for your Shabbat table. • Study Buddy. Pair up with a friend and keep each other learning. • My Torah So Far. Everything you've learned, gathered by book. • Derekh Learning now speaks Hebrew. • Play your usual lesson from a Home Screen widget, Control Center, or Siri. Streak, zmanim, gematria and the daily verse now come as Lock Screen widgets. • Made for iPhone Duo: open it like a book and the lesson sits on one page, your Chevruta on the other. On iPad, tabs now open into a sidebar. • Shabbat and holiday times now show the right evening in weeks when Yom Tov meets Shabbat. • Siddur text reads cleanly, with instructions set apart from the blessing. • Easier to read at large text sizes, with stronger color contrast throughout. Something look off? Tell us from any lesson's overflow menu. We read every report.

One Library now holds everything you've made here: saved lessons, notes, reflections, and Chevruta conversations, side by side in the same place. Review lives in Chazara, every holiday lives in one hub with its At Your Table guide pinned on top, and Home leads with a single Resume card that knows where you left off. Also in this update: • A Yahrzeit companion. Record it once and Derekh Learning carries the Hebrew date every year, with a reminder a week ahead and the day before. Private to you. • Reflections now save reliably to your Journal. • Holiday reminders arrive again, tied to each holiday's real date, and holidays open instantly. • Commentary reads better: grouped by commentator, with Sefaria's own summary on each parsha. • Reading screens respect your text size settings throughout. • Crash fixes and stability improvements. Something look off? Tell us from any lesson's overflow menu. We read every report.

Derekh Learning is now on Mac. The full app, with sidebar navigation, resizable reading panes, and your same account, library, and streak. Start the daf on the train, finish it at the desk. Also in this update: • Zmanim the way you keep them. Candle lighting is no longer fixed at 18 minutes — set your own offset, and choose your havdalah, posek, alos, tzais, Rabbeinu Tam, and earliest tallit and tefillin. Every opinion we can calculate is now listed, and another city's times finally show on that city's clock. • Yahrzeit. Record it once and it's carried every year, with a reminder a week ahead and again the day before, what the day asks with its sources, and one tap into learning in their memory. Where the halacha is a genuine machloket — which Adar in a leap year, a 30 Cheshvan or 30 Kislev date in a year with no 30th — we ask you instead of deciding for you. • The Siddur is open to everyone: blessings and prayers across six nusachim, Sefaria-verified, each with its classical source and a practical guide to how and when it's said. • Derekh for Life: free day-by-day journeys for mourning, bar and bat mitzvah, a wedding, a new baby, and teshuvah — now written for your role rather than for everyone at once. • Your chevruta can ask you. Choose the direction: ask your question, or answer one and hear how it landed. Conversations run up to four exchanges now, and free daily questions go from two to four. Sources open in-app, and personal halachic questions still get an honest "bring it to your rabbi." • Chazara works offline, and each review opens with a real question drawn from your own flashcards — so you find out what you remember before you see the answer. • Daily Drive: today's lesson, the Daf Companion, the gematria, and A Word of Torah as one playlist that plays end to end from the lock screen or CarPlay. • A home screen that notices. Suggestions for the depth and the reminder time that fit how you actually learn, worked out entirely on your device, and a Sunday look back at the week. • Streaks are now Shabbat-safe. A missed Shabbat never breaks your streak, and the Friday reminder arrives before candle-lighting. • Pick the hour your daily lesson arrives. Free for everyone. • App color themes (Pro) and a full dark-mode readability pass. • Audio: scrubbing on free narration, and a sleep timer that ends with the lesson. • A fresh navy-and-gold look, VoiceOver labels across the app, and fixes throughout. Something look off? Tell us from any lesson's overflow menu. We read every report.

