Karana

The prayers you know.
The meaning you were never given.

Karana is a mobile app for daily Hindu practice. Now available on both iOS and Android.

How it works

Eight great stories.
Bite-sized, start to finish.

The Mahabharata, the Gita, and more, broken into guided lessons a few minutes long. No lesson plan to follow — open the app and the next piece is already there.

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    A Gita verseSanskrit, meaning, and why it matters, one screen at a time.
  • calendar_month
    Today's festival or fasting dayWorked out from the sun and moon at your own latitude.
  • volume_up
    A mantra, line by lineRecited aloud, with what each word actually means.
  • self_improvement
    A minute of stillnessBreathwork or a guided pause, right where you are in the feed.
Karana Journeys library screen

Inside the app

The rest of what's in there.

Read however you like, sit with a guided timer, and answer for what you actually understood.

Bhagavad Gita chapter list in Karana Focus Mode showing a Gita verse in Karana

Browse, or just start reading

Pick a chapter from the contents, or drop straight into Focus Mode and keep going.

Guided meditation timer in Karana

Guided stillness, paced for you

A breathing timer with soft instruction, not just a countdown.

Story quiz on the Ramayana in Karana

Lessons that check understanding

A quiz at the end of every story, so it sticks instead of just scrolling past.

From us, personally

A note from the three of us.

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We built Karana because all three of us grew up the same way: reciting prayers we could not translate, keeping fasts we could not explain, and nodding along at festivals whose reasons lived in a book none of us had read. The tradition was never the problem. The distance to it was.

So we started writing that path back, verse by verse, festival by festival, in language we ourselves want at eighteen. Karana is still small and still ours in a very direct way — we read every message that comes in. If you download the app or write to us, you're not reaching a faceless team so much as you're meeting three people building something they wish they'd had.

Thank you for being here.

Ashmith
Pranav
Nandu
Ashmith, Pranav & Nandu Founders, Karana

Get in touch

Feedback & Support.

Have a suggestion, noticed a scripture correction, found a bug, or need help? Send us a ticket directly.

Send us a message

We read every submission personally and usually reply within 24–48 hours.

Prefer direct email? Write to ashmith@getkarana.org
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