योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्
Your apps rest.
Your practice opens them.
Sadhana Lock guards your most distracting apps on a schedule you set. When you reach for one, it doesn't scold you — it offers you a shloka, a breath, or a round of japa. Finish, and the app opens.
Android · Free to use · Optional Plus from ₹99 a month · Works without an account
How it works
Three decisions, then it runs itself.
No streak guilt, no shame screens, no counting the hours you have wasted. Just a door that asks something small of you before it opens.
Choose what to guard
Pick from your installed apps. Social, video and games float to the top, so you aren't scrolling past Calendar to find Instagram.
Set your practice times
The three sandhya hours come ready. Add your own, choose which days each repeats, and the lock arms itself — exactly, even while the phone sleeps.
Practise to open
Open a guarded app during a lock and the practice screen appears over it. Finish a sitting and every guarded app opens for as long as you chose.
The core loop
Three ways to sit. All of them count.
The unlock is a practice, not a puzzle
- ✳Guided. A shloka from the Gītā in Devanagari, with its meaning.
- ✳Your own. A breathing orb that expands and settles. Bring whatever practice is already yours.
- ✳Japa. A full 108-bead mala on screen, with a haptic tick per bead.
- ✳An honest way out. Need maps, or to take a call? One tap opens that one app for ten minutes — not all of them.
A real scripture library, not a quote generator
Four books, read verse by verse, each remembering exactly where you left it. The Sanskrit is public domain and unedited; every translation was written for this app.
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि
सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय
Do your work steadied in yoga, letting go of attachment.
Bhagavad Gītā · 2.48
- ✳All 701 verses of the Gītā, all 18 chapters. Not a selection.
- ✳Īśha Upaniṣad, Āditya Hṛdayam, Śiva Tāṇḍava Stotram.
- ✳Nine languages, and a verse card you can share in one tap.
Everything else
Built for the phone you actually own.
Exact times, any day of week
Set as many as you need and pick the days each repeats. Exact alarms fire even while the phone is asleep.
Survives Indian phones
Realme, Oppo, Xiaomi and Vivo kill background apps aggressively. Setup walks you through auto-launch and battery exemption on your exact skin.
A diya that grows with you
Seven states over ninety days, each with its own name. Never taken away, and never behind a paywall.
108-bead japa counter
A full mala with a marked guru bead. Targets of 27, 54 or 108, a haptic tick per bead, and a flourish when the round closes.
Insights that stay kind
Practice calendar, streaks, minutes, malas and your daily rhythm — across a week, a month, a quarter or a year.
Works with no signal
Every verse, translation and font is bundled. The moment you need it most may be the moment you have none.
Lock health
One screen tells you whether the guard is actually standing — every permission, green or amber, each tappable to the right setting.
Yours, personally
Choose your iṣṭa devatā and the emblem, the mantra and the verses follow. Or choose none: every form is one light.
Light and dark
Sand by day, a quieter register after dark — following your phone, or pinned to whichever you prefer.
Privacy
An app that watches your screen, and tells no one.
Sadhana Lock needs Android's accessibility service to know which app just came to the foreground. That is a serious permission, so here is exactly what it is allowed to do — every claim is checkable in the app's manifest.
- ✓The service is declared unable to read window content. It cannot see your messages, your passwords or anything you type.
- ✓It listens for one event — a window changing — and reads one thing: the package name of the app in front.
- ✓An account is optional. The whole app works without one. Sign in with Google only if you want your practice carried to a new phone.
- ✓The apps you guard never leave your phone. That list is the most revealing thing here, and it is excluded from the backup even when you are signed in.
- ✓Anonymous diagnostics, and a switch to stop them. Crash reports and plain counts go to Firebase so we can catch phones that silently kill the lock. They never say which app you opened.
- ✓No advertising, no data sold, and nothing shared with a third party for their own purposes.
Pricing
The lock is free. Forever.
Not a trial, and not a hostage situation: guarding your apps, the ritual, your japa and the whole Bhagavad Gītā cost nothing and never stop working. Plus opens the rest of the shelf, and you can cancel it in two taps.
Free
₹0A complete daily practice, not a demo.
- ✳Guard up to 4 apps
- ✳3 practice times — the three sandhya hours
- ✳The complete Bhagavad Gītā, in every language
- ✳The full ritual, japa, the diya and verse sharing
- ✳A month of practice history
Sadhana Plus
₹499 a yearor ₹99 a month · cancel any time
- ✳Unlimited apps and unlimited practice times
- ✳Three more sacred books — 64 further verses
- ✳Every reading plan, the nine Navratri days included
- ✳Your whole practice history, not only the last month
Get the app
Begin where you are.
Guard four apps, keep the three sandhya hours, and read the whole Gītā — without paying anything.
In closed testing now · Requires Android 8.0 or later · ask to be told when it lands