Shalom Table
About
Who makes Shalom Table
A small software company in Phoenix, Arizona, building one app carefully rather than many quickly.
The company
Shalom Table is developed and published by Omnia Data Analytics LLC, a limited liability company based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Omnia Data Analytics LLC is the sole developer and publisher of the app. It is an independent company. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by any synagogue, rabbinic authority, movement, or communal organization.
Contact
General enquiries, press, licensing, legal notices, and privacy requests:
[email protected]
Why this app exists
Preparing for Shabbat asks a household to hold several unrelated facts at once: what time the candles are lit here, this week; which words are said and in what order; what is being read; and what will actually be talked about once everyone sits down.
Those facts are all available. They are just not in one place, and they are rarely presented in a way that assumes nothing. Shalom Table gathers them, adjusts them to the household’s own location and practice, and does not require anyone to already know the vocabulary.
It is written for the family that keeps Shabbat every week and wants the preparation off their mind, and equally for the family hosting for the first time and unsure where to begin.
How the app is built
Shalom Table is a native iPhone app. Calendar and timing data come from the Hebcal API through a service we operate, which lets us correct an error in content or timing data without waiting for an App Store release. For religious content, that matters: a mistake should not stay live for a week.
Core Shabbat content is stored on the device so the app keeps working with no network connection.
Where the content comes from
Every liturgical and textual item in the app records its source, its licence, its edition, and whether a human advisor has reviewed it.
- Hebrew liturgy is taken from public-domain sources.
- English scripture is the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation, which is in the public domain.
- Calendar and zmanim data come from the Hebcal API, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Content that has not yet been reviewed by a human advisor is shipped with a visible banner marking it as pending review. Approval is recorded as data, so a text can be reviewed and its banner removed without a new app release.
No AI-written religious text
No Hebrew, no transliteration, and no halachic instruction in Shalom Table is generated by an AI model. Where content is missing, the app shows that it is missing. It does not approximate.
What the app deliberately does not do
- It does not rule. Practice options are presented as customs, never as claims about which practice is correct. Questions of halacha belong with your rabbi or your community, not with an app.
- It does not guess a time. Where a sunset-based calculation does not apply — at high latitudes in midsummer or midwinter — no time is shown at all.
- It does not ask who you are. There is no account, no sign-in, and no user profile.
- It does not advertise. There is no advertising of any kind, behavioural or otherwise, and no data is sold or shared with brokers.
- It does not charge. Shalom Table is free. There are no in-app purchases and no subscription.
- It does not connect users to each other. There is no messaging, no social feed, and no user-generated public content.
Availability
Shalom Table is in development for iPhone and is not yet available on the App Store. This page will be updated when it is released. Nothing on this site should be read as a claim that the app can be downloaded today.