Ifá Oracle

**Key features**

- **Odù Cast** - the sixteen principal figures of Ifá and all 256 odù, cast with the opele chain or the sixteen palm nuts (ikin), mark by mark.
- **Four lenses** - read any odù through Creation, Crossroads, Ancestor or Character, each putting a different part of the reading first.
- **Ire or ibi** - an optional second cast asks whether the matter comes with an open road or an obstacle.
- **Sixteen cowries (Mẹ́rìndínlógún)** - the cowrie oracle of the orìṣà priests, with all seventeen falls named as the tradition records them.
- **Signs** - the original quick readings, One Sign or Three Signs (Root, Crossing, Becoming), are still here.
- **Daily trio** - the odù of the day, the day of the four-day Yoruba week and its orìṣà, and a Yoruba proverb of the day.
- **Home-screen widget** - the odù of the day with its marks, updated at midnight; tap to open the full reading.
- **Stories** - Yoruba legends retold, and passages from the myths of Ife.
- **Articles** - Ifá and the sixteen palm nuts, the divining board, Orí and character, the Yoruba week, Egúngún and more, with reference cards for the orìṣà.
- **Journal** - a week after a reading, the archive asks what happened, so you can see how a counsel played out.
- **Remembrance** - keep the names of your ancestors and remember one of them each day.
- **Share a cast** - send any odù as a picture with its marks and one line of its reading.
- **Personal archive** - every reading is saved on your device and reopens exactly as it was.
- **Offline-first** - readings, archive, stories and articles work without an internet connection.
- **Ad-free option** - one purchase removes all ads for good. Every feature is free.
- **Private** - readings, journal notes and ancestor names stay on your device.

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Ifá Oracle brings the Ifá system of divination to your phone as a symbolic, educational reading: the sixteen figures, their 256 pairings, and the ways they are cast.

Bring one real question and cast the odù with the opele chain or the sixteen palm nuts. The marks fall one by one into two columns; the right leg is read first, as the root of the matter, and the left as what grows within. Choose a lens to decide what the reading puts first, the open road, the obstacle, the counsel or Orí, the head. When a figure shares its pattern with geomancy, the app shows it and links to the same figure in Geomancy.

For a different voice, cast the sixteen cowries. The number that land mouth up names the fall, from none to sixteen.

Each day the home screen opens with the odù of the day, the day of the four-day Yoruba week, and a proverb from a collection recorded in the 1890s. Stories and articles retell the lore behind the oracle: how Ifá came by the palm nuts, Olokun's flood, the Yoruba week, Orí, the head, the belly and the toe, and the masked Egúngún who bring news of the dead.

The names, patterns and order of the figures are those of the tradition. The reading written for each figure is the app's own interpretation, not a verse of the Ifá corpus. Ifá is a living religion, recognised by UNESCO, and Ifá divination proper is performed by initiated babaláwo.

Every feature is free. The app is supported by light ads, and a single purchase removes them for good.