YOUR LOCAL LUACH, WHEREVER YOU ARE Amud now knows over 100 local calendars and shuls. When you are in one of their places, Amud asks once whether you want their times, Amud standard, or to keep your own. New in the UK: Gateshead, the Federation of Synagogues, Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Bournemouth, Glasgow and Hendon. Around the world: Crown Heights, Chicago (cRc), Washington Heights (KAJ), the Ezras Torah luach, Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Basel, Mexico City, Moscow, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Dnipro, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Jerusalem and Melbourne. And over 60 shuls across America and Canada, from Teaneck, Baltimore and Los Angeles to Monsey, Riverdale, the Five Towns and Toronto. Each one is shown with its address. IT REMEMBERS YOUR ANSWER Answer once for a place and Amud will not ask again, even if you go to work an hour away and come back. If you chose their times, they come straight back when you return, with a short note. A new "Keep my times" button says no for good. Every place you have answered is listed in Settings, and you can forget any one of them. UNION (KEDASSIA), AS THEY PRINT IT Misheyakir is now 52 minutes before netz, as in the Union calendar, with the early time (11 degrees, the psak of R' Meir Posen) shown under it. Magen Avraham latest Shacharis is on 72 minutes, candle lighting and the rest are rounded the way their calendar rounds them. Amud standard has not changed and still matches MyZmanim. FOR SHULS AND DEVELOPERS A card at the bottom of the home screen, and a page in Settings, for anyone who wants Amud's times somewhere else. Build a times board for your shul's website or screen, with your own Mincha and Maariv worked out from the zmanim. Add the Amud connector to Claude and ask for times in plain words. Or use the times API in your own app or website, with a guide to download. One request now covers up to a whole year. When a place has a local luach, the API and Claude ask whether you want it, Amud standard, or your own settings. Free, with credit to Amud. ROUNDED THE COMMON WAY Every time is rounded to the minute as commonly done: times from when you may do something (netz, Misheyakir, earliest Mincha, nightfall, the end of Shabbos, Yom Tov and fasts) are rounded later, and every other time is rounded earlier. DAWN TIMES MATCH THE UK LUACHS Amud standard works by how light it really is, the way the Manchester Beth Din do: - Alos (and the start of a minor fast): 16.1 degrees. On summer nights when it never gets that dark, chatzos halayla, as the Manchester Beth Din prints it. - Misheyakir: 10.2 degrees. - Magen Avraham latest Shema and Shacharis: on that same 16.1 degree day. Each can still be changed in Settings, including back to the old times. Before it changes, Amud tells you in plain words what it means where you live. Then it is your choice. LOCAL LUACHS, TO THE MINUTE Union (Kedassia): Motzei Shabbos and Yom Tov, the second night of Yom Tov, the end of fasts and Rabbeinu Tam match their 5787 calendar. Manchester Beth Din: the end of Shabbos and Yom Tov, and the dawn times, match their printed calendar all year. EREV PESACH The last time to eat chometz follows sof zman Tefilla (Magen Avraham). You can still choose another shitah in Settings. SHABBOS MEVORCHIM Fixed: when Rosh Chodesh fell on Shabbos and Sunday, that Shabbos was also marked Shabbos Mevorchim. It now shows only on the Shabbos before.

FOR SHULS AND DEVELOPERS A new card at the bottom of the home screen, and a page in Settings, for anyone who wants Amud's times somewhere else. Build a times board for your shul's website or the screen in shul, with your own Mincha and Maariv worked out from the zmanim. Add the Amud connector to Claude and ask for times in plain words. Or use the times API in your own app or website, with a guide to download. Every link is fixed to one place, so the times are always right for that shul. Free, with credit to Amud. SHABBOS MEVORCHIM Fixed: when Rosh Chodesh fell on Shabbos and Sunday, that Shabbos was also marked Shabbos Mevorchim, so the same month was announced twice. It now shows only on the Shabbos before.

Every Shabbos and Yom Tov now shows which haftarah is read, by your nusach, with every special Shabbos, plus the Mincha haftarah on fast days. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch has its two progress bars, the tzibbur's and your own. Fixed an empty list when choosing your limudim.

LATEST MUSSAF On Shabbos, Yom Tov, Rosh Chodesh and Chol HaMoed the zmanim now show Last Mussaf l'chatchilah: the end of the seventh halachic hour (Shulchan Aruch 286:1), with the Magen Avraham's time in the small print. On those days the first row reads "Earliest Shacharis & Mussaf b'dieved". PUT THE CARDS IN YOUR OWN ORDER Settings > What shows on the screen > Order of the cards. Move any card up or down: Zmanim first, then Davening today, then the Taharah tracker, or whatever order suits you. The date card always stays at the top, and "Back to the standard order" puts everything back as it was. DAVENING TODAY, CLEANER Each change now shows just what to do. The explanation is no longer printed underneath as well; tap the line and it opens right there, as before. SHNAYIM MIKRA The new week's parsha comes up as soon as Shabbos is out, not on Sunday morning. TAHARAH TRACKER The closed card on the home screen now says "Taharah tracker" instead of "Private", and the shared card on his phone is called "Taharah tracker" too.

