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Gurbani Soul

A quiet, exact companion to Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. Verbatim, cited by Ang, never invented.

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Gurbani Soul Reader on iPhone, open at Ang 1 in Sant Lipi
  • 1,430Angs — the complete Granth
  • 60,658lines, each cited by Ang
  • 1,643,385characters, zero loss
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  • Nonedata collected — the App Store label is “Data Not Collected”

ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji · Ang 1

Shown verbatim from the source edition.

01 Read

The whole Granth, set to be read

All 1,430 Angs in Sant Lipi, on warm paper or in a night scheme that is never pure black. Turn pages, jump to any Ang, pick up where you left off. Every composition opens with its printed heading.

  • Sant Lipi
  • Traditional saroop
  • Sehaj focus
  • Five accents
  • Night scheme
  • iPad landscape
Reader on iPad in landscape, open at Ang 705 with transliteration under each line
Reader on iPhone in the night scheme, open at Ang 1

02 Search

Search the way you remember

A word in Gurmukhi, a word as it sounds in Roman letters, or just the first letters of each word — the way a line comes back to you. Auto mode works out which you meant. Verify checks a line you were sent against the text and tells you plainly.

  • Auto
  • Gurmukhi
  • Roman
  • First letters
  • Theme
  • Verify
Search on iPhone: the Roman word naam, in Auto mode, finds matching lines with their Ang and voice
Search on iPhone by first letters, finding a line from Ang 1
Sri Harmandir Sahib at night, lit gold and reflected in the sarovar

Made for every day, not for scrolling.

No feed. No notifications you did not ask for. The text, and your place in it.

03 Nitnem

Nitnem, with your place kept

The daily banis by time of day — Japji, Jaap, Savaiye, Chaupai and Anand in the morning, Rehras at dusk, Sohila at night — with Sukhmani, Asa di Vaar and Ardaas alongside. The app remembers where you are in each and keeps a quiet record of the days you read. Reminders are optional, local, and yours to set.

Banis from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji come from the same verified corpus, cited by Ang. Dasam Granth and Ardaas text are a separate, labelled, scholar-reviewed layer.

Nitnem on iPad in landscape: the morning banis with progress rings, and the full list by time of day
Japji Sahib open in the Nitnem reader on iPhone, cited Ang 1 to 8, at line 1 of 385

04 The watch

Eight watches. Thirty-one raags. One face.

The day is divided into eight pahars, and different raags belong to different watches. The Raag Clock shows which belong to this one — by fixed hours, or by your local sunrise and sunset. The deep night is left in silence.

See the Raag Clock

Raag Clock on iPhone in the dark scheme: the 2nd pahar of day and the raags sung in this watch

05 At a glance

On your Home Screen and Lock Screen

Three widgets: the raag of the moment, the Hukam of the day with its Ang, and today's Nitnem — in sizes from small to large, with Lock Screen accessories for the raag and the Nitnem. The Hukam of the day is one complete Hukam for the whole day, chosen by the date: the same in the app and in Siri, with its opening verse on the widget. An optional Live Activity shows how far you have read a bani. It never shows a verse.

Ask Siri for “Today’s Hukam”, “What raag is it now”, “Read a Vaar”, “Open a theme” or “Open a voice”. Spotlight finds your saved verses and every theme.

Raag Now widget, small: the 24-hour dial at 4:40 pm, the 4th pahar of day
Hukam of the day widget, medium: an opening verse with its transliteration, cited Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Ang 13
Nitnem widget, medium: the morning banis, with Jaap Sahib next and a progress ring
Raag Now widget, small, in the dark scheme: the 24-hour dial at 4:40 pm, the 4th pahar of day
Live Activity on the Lock Screen: reading Japji Sahib, a progress ring at 1%
Live Activity on the Lock Screen — progress only, never a verse.

06 Explore

Explore the Granth from every side

An Index in the order of the saroop, with a page for every raag. All 22 Vaars, woven pauri by pauri as printed. 54 themes, each with its own page. The 36 voices of the Granth, 12th to 17th century, each with a page of their own. Constellation, Insights and the Raag Clock beside them.

See what each one does

The Vaars screen on iPhone: 22 Vaars, 471 pauris and 972 saloks, then each Vaar by raag with its voices
The VaarsAll 22 Vaars, with the voices who wrote each one's pauris and saloks.
The Index on iPhone: the saroop ribbon across 1,430 Angs, and the major compositions with their reading times
The IndexThe Granth in saroop order, Ang 1 to Ang 1,430.
The Index on iPhone, Forms tab: each poetic form named in the printed headings, with the raag and Ang of each place
FormsThe poetic forms the printed headings name, and where each is found.
The page for Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji on iPhone: dates, the Angs where their Bani appears, and counts of verses, compositions and raags
A voice's pageGuru Tegh Bahadur Ji's page: where their Bani sits in the Granth, and in which raags.
Compare on iPhone: Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji beside Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the Angs where each appears and how strongly each carries a theme
CompareTwo voices side by side: where each appears, and the themes each dwells on.

07 Verbatim

Nothing corrected. Nothing invented.

The text is reproduced character for character from the source edition. Nothing is normalised, modernised or improved.

Never AI-generated.

  1. Reconciled

    All 1,643,385 characters are proven against the source edition, character for character — zero loss.

  2. Sealed

    The bundled text carries a SHA-256 checksum, fixed when the app is built.

  3. Checked

    The app checks it when it is installed or updated. If a check fails, the app refuses to show the text rather than risk showing it altered.

08 Private

Nothing leaves your device.

No account. No network connections — the app works in Airplane Mode. The app has no analytics, no tracking and no third-party code. Its App Store privacy label is ‘Data Not Collected’.

  • No accounts
  • No network
  • No tracking
  • Data Not Collected

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About screen on iPhone, version 1.4.9: the four scripture integrity checks, all passed

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