ArtScroll Digital Library Reviews

by FlashGordon74

I wanted to live it. But cannot is even use the Art Scroll seforim app

by Haim12394

Content is great but needs major change. It’s very slow and glitchy. Looks and feels 10 years old. Artscroll support answered me months later, and their response had nothing to do with my problem.

Artscroll pls invest more resources. Especially if we spend over 1k for this content.

by Ashtt8

Because it has been almost a year and a half since ArtScroll came out, it is very very tiring to hear "we are working on it" ArtScrollDigitalLibrary crashes several times a session. Yellow highlight disappears, needing to close app and reopen, sometimes several times. Claiming that you do not need internet once downloaded, many times, a window opens up, not letting you to continue, because, something related to internet is causing it not to open. An excellent tool for learning, but enough excuses. New update. when it crashes, it now crashes and shuts down the iPad itself. Also, when you advance the text, it stopped automatically advancing when you reach border. Great!!! Every update 2 steps backwards.

by Moses148

Love it but needs to be updates ASAP, it’s very slow and very outdated.

by BBNJ62

This is a wonderful app. However it has many issues the developers simply won't fix. When downloading volumes you get an odd error with a series of letters. Wren queried they blamed Apple. No, this is ridiculous. Every other app fixes their bugs to work with Apple's system. Then they never update the base files with updates. So if you have to download again for whatever reason you get the base files from years ago and thousands and thousands of updates that have to run. Much better would be to update the base files every couple of years to avoid the hours it takes to download again. Finally the most recent version puts the dedication line at the top of each page and even worse it changes up and back which is very distracting when learning.

by McRoth

This is the best siddur app I've used and I'm glad I "splurged" to buy it to replace my free ones, but it takes a long time to load every time I open it and the scrolling is very choppy, making a bit challenging to follow when I'm reading longer sections. Anything to speed it up would be appreciated (iPhone 6 user).

by Zion Raider

Great app but I’d like to purchase instead of monthly subscription ... please add that option for all volumes bundle price and individual sets.
Thank you in advance!

by Shueym

Got ArtScrollDigitalLibrary right when it came out, and I've been playing around with it for a few days now. This really is a great thing, and I see how this will revolutionize learning the daf in our digital age. The features are quite useful, and make learning an interactive experience. However, ArtScrollDigitalLibrary still needs work. It still freezes and crashes a little too often, and overall performance needs to be faster. I'm sure these issues will be solved in future updates, so as for now, great job artscroll!

by Abraham_S

Needs to be redesigned ASAP. It’s clunky and old school design.

Maybe new developers?

by Ira Grossman

As a Baal Teshuva, I plan to use the iPad version of the Artscroll Talmud for Daf Yomi. It is a wonderful App that will only get better with each update. I have used the Rusty Brick Siddur since it first came out for the iPhone I have been impressed how they have continually improved the Siddur. I expect this will be the same for the Artscroll Talmud.

With iPad version I can study Gamara anywhere, on the way to work, at the office during lunch, at home or at Shul. I highly recommend ArtScrollDigitalLibrary. For all the technology advances that Rusty Brick and Artscroll included in ArtScrollDigitalLibrary , I feel the price is reasonable.

The Notes section both as a Window and below the English/Hebrew text is unstable and buggy. It skips around. It is difficult to recall the note after it leaves the screen. The Notes feature needs work.

by CXS1

Please add hyperlinks to as many of the references as you can in the Hebrew and English parts, including the notes. I love the ability to click on the references in the notes. Please add hyperlinks to all references to other commentators in the notes to Chumash, Rashi, Tosfos, Mishna Berurah, Rishonim, Achronim, etc.. This will make your product unique and a must-have product. Thanks for helping us all take our learning to the next level.

Also, as someone whose spent approximately $1,500 to buy the paper copy of the ArtScroll Shas and Mishna, it’s hard to justify spending more money on the electronic version. Is there a way I can show you that I own the paper copy and you can give me access to the electronic version of what I already purchased. Thanks in advance for saying yes.

by Shimmy613

ArtScrollDigitalLibrary beyond my wildest expectations. Sheer genius! Incredible job! All those who complained about the price should take it easy. It's a fraction of the printed edition price and has much more advantages. $10 a month is less than your daily toll fare to work. And the profits are a zillionfold. 30 gorgeous blatt of Gemara presented and explained clearly and beautifully! What more can you ask for! I'm sure this version made it affordable for people who never considered buying the printed edition. Way to go Artscroll, we're sure this is just the beginning, as amazing as it is!

by Jshapco2

Artscroll has done a fantastic job with ArtScrollDigitalLibrary. One of the reasons I bought the IPad was in anticipation of ArtScrollDigitalLibrary and I am not disappointed.