A NEW LOOK Amud has been redesigned. The day opens with a date card: tap the arrows for the next or previous day, or tap the date to jump to any date. Under it, "Davening today" lists every change in the order you meet it in the siddur, grouped under Shemoneh Esrei, Hallel, Mussaf and the rest. Tap any line to read the explanation right there. Learning, Family and Tehillim each have their own place further down, and new icons and type run through the whole app. THE LOGO, AS IT OPENS A short animation of the Amud logo plays when the app starts, while your day loads behind it. ZMANIM Earliest Maariv (Plag HaMincha) is now on the list every weekday of the year, not only in the summer. It is left off on Shabbos and Yom Tov afternoons. The Nacht row reads "Maariv l'chatchilah and Krias Shema". Mincha Ketana is shown by default; you can still switch it off in Settings. The "Next" line at the top no longer cuts long names off. SHABBOS AND YOM TOV A short card with candle lighting and when Shabbos ends, and "Open" for every time and every change. The printed sheet has a cleaner layout and still fits one page a day. PRIVATE The taharah tracker now sits at the end of the page behind a plain "Private" card, closed until you open it.

MOED B'MOADO A new limud: all of Seder Moed in one year, each masechta finished at its own Yom Tov (Pesachim on Pesach, Megillah on Taanis Esther, Sukkah on Sukkos), from the chaburah's printed luach for 5787. Choose it in Daily learning. Shekalim, an amud a day from 16 Shevat, is its own option. SHAS CHABURA CHAZARA Turn on Shas Chabura reviews for any of your own schedules. Each day's learning comes back to review the next learning day, a week later, a month later, three months later, and then every year, counted in the days you learn. The reviews due today sit under the schedule. TIKKUN CHATZOS The chatzos you choose in Settings, including 12 hours after chatzos hayom, is now the one the card works out and names. The row has its dot like every other zman, and on the Shabbos sheet it is laid out like the rows around it. SECOND DAY OF YOM TOV The Yom Tov card now gets candle lighting right on every night. On a second night it always says to light after the first day ends, from an existing flame, even when you open it on the day itself. On a Shabbos that follows Yom Tov, the candles are always before shkia. On Erev Shavuos the card now says to wait for nightfall (temimos) for Maariv, Kiddush and the candles. SETTINGS, REDESIGNED Settings is now a short menu. Each part opens on its own page, with a back arrow. NEXT ZMAN, ALWAYS IN VIEW The next zman sits at the top of the screen, with how long until it. SHNAYIM MIKRA YOUR WAY A new way to track it: the whole parsha once, the whole parsha again, then the Targum, in that order. Tick an aliyah at a time and carry on where you stopped. CLEARER ZMANIM Shekia now reads "Last Mincha". Misheyakir says when it is 60 minutes before netz. Nacht shows its degrees, so it is not taken for the end of Shabbos. Tikkun Chatzos says which chatzos it uses. SMALLER THINGS After "I learned 1 daf", the button offers another daf. Melava Malka's note is capitalised like the rest. A learning card with nothing chosen now offers to choose your limudim. A few descriptions in Settings no longer cut off. Your own schedule counts Gemara in dapim, so 2 amudim reads "1 daf", and "Ahead" no longer shows when you are simply on track. 15 minutes is now a quick choice for candle lighting. A shorter welcome for local luachs.

Bug fixes and improvements

HEBREW NAMES IN HEBREW A new switch in Settings, next to your nusach. Turn it on and the names are written in Hebrew letters: the parsha, Yamim Tovim, the day's changes, your Daf Yomi and other learning, and the zmanim themselves. Everything else stays in English. Off by default. SIYUM ALERTS The Mazel Tov now comes for a real siyum only. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch celebrates the whole sefer once a year, not every siman. Mishnah Yomi celebrates each masechta, the Rambam each of its fourteen sefarim, the Mishnah Berurah each chelek, and Nach each sefer, with Trei Asar as one. The 100 days, the year and the other milestones are as before. FIXES Your own learning schedule: choosing "a finishing date" now stays chosen, and the Finish by date appears. Tehillim at the kever: the words to say on leaving are now "Ois Gepoilt Ales Gits" (אויסגעפועלט אלעס גוט).

WHAT TO SAY A Heimish guide to greetings around the year. A small card shows the right greeting only while it applies, with what it means: A Gezinten Vinter once Simchas Torah is out, A Git Kvittel after Yom Kippur, A Gitten Moed on Chol HaMoed, and the rest. At the yearly moments (the start of Elul, Motzei Rosh Hashanah, Motzei Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabbah, Motzei Simchas Torah, Chanukah, Purim and Motzei Pesach) a notification comes the moment Yom Tov ends, so it is waiting when you switch on. The whole guide is one tap away, and it can be switched off in Settings. BEIT SHEMESH In Beit Shemesh, Amud now offers the Itim L'Binah luach, or you can stay with the Amud standard. Every zman is set to the luach's own figures, as printed on its explanation page: its Magen Avraham times, tzeis at 8.5 degrees, the customary end of a fast, its Erev Pesach times and 40 minutes for candles. Where Amud still differs, Settings says so. MAGEN AVRAHAM'S DAY A new choice in Settings: measure the Magen Avraham's sof zman Krias Shema and Tefilla on 72 fixed minutes (as before), on 16.1 degrees, or on 19.75 degrees (90 minutes in degrees).

