# Pothi — Parmesar Ka Thaan > Parmesar Ka Thaan (iPhone/iPad app by Navjeet Malli.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pothi/id6792220067 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Navjeet Malli](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896704196) - Category: Reference, Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 14.0 · 433 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-10 - Data updated: 2026-09-11 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pothi/id6792220067/reviews.md ## What is Pothi? Pothi (ਪੋਥੀ) is a free, offline first Gurbani app for daily practice: a digital Gutka, the complete Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji with arth, the daily Hukamnama, live kirtan from Sri Darbar Sahib, and a tap any word meaning popup. It is built as seva. No ads, no account, no tracking. Everything you read is bundled inside the app, so your Nitnem never depends on a signal. READ • Nitnem and 29 banis, and the complete Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, angs 1 to 1430 • Sri Dasam Granth, Vaaran and Kabit Savaiye Bhai Gurdas Ji, the four Bhai Nand Lal works and Sarabloh Granth, over 141,000 lines in all • Choose your own layers per line: Gurmukhi, roman and Devanagari transliteration, English translation, Punjabi arth and Hindi arth • Reading styles: line by line, larivaar, paragraph, and a gutka page view • Bishram pause marks, bold Gurmukhi, line numbers, your font and your size • Themes for every light: light, dark, AMOLED, sepia, high contrast and royal • Browse by ang, raag, author or composition, and jump to any ang UNDERSTAND • Tap any word to see its Punjabi meaning, offline, from the bundled Pothi Kosh dictionary of 84,733 entries • Keep tapping words inside a meaning to follow a word from word to word • Pothi Kosh has its own home: search, browse all 35 akhar, and see where a word appears in Gurbani, kirtan, quotes and sakhis LISTEN • The daily Hukamnama from Sri Darbar Sahib, with audio and its katha • Live kirtan from Sri Darbar Sahib, with a quality setting for mobile data • Pothi Radio: a catalogue of Gurbani stations KIRTAN • A library of 2,675 kirtan shabads matched to the bundled Gurbani • Browse the Amrit Keertan's own 113 subject headings, or by author and theme • Every shabad opens in its own granth, at the right line LEARN • Learn to read Gurmukhi step by step, with a beginner path and certificates • Pothi Punjabi, a game first course for children, 21 levels of lessons you can also print as practice sheets. Levels still awaiting review by qualified Gursikhs are clearly marked as such • 1,372 sakhis: the Ten Gurus, the Bhagats, Sikh women, martyrs and life lessons • 156 topics about Sikhi across 15 categories, written for children and families • 671 historical gurdwaras, browsable by Guru, by place and by the Five Takhts • Sikh reference: the Rehat Maryada in original words, the 52 Hukams, Ardas, a timeline and Sikh literature SEARCH AND SAVE • Fast offline search across Gurbani, the dictionary, kirtan, quotes, sakhis and the learning content, including first letter search • Bookmarks, resume where you left off, and your own collections • Save words, shabads, notes and lists, then export and restore a backup EVERY DAY • Tuk, Word and Quote of the day, and a Kirtan Shabad of the Day • Hukamnama and Nitnem reminders at times you choose • The Nanakshahi calendar with its observances • Gurmantra: a 108 bead mala and a simran timer, with a log SHARE • Make and share Gurbani posters and Hukamnama cards IN YOUR LANGUAGE • The whole app works in English, Punjabi and Hindi • Built for accessibility: large text, high contrast and screen readers FREE AND PRIVATE • Completely free, supported by donations, and support stays outside the app • No ads, no account, no tracking. Your bookmarks, notes and progress stay on your device Gurbani is sacred. Pothi renders verified text from credited sources and is offered with satkar as a reference and learning aid, not a replacement for santhya, sangat, or the guidance of knowledgeable Gursikhs, and not an authoritative saroop. Dictionary entries and course content still under review are labelled in the app. If you find a mistake, please write to us and we will look at it with care. Sources are credited inside the app under Sources and References. Translations, fonts and audio links belong to their respective sources. