Sunrise, dusk & lunar calendar

Ahoratra™ puts the real sun and moon on your day.

Sunrise, sunset, the twilights and the moon are calculated on your iPhone for where you are, and each day’s classical Vedic reading comes with its source. It makes no predictions. You decide.

Coming to the App Store

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THE SKY, WHERE YOU ARE

Sunrise, dusk and the moon, for where you are

  • Sunrise, sunset and both twilights, checked against NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to within a minute
  • The moon’s phase, its rise and set, and the next new and full moon
  • Your day’s shape: dawn, before midday, midday, afternoon, the evening window and night

A PAUSE, OR A TIME TO BEGIN

A pause at dawn and dusk, if you want one

  • A quiet pause at dawn and at dusk, if you want one
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If you can choose: a time to begin, from the classical texts

  • If you can choose: a stretch to begin, from the classical texts, with each condition and its source shown. Any day still works.
  • Plan it then, or pick your own day
  • Find a time for learning, travel, meeting people or reflection
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YOUR DAY, ON ITS REAL LIGHT

Your calendar, on the day’s real light

  • My Day places what you plan in the part of the day that suits it
  • See your calendar’s events against the day, read on your iPhone and never changed
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THE CLASSICAL VEDIC READING, WITH ITS SOURCE

The classical Vedic reading

  • Each reading names its text: the Gṛhyasūtras, Varāhamihira’s Bṛhat Saṃhitā or the Muhūrta Cintāmaṇi
  • Learn shows what is calculated and what is traditional
  • Not a forecast: no birth chart and no predictions about you
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DAYS YOU KEEP, IF YOU CHOOSE

Days you keep

  • Fasting days such as Ekadashi, festivals such as Diwali and Holi, the start of each solar month, and remembrance days
  • Computed for where you are, with the date in India when it differs
  • For weddings and family ceremonies, your family’s priest or panchang decides
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AROUND YOUR DAY

  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch complications and StandBy
  • Heads-ups for a full moon, a lunar eclipse, the solstices and equinoxes, clock changes and festival evenings, each off until you turn it on
  • Share a sunset, a full moon or a festival’s times with family
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PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Private: no account, no ads, nothing leaves your iPhone

  • No account, no ads, no tracking
  • Works offline. Nothing leaves your iPhone.

Coming to the App Store