100 BRACHOS A DAY A new card for the hundred brachos. It shows every bracha the day brings, from Maariv the night before through Mincha, and a ring that fills as you tick them off, a whole group in one tap, with quick buttons for Shehakol, Borei nefashos, Asher yatzar and more. Shabbos, Yom Tov and fasts fall short of 100, so Amud tells you by how much and where to make it up, with a heads-up at 8am the day before, and a line on the printed Shabbos sheet. There is a setting for women, and "Why a hundred?" explains the idea behind it. Switch it on in Settings. EREV SHABBOS AND YOM TOV The zmanim card now shows the earliest candle lighting and the time Shabbos or Yom Tov comes in, not only the sheet at the bottom. Going into a second day of Yom Tov it shows when you may light, from an existing flame. SUKKOS Each day of Sukkos shows which Hoshanos are said. Mussaf on Chol HaMoed names the day, for example "Mussaf - Day 3 Chol HaMoed Sukkos", then Hoshana Rabbah, counted correctly for one day of Yom Tov in Eretz Yisrael. TICK OFF YOUR DAILY LEARNING A new option for the yomi limudim: instead of Amud assuming you learned each day, tick it off yourself, like Shnayim Mikra. Off unless you choose it. CLOCK CHANGES ANYWHERE When a country changes its clocks, Amud now follows your phone's own clock rules, so the zmanim are right the day the change happens. This fixes Morocco, which moved to GMT on 20 September. A SIYUM ON SHABBOS When you finish a masechta or sefer on Shabbos or Yom Tov, the mazal tov now waits for the next weekday instead of being missed. CANDLE LIGHTING One tap to choose 18, 20, 30 or 40 minutes before shkia. Places differ, and in Beit Shemesh, for example, some light at 20 and some at 40. AUTOMATIC ICLOUD BACKUP Now on for everyone. If your iCloud already has a backup from another phone, Amud will not write over it: it asks you to restore it or replace it. ALSO Arriving in a city with a known luach now offers that city's luach, not the last city you were in. Smoother scrolling on the home screen and in Settings.

SPLIT TEHILLIM Saying the whole of Tehillim together? Put in how many people, and their names if you like, and Amud shares it out fairly by length, so everyone's part takes about the same time. Kapitel 119 is divided at its letters. Send the list straight to WhatsApp. ASK SIRI "When is Shkiah in Amud?" "Daf Yomi in Amud." "Tachanun in Amud." "Open the compass in Amud." Siri answers with the same times your zmanim card shows. AUTOMATIC ICLOUD BACKUP Switch it on in Settings and Amud keeps a copy in your own iCloud Drive, updated as you go, with a copy for each of the last seven days. On a new phone, Amud finds it the first time it opens and asks if you want it back. IMPORT FROM A FILE Birthdays, yahrzeits, choilim and past periods can now come from a PDF, CSV or Excel file as well as a pasted list. You still check every line before anything is saved. MOVING FROM ANOTHER MIKVAH CALENDAR? Most will email you your history. Print that email as a PDF and open it in Import a list, or copy the email and paste it in: Amud reads every flow with its Hebrew date and onah. TAHARAH SHARING His card now shows exactly what her card shows, day by day: the count, the hefsek day and time, the seven days and the mikvah night. The card from her no longer disappears after the app is closed and opened again. The sharing code is now hidden from screenshots and screen recordings. SELICHOS When Yom Kippur falls on Monday or Thursday, the fourth and fifth days of the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah Selichos change places, so the fifth day's set is said on the Thursday or Monday. Amud now shows it that way for Ashkenaz and Sefard.

TEHILLIM AT THE KEVER Ana Hashem now has its whole last page: the words of comfort for the mourners and the pesukim from Yeshayahu that close it. You can now choose a young child. Ana Hashem is then set out the way it is said for a child, so there is nothing to skip or work out at the kever. A man or a woman is now always asked, never assumed, because it changes the wording of Ana Hashem and Kel Malei even when the father's name is left out.

FIXED The Shabbos and Yom Tov sheet shows the earliest time to bring in Shabbos, from plag hamincha, every week of the year, winter included. Switching on the Taharah tracker in Settings no longer sends you back to the home screen. Its settings open straight underneath. Linking two phones: the scan option is back in Settings on his phone, even if Let him know was ever switched on there. Her pairing code can now also be read with the iPhone's own Camera, which opens Amud to check the four words. Tehillim at the kever prints properly on A4: two columns when you choose two, nothing cut off at the foot of a page, and a page number on every sheet. His reminders from her card now keep up to date in the background, even while the phone is locked. Both phones need this update to link.

TEHILLIM AT THE KEVER, STRAIGHT FROM THE HOME SCREEN A new card at the bottom of the home screen, under Simchas and yahrzeits. Tap it, type a name in Hebrew and Amud lays out the whole seder to say at the kever, with a sheet to print. Nobody needs to be added to the app first. Every name box now has its own Hebrew letters underneath it, so the father's name, and the mother's, can be typed without a Hebrew keyboard too. HASHEM'S NAME Elokim, Kel and Kah are now written with a kuf, the same as the Shem, in the choilim Yehi Ratzon, Kel Malei, Ana Hashem and the Tehillim at the kever. The Yehi Ratzon in English reads Hashem Elokeinu. FIXED Print on the Tehillim at the kever no longer closes the app. The sheet is made and handed to you to print or save. Share with him no longer closes the app, and the code stays on the screen until you close it. Pairing, scanning and unpairing open the same steady way.

