Pāli Practice vs upoCal

The app uses flashcard exercises that ask you to find the correct grammatical form. For verbs, you are shown a verb and asked to conjugate it for a given tense, person, and number. For nouns, you are asked to decline a word in a specific case, gender, and number. You think or say the answer yourself, then tap to check it, along with the word’s translation. The app follows a spaced repetition approach: after each review, you mark items as easy or difficult, and they are shown again later depending on how well they are remembered. Pāli Practice works fully offline and is designed for brief, regular study, so it can be used whenever you have a free moment. The app is intended for Theravada Buddhism practitioners and students of early Buddhist texts who want a simple tool for practicing grammatical forms. It supports ongoing study but does not replace textbooks, courses, or teachers. Word and grammar data are sourced from the Digital Pāli Dictionary project. The icon is the quail from SN 47:6, the Sakuṇagghi Sutta ("The Hawk"), hiding behind rocks in its ancestral territory – a newly plowed field with clumps of earth all turned up: "Wander, monks, in what is your proper range, your own ancestral territory. In one who wanders in what is his proper range, his own ancestral territory, Māra gains no opening, Māra gains no foothold. And what, for a monk, is his proper range, his own ancestral territory? The four establishings of mindfulness." This app is maintained by the DhammaBytes contributors. We welcome feedback and help with translating the app into other languages. Please contact us at contact@dhammabytes.org

# upoCal – Myanmar Uposatha Calendar & Dawn-rise **upoCal** is a free and open-source app for calculating highly accurate solar times and viewing Uposatha dates. All calculations are performed directly on your device. ### Accurate Solar Time Calculations Optional down-to-the-second precision for: • Solar noon • Sunrise and sunset • Civil dawn and dusk • Nautical dawn and dusk ### Dawn-rise (Aruṇuggamana) • Multiple calculation formulas available • Adjustable according to individual preferences and traditions ### Myanmar Uposatha Calendar • View Myanmar Uposatha dates years into the future or past • Monthly timetable view • Yearly calendar view ### Features • Home Screen widgets and lock screen widgets in various sizes • Battery-efficient widget updates • Adjustable dawn-rise(Aruṇuggamana) calculation methods • GPS-based dawn-rise, noon time calculations • Support manual location input • Satellite and street map location preview (Internet connection required) • Dark Mode support • Optional display of times down to the second • Multilingual support • No account required • No advertisements • Open source Designed for practitioners, monastics, and anyone who wishes to follow solar times and Myanmar Uposatha observances with precision.