Daily Gita
Calm, clarity, courage
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Five minutes with the Gita each day. One shloka, a clear reflection, three small practices, and a line to sit with. Fully offline, ad-free, no account needed.
Daily Gita is a calm, beautifully designed daily companion for the Bhagavad Gita. Every day, open the app to find one shloka with its Devanagari text, a clear English translation, a warm reflection, three small practical actions, and a single line to sit with in silence. That's it. No endless feeds, no ads, no accounts, no noise.
A yearly walk through the whole Gita
The Gita is one of humanity's great dialogues — Arjuna's crisis on the battlefield of Kurukshetra and Krishna's patient, luminous response. Daily Gita takes you through all 18 chapters and every major teaching across the course of a year. January opens with Arjuna's doubt. February and March settle into the foundational second chapter on the eternal self and selfless action. Spring brings karma yoga and meditation. Summer deepens into knowledge and the vision of the divine. Autumn turns toward devotion and discernment. December closes with the final chapter, culminating naturally around Gita Jayanti.
Rooted in the festival calendar
Key Hindu festivals surface with verses that fit the day. Janmashtami anchors on Krishna's promise to manifest whenever dharma declines. Diwali lands on the light of all lights. Guru Purnima honours the tradition of approaching the wise with reverence. Gita Jayanti brings you to the charama shloka, Krishna's final teaching of refuge. Maha Shivaratri, Holi, Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, Makar Sankranti, and all nine nights of Navaratri each receive contextually appropriate verses. Festival dates are bundled through 2045, so the app works entirely offline.
Warm, practical, pan-traditional
Every reflection is written in plain English and grounded in the teachings that all the great Gita commentators affirm — Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, and the modern masters — without taking a sectarian position. The focus is always on what the Gita gives you to live with today: equanimity, courage, selfless action, steady attention, compassion, devotion, and inner clarity. You will not find moralising or abstract metaphysics here. You will find teachings that land on encouragement and give you something small and doable to carry into your day.
Authentic Sanskrit, your choice of translation
The Devanagari text is sourced from a scholar-verified digital edition, rendered in a beautiful Sanskrit typeface. Each verse includes IAST Latin transliteration so you can read along even without Devanagari literacy. Choose your preferred English translation from Swami Swarupananda, Annie Besant, or Kashinath Telang, and toggle Devanagari, transliteration, or translation on or off independently.
Key features
One shloka a day, every day of the year: 366 daily readings plus festival and Navaratri overrides
Walk through all 18 chapters across the year, with the longest foundational chapters given the space they deserve
Authentic Devanagari with correct dandas, matras, and conjuncts
IAST Latin transliteration for every verse
Three bundled public-domain English translations
A 120 to 200 word reflection rooted in classical and modern commentary
Three short, practical daily actions inspired by the verse
A single contemplative line to sit with in silence
Browse by chapter to revisit any teaching
Gregorian and Hindu calendar view — tap any date to read its entry
Favourite readings for later and build your own collection
Optional daily notification at a time you choose
Home screen widgets showing today's verse reference and theme
Full VoiceOver accessibility, Dynamic Type, dark mode, iPad layout
Fully offline, respectfully built
Every reading, every translation, every font file is bundled in the app. Daily Gita works on a plane, in the mountains, in the quiet of early morning. No data ever leaves your phone because nothing is ever sent. No account. No login. No cloud. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscription traps. Your practice is your own.
Start your day with the Gita. Start it with clarity.
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Information
- Seller
- Matthew Drayton
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © LuminaryAI