LET HIM KNOW Share your mikvah calendar with your husband. His phone gets a small sealed card that says exactly what yours does: the separation nights ahead, your mikvah night, and whether you are tehorah, in the same words. Nothing else - no dates you entered, no history, nothing he can work backwards from. He gets the same reminders you do, the evening before each separation and on the mikvah night, in full wording or discreet. Pair once, in person: a code on your screen for sixty seconds, a scan on his, four words to check against each other. After that it is about one tap a month: show a QR, send it however you already talk, or copy the code. It is sealed on your phone before it goes anywhere, so a message sent to the wrong chat shows nothing readable, and there is no server and no account. His copy runs out on its own, and the morning after your mikvah night his card stops and asks you rather than guess. When something moves a date he can see, Amud asks whether to let him know - never on Shabbos or Yom Tov, and never twice. Not now is not a refusal; a chip stays on your card until you send. His side is one row in Settings, From her, and his card sits closed until he opens it. HASHEM'S NAME In the choilim Yehi Ratzon and the Tehillim at the kever, the Shem is now written with a kuf. TEHILLIM AT THE KEVER The seder said standing at a kever, now part of the yahrzeit. Seven kapitlach, then Tehillim 119 in the stanzas that spell out the name and then the word neshamah, then Ana Hashem Malei Rachamim, Kel Malei and Kaddish. Type the name in Hebrew and Amud works out which stanzas they are. There is a letter pad on the screen if you have no Hebrew keyboard. On whose name goes into the 119 the sources differ, so Amud offers all three and does not choose for you. And it prints. A beis hachaim is the last place you want to be holding a phone, so there is a sheet for your pocket, in one or two columns at a size you pick. Whatever you type is kept, so next year it is one tap from the card. WHICH YAHRZEIT IT IS Rows now say "3rd yahrzeit" rather than simply "yahrzeit". The first one is the year the whole aveilus hangs off, and the thirtieth is not the same thing. SELICHOS BY NAME Erev Rosh Hashanah and Erev Yom Kippur Selichos are called by name, the way every machzor prints them. And the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah days now count fresh from Tzom Gedaliah instead of carrying the Elul count on over Rosh Hashanah, so 4 Tishrei no longer reads as day 10 of something. TIKKUN CHATZOS FOR EDOT HAMIZRACH The Ben Ish Chai reckoning, twelve hours after chatzos hayom, with nothing said on leil Shabbos, Yom Tov or Chol HaMoed Pesach. It is now its own option and Sephardi phones move onto it once, automatically. Set it back if you hold otherwise and it stays back. FIXED A stray "Selihot" showing on the second day of Rosh Hashanah for Edot HaMizrach. On a yahrzeit from a year gone by, "the burial was on a later day" jumped to today. It now opens on the date of the petirah.

THE EXPECTING CARD Telling the mikvah calendar you are expecting used to look as though nothing had happened. The due dates were there, but they only appeared from three months, when the separation days pause - so for the first three months the card sat unchanged and the tap seemed to have been ignored. The card now leads with it from the moment you confirm. Which week you are in, the Jewish due date and the secular one, and then the buttons. Your expected days are untouched and still sit underneath, because they stay fully in force for those first three months. BOTH DUE DATES, WORKED OUT FOR YOU The popup no longer asks you to go and find two dates. It opens with the mikvah night already filled in from your record and the secular due date already counted from your last period, shows you what each one gives you, and asks you to confirm or change it. If you had never ticked the mikvah night - and the app stops asking once a mikvah night has passed cleanly, because it assumes you went - there was previously nothing to fill in and no Jewish due date at all. It now uses that night. The Jewish due date shows the Hebrew date, the same date in English, and the civil days it actually falls on, so a Hebrew date never has to be converted in your head. And it says where the number comes from: a birth comes 271 to 273 days after the mikvah night, Gemara Niddah 38b, with the gematria behind it spelled out in the halachos sheet. "I gave birth" is now on the card during the whole pregnancy, not only after three months. FIXED The choilim list at the bottom of the home screen sat tight up against the simchas above it, close enough to read as part of that card. It now has the same gap as the sections above it.

