A faster Calendar The Calendar no longer pauses when you return to it or swipe to the next month: the months either side are prepared while you look at the one shown, and months you have already seen open at once. The Festivals tab opens at once too. With Amanta chosen, opening the Calendar could freeze the app for several seconds; it is now as quick as with Purnimanta. One page per paksha With "+1D" chosen, the Traditional PDF now fits each paksha on one page, as it already did with "24+ hr": the table uses short forms (S.6, U.Bhadra, 3:38+) to give the observances more room. Moving from Lal Vakhs The Panchang has moved from the Lal Vakhs app to Sharda Panchang. When you move your saved dates from Lal Vakhs with "Move to Sharda Panchang", Sharda Panchang now takes you back to Lal Vakhs once they are imported, so Lal Vakhs knows they arrived and stops asking you to move them. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Compare Panchang: one panchang for several cities Compare a city with up to five others and see every date in the year on which their tithi at sunrise differs. Then print or share the first city's panchang for all of them: each date that differs for another city is marked †, a short note under that paksha names the city and its tithi, and an addendum at the end gives the other cities' own rows for those dates. One panchang and a page or two of addendum can serve a whole group of cities. The cities you choose are remembered for three days. The Traditional PDF Shraddha notes now cover the whole paksha: which tithis are observed a day earlier, and which on their own day. Nitya Yoga has its own columns beside the nakshatra, and Bhadra is noted in the observances on the days it begins and ends. With "24+ hr" chosen, the PDFs use a 24-hour clock throughout. Fixes With "24+ hr" chosen, a time before midnight no longer shows as a negative hour: a Gandanta that begins the evening before is shown on that day, and a Sutak that begins the evening before is marked -1D. The sunrise setting in the Calendar display sheet now stays set, Purnimanta or Amanta is remembered, and after you sign in or out your settings apply straight away. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Four more panchang limbs The day panel now shows Nitya Yoga, Karana, Anandadi and Gandanta, each with its ending times. Bhadra (Vishti) karana is highlighted. Each carries a simple mark — a green check where tradition holds it auspicious, an amber warning where it does not — and a short legend explains what each one is actually for. A fuller Traditional PDF Anandadi ends each day's observances, as the printed jantri does, and Gandanta is noted with its timing. Each paksha gains a box summarising every Nitya Yoga change and every Bhadra window, coloured by their traditional verdict. Shraddha notes are now keyed S-1 (first year after demise) and S-2 (from the first death anniversary onward), explained at the top of each page. Columns now fit what they print, giving the observances more room. Faster, clearer PDF sharing Tapping Share PDF now shows "Preparing PDF…" straight away, and the PDF is prepared while you choose your options, so the share sheet usually opens almost at once. Smaller improvements Moonrise and moonset follow your chosen time format. In the PDFs, all festivals share one colour, the festivals that remind by default are shown in bold, and full and new moon rows are no longer shaded. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Sky Now runs time Sky Now no longer just shows the moment — play it forward or back across a day, a month, a year, or Guru's own 12-year circuit, at your own pace. All four views (Chart, House wheel, Solar system, Sky dome) run the same window, with the time always your chosen city's own clock. A picture of why eclipses are rare The Eclipses page opens on a new sky-mechanics view: the Moon's tilted orbit against the Sun's path, every eclipse of the year marked where the two meet. Each eclipse gets a close-up correctly drawn to scale, watchable from your city, the nearest city that sees it, or the point of greatest eclipse — and now clearly named and dated up front. More festivals and small corrections Vagir Baah joins the calendar; Herath Puja is renamed Herath (Vatuk Puja) at the domain expert's request. The turn of the ayana now follows the solstices, as the printed jantris actually show it, not the Makara/Karka sankrantis. A rare Navreh (New Year) date now files correctly under the new year's first month. Reminder notifications say whose occasion it is, not just a bare date. Settings is reordered around the pages you open most. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Checked against NASA The app's astronomy now uses NASA JPL as its reference. Tithi and nakshatra endings agree to about a second, and sunrise and sunset to a fraction of one. No festival date moved this year or next in Srinagar, Jammu, Delhi or Fremont; some times move by a minute. Saved dates update quietly where the app can recompute them, and anything you set by hand stays as it is. More festivals from the Kashmiri jantri More than fifty festivals and observances from the printed jantri, including Sahib Saptami on your Shraddha day, Kumar Shashthi, Sankat Chaturthi, Vasant Panchami, Makar Sankranti, and Soanth on the day the Sun enters Meena. Ekadashis now carry their names. Show and Remind, separately Choose which festivals to show and which to be reminded of, from the Festivals tab or Manage Notifications. New festivals start without a reminder. Also in this release: - PDF: print all festivals or only yours. Exports no longer wait on the network for fonts. - Reminder titles say whose occasion it is. - Middle Limb (was Center Disc) and Poorna (was Sampurna). Every transition shows the time it ends. - A festival on a kshaya tithi is no longer missed. - A birthday saved with a time near the end of a lunar month now falls in the right month. - Shraddha dates on the Traditional PDF no longer shift for readers in daylight-saving time zones. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Shraddha the Kashmiri way Shraddha dates now follow the Kashmiri Sunset rule by default: a tithi that ends before its own sunset is observed the evening before. The pan-Indian Afternoon rule is one tap away in Settings. Checked against five printed almanacs. A traditional Samvat PDF The Samvat PDF is now laid out like a printed Kashmiri panchang: one page per paksha, tithi and nakshatra with their ending times, sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset, and a footer listing which tithis are observed one day earlier and the birthday day of a skipped or repeated tithi. My Dates say which observance Calendar and reminders now say whether a day is someone's Annual Shraddha, their Pitru Paksha Shraddha, a tithi birthday or a birthday by date. A month notes card below the calendar lists each paksha's Shraddha and birthday notes. Also in this release: - Reminders no longer run out when the app stays closed for a while. - Amavasya festival dates corrected, including Khichdi Amavasya and Diwali. - PDF filenames include the sunrise basis; turning festivals off keeps eclipses and the Sun's sign changes. - Kundli lists birthdays only. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Sign in to sync your dates and settings Sign in to keep your saved dates and settings in sync across your devices. Your birth date, time, and city never leave this device — only enough to keep the tithi, reminder, and name syncs, so a chart still needs the original device. Delete account is available from the same screen. Ancestral Rituals (Shraddha) Event type is now Birthday, Anniversary, General, or Shraddha — each computed the right way. Shraddha entries show their Annual and Pitru Paksha observance dates, computed from the correct afternoon (Aparahna) rule rather than sunrise. Also in this release: a new app icon, and a line for Sharda on the welcome screen. Sutak times and Panchak wording are now consistent throughout the app. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Sky Now becomes four views, and shared links finally open in the app. FIXED: SHARED LINKS Tapping a shared calendar or import link opened your browser instead of Sharda Panchang. The signing proof published for the app named a certificate that matched no build that has ever existed, so Android refused to route the link — correctly, on bad information. Corrected. Links now open the app. SKY NOW: FOUR VIEWS Switch with the icon beside refresh; your choice is remembered. • Chart — which rashi each graha stands in. Unchanged. • House wheel — Earth at the centre, the twelve houses around an ellipse, each graha at its true angle. Shows degrees, which a chart cannot: two grahas 1° apart and 29° apart look identical in a box, and quite different here. • Solar system — the Sun at the centre with Earth among the planets. This is what explains retrograde: a graha turns retrograde when it and Earth line up on the same side of the Sun, and now you can see it happen. • Sky dome — the sky actually above your city, right now. Drag to turn and tilt. Tells you what is UP, which no chart can: a graha can be in its rashi and still below the horizon. Bodies below it are shown in their own band rather than left out. Retrograde grahas now carry an R badge. A "Show Nakshatras" toggle overlays the 27 divisions on the house wheel and names each graha's nakshatra. RAHU KAAL Now on the day panel, after Panchak, and in both print layouts. Computed from your actual local sunrise and sunset divided into eight parts — not the fixed 6-to-6 shortcut — so it agrees with published panchangas to the minute. TITHI CORRECTION When a tithi is current at two consecutive sunrises, the second day is now marked Adhika, not the first. The old second-day label, Devadev, means a SHORT tithi that ended before sunset — the opposite of what a long tithi's second day is. DAY PANEL Rows reordered so the Sun's day leads and the Moon's times close the panel. Tithis are now listed individually with their class. Cross-midnight times read +1D everywhere, matching the setting that controls them. ALSO • Era line reads "Saptrishi 5102 · Vikrami 2083", and the Samvat year rolls at Navreh rather than 1 January. • Sign changes read "then enters Makara". • The add button says "Add Entry" on every tab. • Settings tidied; moon disc is amber-gold. Thanks for using Sharda Panchang!

