Questions, answered.

Smaraan helps you start a spiritual journey with small steps. You choose your own pace for reading the Bhagavad Gita, meditating and doing Jaap, and Smaraan turns it into a short plan for each day. Finish the day's steps and you are on track. It is available on Android and as a Chrome extension. The idea is Pause, Pray, Proceed.

You set up your plan once. After that, Smaraan gives you a short list of tasks for the day, based on the pace you chose for the Gita, your meditation and your Jaap. Finish them and your day is marked complete. Most people need only a few minutes.

About 2 minutes. You choose how many days you want to take to finish the Gita, how much you want to meditate, and how many Jaap you want to do each day. You can skip any step and come back later, and you can see your plan before you create an account.

Smaraan is built around Hindu scriptures. Content comes from the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, along with mantras and traditional meditation practices. Each Sanskrit verse comes with a translation in plain, everyday language.

English and Hindi. You choose during setup and can switch any time. Sanskrit verses are always shown in Devanagari, with the translation in the language you picked.

Not yet. Smaraan is available on Android and as a Chrome extension. If you use an iPhone, the Chrome extension on your laptop is the way to start today.

During setup you decide three things: in how many days you want to complete the Bhagavad Gita, how much meditation you want to do, and how many Jaap you want to do each day. Smaraan turns this into a small daily plan. For example, finishing the Gita's 700 verses in 100 days works out to about 7 verses a day.

Yes, any time. If your routine gets busier or you want to go deeper, change the number of days, your meditation time or your Jaap target, and your daily tasks will follow. Your place in the Gita is saved.

Nothing is lost. Your place in the Gita and your saved plan stay as they are. You can carry on, or change your pace to something that fits your life right now. A small plan that you keep up is better than a big one you leave.

Your daily plan can include your Bhagavad Gita verses, your Jaap, a guided meditation and a Chalisa. You can also open a mood-based shloka whenever you want one. You pick what goes into your plan during setup, and you can change it whenever your routine changes.

Yes. All 18 chapters and about 700 verses, each with the Sanskrit original, transliteration, and Hindi and English translation. You choose a pace, for example a few verses a day, and Smaraan keeps your place.

A digital mala for mantra repetition. Choose a mantra such as Om Namah Shivaya, Hare Krishna or Gayatri, then tap to count. Your phone gives light haptic feedback on each tap. The Jaap screen is always ad-free.

Hindu meditation practices including Trataka, Pranayama, Chakra meditation and Mantra dhyan. You can choose the length and tradition that suits you, and practise without leaving the app.

Chalisa are devotional hymns of about forty verses. Smaraan includes the Hanuman Chalisa, Shiva Chalisa and Durga Chalisa, so you can read and recite the one you feel closest to. Each is shown in Devanagari with a translation in the language you picked.

Two things. It shows Hindu festivals and important days, so you know what is coming. It also shows your own progress, with the days you completed your plan marked off, so you can see your journey over the weeks.

You tell Smaraan how you feel, for example anxious, grateful, tired or sad. It shows a Sanskrit verse chosen for that state, with a short line on why it fits. The goal is a verse that feels relevant to you right now, not a random one.

That is the aim. Translations are written the way a friend would explain a verse, in everyday language, without heavy philosophical terms. You can always see the Sanskrit alongside.

A streak counts the days in a row that you complete your daily plan. Your Jaap progress is shown on a japa mala, so you can see your practice growing bead by bead.

Your streak starts again from day one. Missing a day does not affect your plan, your place in the Gita or anything else you have saved. You can pick up the next morning.

Yes. Sign in with the same account on the Android app and the Chrome extension, and your streak, plan and place in the Gita stay in step.

No. It is optional. If you like, Smaraan can show a short prayer before you open apps such as WhatsApp or Instagram, as a gentle pause. Your daily plan works the same whether this is on or off.

Only the optional prayer-before-apps feature needs it. Android lets an app know that another app has been opened through this permission, and Smaraan uses it for that one purpose. You will see a clear explanation before you are asked to turn it on, and you can use the rest of Smaraan without it.

Open Smaraan and remove that app from your list. The prayer will stop appearing for it straight away. You can also turn the feature off completely.

First, make sure the Accessibility permission for Smaraan is still on, because some phones switch it off after a restart or when battery saver is active. Second, check that the app you opened is on your list. If it still does not show, write to support@smaraan.com with your phone model and Android version and we will help.

It shows a shloka, a mantra or a Gita verse when you open a new tab, so you can pause for a moment during work. It also gives you quick access to Jaap, the Gita, meditation and mood-based shlokas from the extension popup.

Yes, there is a free plan so you can start your daily practice and see if it suits you. The Android app shows ads on the free plan, and Smaraan Plus removes them. Jaap screens are always ad-free.

Smaraan Plus is ₹149 per month or ₹999 per year. The yearly plan works out to a little over ₹83 a month. Plus removes ads, and one subscription covers both Android and Chrome.

No. One subscription covers both. Subscribe on either platform and it applies to the other when you sign in with the same account.

If you subscribed on Android, open Google Play, go to Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions, and cancel Smaraan there. If you subscribed on the web or in Chrome, write to support@smaraan.com and we will cancel it for you.

You can go through setup and see your plan before creating an account. An account saves your plan and lets your streak and subscription sync between devices.

We use your account details to save your plan, your streak and your subscription status so they work across devices. We do not sell your personal data. You can write to support@smaraan.com at any time to ask for your data to be deleted.

Smaraan is made by Sacred Moments Studio in Lucknow, India. Email support@smaraan.com and a real person will reply.