AMUD 2.0 Amud began as a davening aid: what to say today, and when. It has not been only that for a long time, and the version number is here to say so out loud. THE MIKVAH CALENDAR There is a private mikvah calendar in this app. It has been here for months, off by default, behind one quiet row in Settings, and a great many people who open Amud every single day have never seen it. It keeps the whole cycle. The expected days each month and which onah, with the hours it runs. The hefsek taharah and its window. The seven clean days, with morning and afternoon ticks. The mikvah night and its preparation checklist. Record a flow by date, time and town and it works out the halachic day and the onah itself. Reminders for every step, an expecting mode, after-birth tracking, a kallah's first-time halachos, and paste-in history from a paper calendar. A month view, and a printable year to take to a rav. It is off until it is turned on, one tap hides the card, it never appears on a printed sheet, and everything stays on the phone it was entered on. Anything with a machlokes says ask your rav. If that is something kept on paper in your house, it is worth showing to whoever keeps it. SHNAYIM MIKRA ON A DOUBLE PARSHA A week like Matos-Masei used to come up as fourteen aliyos: seven of one parsha, then seven of the other. That is not what is read. The tzibbur reads one seven-aliyah division over the whole span, and now so does Amud, for all seven pairs. It matters more than it sounds: revi'i of Matos-Masei runs from Bamidbar 32:20 straight through 33:49, crossing from one parsha into the next, so the seams genuinely sit elsewhere. Seven rows, the real ranges, and the week counts as seven. If you had already ticked aliyos on a double week, they are cleared once, because the numbers used to mean something different and marks that survived would have pointed at pesukim you never read. THE ONOS NOW SAY WHICH HALF OF THE DAY, AND WHEN THEY RUN An expected day used to read "Shabbos, 13 Elul", which left the question it existed to answer: the daytime, or the night? A day onah now says so, and every row carries the window it actually covers, netz to shkia for a day onah and shkia to netz for a night one. Yom HaChodesh, Onah Beinonis and day 31 all say it. Tap the day in the month view and the times are there too. WIDGETS IN THREE SIZES Press and hold the widget and drag its corner. A small square, a wide tile and a tall one, each showing what fits: three changes on the small, four on the wide, six plus your limudim on the tall. FIXED A custom schedule over Mishnayos let you pick a perek that does not exist. Berachos has nine and the picker went to fifty-seven, then quietly snapped you back to the last real one with nothing said. The perek now stops at the real count, and the mishnah beside it stops at the number that perek holds. Zmanim could be worked out in the wrong time zone, hours out, when a saved place carried coordinates without a time zone beside it. The commonest way in was a backup carried between countries. Every place now stores its zone, and if the two ever disagree the app says so on the Location line instead of showing you a sunrise at midnight. A refused notification permission used to un-tick the switch and say nothing at all, so it read as broken rather than blocked. It now says which it is, and what to do about it. ON GETAMUD.COM The same round, plus: the rows under "Coming up" jump to that day when you tap them; Settings is in sections you can open and close instead of one very long scroll; a holiday name wraps instead of being cut off mid-word; saving a date says that it saved; and Save stays greyed until the date has a name.

A CALENDAR FOR THE TAHARAH TRACKER The tracker now has a second way to look at the same record: a full month, opened from the calendar button on the card. The card and its list are exactly as they were - nothing has moved. Every square carries both dates, the English and the Hebrew, because the halacha runs on one and your week runs on the other. Coloured dots mark what each day holds: a flow, a stain, the hefsek taharah, each of the seven clean days (numbered, so you can see at a glance which day you are on), the mikvah night, and the days coming up that need separating. Months page back as far as your record goes, so a cycle from last spring is one swipe away. Tap any day and it tells you what it holds and what you can add to it - a past flow or stain, the hefsek, a bedika you did, the mikvah night. Only what actually makes sense on that date is offered, and anything that does not is shown greyed with the reason: "The earliest mikvah night in this cycle is 31 Aug." Nothing can be recorded on a day that has not happened yet. YOUR OWN SEDER, IN ELEVEN SEFARIM Personal learning schedules used to offer Gemara Bavli, Mishnayos, or a sefer you named yourself. They now offer: Gemara Bavli - Mishnayos - Yerushalmi, Vilna - Yerushalmi, ArtScroll (Schottenstein) - Nach - Tanach - Tehillim - Rambam (Mishneh Torah) - Sefer HaMitzvos - Likutei Moharan - Likutei Halachos - and still any other sefer you name yourself. Each one is picked apart the way it is actually learned: the Yerushalmi by the daf, Nach and Tanach by the perek, the Rambam by its own sets of halachos inside its fourteen sefarim, Sefer HaMitzvos by the mitzvah. You can set your goal as the whole thing, one part of it (a seder of Shas, a sefer of the Rambam, Neviim or Kesuvim) or a single masechta, and mark off what you had already finished before you started - it still counts once, however you get there. Every length comes from the same tables the daily cycles are calculated from, so your own seder can never disagree with the daily card about how long a masechta is: 1,554 dapim in the Vilna Yerushalmi, 2,094 in the ArtScroll, 742 perakim of Nach, 929 of Tanach, 1,017 of the Rambam. SMOOTHER A pass over everything that ran while a finger was on the glass. The pinned header no longer rebuilds itself on every frame of a scroll; the stored lists - your kept dates, the choilim list, the taharah record - are read once instead of being decoded again on every tap in Settings; and the screens that were doing a piece of real work between keystrokes now do it out of the way. Nothing looks different. It should just feel like nothing is in the way. FIXED The Choilim list showed on the home screen the day you added it and was gone the next time the app opened. The list itself was always safe - it was the block at the foot of the home screen that stopped drawing. It now stays. The Gemara picker could not reach the last amud of Tamid. A data-loss hole in personal schedules is closed. If the stored schedules ever became unreadable, creating one more would have replaced the lot, and a backup taken then would have written the emptiness over your only other copy. Both are now refused outright, so a damaged file can never turn into a lost one.