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1,1,7 — 2026-09-07 1.1.7 THE DICTIONARY This release is mostly the Mahan Kosh, and a tapped word answers better in nearly every way. The meaning comes first. Where an entry opens with the Sanskrit or Persian word it comes from, that source now sits below the meaning under its own heading, for every numbered sense of the entry rather than only the first. An entry whose whole meaning was a pointer to another word now shows the meaning it points at, with the pointer kept above it so nothing is put in the wrong word's mouth. Close to eight thousand meanings carried characters that came out of the original scan as the wrong letter or as an empty box. About one word tap in six met one. They read correctly now. 2,326 entries had lost their word origin and the marker that says whether a word is a noun or a verb. Both are back. 2,258 entries ran their numbered meanings together with nothing between them. Each meaning stands on its own again. A second dictionary rides with it: 1,025 headwords from SGGS Kosh by Dr Gurcharan Singh, badged as itself so it is never read as the Mahan Kosh. Nearly every word of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji now answers a tap. Search results, the Kosh letter pages and Word of the day used to preview thousands of entries as a single character. They show the meaning now. READING A bani opens where you stopped. Pothi recorded only the line a reading opened at, so Continue reading took you back to the first tuk of a bani you were halfway through. History opens the bani it names. Tapping Sukhmani Sahib in History opened Ang 262 in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji reader instead, which is a different reading with different settings. BANIS Collections, at the top of More banis: Sundar Gutka, Beant Bani, Vaaran and Savaiye. Ways to slice the banis Pothi already holds, so a reading is one tap from the gutka it belongs to. Vaaran holds all twenty-two vaars of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. SEARCH First letter search reaches all 2,675 kirtan shabads. 71 of them could not be found that way before, under any spelling. PROJECTOR The phone remote now has a switch, and it starts off. Turn it on in the operator's network sheet when you want it, and a fresh six digit code is made each time. The read along page the sangat scan is unaffected and stays open to everyone. The operator's controls fit a phone screen again. FIXED 170 lines of the Hindi arth had lost the danda that ends a line, and carried a Latin lookalike in its place. Four sections of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji declared a page span their own lines do not fill, and one of them ended past the end of the granth. Two dictionary entries answered with a harder word than the one you tapped, or with nothing at all. The first launch after this update takes a little longer than usual while the new dictionary is copied. ### 1.1.6 — 2026-09-06 1.1.6 YOUR READING A reading record, in My Pothi: what you read, on which day, and how long it took. A bani or a composition counts once, on the day you reach the end, and the record rides your backup. If you have a little time, on Today: three buttons for 5 to 10, 15 to 25 and 30 to 99 minutes, opening a page that lists every bani and composition Pothi holds, more than eighty of them, each with the minutes it should take you. Time yourself on Jap Ji Sahib, Anand Sahib, Asa Ki Var, Sukhmani Sahib or the Lavan and those minutes follow your own pace instead of an average. MEANINGS Tap any word of the daily Hukamnama for its Mahan Kosh meaning. Read Together and both simran screens answer a tap now as well, through the same dictionary the reader has always used. The daily Hukamnama shows the vishraam pauses, if you have them turned on. ON THE LOCK SCREEN All seven widgets fit the Lock Screen now, as a circle, a rectangle or a single line. An iPhone on iOS 14 or 15 keeps exactly the widgets it had. Live Darbar Sahib kirtan stands on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it plays, and says when it is reconnecting instead of looking paused. Siri and Shortcuts reach Pothi: live kirtan, today's Hukamnama, the word of the day, simran and Sehaj Paath. Any of them can go on the Action Button. COMMENTS AND LISTS Comment on a word, on a tuk, or on a whole shabad, and each one says which of the three it is about to write on. Writing on a tuk saves it for you. Comments and lists is now a page for Words and a page for Tuks, each with its own Comments and Lists tabs. PROJECTOR A read along code on the wall, so the sangat follow the same tuk on their own phones, each in the layers they choose, and tap a word there for its meaning. The same code prints on an A4 sheet for the notice board. A phone remote for whoever is driving the wall, behind a six digit code that is new every time you start sharing. The read along page stays open to everyone: only the remote is locked. A ceremony program, a presenter strip that drags anywhere and stays, and a Projector page in Settings. ELSEWHERE The five main pages use the full width of a wide screen. The side rail can sit on the left or the right, and carries the destinations you put on it. Pothi on Device is complete: 12 sections and 72 features, card by card, with the real steps. Learn to Read has moved in with Kids and Family. FIXED Daily reminders drifted an hour twice a year, at a daylight saving change. So did reading streaks, which could reset for somebody who had not missed a day. The rating prompt could appear over Gurbani mid paath. It waits until you have left the reading now. A comment on a tuk went nowhere you could see it, and filing a tuk in a list took it out of Saved lines. Five things you had chosen to keep