V1.1.3: Bug fixes and Discord connection V1.1.2 We've been busy — Derekh is now a complete daily practice: • A NEW LESSON EVERY MORNING — FREE. Pick your reading and today's lesson is waiting for you, every day. Turn it on in onboarding or Settings ▸ Notifications. • DEREKH REMEMBERS YOU. The app learns the themes you return to and suggests what's next — entirely on your device. Nothing about you leaves your phone. • UNIVERSAL SEARCH, RIGHT ON HOME. One search across everything you've learned and all of Torah — find that idea, source, or lesson in seconds. • CHAZARA (REVIEW). Lessons and flashcards return right before you'd forget them, so what you learn actually sticks — synced across your devices. • REFLECTION JOURNAL. Answer a lesson's questions in your own words and keep them all in one place. • LIVE, CITED SOURCES. Citations are now validated and tappable — read the source in-app, or tap "explain this passage" for a plain-English take. Familiar names and concepts link to a friendly 101 explainer. • A WORD OF TORAH. A hand-picked daily verse, in Hebrew and English — on Home and as a new widget. • LEARNING JOURNEYS. Follow a theme or a reading from its first lesson to its last. • SHABBAT, FAMILY & HOLIDAY GUIDES — now saved for offline, so they work even on Shabbat. • DESCRIBE YOUR OWN VOICE. In onboarding, tell us how you'd like Torah explained and we'll write your first lesson in that voice. • DOWNLOAD PACKS + PDF. Group lessons into a pack and export a clean, printable handout. • DEREKH DAILY. Our new daily podcast — now one tap away, on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Plus pick-up-where-you-left-off lessons, a reorganized Resources page you can customize, and lots of polish. Thank you for learning with us.

We've been busy — Derekh is now a complete daily practice: • A NEW LESSON EVERY MORNING — FREE. Pick your reading and today's lesson is waiting for you, every day. Turn it on in onboarding or Settings ▸ Notifications. • DEREKH REMEMBERS YOU. The app learns the themes you return to and suggests what's next — entirely on your device. Nothing about you leaves your phone. • UNIVERSAL SEARCH, RIGHT ON HOME. One search across everything you've learned and all of Torah — find that idea, source, or lesson in seconds. • CHAZARA (REVIEW). Lessons and flashcards return right before you'd forget them, so what you learn actually sticks — synced across your devices. • REFLECTION JOURNAL. Answer a lesson's questions in your own words and keep them all in one place. • LIVE, CITED SOURCES. Citations are now validated and tappable — read the source in-app, or tap "explain this passage" for a plain-English take. Familiar names and concepts link to a friendly 101 explainer. • A WORD OF TORAH. A hand-picked daily verse, in Hebrew and English — on Home and as a new widget. • LEARNING JOURNEYS. Follow a theme or a reading from its first lesson to its last. • SHABBAT, FAMILY & HOLIDAY GUIDES — now saved for offline, so they work even on Shabbat. • DESCRIBE YOUR OWN VOICE. In onboarding, tell us how you'd like Torah explained and we'll write your first lesson in that voice. • DOWNLOAD PACKS + PDF. Group lessons into a pack and export a clean, printable handout. • DEREKH DAILY. Our new daily podcast — now one tap away, on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Plus pick-up-where-you-left-off lessons, a reorganized Resources page you can customize, and lots of polish. Thank you for learning with us.

A big update for learning together — at the table, in your group, and as a family. NEW: SHABBAT TABLE & HOLIDAY GUIDES • Shabbat Table — a source-grounded discussion guide for the weekly Parsha, with ~20 pick-and-choose modules (the big idea, a haftarah insight, discussion starters, a deep dive, even 20 trivia questions). Reorder it, hide what you don't need, and export a printable PDF handout for the table. • Chag Table — the same rich guide for every holiday. • Family Cards — age-tiered conversation cards to bring the kids into it. • Daf Companion — a daily one-card study companion, now on your Home Screen as a widget. • Shabbat Shalom — a beautiful, shareable Friday card with candle-lighting times. EASIER TO FIND YOUR LEARNING • Browse the full shared library, or filter to just your paths and your readings • A new "Trending This Week" feed alongside the latest lessons • Paths you create or join now show up in your interests automatically MY CHIDDUSHIM Highlight any passage, save your own insight, and share it as a beautiful branded card. DEREKH WRAPPED, ANYTIME Your shareable look-back now comes in monthly and Hebrew-year editions, not just once a year. LEARN TOGETHER • A members-only weekly group leaderboard • Share a study question as a "Chevruta Challenge" • See the day's dedication on your Home screen, and request to dedicate a day of learning in honor or memory of someone POLISH & RELIABILITY • Fine-grained notification controls — pick exactly which reminders you want • A clearer view of your free weekly lessons and the 7-day Pro trial • Scrub through narration with a drag-to-seek bar and time remaining • Streak-milestone celebrations you can share • "Play my usual" Siri shortcut, Daily widget deep links, and offline awareness • Always-visible Listen control, plus steadier CarPlay and widgets • Accessibility improvements across the app (contrast, VoiceOver, Dynamic Type)

