Muhurtha — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 October 2026

The short version

This policy covers Muhurtha on iPhone, iPad and Android. Muhurtha collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no ads, and no third-party tracking or crash-reporting SDKs. The app makes no network calls at all for the Panchang. Every calculation runs on your device, and nothing you enter leaves it unless you explicitly share it.

There is no server

Muhurtha carries its own astronomical engine and its own festival rules. It does not download a calendar, check for dates, or call an API to answer a question. There is no backend for me to run, which means there is nothing for me to store about you and nothing to be breached.

Your data stays on your device

Saved locations, the birth details you enter under You & family, which festival traditions you follow, your reminder preferences and your chosen month system are stored in the app's own storage on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone. They are never sent anywhere, and I cannot access them. Deleting the app removes them.

Birth details

The dates, times, places and names you enter for yourself or your family are treated like any other setting: stored locally, never transmitted, never backed up to a service of mine. They exist so the app can work out a nakshatra and tell you when a tithi comes round. That calculation happens on the device.

Location

Sunrise, sunset and every window in the Panchang depend on where you are, so the app asks for your location while in use. The coordinates are used on the device to compute the day and are not sent anywhere. You can refuse the permission and pick a city by hand instead — the app is fully usable that way, and ships with a bundled list of cities so search works offline.

City search and naming your location

Searching the bundled city list is entirely offline.

iPhone and iPad: if you search for somewhere not in that list and you have a network connection, the app asks Apple's own geocoder on your device to resolve the name. That request goes to Apple, not to me, under Apple's privacy policy. Nothing else about you accompanies it.

Android: when you tap Use my location, the app asks Android's built-in geocoder for the name of the place you are in, so it can show "Mumbai" rather than coordinates. On most phones that lookup is handled by Google Play services, so your coordinates may be sent to Google, under Google's privacy policy, and not to me. If it cannot be reached, the app falls back to the nearest city in its bundled list.

Notifications and countdowns

Reminders for Rahu Kaal, fasts, festivals, Brahma Muhurat, moonrise and the sunrise Panchang are scheduled locally by your device: with Apple's UserNotifications framework on iPhone and iPad, and with Android's alarm and notification system on Android. There are no push notifications, so there is no device token and no server sending you anything. The optional countdown while a window such as Rahu Kaal is running is a Lock Screen Live Activity on iPhone and an ongoing notification on Android; both run entirely on the device. On Android the app also asks to be told when the phone restarts, only so it can schedule your reminders again.

Calendar

Adding festivals and fasts to your calendar is optional and happens only when you ask for it.

iPhone and iPad: the app asks for write-only calendar access and creates the events in a calendar you pick. It cannot read your existing events, and the permission iOS grants it does not allow that.

Android: Android has no write-only calendar permission, so the app asks for calendar read and write access. It uses it for exactly two things: to find a calendar on your phone it can add events to, and to add, update or remove the events it created itself (each is tagged with the app's name). It does not read the titles, times or details of your other events, and nothing it reads leaves your device.

Widgets

The Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets on iPhone read the same locally computed Panchang through a private App Group shared with the app. The Android home-screen widget is drawn by the app itself from the same local calculation. That data never leaves your device.

Backups

Your phone's own backup may include the app's settings, such as saved places and birth details, if you have backup turned on: iCloud Backup on iPhone and iPad, Google's backup on Android. That is a feature of your device and your Apple or Google account, under their terms, and is separate from the app. I never receive a copy and cannot read it. You can turn it off in your device's settings.

Sharing

Anything you share from the app, including share cards, CSV and PDF files, is handed to the iOS or Android share sheet. Where it goes from there — Messages, WhatsApp, Notes — is entirely your choice. The app never sends it anywhere itself.

Purchases

There are none. Muhurtha is free, with no in-app purchases, no subscription and no advertising.

Permissions, in one place

Approximate location (to find your sunrise), notifications (for reminders), and calendar access (only if you use Add to Calendar). Every one is optional and the app works without it. On Android there is also the permission to be told when the phone has restarted, used only to reschedule reminders.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date. Since the app has no server, any change would come with an app update you choose to install.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the app: Support.