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Tahor App is a Miami-based organization which created an app to allow women to "anonymously send pictures of their Bedikah cloths to a Rabbi with Tahor app’s Rabbinically approved technology."
May this app be used? Have any rabbis explicitly approved or disapproved of it?
First, some background information: Tahor is an application connecting women with rabbanim to answer questions on bedika cloths. The application uses various techniques to ensure proper color and size calibration.
The app developers state clearly that the app is only meant to be used for "women who either cannot, or do not, ask their Taharat Hamishpacha questions to a Rav."
We at Tahor completely encourage all women to bring their bedikas to their Rav. However, we recognize the fact that many women do not do this. It is for these women that Tahor app was created. Our goal at Tahor is to make sure all these women can be included in this mitzvah.
Their rabbinic authorities are
The app has generated some opposition: for instance, from R Sholom Ber Shuchat, a Chabad Rabbi and Dayan from Agudas Harabonim of the US and Canada, who came out against its use. (See here and there for Tahor's response, and here for additional opposition from Chabad rabbis).
Ultimately every woman should ask her own rabbi if he supports the use of this app for cases where she cannot direct her questions directly to him.