THE ARTSCROLL YERUSHALMI - A NEW LIMUD The Schottenstein Yerushalmi is paginated to its own volumes, so it needs a luach of its own, and Amud now carries it: 2,094 dapim over five years and nine months, opening at Berachos 1 and finishing at Niddah 11. Unlike the Vilna cycle, and unlike the Bavli Daf Yomi, it skips nothing at all - there is a daf on Yom Kippur and a daf on Tisha B'Av. Switch it on in Settings, alongside the Vilna cycle, which is untouched and is now named so the two can be told apart. Masechta names follow your nusach, like everywhere else in Amud. THE CHOILIM LIST ON THE HOME SCREEN The list now also sits at the foot of the home screen, under simchas and yahrzeits, so the names are in front of you on the way past instead of waiting behind a tap. The Yehi Ratzon is folded away underneath, one tap from open. The heart at the top still opens the full list for adding and removing, and a switch in Settings turns the home-screen block off again if you would rather it were not there. The Yehi Ratzon is also right-justified now, the way Hebrew should sit. JOINING THE TAHARAH TRACKER PART-WAY THROUGH You should not have to wait for the next flow before the tracker is any use to you. There is now a "Set where I am up to now" screen, in Settings and in the card's own menu, and it can be opened at any time - not only on the day the tracker is first switched on. It asks what you actually know. When this period started, and in which onah. When it stopped. Whether the hefsek taharah has been made and on which day, whether it came out clean, and whether the moich dochuk was done. Then the seven clean days appear as tick boxes, and you tick the bedikos you have really done. They start empty on purpose - the app will not write down a bedika you did not make - and there is a "Tick them all" for anyone who did do them all. If you have already been to the mikvah for this cycle, say so, and it closes properly instead of counting for ever. Every answer is checked as you give it. A hefsek dated earlier than your own day count allows is refused, and the earliest day it could have been is named. A mikvah night before the seven days are up is refused too. Nothing is saved until you press Save, and everything you enter can be edited afterwards from History, exactly as if you had entered it day by day. PASTING IN A LIST NOW TELLS YOU HOW Importing birthdays or yahrzeits explained itself in one small line under the box, which is no use to anyone who has already pasted. It now says it plainly above the box, before you paste: each line is the name, the date, and boy or girl, with a comma between each part - and every way you are allowed to write the date, whether 14/3/2019, 14 March 2019, 2019-03-14, or a Hebrew date like 2 Av 5782. FIXED Importing a list of past periods into the Taharah history opened the window and then closed it again on the spot, so there was no way in. It stays open now. "Add a past period" on the same screen was caught by the same fault and is fixed with it.

Track your own learning, not only the tzibbur's. Amud has always shown you what the tzibbur is learning today - Daf Yomi, Oraysa, Mishnah Yomi and the rest, the same daf for everyone, moving on its own at midnight. This version adds the other kind: your own seder, at your own pace, which does not move until you say you have learned. You name it. You choose what: a masechta of Gemara, a seder, the whole Shas, all of Mishnayos - an amud or a daf at a time, a mishnah or a perek at a time. Or any other sefer at all: name it, say how many parts it has, and say what one part is called. Then you say where you are up to. Not what date you started - where you are up to. Pick the masechta and the daf. And if you have already finished masechtos over the years, in whatever order life put them in, tick them. A man who has learned twenty masechtos is not eight per cent through Shas, and the app should not tell him he is. You set either a pace or a finishing date, and Amud works out the other one. An amud a day tells you when your siyum falls. A date before your son's bar mitzvah tells you how many a day it will take. It counts only the days you actually learn on - if you do not keep this seder on Shabbos, or on Yom Tov, or on a fast, say so, and the finishing date is a real one. Every day it shows where you are up to and a button. Tap it when you have learned. Tap it again for another amud - three dapim on a Sunday is a bigger day, not three days. Tapped by mistake, tap Undo. There is no "mark missed" here and there never will be: no day of your own seder ever carried an obligation to learn a particular thing, so there is nothing to be guilty about. What it does say, quietly, is how far ahead of or behind your own stated pace you are, and when you will finish at this rate. Optionally, one reminder a day for a schedule you have not yet marked. Also in this version, a zmanim accuracy round. Three fixes, all of them things you would only notice by checking the times against each other - which is exactly why they needed finding. Rabbeinu Tam is never the earlier time any more. Rabbeinu Tam is a fixed 72 minutes after shkia. The ordinary end of Shabbos is measured by how far the sun has sunk. In a British high summer the sun sets so shallowly that the 72 minutes arrived FIRST, so the stricter time was printed earlier than the ordinary one - 32 Shabbosos a year in London, and up to 23 minutes out in the north of England. Amud now follows the published rule for exactly this case: on those nights only, Rabbeinu Tam is eight minutes after the ordinary time. Every other night of the year is unchanged, and this never arose in New York or in Eretz Yisroel. The evening zmanim now read in clock order. From September to March, Maariv may be davened from nightfall - the same moment as nacht. The list was showing that time twice, once above Shekia and once below it, so the card read 7:56, then 7:08, then 7:56 again. Nightfall is now one line: "Maariv and Krias Shema from here", sitting under Shekia where it belongs. In the summer, when Maariv starts from plag, nothing has moved. The next-zman highlight follows the clock. On those same evenings it was jumping ahead to Maariv while Shekia was still to come. It now counts down to Shekia first. The Rabbeinu Tam note names the shitah instead of showing a sum. The old wording invited you to subtract, and because Shekia is shown rounded down and Rabbeinu Tam rounded up - the careful direction for each - the answer came out a minute wide. No zman moved by a second beyond the three fixes above.

