Dāna

Dāna

by Matthew Mark

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  • Released
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  • May 13, 2026
  • July 20, 2026

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Dāna is a quiet, ceremonial app for the daily practice of giving (布施 / dāna). It does not move money. The act of giving — to a temple, a person, a charity — happens in the world, with your hands. The app is the small ritual around it. A daily pledge. Choose an amount and a category — life release, sangha offering, flower offering, meal offering, tsok offering, child sponsorship, ORBIS, stray animals, elderly living alone, or a general dāna pledge. You can hold up to ten active pledges at once. Confirm with intention. When you've given, open Dāna and confirm. A small Buddha figure offers a blessing. Merit accumulates by distinct calendar days, not by frequency. Companions appear over time. Your practice begins with a teacher in the living lineage. As it deepens — every 21 days — Guanyin, Green Tārā, Mañjuśrī, Vajrasattva, and Padmasambhava are invited to walk alongside, with Śākyamuni Buddha as the culminating figure. Once invited, a companion stays. There is no streak, no leaderboard, no shame. Honor system, always. No verification. No tracking. No analytics. No subscriptions. Your practice record stays on your device, optionally synced via your private iCloud account. Dāna is buy-once, in four UI languages (English, 繁體中文, 简体中文, 日本語) with calligraphic ornament in Tibetan and Chinese.
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What's New in Dāna

1.1.1

July 20, 2026

A few small repairs, quietly made. Dāna has always let you choose the language it speaks — in Profile, under Preferences. Until now, a number of places did not listen. The days counted beneath the rings in your Merit Record, the summary of your practice, the day your sponsorship began: each of these kept to the language of your device rather than the one you had chosen. They follow your choice now. Your reminders had the same habit. The daily reminder, and the reminders you set on your personal dates, had been arriving in English for everyone, whatever language the app was showing. They now arrive in your own. Personal dates can also be edited. Until this version a date could only be added or removed, so a small slip in a label meant taking the entry away and setting it down again. Now you tap a date to open it: its label, its date, the way it repeats, and its reminder are all yours to adjust. Background music, when you had it playing, could fall silent after a blessing and stay quiet for the rest of your time in the app. It returns on its own now. And when your practice is restored — from iCloud, or from an exported file — a personal date now keeps the way it returns: every year, one time, or on the same day of each month. Dates that fall only once, and dates that count their anniversaries, keep their year as well. If you restored before this version, please check that your personal dates still repeat as you intended. From here on they are kept faithfully, but a setting already lost cannot return on its own — set it once more, and it will hold. Thank you for practicing with Dāna.

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