Lechem
Shabbos and Yom Tov — an app that knows to stop
Lechem goes quiet when Shabbos comes in. No notification is ever scheduled across candle lighting, and everything you would want in your hand is on paper before it starts.
Lechem is a helper and a reminder. It is never a ruling. For anything halachic, ask your Rav.
Most religious apps treat Shabbos as a display setting. Lechem treats it as the point.
When Shabbos or Yom Tov comes in, Lechem stops behaving like an app that wants your attention. Nothing buzzes. No reminder is ever scheduled to fire at a time that has crossed candle lighting — that is a rule inside the scheduler, not a preference you have to find and switch on. If a notification would land on Shabbos, it is not created in the first place.
The corollary is that everything you might want over Shabbos has to be out of the phone before it starts. That is what the printable sheet is for: the zmanim, the times of the day, whatever your household keeps on the wall, on paper, printed on Friday.
Whether and how a person uses a phone at all around Shabbos is not Lechem's question to answer. The app simply refuses to be the thing that pulls at you, and it is built so that a person who puts the phone away loses nothing.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- Shabbos & Yom Tov
- Printable Shabbos sheet