HebrewBooks.org has officially launched a groundbreaking new mobile app – The HebrewBooks.org App: The Ryzman Edition – bringing one of the largest Torah and Chassidus libraries in the world directly to iOS and Android devices.

Designed specifically for mobile use, the app allows people everywhere to access tens of thousands of seforim anytime and anywhere, with far greater ease than was previously possible on the web.

For over a quarter century, HebrewBooks.org has been quietly but steadily shaping the landscape of Torah learning across the globe. Long before digital libraries became common, HebrewBooks.org was quietly pioneering Torah access, building a platform that would make seforim widely available to learners everywhere.

“We started HebrewBooks because there were many seforim that were in danger of being forgotten,” one of the founders told Anash.org.

“Many renowned authors wrote their seforim hoping people would continue to learn them long after they passed, and through them sifsosav dovevos – their lips would move even in the kever,” he explained. “However, shortly after they passed, their seforim were soon forgotten.

“We began the painstaking task of scanning these seforim and publications to preserve them and make them available at the same time.”

What began as an effort to rescue forgotten works steadily expanded into a vast digital treasure and global Torah resource. With over 65,000 seforim and publications, HebrewBooks.org has digitized entire historic and irreplaceable libraries, all available free of charge, fully accessible to tens of thousands worldwide, wherever they are.

The new app now takes another major leap, making Torah and Chassidus fully accessible on a phone or tablet, whether in shul, on shlichus, or on the road. The app is faster, clearer, and significantly easier to use on mobile devices than the existing website – a practical change that has a real impact on daily learning.

For Anash in particular, HebrewBooks.org stands as a true treasure. Its Chabad library includes Likutei Sichos, Sichos Kodesh, Toras Menachem, maamarim, and many of the foundational Chabad seforim, all fully searchable and easily accessible – now even more so through the new app.

“Among our great zechuyos is the digitization of the Rebbe’s Library,” the organizer told Anash.org. “It contains rare – and in some cases one-of-a-kind – seforim whose only surviving copies exist today thanks to these efforts.”

The platform continues to offer increasingly powerful and refined search capabilities that make navigating tens of thousands of works both practical and intuitive.

Today, HebrewBooks.org enables Torah learning in over 100 countries worldwide. The collection continues to grow constantly, with new seforim added on an ongoing basis. As technology has advanced, so has the platform, offering refined search capabilities that make tens of thousands of works easy to navigate.

The entire app codebase has also been made open-source and placed on GitHub. This allows developers and users worldwide to suggest features, submit improvements, and actively contribute to the continued growth and refinement of the app – making it a communal effort in spreading Torah.

The development of The Ryzman Edition was made possible through R’ Zvika Ryzman of Los Angeles, a talmid chacham and longtime supporter, whose partnership turned decades of quiet work into a way of making Torah accessible from the palm of one’s hand.

The app is available for download on both iPhone (iOS) via the Apple App Store and on Android via Google Play.