Privacy: Nitya Gita

Last updated: 21 April 2026

I built Nitya Gita because I wanted to read one Bhagavad Gita verse each morning without opening an app that tries to sell me something. So the privacy story is short:

Nothing you do in Nitya Gita is sent to me, tracked, or sold to anyone.

Offline by design

Nitya Gita does not declare the INTERNET permission. Android physically blocks the app from making any network request. The whole Bhagavad Gita — 700 verses, 18 chapters, Devanagari, IAST transliteration, and an English translation — ships bundled inside the APK.

What stays on your device

A handful of things live in your phone’s local storage. They never leave:

Verses you mark as favorite, kept in the app’s local Room database
Your preferences: light/dark theme, text size, whether the daily reminder is on, and what time it fires
The date → verse mapping that decides “today’s shloka” (a short cached index)

Uninstall the app and all of the above disappears with it.

What actually leaves your device

Nothing. Really — there is no network code path in the app. In airplane mode every feature still works. Shareable verse cards are rendered on-device; they only travel through Android’s system share sheet when you choose to send one yourself.

Permissions, explained

The AndroidManifest.xml asks for exactly two permissions:

POST_NOTIFICATIONS (Android 13+), so the optional daily reminder can appear. You grant or deny this yourself; denying it just silently disables the reminder.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, so the reminder and home-screen widget can reschedule themselves after your phone reboots. No network call happens in the boot path.

The app does not ask for INTERNET, location, camera, microphone, storage, or contacts.

Things Nitya Gita deliberately doesn’t do

No analytics. No crash reporting. No “anonymous usage stats.” No account. No cloud sync. No ads, in-app purchases, affiliate links, or tracking SDKs of any kind. If someone ever offers to buy this app and asks to change that, I’ll say no.

Content attributions

Sanskrit source: github.com/gita/gita (Unlicense / public-domain equivalent)
English translation: Swami Sivananda, The Bhagavad Gita (Divine Life Society). Public domain in India under Section 22 of the Copyright Act, 1957.
Devanagari font: Noto Serif Devanagari (SIL Open Font License)
Latin fonts: EB Garamond (SIL Open Font License)

Kids

The app contains only scriptural verses in Sanskrit and English. It collects no data from anyone, including children.

When this changes

Any change to what data leaves your device (ideally still nothing) will ship in the same commit that bumps the date at the top of this file. The freshest copy always lives at the URL in the Play Store listing.

Questions or bugs

Open an issue on the public repo for this site: https://github.com/iamarunbrahma/nitya-gita-site/issues. I see everything that gets filed there.