Tikun Korim - תקון קוראים app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 8320 ratings )
Reference Book
Developer: RustyBrick, Inc.
19.99 USD
Current version: 2.0.1, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 22 Apr 2011
App size: 23.13 Mb

Now you can practice for your Bar Mitzvah with an iPhone & iPad app that helps you learn to read your Bar Mitzvah Parsha. The app is an interactive Tikun Korim. The Tikun works on both the iPhone and iPad and has many features to aid in learning your reading.

The layout of the Tikun is specially designed to fit the iPad or iPhone, being about half the height of a normal Tikun. It works in both landscape and portrait mode; where landscape mode has the Torah view on the left and the Taamim (Cantorial notes) on the right, and portait mode shows only one view at a time with a quick toggle switch to flip between the two. There is a bookmark feature for quick access to the parsha you are studying and the ability to record and email that recording to your friends and Bar Mitzvah teacher. Also included is a Taamim Chart with audio by a professional Bar Mitzvah teacher, so you can learn how to lain on your own.

Included is all of the Torah, Haftorahs and Megillat Esther, Shir Hashirim, Ruth, Eichah and Kohelet!

The typesetter for this Tikun is by Divrei Emes. Audio (available as in app purchase) for Ashkenaz parshas were recorded by Ira Slotnick. Audio for the Sephardic parshiot were recorded by Rabbi Baruch Mishaan.


Professional Baal Korim will appreciate the clarity of the text, Shvah Na and alternate opinion notation.

Features:

* Interactive Digital Tikun
* Landscape / Portait Modes for both iPhone & iPad
* Record Audio & Email Recordings
* Bookmark Sections
* Parsha Slider & Quick Finds
* Taamim Chart with Professional Audio
* Great Bar Mitzvah Teaching Aid
* Clear & Crisp Text With Zoom Capability
* Shvah Nah Notation
* Alternate Opinion Notation
* In app purchases for downloading Parsha Torah Reading Audio*

Please provide us with feedback: tikun@rustybrick.com


* To access audio for purchase, click on the Parsha menu and click the button with the $ on it. The entire Torah is available for Ashkenazic and Sephardic recordings.

Pros and cons of Tikun Korim - תקון קוראים app for iPhone and iPad

Tikun Korim - תקון קוראים app good for

Very nice but its to much expensive and its an update improved of their previous application called " Torah for Ipad " which was also very expensive, so we pay 2 times a similar product !!
I love this app. It is efficient, effective and easy to use. Support from Rusty Brick when I had an issue was immediate and resolved my issues quickly. This is a great app that I would recommend to anyone Leyning Torah at any time.

Some bad moments

Just downloaded the new update and could not wait to buy the in-app purchase for the audio! Until I saw that you didnt have al the parshas, and that you had to buy each separately for $4.99 each?! We paid you guys $20 dollars for an app the we could practice our laining, I bought this app thinking that audio came with it. I also noticed that you only have one nussach: askenaz. If you guys can maybe make all the parshas and haftaras into one big in-app purchase I would easily pay another $20-$30 dollars for it. What you guys are doing is great, but dont do it just for the money. P.S. I have bought all you apps exept for Jewish cal (which Im thinking of buying) and have not been disappointed, please dont change that.
There is no Eidot Hamizrach alining and no ktav (lettering) for sefaradim. Because their siddur had this I thought this would to. This is the first Rusty Brick program I have that I am disappointed with. I hope they come out with Edot Hamizrach laining soon.
A beautiful Tikun with excellent features including convenient bookmarking, ability to record yourself for later review, and now the ability to hear any Parsha of interest read by an expert ($5/Parsha). Also has a very intuitive interface that works even better than expected. Great study tool for a Bar Mitvah boy or anyone trying to master a Parsha or Haftora.
A wonderful learning tool, whether seeing Torah- and print-text side by side (in landscape) or instant switching (in portrait) is a huge help, as is the ability to hear as well as record. I had an almost other-worldly positive experience with support that for the sake of Rusty Brick employees I hope was not typical. I had a problem with a parshah download, and sent an e-mail about it at 10:15 on a Sunday night. I had initial reply and promise to address it, literally within two minutes. By noon of the following day, the problem had been confirmed, follow-up was made with the Baal Koreh, and the repaired version was uploaded to the Apple Store. This result from a support call could mean either that they are unbelievably responsive or hardly ever get calls and can thus drop everything to deal with the random complaint. Either way, its great for the consumer. A suggestion for a future update - provide controls for fast-forward and back and for partial repetition within an Aliyah, rather than having to play the whole thing. That would be a real help to us novices who move slowly through the text and need a lot of repetition.
This says the whole Torah audio is available, which is why we purchased it. Turns out that Shekalim, the one we were interested in, is not available, among many others.
I just started learning to read from the Torah this year (not counting my bar mitzvah many years ago) and this has been an amazing help. The technology really comes through and it makes switching back and forth between the actual Hebrew and the trope + vowels incredibly easy. Some may balk at the price, but it is an amazing bargain n o matter how you look at it. First off, it is excellent software. Second, it is a fraction of the price you would pay for a paper tikkun. I mostly use the iPad version, but it includes an iPhone one as well, which is nice when I want to sneak in some practice when I dont have the iPad with me. Its small on the iPhone, but usable.

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