How it works
How the clock decides.
One question: should I start this thing now, in this city, for this purpose? Here is what goes into the answer, and what does not.
The day runs sunrise to sunrise.
The Vedic day starts at sunrise where you are, not at midnight. From sunrise to sunset the day is cut into eight choghadiya blocks, and sunset to the next sunrise into eight more. Each block has a name and a nature: Amrit, Shubh and Labh support a start; Chal is neutral; Udveg, Rog and Kaal do not.
Over that tape sit the periods to avoid for a start: Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika, each an eighth of the day, placed by the weekday. Abhijit is the short window around local noon that supports most starts. Following Drik Panchang, there is no Abhijit on Wednesdays.
Sun and Moon positions come from Meeus series with the Lahiri ayanamsha. Sunrise, sunset and Rahu kaal are checked against Drik Panchang for Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata across the year and must agree within two minutes.
Your city today, not your birth place.
The action happens where you are. The clock uses city today for sunrise and Rahu, and asks for it once at sign-up. With your permission it can suggest the nearest listed city from coarse GPS when you open the Desk.
- If the phone thinks you are somewhere else, a banner asks: “You look like you're in Goa, not Mumbai.” You choose Use or Keep. The app never swaps the city silently.
- City today never touches your birth place. “Sets sunrise and Rahu. Not birth place.”
- Location is used for that suggestion and nothing else. “For today’s sunrise and Rahu. Not your janma.”
Three grades, on every verdict.
The grade says how much the clock knew about you when it answered. It is on every tile, every Poojari answer and every share card. When the app only has your city, it will not say “aapke liye”.
Nothing. Just your city today.
Sunrise, tithi, vaar, choghadiya, Rahu kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika, Abhijit.
The public clock. Works for guests, always.
Your date of birth.
Everything in CITY, plus your janma nakshatra and today’s tara from it.
The first grade where the app may say “aapke liye”.
Date, time and place of birth.
Everything in MOON, plus your ascendant and where today’s Moon sits from it.
Shown only when the lagna rule was actually applied. Never claimed otherwise.
Why we ask for your date of birth.
Sign-up is a phone number or email and a one-time code. Then the app asks for your date of birth, and it is required. With the date it can find your janma nakshatra, the star the Moon was in when you were born, and from it today’s tara: whether the Moon’s current star supports you or asks for care. That layer is what turns a city verdict into a MOON verdict.
We never guess a birth star. If your birth time is unknown, the app shows the stars the Moon passed through that day and you pick, or say “not sure”, in which case the tara layer is left out rather than invented.
Birth time and place are optional. With both, the app computes your ascendant and applies one lagna rule: where today’s Moon sits from your lagna. Only then does a verdict carry LAGNA. A jaathaka photo is optional too: it is stored on your account and shown back to you to confirm the fields. It is not machine-read as the truth.
Fourteen purposes, one rule set each.
Free text maps onto one of fourteen purposes. “Gaadi lu?” is Vehicle. “movie chalein?” is Movie. “SIP shuru karu?” is SIP. If the words are unclear the app asks you to confirm once. No shastra is invented per question.
Light starts are treated lightly
Gym, shopping, movie: Rahu and Yamaganda give WAIT, never NOT, and an evening Labh counts as a good window. Wedding rules are not reused for a film.
Big starts are strict
Vehicle delivery, griha pravesh, SIP, a long journey, signing: Rahu gives NOT, a careful tara costs the full penalty, and samskaras carry a note to confirm the date with a jyotishi.
What you get back.
- A verdict: GO, WAIT or NOT.
- Till when it holds, and the next named window: Labh 4:35–6:00, Abhijit 12:04–12:52.
- The periods to avoid that day.
- One why, in plain words: “Rahu Kaal is a poor start for travel.”
- The grade.
First month free. Timing is advisory.