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First release: uposatha and festival days for Thai, Myanmar, Sri Lankan, East Asian, Japanese and Tibetan calendars, Dhammapada and suttas with CC0 translations in 6 scripts, Mahāyāna sutras, a meditation timer whose bells always ring, mala counter and widget. No ads, no account.
Uposatha days, Dhammapada & suttas, meditation timer and mala. No ads, offline.
Bodhinook is a calm, accurate companion for Buddhist practice: the observance days of your own tradition, the Pali suttas and Mahāyāna sutras, a meditation timer whose bells always ring, and a mala counter – everything stored and calculated on your phone. No ads, no subscription, no account, no data collection. 📅 CALENDAR FOR YOUR TRADITION • Thailand, Laos, Cambodia: Wan Phra on waxing 8 and 15, waning 8 and 14/15 (Thai lunar calendar), Māgha, Visākha and Āsāḷha Pūjā, Khao Phansa, Ok Phansa, Kathina season, Loy Krathong • Myanmar: uposatha days, Kason and Waso full moons, Thadingyut, Tazaungdaing, Thingyan • Sri Lanka: every Poya day with its name, as published officially • China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam: lunar date, fast days (1st and 15th, six or ten zhai ri), Buddha’s Birthday, Ullambana, Guanyin days, Bodhi Day and more – computed for each country’s own time zone • Japan: Nehan-e, Hanamatsuri, Higan, Obon, Jōdō-e • Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan: Phugpa-system dates with leap months and repeated days, Losar, Saga Dawa, Chökhor Düchen, Lhabab Düchen, Ganden Ngamchoe • Month view with the lunar day of every date, and a home-screen widget 🔔 REMINDERS YOU CONTROL • The evening before and the morning of each uposatha or festival day • Optional verse of the day from the Dhammapada • Every reminder can be switched off 📖 TEXTS, EXACTLY AS PUBLISHED • Dhammapada – all 423 verses in Pali with Bhikkhu Sujato’s translation • Khuddakapāṭha, Metta Sutta, Maṅgala Sutta, Ratana Sutta, Dhammacakkappavattana, Anattalakkhaṇa, Satipaṭṭhāna, Ānāpānasati, Kālāma, Sigālovāda and more • Daily chanting: homage, refuges, precepts, recollection of the Triple Gem • Read the Pali in Roman, Thai, Myanmar, Sinhala, Khmer or Devanagari script – a letter-by-letter conversion • Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Amitābha Sutra, Universal Gate chapter and the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī in the Chinese canon, with Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese readings of the Heart Sutra • Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ and the Seven-Line Prayer in Tibetan script • German and Vietnamese translations where a CC0 translation exists; search, bookmarks, text size, continue where you left off 🧘 MEDITATION TIMER • Singing bowl, small bell or wooden fish, synthesised in-house – no recordings • Bells are scheduled as exact alarms, so they ring even with the screen off or the app closed • Preparation time, interval bells, respect for silent mode, streak and history 📿 MALA • 108, 54 or 27 beads with a long vibration at the end of each round, daily and lifetime totals ✅ CHECKED BEFORE RELEASE • Thai Wan Phra days for 2026 match two published calendars exactly • Every day of 2025–2028 matches the Hong Kong Observatory and Korean lunar tables • Myanmar dates match the reference calendar; Tibetan dates match the published tables • The app explains its calculations – see “How accurate is it?” inside the app 🌍 LANGUAGES • 37 languages including Thai, Burmese, Sinhala, Khmer, Lao, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and Mongolian 🔒 PRIVATE • No internet permission in the store version, no analytics, no ads • No horoscopes, no fortune-telling, no chatbot – just the calendar, the texts and the practice Sources: Pali texts – Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (CC0); English translations – Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0); German – Sabbamitta (CC0); Vietnamese Dhammapada – Thích Minh Châu (CC0), all via SuttaCentral. Chinese sutras – Taishō edition, public domain, transcribed by Wikisource. Calendars – pythaidate, mmcal, date-tibetan and Astronomy Engine (MIT).