Lechem
Chumash — the whole of it, opening on the parsha
The five books, in Hebrew type built to be read rather than squinted at, opening where the week actually is — and there without a signal.
A chumash on a phone usually fails for one of two reasons. Either the letters are too small and too tight to actually read, or the app cannot tell you where the week is and you have to go looking for the parsha yourself.
Lechem fixes both. The Hebrew is set large and clean, with the pointing intact and enough air between the lines to follow a possuk with your eye. And it opens on the parsha, because it knows the date — the same way the siddur knows the hour.
The whole text is on the device, so it is there in a place with no signal: on a plane, in a basement shul, on a Friday afternoon when you are somewhere else entirely. Nothing about the learning needs the internet.
From here you can go on to the two things people actually do with the chumash every week — Chitas and Shnayim Mikra — each of which has its own write-up, because each is a different discipline with a different measure of what "done" means.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- Chumash