Transition times now show when a value ends, the way printed panchangas do. The calendar used to tell you when something began: a tithi changing at 2:00 AM on 20 March was announced on the 20th, and the card for the 19th said nothing about when its own tithi ran out. Printed panchangas read the other way — the 19th shows "Chaturdashi upto 26:00" — because how long today's value applies is the question you actually have. So a card now reads "Nakshatra: Anuradha till 27:04, then Jyeshtha". 27:04 is 3:04 AM the following morning. A panchang day runs sunrise to sunrise, so endings routinely fall after midnight, and hours continuing past 24 is how hard copy has always written them. None of the underlying calculations changed. These are the same instants, shown on the card where they are useful. The default is the next-day marker form — `Chaturdashi till 2:00 AM +1D`. It says the same thing as the printed `26:00`, without asking you to work out that 26:00 means 2 AM tomorrow. If you prefer the printed convention, or the previous style, Settings › Transition Times offers three choices, each with an example: ending times with a next-day marker (the default), ending times in 24+ hour form as hard copy prints them, or starting times, which reproduces the old calendar exactly. Three smaller improvements came with it. The Sun's sign is back on a Sankranti day. The Sankranti used to replace it, so the card never mentioned that the Sun is in Dhanu until 3:13 PM. Both now appear. Moonrise and moonset are shown consistently as the rise and the set that belong together, with the set marked when it falls the next day. A day's last value now shows its end. Where a nakshatra or tithi runs past the next sunrise that ending is stated rather than left blank, so a card no longer goes silent about the thing you are most likely to be looking up. Under the hood, five parts of the app each worked out a day independently — the month grid, the day panel, the list view and both PDF layouts — and they had drifted apart. All five now read one shared model, so the screen and the printed page cannot disagree. An exported PDF also explains the 24+ hour notation in its header when the page uses it, since whoever reads the file may not have chosen the setting. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!

