Sources and Credits
Last updated: October 3, 2026
Shovrim (שוברים ת'ראש) was built with the help of work by many good people. Here we say thanks and list what we used.
Puzzles and content
- The puzzles, clues and text were written and edited by the Shovrim team.
- The idioms, proverbs and phrases in the games belong to the Hebrew language and are in the public domain.
- The drawings in What's in the Picture were designed in Canva, and some elements in them are used under the Canva Content License.
Word lists
The word lists in Word Ladder, Letter Box and Word Pyramid were built from these sources, then filtered and edited by hand:
| Source | What we used | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker (Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg) | Words and their inflections | GNU AGPL 3.0 |
| CC-100 (Conneau et al., Wenzek et al.) | Frequency counts for each word | Common Crawl terms of use |
| hebrew_wordlists (Eyal Gruss) | The intersection of the two sources | GNU AGPL 3.0 |
Design
- The visual language and logo were created for Shovrim.
- The interface icons in the app come from Lucide (ISC licence).
Fonts
| Font | Designers | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Fredoka | Milena Brandão, Hafontia | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Assistant | Ben Nathan, Adobe | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
Sounds
- All sounds are generated in code in real time (Web Audio). They contain no recordings by others.
Open source
The app and the website rely on open-source libraries. Thank you to everyone who writes and maintains them.
| Library | What for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| React | The app interface | MIT |
| Supabase JS | Connecting to the server and the sign-in system | MIT |
| Lucide | Icons | ISC |
| web-push | Sending the daily reminder | MPL 2.0 |
| Vite | Building the app | MIT |
| Tailwind CSS | Styling | MIT |
| Fontsource | Hosting the fonts on the website | MIT (the fonts themselves are OFL) |
Trademarks
Apple and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. Google Play is a trademark of Google LLC. These companies have no connection to Shovrim beyond distributing the app in their stores.
Found something of yours?
If you think we used your content without proper credit, write to [email protected] and we will fix it.