Consumer app / iPhone / lifestyle
Sumuhurta_
An iPhone app that reads the best hours of your day from your chart, and shows them as one screen.
- My role
- Product designer
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 17.0 or later
- Released
- August 2026
- Price
- Two weeks free, then one purchase
- Developer
- Colorblast LLC
- Status
- Live on the App Store
Summary
Sumuhurta answers one question, when today is good for you, and answers it as one screen.
The screen is the sky. It moves from dawn through noon to dusk and true dark, and personal windows sit in it as spans of light, one to three in each sunrise-to-sunrise cycle.
The app calls itself tradition and guidance, not prediction: it does not read the future, match compatibility or explain personality.
How it works
- The calculation. The birth chart is one input to a traditional timing calculation: the app reads choghadiya, hora and the abhijit muhurta against your dasha period, the Moon’s position and the hour’s ruling planet.
- What it avoids. Every personal window is calculated to avoid Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika and the Kaal, Rog and Udveg choghadiya periods, and the rest of the day is left as open sky.
- Plain names. A clear run is long and sustained, for deep work. Sharp is short and bright, for sending and deciding. Steady is even, for meetings and slower work. Beneath, a quiet attribution such as Sun hora · Amrit serves readers who know Jyotish.
- Setup. A birth date, a birth time and a place. Birth time can be exact, approximate or unknown: roughly a third of people don’t know theirs, and the app still works from the solar day and the Moon.
- Quiet alerts. The window-open alert covers the primary window only, a 15-minute warning is off by default, and secondary windows never exceed three a day.
The design
The home screen is a single gradient sky, deep blue warming toward brown. The window’s name sits in small letterspaced capitals and its time in large serif numerals, with one plain line beneath: “59 minutes. Even light. For anything that matters.” A day line of fine ticks runs from sunrise to the next sunrise.
The rest of the app keeps the same dark ground and two voices: serif for times, dates and headings, small capitals for labels. Controls stay quiet: translucent pill buttons, wheel pickers and simple switches.
The window also travels beyond the app, as a share card signed From my chart and as a home screen widget.
Privacy and price
- On the phone. Everything is computed on the phone, and birth details never leave it: no account, email, sign-in, advertising or analytics SDK. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
- Calendar on request. Calendar access is asked for only when meetings on the day line is turned on.
- One price, once. Two weeks free, no card required. After the trial the app screen stays free, and one purchase adds six widget families, StandBy, window-open alerts, a 9pm preview and a Live Activity. No subscription and no add-ons.