Amud 1.41.0 THE CHOILIM LIST - NEW, AND OFF BY DEFAULT One quiet toggle in Settings, and a heart appears in the strip at the top: a private list of choilim to daven for. Type each name and the mother's name in Hebrew or English - they are shown exactly as you type them - and the Yehi Ratzon said after Tehillim sits underneath with your names already woven in, worded correctly for one man, one woman, or many. A switch shows it in English letters for anyone who cannot read Hebrew, a whole list can be pasted in at once, and it travels in your backup. Kept on your phone only, like everything else. PASTE IN YEARS OF HISTORY The Taharah history and the simchas-and-yahrzeits list can now each import a pasted list - months or years from a paper calendar or a note, one line each, Hebrew or English dates. Nothing is guessed: the check screen reads every line back in words and flags anything unclear - a date written two ways, a missing day or night, plain Adar in a leap year - and skips what is already in the app. A date that falls inside the seven days being counted right now is called out clearly rather than slipped in quietly. Only what you confirm is imported, and an open count is never touched. THE TAHARAH CARD, POLISHED Once the mikvah night has passed, the card returns to the regular calendar by itself the next morning - with an "I have not gone to the mikvah yet" undo shown for two days, in case plans changed. The mikvah line now carries both dates: "Thursday night, 15 Elul (3 Sept)". "I saw blood or a stain" is there on every day it could halachically matter, including the days after the mikvah. The preparation checklist follows the kuntres more closely - the mikvah day rules come first, and the Motzei Shabbos and second-day Yom Tov steps appear only when your mikvah night actually falls then. Halachos and info was rewritten into short, clear sections with a fuller harchokas summary. And when two separation onos fall on the same evening, one reminder now names them both - before, one of the two could be silently dropped. QUICKER TO THE TOUCH Ticks on the card respond the instant you tap - and two quick taps in a row now both stick. A tap on the card header hides it immediately, with a small "tap to hide" hint so the quick-hide is easy to find. The tefillin mirror's eye guides sit at a more natural height.

Amud 1.40.0 A PRIVATE TAHARAH CALENDAR - NEW, AND OFF BY DEFAULT At the bottom of Settings there is now one quiet row: Taharah. Turn it on and a private card appears under the zmanim with everything needed to keep the halachic calendar: the expected dates each month and when to separate (with the widespread chumros built in), recording a flow by date, time and city - the app works out the halachic day and onah itself - the earliest hefsek taharah with its exact time window, the seven clean days with morning and afternoon ticks so you always know exactly where you are up to, and the earliest mikvah night with the time and a full preparation checklist. It follows the halachos of Rabbi Shmuel Weiner, and anything with a machlokes says "ask your rav" rather than guessing - it is a calendar and a reminder, not a rav. There are reminders for each step, a pattern check for a possible veses kavua (always confirmed with your rav, never automatic), an "I am expecting" mode with both due dates and paused separations, after-birth tracking, a kallah's first-time halachos, and a history you can back-fill from your paper calendar - joining mid-cycle works too. Blood seen during the seven days can be logged from the card itself - the count restarts from a new clean hefsek, with no need for the first wait again - and History can export a printable 12-month record of flows, hefsekim and mikvah nights for a doctor or a rav. Private by design: a tap on the card header hides it instantly, it never appears on any shared screen, widget or printed sheet, and everything you enter stays on this phone and in your own backup files. Restore it on any device you use. The whole feature is invisible until you turn it on. THE RIGHT USHPIZIN, DAY AND NIGHT A Sukkos day has two guests: last night's ushpiz presides through the day, and the new one arrives at nightfall. The card and the printed Sukkos sheets used to name only the coming night's guest, so all day they read a day ahead - and Hoshana Rabbah showed no guest at all. Now the live card names the day's guest until nightfall and the night's from nightfall, the printed sheet names both, and Hoshana Rabbah names Dovid. THE NEXT ZMAN, AT A GLANCE On today's zmanim card the times already behind you now sit dimmed, and the next one coming carries a soft highlight with a small countdown - "next · in 38 min". No new section and nothing moved: the list stays in time order, your eye just lands on the right row. Decided once by the same engine that computes the times, so every screen agrees to the minute.

Amud 1.39.0 YOUR KEPT DATES ARE SAFE AGAIN If you had simchas or yahrzeits saved from an earlier version, tapping one on the home card could open an empty form instead of that person, and adding a new date could make the old ones vanish. Fixed: every kept date, however old the build that saved it, opens when tapped and stays put when you add another. If yours did disappear, we are sorry - re-enter them, or import a backup if you have one, and they will now stay. MILESTONES NOW ARRIVE AS A NOTIFICATION When your daily learning reaches a milestone - 100 days, 500 days, a year, a quarter of the way through, a siyum - Amud now sends a Mazal tov on the day, and the card to share is waiting in the app. It no longer depends on the daily yomi reminder being on. It is on by default, and has its own switch under Notifications. Our own notifications also show as a banner while the app is open, rather than being swallowed. SETTINGS, TIDIED Every reminder is now in one place, under Notifications: the daily note, the zmanim reminders, the learning reminders, the simcha and yahrzeit reminders, the Erev Pesach reminder and the Lock Screen countdown. Everything halachic sits together under Halacha: nusach, where you are, zmanim, minhagim, chometz zmanim and Tikkun Chatzos. And the explanations have come out from between the settings: each section now has a small question mark that opens its explanation in a pop-up, so the screen is about half the length it was. TU B'AV ON THE COMING UP CARD Tu B'Av now sits on the Coming up card after Tisha B'Av, like Tu B'Shvat. THE TEFILLIN MIRROR The two eye circles sit further apart, where your eyes actually are at a comfortable arm's length.

