Pink Trope

How it works

1. Open Pink Trope and tap Pick a portion. Choose Weekly portion for any of the 54 weekly portions, Torah or Haftarah, or Any passage to set a book, chapter and verses from anywhere in the Tanakh. The weekly list uses the Ashkenazi Haftarah for each portion; use Any passage for a different one.
2. Under Hear it first, tap Play the trope to hear the opening of your passage played as a simple melody built from its marks. Tap Marks to see every cantillation mark by name, hear its motif, and switch between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions.
3. Tap Chant it, then Start chanting, and chant from the Hebrew text on screen, shown with its vowels and marks. Tap Done when you finish.
4. Pink Trope scores your words and your melody separately. Each word is marked Read, Unclear or Missed, and words where the tune drifted are underlined. Sing in whatever key suits your voice: the shape of the tune is what is graded. If Hebrew speech recognition is not available on your iPhone, the melody is still scored.
5. Tap Save attempt to keep the result. Home shows Your best so far, and the archive, the clock button at the top right, lists every attempt you saved.
6. Add the Pink Trope widget to your Lock Screen or Home Screen for a standing reminder that reads Chant today's portion.

Traditions vary by community, by congregation and by teacher, and each tradition in Pink Trope is one table of melodies, used for Torah and Haftarah alike. Always confirm your portion and your melody with your own teacher: if your teacher sings a mark differently, your teacher is right. The Hebrew text is the Westminster Leningrad Codex, and every source is named in Settings under Text, melodies and credits.

What stays on your device

• No accounts, no email, no signup.
• No analytics, no third-party SDKs.
• Pink Trope asks for the microphone and speech recognition the first time you tap Start chanting, and listens only while you chant, to check your words and your notes.
• Your words are checked by speech recognition on your iPhone, and your voice is never sent anywhere. Each recording is deleted as soon as it has been scored.
• Saved attempts, meaning your scores and word-by-word results, stay on your iPhone. Swipe left on one in the archive to delete it.
• If Apple's Hebrew speech model is not on your iPhone yet, it is downloaded from Apple the first time your words are checked. Apart from that, the only network call is to Apple's StoreKit for purchases.

Pricing

Three days of full access on install, then choose Pro Monthly, Pro Annual, or a one-time Lifetime unlock. Without Pro, you can keep chanting until three attempts have been saved in total, including any saved in the first three days. Picking a portion, playing the tune, the Marks screen and your archive stay free. All purchases are handled by Apple and managed under your Apple Account. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled in iOS Settings.

Support

Have a question or found a bug? support@danielius.studio. Replies typically within a day or two.

To restore a purchase on a new device, open Pink Trope, tap the gear at the top right to open Settings, tap Unlock Pro, then tap Restore Purchases. Apple will re-verify your Apple Account's purchases. Pink Trope also checks them each time it starts.

To cancel an auto-renewing subscription, open the Settings app on iPhone, tap your name at the top, then Subscriptions, then Pink Trope.