# Gaurabda: Vaiṣṇava Calendar — Ekādaśī and festivals by GCAL > Ekādaśī and festivals by GCAL (iPhone/iPad app by Pavel Tkachenko.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gaurabda-vaisnava-calendar/id6826837042 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Pavel Tkachenko](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807853828) - Category: Lifestyle, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 19 MB - Languages: American English, Russian - Released: 2026-10-31 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Gaurabda? 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. ## Is Gaurabda safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Gaurabda. ## Is Gaurabda legit? Gaurabda: Vaiṣṇava Calendar has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gaurabda is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-11-03 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. ### 1.1 — 2026-11-02 Planets in signs • New block on the day screen: the nine grahas and their rāśis at sunrise. • Choose the names: IAST or English, in Settings. Sandhyās and Live Activities • The notification comes first, then the Live Activity starts on its own on iPhone and Apple Watch. • Sandhyā notifications are now Time Sensitive: they pass through Focus and reach your watch. • After its window a Live Activity goes blank by itself: brahma-muhūrta right away, a sandhyā one hour before the next. Apple Watch • New round complication “Sandhyā: minutes”: minutes to the end of the window and, between windows, to the next one. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-31 No release notes. ## More apps by Pavel Tkachenko - [Bhagavad Gita Path to Devotion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bhagavad-gita-path-to-devotion/id6807853826) All apps by Pavel Tkachenko: https://appshunter.io/developer/6807853828 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-06.*