Comparison

Panchāngam vs Sumuhurta

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Panchāngam

Features
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Panchāngam is a complete South Indian almanac and Muhurta planner — accurate, beautifully simple, and fully offline. FEATURES • Daily Panchangam: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, and the day's lord • Sunrise, sunset, moon sign, and rāśi/nakshatra timings • Rahu Kalam, Yamagandam, and Gulika — the inauspicious periods at a glance • Muhurta finder: choose auspicious times for any occasion • MMM combination finder with pair rules • Birth-star (nakshatra) horoscope • Festival and Chandrashtama alerts via local notifications • Personal notes, including voice dictation • 12 languages • Export and share reports as PDF Everything runs on your device — no account, no internet required.

About

Sumuhurta

This app analyzes your birth chart to identify the most auspicious times of day for specific activities. It presents these personalized windows of opportunity directly on your screen, offering guidance for deep work, quick tasks, and meetings. All calculations are performed locally on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Personalized auspicious timing windows
  • Sunrise-to-sunrise daily cycles
  • Calculations based on Jyotish principles
  • Avoids negative astrological periods
  • On-device computation for privacy
  • Widgets and Live Activity support
Features
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The best hours of your day, read from your chart. Sumuhurta answers one question — when today is good for you — and answers it as one screen. The screen is the sky. It moves from dawn through noon to dusk and true dark, and your windows sit in it as spans of light: one to three in each sunrise-to-sunrise cycle. You may know your chart from apps that read your personality. Sumuhurta reads the other thing a chart holds — time. In this app, the chart is one input to a traditional timing calculation. Sumuhurta reads choghadiya, hora and the abhijit muhurta against your dasha period, the Moon's position relative to yours, the hour's ruling planet and how it sits for you. Each window carries a plain name. A clear run is long and sustained, for the deep work. Sharp is short and bright, for sending and deciding. Steady is even, for meetings and slower work. Beneath the name, a quiet attribution — Jupiter hora · Amrit — is there for readers who know Jyotish. The day runs sunrise to sunrise. If your free hours begin at nine at night, your windows do too. Every personal window Sumuhurta surfaces is calculated to avoid Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika, and the Kaal, Rog and Udveg choghadiya periods. It does not display negative-period tables or claim to perform a complete electional-muhurta assessment. It keeps its selected personal windows and leaves the rest as open sky. That is the whole idea, and it is on purpose. Everything is computed on your phone. Your birth details never leave it. No account, no email, no sign-in, no advertising, and no analytics SDK. The developer does not collect data from the app. One price, once. Two weeks free first, full product, no card required. After the trial, the app screen — every window, day and night, the scrub, the share card — stays free forever. The purchase is Sumuhurta arriving on its own: six widget families, StandBy, window-open alerts, an optional 9pm preview when tonight holds nothing further, and a Live Activity that keeps the open window on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island until it closes. You can also choose to show meetings as faint marks on the day line; Calendar access is requested only when you turn that setting on, and event start and end times are read on your phone. No subscription and no add-ons. The paywall displays the App Store's localized price. Sumuhurta is tradition and guidance, not prediction. It does not read your future, match your compatibility, or explain your personality. It offers selected personal timing windows, and it is made to be worth looking at.

Screenshots

Panchāngam4 screens
Sumuhurta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Panchāngam at none against Sumuhurta's 1. Panchāngam also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sumuhurta sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Panchāngam asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Panchāngam versus Sumuhurta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanchāngamSumuhurta
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaj KumarColorblast LLC

In-app purchases

None

Panchāngam

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sumuhurta

One-time1
  • Sumuhurta — Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Panchāngam free?
Panchāngam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sumuhurta free?
Sumuhurta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Panchāngam or Sumuhurta have ads?
Neither Panchāngam nor Sumuhurta shows ads.

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