Amud 1.38.0 TAP A SIMCHA OR YAHRZEIT TO EDIT IT Every row on the home card now opens when you tap it. Fix a typo in the name or the date, remove the date altogether, or add just that one person to your phone's calendar - with a choice of how many years ahead to write, right there in the popup. No more going to find them in Settings. ADD THE YAMIM TOVIM TO YOUR CALENDAR A small Add to calendar button now sits on the Coming up card. One tap writes every day shown - Rosh Hashanah through Tisha B'Av, fasts included - into the calendar already on your phone, as all-day entries with a reminder the morning before. Sukkos goes in as one entry covering its whole seven days, not seven scraps. Press it again any time to bring them up to date; Amud only ever touches its own entries. The simchas and yahrzeits card has the same button, and it asks the one question that matters first: how many years ahead to write. STOPPING THE MEAT WAIT NOW CLEARS THE LOCK SCREEN Ending the wait early left the countdown sitting on the Lock Screen, still counting, for hours. It now disappears the moment you stop the wait. The fast-day countdown had the same fault and is fixed too. SCROLLING IS PROPERLY SMOOTH NOW The main page and Settings could stutter and stick, worst of all in the first seconds after opening. We went through everything that runs while your finger is on the glass - and there was a real list: the top bar was being rebuilt over a hundred times a second, a location fix rebuilt the whole page at exactly the moment you started scrolling, the meat-wait ring kept an animation running all day, and every card's shadow was drawn the expensive way. All of it is fixed. The "That Shabbos" arrow on a bar mitzvah also now glides to the right place in one motion, instead of jumping about and correcting itself. THE TEFILLIN MIRROR, SIMPLIFIED The floating box is gone - where the shel rosh sits on the screen depends on your hairline and your hat, so the box could sit wrong on a real head. In its place the centre line now runs up from between your eyes, through where the shel rosh sits, and the caption says the one thing the mirror can honestly check: centre the shel rosh on the line.

Three rounds of work in one update. A TEFILLIN MIRROR Asked for by a user. A new mirror icon on the top line: tap it and the front camera opens full screen, with two circles where your eyes go and a box above them for the shel rosh. Put your eyes in the circles - that one move sets your distance, your framing and the tilt of your head at once. Amud reads the phone's own tilt too: angled up you are looking underneath the bayis, angled down the hairline hides behind it. When the view is honest the shapes go solid and the phone taps once. Then line the shel rosh up with the box, and tap to freeze the picture so a hand comes free. It never says your tefillin are on correctly: it cannot see the kesher, a twisted retzuah or the parshiyos, so there is no tick and no score. Nothing is recorded or sent. WAITING BETWEEN MEAT AND DAIRY Press it when you finish eating and Amud counts the wait, on the ring at the top of the day, the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Six hours (Shulchan Aruch), five and a half (Yabia Omer), five hours and a minute (Rav Chaim Soloveitchik), three (Pri Chadash), one (the Rema), or your own. Each names its posek, and all are ordinary clock hours, which is what makes them right on an aeroplane. A BRIS, AND A PIDYON HABEN Put a newborn boy into Simchas and the bris is on the card: the eighth day, counted in HEBREW days with the day of the birth itself as the first, so a boy born at nine on a Tuesday evening was born on Wednesday. A birth in bein hashmashos is marked a safek and counted from the later day. Tick firstborn, born naturally, not Kohen or Levi, and the pidyon haben comes on day thirty one. Your mohel and your rov fix the day. CANDLE LIGHTING COMES FROM WHERE YOU ARE It is not astronomy: it is shkia less whatever the local practice is, and that belongs to the place. Yerushalayim and Petach Tikva 40, Haifa and Tzfas 30, the rest of Israel 20, America 18, the UK 15, Paris 18. Settings names the figure and where it came from, and where no kehilla publishes one it uses 18 and says so. Switch it off to keep your own. SIMCHAS AND YAHRZEITS IN YOUR CALENDAR Every Hebrew birthday, bar and bas mitzvah, anniversary and yahrzeit written into the calendar on your phone. A Hebrew date drifts about eleven days a year, so Amud works out each year and writes one entry a year. Yahrzeits remind you the evening before, in time to light. It only ever removes its own entries, and both kinds of reminder now have their own switch. BACKUP NOW CARRIES EVERYTHING Moving to a new phone used to lose about twenty settings in silence, including one of your zmanim and every one of your reminders. A backup now restores in full on any device you use, with your simchas, yahrzeits, kept dates and reminder times. Exporting one could also fail; that is fixed. PIRKEI AVOS, AND L'DOVID The last Shabbosos before Rosh Hashanah carry two perakim each so the cycle finishes exactly. Amud now says which two, and shows the run to Rosh Hashanah. And Nusach Sefard say L'Dovid after Shacharis and Mincha, not Maariv. A user wrote in and he was right. WHY MY TIMES MAY DIFFER, AND A WAY TO WRITE IN A plain English section on why Amud can read a minute or two from your shul's luach: rounding, where exactly you are standing, or which opinion it follows. And a proper form to write in on, screenshot and all. A thank you is welcome too. KIDDUSH LEVANA, A CORRECTION The window opened a night too early for anyone holding the Rema's three days. The seventy two hours now run from the molad as it is announced, and the edges are read as nights. AND THE REST The printed Shabbos sheet now runs nacht, Shabbos ends, Rabbeinu Tam, last Maariv, Melava Malka. The kehilla luach offer leads with Amud standard, and the London preset reads Union (Kedassia). The Shabbos board used to vanish for the whole of Shabbos, and Tisha B'Av fell off the end of Coming Up. A kept date can be tapped and edited, and the day page and Settings no longer stick while you scroll.