Sankranti times are corrected, and Sankranti days now show the Punya Kaal. Every Sankranti was about nine minutes early. The offset between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs was 21 arcseconds low — a tiny angle, but the Sun moves only 2.46 arcseconds a minute, so it cost nine minutes of clock time. Makara Sankranti 2026 read 3:04 PM and now reads 3:13 PM. Checked against 24 independent published moments across 2025 and 2039. Nakshatra and zodiac sign boundaries shift by about a minute from the same correction, because the Moon covers that angle thirteen times faster. Tithi, Purnima, Amavasya and every eclipse are unchanged — all are computed from a difference between two positions, where the offset cancels exactly. New: a Sankranti day now shows its Punya Kaal, the window in which the observance is performed, with the Maha Punya Kaal named inside it. The transit is a moment; the observance is a window, and the two are often nowhere near each other, because observances are kept to daylight. A Sankranti crossing at 11:45 PM has its window earlier the same day. The day panel now gives each subject a single row, so a nakshatra or sign states its position and its change together instead of appearing twice. The timezone is shown once, on sunrise and sunset. Zodiac signs use their Sanskrit names, with a legend card giving all twelve with English names. The Sankranti now appears on the calendar grid, as it always has on the printed one. Two timezone fixes around the daylight-saving change. If your device observes summer time, the Sankranti and the Moon's and Sun's zodiac sign changes disappeared from the calendar on one day a year — your device's own clocks-go-back date. Anything that scans a day for an event found nothing on that date, for every city, wherever in the world you were looking. A day is 25 hours long when the clocks go back and 23 when they go forward, and both are now handled correctly. This never affected devices in India, which is why it went unnoticed. Fixed: moonrise and moonset used a city's standard-time offset for the day boundary, so through the summer months the day being searched was an hour out at both ends. A rise or set just after midnight could be missed or shown against the wrong date. Moonrise and moonset are now listed in clock order rather than always rise-then-set. They are the two crossings that fall on that date, not a matched pair — the Moon rises about fifty minutes later each day, so the set shown is usually closing the previous night's rise. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!

Eclipses now show when they begin and end, not just when they peak. The previous release could tell you whether an eclipse was visible from where you are, but not its timing, and said so plainly. Every eclipse now reads as a window with a duration — 9:57pm to 1:25am, 3h 28m — checked against NASA's published figures to a median of five seconds. The duration shown for a lunar eclipse is the part worth watching. Its faint outer shading begins over an hour earlier and ends over an hour later, and quoting that would promise more than there is to see. New: Sutak. Nine hours before a lunar eclipse begins, twelve before a solar one, ending when the eclipse ends. It appears only when the eclipse is actually visible from your city — an eclipse nobody here can see carries no Sutak, and the app says so rather than staying silent. Of the four eclipses in 2026, one carries Sutak from Delhi. Fixed, and significant: the app was missing about one in six solar eclipses altogether. A new moon was only checked for an eclipse if it fell close enough to a lunar node, and that threshold was set too tight — it cleared every total and annular eclipse comfortably, so nothing obvious ever went missing, but it dropped roughly half of all partial solar eclipses before any calculation ran. Two substantial ones return: 12 June 2029, with 46% of the Sun covered, and 11 July 2029 with 23%. New: moonrise and moonset in the day detail. Roughly once a month a day genuinely has no moonrise, because the Moon rises about 50 minutes later each day — the app says "none today" rather than leaving it blank. New: the Sankranti now appears on the calendar grid. Eight of the twelve in 2026 fell on days with no marking at all, and Makara Sankranti itself shared its cell with an unrelated tithi. Fixed: every lunar eclipse depth shown by the app was slightly too small, by a consistent amount, because a correction for Earth's atmosphere was applied to the wrong quantity. Eclipse durations were up to two minutes out and are now within a tenth of a minute. The lunar eclipse of 26 May 2021 had been recorded as impossible to classify correctly; it now reads total. The eclipse line in the calendar list view is about half as long, keeping the verdict and the timing. Long nakshatra names now abbreviate in printed calendar cells where they did not fit. A partly visible eclipse was printing as "not visible here" in PDFs. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!

