NavTorah
Tested on real scrolls

Find your place in the Sefer Torah with your phone

Point the camera at the open column. NavTorah tells you the book, parashah and aliyah, and how many columns to move to reach the reading.

Open the app See how it works
The app showing 47 columns to the right, toward Bereshit

How it works

From a photo to the exact line

TargetLech-Lecha, first aliyah
↓ Keep scrolling
✓You're now atVayera · column 18
→6columns
to the right
✓ You're there· Starts on line 10

  1. 1Choose where to go

    Today's reading, a holiday, a parashah or any verse.

  2. 2Scan the open column

    It reads a few lines, mistakes and all, and finds them among the Torah's 80,316 words.

  3. 3Move the sefer

    It tells you how many columns are left, and which way.

  4. 4You're there

    It marks the line where the reading starts.

Built not to guess

When it isn't sure where you are, it says so. We measured it.

words of Torah, all indexed
80,316
words of Torah, all indexed
confident wrong answers in 2,000 trials, even with half the letters misread
0
confident wrong answers in 2,000 trials, even with half the letters misread
columns in the standard scroll, with exact column and line
245
columns in the standard scroll, with exact column and line
per scan, read on the phone without sending the photo
2 s
per scan, read on the phone without sending the photo

Tested in real shuls

Two columns away. Target: Devarim 1:1. The scroll is open at Masei, column 198, and the app says 2 columns to the left. After moving it, the start of Devarim comes into view.
Across the scroll. Target: the first aliyah of Noach. The scroll is open at Balak, column 184, and the app says 178 columns to the right.
A worn sefer. Target: the first aliyah of Yom Kippur. The scroll is open at Acharei Mot, column 132, and the app says 1 column to the right.

The first two were recorded with the current version. The third, with an earlier Spanish-only version that sent the photo to the cloud and took 17 s; the app now reads it on the phone.

Free and open source

NavTorah is free, with no ads and no sign-up: open the app and scan. The code is open source, so you can also run your own copy.

Open the app View on GitHubRun your own copy

Dedicate NavTorah

NavTorah is free, with no ads and no sign-up.

If it helped you, you can help keep it going with a dedication:

  • A weekUSD 10
    Your name or a dedication shows in the app all week, next to the parashah.
  • A holidayUSD 20
    Shown the week before the holiday and during it.

Write to us and we'll set it up:

WhatsApp ↗mati.rapoport@gmail.com