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The app

Five tabs.
Five practices.
One companion.

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Shiv Darshan is a Hindi-first devotional app built around the rhythms of daily practice — japa, mantras, the daily verse, the 21-day arc, and a pilgrimage planner across 116 temples. Offline-first, no account required.

  • Ad-free No banners. No interstitials. No tracking SDKs.
  • Offline-first Japa, mantras, arc — all work without a network.
  • Private No account. No email. No phone.
  • Hindi-first Six Indic languages, designed-in not translated-in.

The five practices

Built around the day, not the dashboard.

  1. Darshan

    The home as a shrine.

    A single image of Shiva. Om Namah Shivaya plays softly. One adaptive action card surfaces today's most relevant ritual — Pradosham, Somvar, Shravan, or the Great Night. Tap anywhere to mute. The space is yours.

  2. Talk

    Voice or text. Six languages.

    Hold to speak, release to offer. The reply comes back in the language you choose. Restrained, silence-favoring — never more than 80 words back. The voice you'll hear is generated by AI within a canon-grounded persona.

  3. Practice

    Japa, mantras, the daily verse, the arc.

    A 108-bead mala with streak tracking. Five canonical Shiva mantras with Devanagari, transliteration, English meaning, and curated audio. A 21-day Sankalpa Arc through three movements — Surrender, Transformation, Dissolution — that never punishes a missed day.

  4. Yatra

    Plan a pilgrimage in minutes.

    12 Jyotirlingas, the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, the Panch Kedar, or any custom route across 116 temples. Nearest-neighbour routing, day-by-day plan, observance overlays for Pradosham and Somvar at each location. A schedule, not a booking — hotels and travel are yours.

  5. Settings

    Considered, not buried.

    Language picker first. Your intent (moksha, vairagya, health, devotion, pitru tarpan) shapes Talk's register subtly. Notification times for morning and evening reminders. Forget our earlier exchanges — one tap erases your server-side memory immediately.

What's in. What's out.

An app earns trust by what it refuses to do.

What we kept

  • Restraint — no streaks that punish, no badges to chase
  • First-person devotional voice in TALK (canon-grounded)
  • Hindi-first language order across the whole app
  • Single adaptive action card on Darshan, never a feed
  • Public-domain or properly licensed audio only

What we cut

  • Reflection journal (felt like homework, not practice)
  • Seva preview card (deferred until real temple partnerships exist)
  • Sangha community wall (we don't lie about community we haven't built)
  • Gita quotations (Shiva canon stays primary)
  • Push notifications selling premium upgrades

Begin.

The app is free. You will not be asked to sign up, hand over your email, or accept a cookie. Install it, open it, sit with it.