Sharda Panchang now runs natively on macOS, included with your existing purchase. Fixed: lunar eclipse times were consistently about nine minutes late. The app was reporting the moment of exact opposition rather than the moment the Moon passes closest to the centre of Earth's shadow — which is what "greatest eclipse" actually means. Checked against all 12,064 lunar eclipses in NASA's Five Millennium Catalog, the average error drops from over eight minutes to about ten seconds, and eclipse magnitudes and total/partial/penumbral classifications improved as well. Solar eclipse times were already correct and are unchanged. Settings has two new entries. Help & Support opens the support page, with a contact address, guidance on reporting a bug, and answers to common questions — previously only reachable from the website. Rate this App opens the store listing if you would like to leave a review. On macOS this is a first release on a new platform: the app works, but the interface is still the phone and tablet layout, and desktop conventions such as keyboard shortcuts and menu bar items are still to come. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!

Nakshatra is now shown alongside the tithi — in the Daily Tithi Info panel, on the Calendar, and in both PDF exports. The day's nakshatra is named plainly, and any change during the day is listed with its exact time. Panchak — the five-day window when the Moon crosses the last stretch of the zodiac — is now marked on the Calendar and in both PDF exports, with its exact start and end shown in the day detail. Fixed: the Smarta Janmashtami date is now computed from the classical rule rather than an approximation of it. This corrects 2021 from 29 to 30 August, matching every published source, and fixes a display bug where the shown Ashtami time window was sometimes wrong on years the observance shifts to the previous day. Fixed: the expanded explanation under a festival was showing times in UTC instead of your local time zone — for example, an event actually at 1:56 PM could read as 8:56 PM. It now matches the time shown right above it. Export → Share import link / QR now has a "with date of birth" option alongside "no date of birth," so a recipient can get an entry they can recompute for any year. Sharing a very large group of entries now shows a clear message instead of producing a link that silently fails to open.

Panchak is now marked on the Calendar. The five-day window when the Moon passes through the last stretch of the zodiac is shown as a band along the affected days, so it is visible at a glance. Tap a day and you get the exact start or end — with the date, the time and the timezone. The date matters: a Panchang day runs from sunrise to sunrise, so a window beginning after midnight is shown on the previous day but named with its own date. April 2025's window is marked from the 22nd but begins at 12:31 AM on the 23rd, and ends at 3:39 AM on the 27th although the 26th is its last Panchak day. Panchak is included in both PDF exports, written as a line in the day cell in the same style as the sunrise and festival lines. The export switch is now "Include festivals and observances", covering festivals, eclipses and Panchak together rather than adding another option. The grid PDF now has a colour legend. It previously had none, so the colours in a day cell were unexplained — it now keys tithi changes, sun times, Panchak, festivals and saved dates. Kundli cards now show plain initials on a tinted disc. Panchak times are computed from the Moon's actual position and were cross-checked against a published Panchang across six boundaries and a daylight-saving change. Two details worth knowing: a window covers five or six days rather than always five, because the Moon's speed varies over its orbit and the crossing takes anywhere from four to five days; and the day count can genuinely differ between two cities when the boundary falls between their sunrises. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!

Eclipses now appear in Festivals — solar and lunar, with the type, the time of greatest eclipse, and the magnitude for lunar eclipses. An eclipse and the festival it falls on are both shown. Fixed: a saved date edited to add a birth time now appears on the Kundli tab. Previously it stayed hidden even though the time was saved correctly. Kundli charts now respond to swipes — move between all sixteen divisional charts without reaching for the selector. Long-pressing a card on the Kundli grid opens it for editing. Yogas now explain what each combination is traditionally held to mean, not just the placement that formed it. Ashtakavarga says what a high or low count implies, and each planet's view tells you how long that planet spends in a sign — from two days for the Moon to two and a half years for Saturn. Every divisional chart now says what it is read for, how much birth-time precision it needs, and what to look at first: strengthened planets, difficult placements, and supportive ones. Thank you for using Sharda Panchang!