Shakyo: Heart Sutra Copying

Mindful kanji brush tracing

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

iPhone

A few quiet minutes a day, one character at a time. Trace a faint model and finish a real shakyo sheet in your own hand. No account, no ads. Shakyo is the Japanese practice of copying sutras by hand. This app lets you do it on your iPhone: one large character at a time, tracing a faint model with your finger, until the Heart Sutra fills a traditional vertical sheet in your own handwriting. ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME • A big writing box with a faint model character (0–50% opacity, or hidden) • Optional 米 and 田 grid guides • A pen with brush-like thick and thin strokes, in three widths • Back, Rewrite and Undo; leave anytime and pick up at the same character • Optional auto-advance after 1.5 seconds A REAL SHAKYO SHEET • Vertical columns of 17 characters: title, text, your wish, the date and your name • Pick a traditional wish (family safety, good health, passing an exam…) or write your own • Dates written in kanji, Japanese era style • Pinch to zoom; save or share the sheet as a PNG image A QUIET DAILY HABIT • A calendar of the days you wrote and your current streak • Sheets finished and characters written • Every finished sheet kept to look back on TEXTS Free: the Heart Sutra in its Japanese shakyo form, plus Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions. Pro: Enmei Jukku Kannon-gyo, Shari Raimon, the Iroha poem, the Rebirth Dharani (Wangsheng Zhou), ten Tang poems, and your own text (up to 1,000 characters). PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION All texts and poems, your own text, vermilion and gold inks, natural and navy papers, several sheets in progress, and 3× resolution export. Includes a short guide to shakyo etiquette. No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything you write stays on your device. Font: Shakyo Kai, a modified subset of LXGW WenKai (SIL Open Font License 1.1).

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    Seller
    泽轩 王
    Size
    8 MB
    Category
    Lifestyle
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 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.
    Languages
    English and 3 more
    • English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 zexuan wang
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