Our biggest update yet — a study partner, a map of your learning, learning together, and the keys to the car. • CHEVRUTA — Ask questions about any lesson, plus one follow-up to dig deeper. With Pro, ask across ALL of Torah — Tanakh, Talmud, Rashi, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, even the Zohar — with every answer citing sources that link to the full text on Sefaria. Ask the Torah lives in Tools (no lesson needed), and My Questions keeps every conversation. • JOURNEYS — See exactly where you stand in every cycle: Daf Yomi, the Parsha year, Tanakh, Mishnah, and more, with full timelines and one-tap catch-up lessons when you fall behind. • SIYUM CELEBRATIONS — Finish a masechta or sefer and mark the moment with a beautiful card made for sharing. Mazal tov! • GROUP PLANS & GROUP JOURNEYS — One plan for your shul, school, or chevruta. Owners and co-owners manage the group right in the app — generate invite codes, set roles, and share the load — and participants can join in even without a seat. Pick a cycle and learn it together, toward one shared siyum. • LIVE PROGRESS — A status bell on Generate Lesson shows every lesson as it's prepared — queued, writing, ready — even a few at once, plus your audio narration as it renders. Start it and walk away; it's ready when you are. • STREAK FREEZES — Learn twice in one day to earn a freeze; a missed day won't break your streak. • YEAR IN LEARNING — A shareable look back at your lessons, streaks, questions, and siyumim. • CARPLAY & AUDIO — Browse and play lessons from your dashboard. Lock screen and Control Center controls, listening speeds up to 2×, a sleep timer, and a mini player in the app. Filter the library to lessons with ready-made narration — and pick the voice you hear. • WIDGETS — The day's one-minute lesson, the Daily Gematria, and your zmanim on your home screen, plus a streak Live Activity. • INVITE FRIENDS — Friends who join with your code get a free week of Pro; you earn extra weekly lessons. • iPAD — Comfortable, readable layouts on the big screen. Plus: smarter reminders, library search, instant first lesson at onboarding, tap-any-word Hebrew definitions with full nikud, accurate Torah-reading aliyot, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support, and speed-ups throughout.

Fixes to generation

Updating AI Models to the newest versions

Big upgrade for your daily Derekh • Judaism 101 — generate personalized lessons from newly created AI Judaism 101 topics, organized by category. • Weekly Parsha — dedicated Parsha view with aliyah breakdown, Haftara, diaspora mode toggle, favorites, and weekly reminders. • Jewish Holidays (Chagim) — browse major holidays with category filtering and AI-generated insights. • Commentary Explorer — tap into Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra (and more) from any Sefaria text, with filters and favorites. • Jewish Calendar — full Hebrew calendar with candle lighting times by GPS or city, plus filterable event types. • Improved error logging and stability — richer diagnostics and reliability improvements throughout the app.

Added holiday Calendar functionality. Added the ability to reset your password. From the last update: Big upgrade for your daily Derekh • Zmanim are here: candle lighting, sunrise/sunset, nightfall, and more, by GPS or city search (powered by Hebcal). • New Home Screen widgets: “Daily Distilled” insights from the learning cycles you choose, right where you’ll actually see them. • Various bug fixes: because even an AI chevruta needs a little mussar sometimes. • Stay tuned: more features are on the way soon. As always: find your path, learn your way.

Added the ability to reset your password. From the last update: Big upgrade for your daily Derekh • Zmanim are here: candle lighting, sunrise/sunset, nightfall, and more, by GPS or city search (powered by Hebcal). • New Home Screen widgets: “Daily Distilled” insights from the learning cycles you choose, right where you’ll actually see them. • Various bug fixes: because even an AI chevruta needs a little mussar sometimes. • Stay tuned: more features are on the way soon. As always: find your path, learn your way.

Big upgrade for your daily Derekh • Zmanim are here: candle lighting, sunrise/sunset, nightfall, and more, by GPS or city search (powered by Hebcal). • New Home Screen widgets: “Daily Distilled” insights from the learning cycles you choose, right where you’ll actually see them. • Various bug fixes: because even an AI chevruta needs a little mussar sometimes. • Stay tuned: more features are on the way soon. As always: find your path, learn your way.

Added tooltips for the readings Improved on demand generation

Fixed subscription