were left out of every backup. Tuk of the day showed English whatever language you had chosen. Closing the projector panel could crash the app. ### 1.1.5 — 2026-09-03 1.1.5 READING Sri Dasam Granth and Vaaran Bhai Gurdas Ji now read right through, page by page, instead of stopping at their opening bani. Bhai Nand Lal Ji's writings read straight through as well. Jump straight to any panna by number, and the page turn names each granth's own unit. A gold rule can now mark where one shabad ends, in every page style. TODAY'S HUKAMNAMA It now comes from SGPC, who publish it first, so it is never a day behind. Only which shabad it is comes from them; the lines and every arth layer are rendered from Pothi's own offline database, so today's Hukamnama reads exactly as that shabad reads anywhere else in the app. The home screen widget is on iPhone now, with six more widgets to choose from. SIMRAN The Gurmantra timer can walk the four stages of simran, with the minutes for each set by the practitioner. A bell and a double buzz mark every turn, so a sitting can be kept with eyes closed. The clock is measured, not counted, so time with the screen locked is never lost. It is said the naam moves inward through these four. No timing is prescribed anywhere: the app counts only the minutes you choose. PROJECTOR Quick slides put Mool Mantar, the closing salok of Japji Sahib, Anand Sahib in six pauris, the four Lavan for an Anand Karaj and a full screen Waheguru on the wall in one tap, and you can pin your own. Every line is read from the bundled database, never typed in. A page turn no longer flickers on a mirrored screen. APPEARANCE Gold artwork is drawn as it was made, keeping the metallic shading, with a new As drawn / Follow accent choice on the Theme tab. On a wide screen the tabs can run down the side. ELSEWHERE The Punjabi keyboard button now closes what it opened, in every search. Copy a poster as a picture, not just as text. Hold the app icon for today's Hukamnama, live kirtan, and your last two readings. A sleep timer with your own minutes, and a Play Live Kirtan button on every reminder. Gurdwara mode, for a device that lives in the hall. Pothi on Device, in About Pothi: a guide to every page of the app, card by card, and how to get Pothi on Windows. ### 1.1.4 — 2026-08-29 More Gurbani, reachable by name • 32 more banis open directly by name: the 21 Vaars, Shabad Mahala 9, and ten compositions that were in the data all along, among them Vanjara, Barah Maha Manjh, Karhale, Bavan Akhri, Thitee, Birharre, Patti Likhi and Ghorian. • Benti Chaupai Sahib (T.) now reads through to its close, with the Savaiya and the Dohra. Read it your way • Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Nitnem, Sehaj Paath and Pothi Kirtan each remember their own page style, text size and translation layers. • Pinch with two fingers to set the Gurbani size while you read. • An optional ornate rule after each shabad. • The tuk you tapped is marked in Paragraph and Gutka Sahib styles too, not only in Line. Kirtan and projector • Kirtan readings follow your alignment setting and have their own text controls. • The projector screen wears the app's own theme. Search and Pothi Kosh • "Appears in 1,317" opens all of them, counted and grouped by granth. Tap a granth to open its own list. • The in-app Gurmukhi keyboard is now on the poster and projector text fields. • Search opens in First letters mode. Accuracy • Corrections to the Sri Guru Granth Sahib text and to author attributions, each checked against two independent references before it was applied. Artwork • New gold marks throughout: the author medallions, Pothi Kirtan, Saved shabads, Saved posters, and every newly named bani. ### 1.1.3 — 2026-08-28 • Historical Gurdwaras is now fully trilingual: all 899 sites read in Hindi as well as Punjabi and English. • Reviewed and corrected Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji text and attributions (updated content database). • Search now opens in First letters (akhar) mode. A word's appearances open in full, grouped by granth; tap a granth to jump into its own list. • New in-app Gurmukhi keyboard for adding text to posters and the projector. • Warmer onboarding: auto play live kirtan and Today's picks in reminders, cleaner headers, gold Gurmukhi lines. • A gold artwork pass across the app: author medallions, per bani icons on Continue reading, History and your Saved lists, and themed menus. • Printable practice sheets, sakhi tags and the Gurdwara place browse now read in Punjabi and Hindi too. • Stronger privacy on iPhone: your notes and bookmarks stay locked while the device is locked. • Deep links, reminder taps, kirtan sharing and gurpurab kirtan links refined, plus a faster daily tuk and small fixes. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh. ## More apps by Navjeet Malli - [Micro Detox](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/micro-detox/id6769963316) All apps by Navjeet Malli: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896704196 --- *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 2026-09-11.*