Live your faith,
one small act a day.
Nitya is a daily Hindu practice companion. Not an encyclopedia, not a feed — one small, grounded act each morning, with the mantra, the story, and the reason behind it. Two minutes, while your chai is still warm.
You want the practice. You just don't have time for the homework.
Many of us inherited the feeling but not the instructions. There's a shelf of scripture nobody opens, a forwarded message with the wrong date, and a quiet hope that our kids will hold on to some of it. Nitya doesn't hand you a syllabus. It hands you today.
One act. A real reason. A gentle way out if today is hard.
Each morning Nitya offers a single practice you can actually finish — thank someone who raised you, light a lamp, sit quietly for two minutes — and shows the teaching it's rooted in.
- Chosen around what you said you wanted: calm, family, raising kids with values.
- An optional mantra attached — take it or leave it.
- Some acts don't fit every life. "Choose another practice" always offers a kind alternative.
Understand the words you've been saying since childhood.
Devanagari, transliteration, and a plain-language meaning on one screen — with the source, the tradition it belongs to, when it's said, and who reviewed the entry.
- A provenance card on every mantra. Chapter and verse, not vibes.
- Labelled "broadly shared" or attributed to a specific tradition.
- Human-recorded audio for pronunciation, arriving with Premium.
तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात्
Said · at dawn, midday & dusk (sandhya) • Reviewed · Pt. R. Sharma
Know the day — and know why it matters.
Today's tithi and nakshatra, the next festival with a plain how-to, and dates shown for your location and your family's convention. Where communities observe on different days, Nitya says so rather than pretending there's one answer.
- Set your convention and region once; the calendar follows.
- "How to observe" for each festival — from ten quiet minutes to the full ritual.
- A quiet nudge a week ahead, so there's time to prepare.
The stories your kids should hear — and the question to ask after.
A story a week, told well and told short. Under each one sits a conversation prompt written for the parent who wants to pass this on but was never shown how to begin.
- Five minutes at bedtime. No preparation, no reading ahead.
- "Talk about it together" turns a story into a real conversation.
- Told respectfully, with a provenance line, like everything else here.
Ask the questions you were never taught the answers to.
Why do we fast on Ekadashi? Which mantra helps when I'm anxious? What actually happens at a griha pravesh? Nitya answers from its reviewed library only — and shows the source every time.
- Retrieval-grounded. It will not freestyle dharma or invent scripture.
- If nothing in the library covers your question, it says so and points you to a person.
- Where traditions differ, it tells you whose answer you're reading.
The practice you return to, not the one you finish."
Everything here comes from somewhere.
And when your family does it differently, Nitya says so. That's really the whole promise.
You can see the source
Every practice, mantra, story, and festival shows the text it came from — so you're never taking our word for it.
Read by people who practice
Scholars and priests review entries before they reach you, and their name sits right there on the page.
Room for how your family does it
There's no single way to be Hindu. Nitya names the tradition and region it's showing, and tells you when communities observe differently.
Gentle by design
No guilt notifications and nothing to lose if life gets busy. Just "Welcome back. Ready for today?"
Built for every age
A true day theme for older eyes, scalable type, large touch targets, and screen-reader labels — designed so a grandparent and a ten-year-old both find it easy.
Yours, offline
Today's practice and your mantras are cached on the device, so the morning works on a plane, in a temple basement, or with no signal at all.
Two minutes a day is the whole ask.
Tell us what you want more of
Inner calm, closeness to family, raising kids with values, feeling connected. Add your tradition and region so the calendar is right for your family.
Open it with your morning chai
One practice, one reason, one optional mantra. Do it, or choose something gentler. Then close the app — there's no feed to scroll.
Watch it become yours
Weeks in, the festivals stop sneaking up, the words start meaning something, and your kids begin asking for the story.
Be there for the first morning.
Nitya is in private beta on iOS, opening in small waves. Join the waitlist and we'll send one email — the one with your invite.
Before you ask
When does Nitya launch?
Private beta on iOS first, with invites going out in small waves from the waitlist. Android follows. We open access gradually so we can fix things properly and get the content right.
Which tradition does it follow?
By default, practices and mantras that are broadly shared across Hindu traditions. During setup you can tell Nitya your sampradaya, region, and calendar convention, and the content — especially festival dates — follows. Where communities genuinely differ, the app shows the difference instead of choosing for you.
Is the AI making things up?
No. Ask Nitya retrieves from a curated library of texts and entries that human reviewers have approved, and cites the source with each answer. If your question isn't covered, it tells you that and suggests speaking with a person or your temple, rather than inventing something plausible.
Is this good for kids?
That's much of why it exists. The weekly story comes with a conversation prompt written for parents who want to pass this on but were never taught how to explain it. Family profiles are part of v1.
Will it cost anything?
The daily practice, the calendar, and a good part of the mantra and story library stay free. A Founding Family membership — around $29–39 a year — adds the full library, family profiles, a higher Ask allowance, and human-recorded audio when it lands. Waitlist members get the founding price.
What if I miss a day?
Nothing happens. There is no broken-streak drama and no guilt notification — the app simply says "Welcome back. Ready for today?" A practice you resent isn't a practice.
I'm not very religious. Is it still for me?
Yes. Nitya doesn't ask you to believe anything. It's one small daily act with a reason behind it — reverence for parents, restraint, gratitude, service. Plenty of people come for the calm and stay for the meaning.