SutraDay — Sutra before scroll

Three gentle steps

A practice, a mindful unlock and a dedication: a few quiet minutes that close a full practice cycle.

Practice

Say what you need today (ease anxiety, meet anger, hold grief, find focus, settle for sleep, scroll less) and choose a tradition, or Secular. SutraDay suggests a sutra, mantra or breathing practice.
Mindful unlock

Your practice has bloomed a lotus at your bodhi tree. You can spend it later to open an app you have paused; that part is optional.
Dedicate the merit

Offer the practice to yourself, a loved one, someone who is sick, or all beings.

Thirty-seven canonical texts from the Mahayana, Theravada, Zen and Tibetan traditions, set the way a chanting book prints them.

The Heart Sutra in Xuanzang's Chinese translation, with pinyin above every character
The full eighty-four-line Great Compassion Dharani
The Metta Bhavana in Pali, the Four Great Vows in Japanese, the Seven-Line Prayer in Tibetan
Every text shows its source, translator, licence and editorial status, and says plainly whether it is scripture or a practice SutraDay wrote
A suggested daily count for each text, with a tally that starts fresh each day

Entirely optional. Choose one app of your own; when you open it, SutraDay shows a mindful pause first.

Practice and you earn a lotus. Spend one on 5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes of that app, on purpose.
Self-applied only: SutraDay cannot watch or restrict anyone else's phone.
On iPhone it uses Apple's Screen Time permission, and SutraDay never sees which apps you have.
On Android it uses Usage Access and the "appear on top" permission to show the pause; only the app you select is saved, and nothing leaves your device.
Everything else in SutraDay works whether or not you ever turn it on.

Your bodhi tree grows with each day you practice. It remembers your practice instead of grading it.

SutraDay works entirely on your phone. Nothing you do leaves it. On iPhone you can choose to sign in and back up.

No account needed: Open the app and begin. On iPhone, signing in is optional and only for backup.
No ads, no analytics: We don't track what you read, when you practice, or which apps you pause.
Encrypted backup: On iPhone, an optional backup we cannot read, plus a few practice totals (such as your streak and lotus count), restores your garden on a new device. Delete it in the app any time.

Free to download on iPhone and Android. Everything on this page is free.