The ability to highlight a few words at a time and see the translation with nekudos and notes is invaluable. It also makes the experience of learning Gomorrah much more stream lined.

For all of you complaining about the price/ the fact that you own a hard copy remember that this is a very different product than the physical book. Additionally Artscroll had to do some serious development to produce ArtScrollDigitalLibrary. Also, most consumers are not aware that Artscroll does not actually make much money at all per Sefer. It is very expensive to produce a high quality book. This is a great chance for an organization that has done so much for the Jewish community to financially reap the benefits of their labour.

In short I have been inspired to learn as a result of ArtScrollDigitalLibrary. What more can a Jew want?

by Bennny64

Thank you translation in Hebrew to English it is very good, but it's shame that not mentioned in the God name only the Shechem יהוה😀. Thank you

by Wes6754

Now that the Daf Yomi is learning Eruvin,When will you fix the 3-D viewer which no longer works on iOS

by Yochanan29

It is great to have the Artscroll library on my iPad. It would be great to have a Mac app to be able to study using my 27-inch monitors for easier reading and research.

by Dave Hok

I had no access to any book in the library while off line now they fixed the issue thanks

by Smag2

ArtScrollDigitalLibrary is excellent when purchasing the shas to your library. It’s amazing to have all of shas including a robust search engine at your finger tips! The pages are crisp and clear and the format is simple to use and very accessible. I highly recommend!

by Ob7dev

It keeps autoscrolling to end of tractate but should not if you are coming from the introduction. Sefaria is free without the glitches, I paid over $600 for Babylonia then a 300 iPhone to read it on yet it’s buggy. Nevertheless, the ArtScroll version has helpers that make it better than Sefaria, so ArtScroll continues to be my preference.

by Necehmya.m

I love ArtScrollDigitalLibrary , I hope more Hebrew volumes are released soon, but the hyperlinks that suggest to buy other volumes and safarim really disturb the learning, you should replace it with pop up boxes, and maybe in the box add a link to purchase, otherwise it feels like you are targeting me with ads while learning with a paid version.

by Tony Fried

In general I believe that Artscroll is overpriced. So take what I say with a grain of salt. That being said, I went and purchased a volume (Makkos) because my son is learning it in Yeshiva and I want him to be able to get ready for the upcoming school year while we are away on vacation.

My first complaint is that while they managed to keep in EVERY dedication page and EVERY Haskama page and all the other non Torah material, they seemed to have left out the actual introduction section which gives an outline of what to expect in the Mesechta.

It is referenced to on Daf 2a but nowhere to be found. Seems kind of sloppy to me. Also program crashed a few to times in the first 5 minutes. My recommendation? Wait until they work out the bugs and actually review all the material that is supposed to be in there.

In the mean time you can download ובלכתך בדרך and their HUGE library for FREE. If you really need the English get the Italmud for a fraction of the cost (and you don't have to deal with Artscroll kissing up to all their donors by putting in endless pages of dedications for them ad nauseum).

by Red_fly

I listen to audio shiurim on my iPad while I read along on the daf. Sometimes I pause the shiur in order to clarify a point or to absorb what the magid shiur has said. Each time you come out of this Artscroll app and enter it again, the 2 title screens are displayed which lasts ~10sec. This might not sound like much time, but there it is hard to keep you concentration on the shiur with the constant redisplay of the title screens. There is no way to restart the shirum and quickly return to ArtScrollDigitalLibrary to continue reading along.
There are also many bugs in ArtScrollDigitalLibrary . For example, when viewing the Hebrew daf, if you do a look hold down of your finger, ArtScrollDigitalLibrary sometimes shows you the English translation in a balloon and other times switches to the only English view.

by Fleshg

I wanted to live it. But cannot is even use the Art Scroll seforim app

by Ycc47rhxf

I don’t understand why this was released with apparently no testing at all.
Navigation is almost non-existent, page-swipes don’t work.
ArtScrollDigitalLibrary may be just an advertisement for their hard-copy books, which are fully functional, of course.
Even for free ArtScrollDigitalLibrary is just frustrating to use.

by BCCISProf

Truly a wonderful app which will increase the amount of Torah being studied.

Some nitpicking:

1. Please get rid of the obnoxious Internet warning. We've seen it once - that's enough!

2. When using the table of contents to go to the daf hayomi, the volume cover page is displayed. This is annoying. I don't need to be reminded that I'm using the Artscroll app - and it delays getting to the daf.

3. The notes doesn't always open on the right page. Although the correct note is highlighted you need to move to the page.