Japa: Prayer & Mantra Count

Count any prayer or mantra — mala, rosary or tasbih — with the words in their own script, kept only on your devices.

EVERY PATH IS WELCOME HERE

Japa belongs to no single tradition. Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh and secular practices sit side by side in its built-in collection, each in the script its own tradition writes it in, with a romanisation so you can say the words either way. It counts a mala of 108 as readily as a rosary of 50, a tasbih of 33 or 99, a psalm, a metta phrase, a line of dhikr, an affirmation you wrote yourself, or four rounds of breath. Whatever you write is yours, exactly as you wrote it.

Japa is a quiet place for the words you return to. Pick a prayer, a mantra, an affirmation, a passage of scripture, or a breath practice. Keep its full text with you. Then tap a large, calm counter and let the counting take care of itself.

WHAT JAPA DOES

• Tap to count. A big, haptic counter you can find without looking down.
• Keep the words close. The full text stays on screen while you recite.
• Count without keeping it. A quick counter that opens at zero and saves
nothing — for a round you do not need recorded.
• Start from the collection. Traditional prayers, mantras and phrases from many
traditions, in their own script with a romanisation — or write your own.
• Keep the holy days. Navaratri, Ramadan, Lent, Vesak and more bring their
practices to Today at their traditional counts for as long as they run — and
show the whole program, day by day, before you add one.
• Count the beads. The big number is what is in hand and starts again each
round — with an optional bell that sounds even when the ringer is off.
• Breathe. A tab of its own: five paced rhythms or one you write, a sitting as
long as you like, and a cue at each turn.
• Set the goal in beads and rounds — or no beads at all, and a number of your
own.
• See your day, and every day. Totals, completed practices, a gentle streak, and
a calendar of everything behind it.
• Undo or reset today. Slips happen; your earlier history stays untouched.
• Build a library. Search, favorite, edit and organize every practice you keep.
• Take it with you. Export everything you have written, whenever you like.
• Count from your wrist. An Apple Watch app for everyone, with its own haptics
and a complication — it keeps counting with the phone out of range.
• Count from the Home Screen. Widgets with a button that counts without
opening the app, a Live Activity on the Lock Screen while you practice, and
Siri phrases. Or turn on the volume buttons and count from a pocket.
• See your time. Each sitting's minutes, on the day and in your history.

A GENTLE INTENTION, NEVER A REQUIREMENT

A daily goal in Japa is something to move toward, not a debt. Nothing nags you, nothing is lost when you miss a day, and resetting today never touches the days behind it. The streak is there if it helps you, and quietly ignorable if it does not.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No account. No sign-in. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. Your practices and their words are stored only on your device — and, if you turn on iCloud sync, in your own private iCloud — and Japa collects nothing at all. You can export the lot to a readable file at any time.

MADE WITH CARE

• Light and dark appearances, chosen in the app or left to the system
• Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion supported throughout
• 33 interface languages, switchable inside the app
• Built for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Free: unlimited counting on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, three saved practices, preset breathing exercises and seven days of history. Japa Lifetime is one purchase for unlimited practices, complete history, iCloud sync, observance programmes and custom breathing rhythms. Existing users keep their previous free allowance. No subscription.