This app is free for everyone and intended as a way to help supercharge your davening.

It all started about a year ago. We’ve all been there in davening, searching for that spark, that niggun that can lift the words off the page and into our hearts. I had this thought: what if every single line of the Siddur had its own Zemiros? Imagine a singing Siddur.

Someone might have Kavanah and know what the words mean when he/she davens, but they might still be missing the Heartzig, the flavors, the music. Imagine reading Hallel without any music. I feel that this app helps to add the missing flavors back.

So I began, making a simple YouTube playlist of Jewish music, trying to match songs to the order of the Tefillos. It grew to over 400 songs, but it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t instant. It wasn’t seamless.

That’s when the dream for this app was born. With the help of Hashem, who helped give me the tools I needed to make it happen, and after months of development, the vision started to become a reality. The technology was the easy part thanks to AI. But the emesdige avodah — the truly difficult work — was the human touch: meticulously clipping every song to its exact words, documenting every artist, and linking every singer to its source.

Musical Siddur is the answer to that dream. It’s a siddur that breathes with music. Tap any line that has songs in Shacharis, Mincha, Maariv, or Tehillim and instantly, a beautiful niggun for those exact words begins to play. The Siddur also knows when to hide Tachanun, when to add Ya’aleh V’Yavo, and it even switches to acapella music during Sefirah. (Keep in mind, its a work in progress so there are spelling mistakes, missing Nusachs, and bugs I’m trying to fix, as well as adding support for iOS!)

But the real reason for this app goes much deeper, and for that, I look to one of our greatest leaders: Dovid HaMelech. Here was the Ne’im Zemiros Yisroel, the Sweet Singer of Israel, who poured his entire soul into composing Sefer Tehillim, the most profound collection of praises ever written. He reached the pinnacle of singing to Hashem, and yet, after completing this monumental work, he felt a moment of pride, only to be shown a humble frog by the water, croaking its praise. And Hashem told him that the simple, pure song of that frog was in some ways even greater.

That story has always stayed with me. Like Dovid HaMelech, and like all of Klal Yisroel, I have a deep desire to sing to Hashem. I’m not a composer or a singer; but I thought, what if I could take all the beautiful Zemiros already created by the sweet singers of our own generation — the melodies that live in our hearts and give voice to our souls — and gather them together?

This app is my song. It is my way of singing to Hashem. It’s my humble attempt to take the incredible musical gifts He has given to others and weave them directly into the words of our Tefillos. It is my offering, hoping that this small act of gathering zemiros can give Him even a fraction of the nachas that Dovid HaMelech’s songs, and even a simple frog’s croak, can bring.

My hope is that this app helps you find your niggun, your personal connection, and brings a new layer of Geshmak and Kavanah to your davening.

I was also greatly inspired by the Thank You Hashem band!

It can be downloaded here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sliicy.musicalsiddur

If there’s enough demand and support, I may make an iOS Apple version as well.