
Gaurabda: Vaiṣṇava Calendar
Ekādaśī and festivals by GCAL
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A Vaiṣṇava calendar for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, calculated the same way as GCAL — the calendar program by Gopalapriya dasa that devotees have trusted for years to plan their fasts and festivals.
THE SAME RESULTS AS GCAL 11
The GCAL calculation engine was ported to Swift and checked against the original on hundreds of thousands of values: sunrise, tithi, nakṣatra, Ekādaśī, pāraṇa and festivals match GCal 11 to the second. Time zones and daylight saving, kṣaya and adhika māsas and polar latitudes are all handled.
THE DAY AT A GLANCE
Tithi and pakṣa with the phase of the Moon, the māsa and the Gaurābda year, festivals, appearance and disappearance days of the ācāryas. Sunrise, noon and sunset, brahma-muhūrta and the windows of the three sandhyās — Gāyatrī, Sāvitrī and Sarasvatī. Nakṣatra, yoga and rāśi at sunrise, and the events of the day to the second.
FASTING AND PĀRAṆA
Ekādaśī, Mahādvādaśī and appearance-day fasts, with the pāraṇa window for the next morning and the rule it was calculated by.
THE MONTH
A month grid marked with fasts, pāraṇa and festivals, plus a list of every event in the month.
REMINDERS
The day before a fast, on the morning of pāraṇa, for festivals, at the start of brahma-muhūrta and of each sandhyā — at the times you choose.
SANDHYĀ TIMER
Five minutes before each sandhyā a timer appears on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch, showing how much time is left to chant. Tap "Done" and it goes away. The timer starts on its own on iOS 26 and later.
APPLE WATCH
The day on your wrist, plus watch-face complications: the next sandhyā with a time ring, today's sandhyās, brahma-muhūrta.
WIDGETS
On the Home Screen — the next event and the month; on the Lock Screen — today's sandhyās and brahma-muhūrta.
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
95,000 cities built in, searchable offline. Or use GPS, or enter your own coordinates for a village, an āśrama or an expedition.
ALSO
• Find days by tithi, nakṣatra, fast or weekday.
• My events: the lunar dates of your guru, initiation or birthdays, on the right day every year.
• Appearance day: birth tithi and nakṣatra, syllables for a name.
• The list of māsas for the year.
• Export to the iPhone Calendar (.ics), as text, as PDF or to print.
• Calculation settings: fasting scheme, ayanāṁśa, saṅkrānti, Cāturmāsya.
• Light and dark appearance, English and Russian.
NO ADS, NO TRACKING
Free, with no subscriptions and no sign-up. The app collects nothing about you: your place and settings stay on your device.
An independent volunteer app, not the official ISKCON calendar app.
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What's New in Gaurabda
1.1.1
November 3, 2026
Sign changes • New notifications when a planet moves into another sign. The Moon has its own switch, as it changes sign every 2–2.5 days. Turn them on in Settings → Notifications → “Sign change”. Live Activities • After its window a Live Activity shows one line, such as “Brahma-muhūrta was 4:12–4:58”, instead of an empty frame. • A sandhyā still stays with its “Done” button until one hour before the next sandhyā, then turns into the same line.
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