The home for your Torahpowered by AI

AI tools to transcribe recordings, digitize seforim, and search your Torah library—all in one place.

Used by

AishOrthodox UnionAll DafRabbinical Council of AmericaMosaica PressYeshiva UniversityMachon Aleh ZayisBoca Raton Synagogue18Forty

Transcription,
made for Torah.

English, Hebrew, and Torah terminology, together in one editable transcript.

Transcribe a shiur
Click a word and follow English into Hebrew in a full shiur transcript

Click any word to hear the audio from that point.

From sefer to
useable text.

Turn PDFs and images into editable Hebrew, Rashi, Yiddish, and English text.

  • Review beside the original
  • Translate into English, Hebrew or Yiddish
  • Edit, export and share
Try OCR
Sofer extracts a scanned Hebrew sefer into editable text and shows it beside the original

Search with
Maishiv.

Ask questions across your shiurim, seforim, and notes. Get answers grounded in direct quotes from your content only.

  • Your content only
  • Direct quotes linked to their sources
  • Matching audio excerpts
Open Maishiv
An illustrative Four Sons question with an integrated answer and original quotations from three sample shiurim
More tools in Sofer
Recordings & links

Upload a file, record in your browser, or import from a supported Torah site.

Batch uploads & speakers

Up to five recordings at once, with speaker labeling on Pro and Max.

Sharing & downloads

Shared folders and links, Word, PDF, subtitles, audio, and captioned clips.

Automations

Apply saved transformations and organize future transcripts. Access depends on your plan.

Google Drive imports

Import a folder of recordings and its subfolders. Max plan, in beta.

Developer API

Bring transcription, OCR and Maishiv into your tools. Usage billed separately.

WhatsApp voice notes

Available on upgraded plans, with a separate minute allowance.

In their words.

It is saving our team countless hours of manual work.
Noah LevinChief Product Officer, Aish Global
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For 50 years, Aish has been creating world-class Torah content. Sofer.AI gives us the key to unlock it. Their accuracy with Hebrew, Aramaic, and Torah terminology is impressive. It is saving our team countless hours of manual work. We went from thousands of hours of archived lectures to an AI system that can answer questions about Judaism at scale, trained on our own rabbis' teachings. Sofer.AI has been integral to making this possible.

You have effectively unlocked decades of my thought and teaching.
Shalom Kelman
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Over the last 25 years, I have accumulated a massive archive of audio lectures with over 2,600 recordings sitting on my hard drive, effectively "lost" to me because they were unsearchable. I handed this chaotic mountain of data to Sofer.ai, and what I got back was nothing short of a miracle.

The quality of the transcription is superb, far beyond what I expected from automated services. But the real game-changer is the interface. The ability to click on a word and instantly hear the original audio playback for verification is a feature I didn’t know I needed, and now can’t live without. It turns a static text into a living document.

You have effectively unlocked decades of my thought and teaching. What was once just disorganized files is now a searchable, accessible legacy.

We have used it to transcribe our grandmother’s memories from her years surviving the Holocaust.
C. R.
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Sofer.Ai has been instrumental for our family. We have used it to transcribe our grandmother’s memories from her years surviving the Holocaust. Being able to have her stories saved in a shareable format has been very meaningful for us, as she rarely spoke about it publicly or privately, and now that she has passed away we will not lose the details or forget her story.

This tool has become an incredible time-saver and an invaluable resource—now my go-to first step for every drasha.
Rabbi Ari Zahtz
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For years, the most challenging part of my weekly Shabbos drasha has been typing the first draft. I’m neither a fast nor an accurate typist, and I find it difficult to develop ideas while sitting at a keyboard. Recently, someone recommended Sofer.Ai, and I couldn’t be more impressed. Instead of struggling to type, I now record my thoughts, upload them, and within minutes, I have a remarkably accurate draft (including the hebrew phrases!) ready for editing. This tool has become an incredible time-saver and an invaluable resource—now my go-to first step for every drasha.

Sofer.Ai has enabled the production of a weekly Dvar Torah sheet based on our Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Stulberger's, weekly Shmuess.
Rabbi Feiglin
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Sofer.Ai has enabled the production of a weekly Dvar Torah sheet based on our Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Stulberger's, weekly Shmuess. Until Sofer.Ai, such a task was impossible given the time frame - getting a 10:30 am Friday morning shiur to a printable newsletter in time for Shabbos was never even considered! Now, within minutes of the shiur ending, we have a transcript that can easily be summarized using AI into an essay and on the Bimah with plenty of time before Shabbos

I feel that I’m absorbing shiurim better than ever by seeing the text as I listen.
Neil H.
Read full testimonial from Neil H.

Sofer.Ai has been a game changer for me. I feel that I’m absorbing shiurim better than ever by seeing the text as I listen. Before Sukkos I transcribed 25 year old shiurim from YU Torah and printed them up to read over Yom Tov and it was awesome! It blows me away that AI is being used in such an incredible way.

Start free.
Make room as you grow.

Monthly plans. All prices in USD.

Free

$0 / month

5 transcripts / month

25 Document AI credits / month

5 Maishiv questions / day

  • 90-minute maximum per recording
  • Multilingual transcription
  • Timestamped topic outlines
  • Summaries for every transcript
  • Share and publish
Start free

Pro

$24 / month

18 transcription hours / month

1,000 Document AI credits / month

100 Maishiv questions / day

  • Everything in Free
  • Additional transcription $1.50/hour
  • 3-hour maximum per recording
  • Bulk uploads & speaker labeling
  • Custom AI transformations
Choose Pro

Max

$72 / month

90 transcription hours / month

5,000 Document AI credits / month

500 Maishiv questions / day

  • Everything in Pro
  • Google Drive imports (beta)
  • Index creation (beta)
Choose Max

Document AI credits are used for OCR, translation, and index creation. API usage is billed separately from on-site usage.

Working with a larger archive?

Talk to us about your organization

A few practical questions.

How do I get started?

Create an account, then upload a recording, record in your browser, or paste a link from a supported Torah site. For a sefer or printed page, open OCR and upload a PDF or image.

Can it handle Hebrew and Yeshivish?

Sofer is built for shiurim that mix English and Hebrew with Aramaic, Yiddish and Yeshivish terminology. You can choose Hebrew letters or transliteration. Dedicated Yiddish transcription is also available in beta.

Can I edit and export my work?

Yes. Edit your transcripts and OCR documents, then download them as Word or PDF files or share a link. Transcripts also offer audio and subtitle downloads. Subtitle timing follows the original transcript, so later text edits do not retime it.

Can I translate a scanned sefer?

Yes. Extract the text with OCR first, then translate it into English, Hebrew or Yiddish. You can review the original and edit the result. OCR and translation use the same Document AI credit allowance, separate from transcription hours.

What does Maishiv search?

Maishiv searches only the transcripts, documents and notes you add. Answers are grounded in direct quotes from your content, with links to the sources and matching audio excerpts when available. It searches your library rather than the open web; review the sources when using an AI-generated answer.

What can I try for free?

The free plan includes five transcripts per calendar month, up to 90 minutes per recording, with multilingual transcription, topic outlines, summaries, sharing and publishing. You also get 25 Document AI credits per month for OCR and translation, plus five questions per day shared between Maishiv and document questions.