Vignanam
Indian Spiritual Literature
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Welcome to Vignanam, the official app for vignanam.org—your comprehensive guide to the beauty and depth of Sanātana Dharma. Brought to you by Vaidika Vignanam, our app offers an enriched experience of Indian cultural knowledge and devotional literature, now presented in a beautifully redesigned and intuitive interface.
Available in 20+ Indian languages.
Your Daily Spiritual and Devotional Companion
• Start your day on a positive note with Subhāṣhitams and share with your friends - quotes, and excerpts from large bodies of Indian texts, with their translations.
• View the daily Panchāñga featuring auspicious times and daily Sankalpa for your city, anywhere in the world.
• Take your favorite collection anywhere with Offline Favorite access that is available without an Internet connection.
Stay up to date with Indian Festivals
• Never miss an Indian festival with push notifications for all festivals, and with upcoming festivals within the app and with widgets.
• Learn more about the Indian festival with detailed information about Indian Festivals, with easier access to related stōtras for each festival.
• Tailor your notification preferences to receive daily Panchāñga summaries, reminders for important festivals, or set custom personal events, with alerts for tithi and nakshastra and masa.
Discover and Search with Ease
• Smart Global Search: Search across all documents, Subhāṣitams, festivals, articles, and categories with our powerful search tool.
• Simply type in a phrase like “ayigiri nandini” or a title such as “mahishasura mardini” to quickly locate what you need.
• Recent searches and helpful snippets make it easier than ever to find your desired content.
Learn to chant powerful Indian hymns
• Discover an improved document details screen with in-document search, pagination, settings view, and a seamless switching to other documents within the category.
• Read Vedic texts with svaras correctly marked in all Indian languages.
• Listen to the audio and read the meanings for selected stōtras, with our redesigned audio player, which has quick access to playlists and adjustable playback speeds.
• Learn how to chant the ślōkas and stōtras with the Śikṣha Learning Series, with detailed pronunciation guides in Indian languages, only available within the Vignanam app.
more - Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for favorite stōtras and documents.
- Create your own Collections; explore, save, share, and download public Collections for offline reading and listening.
- A new Library reminder highlights Collections, Continue Reading, and Reading History.
- The redesigned Library brings together Favorites, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus smoother search, audio, sign-in, and startup.
5.3.6 17 Sept
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for favorite stōtras and documents.
- Create your own Collections; explore, save, share, and download public Collections for offline reading and listening.
- A new Library reminder highlights Collections, Continue Reading, and Reading History.
- The redesigned Library brings together Favorites, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus smoother search, audio, sign-in, and startup.
5.3.5 12 Sept
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for favorite stōtras and documents.
- Create your own Collections; explore, save, share, and download public Collections for offline reading and listening.
- A new Library reminder highlights Collections, Continue Reading, and Reading History.
- The redesigned Library brings together Favorites, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus smoother search, audio, sign-in, and startup.
5.3.4 3 Sept
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for favorite stōtras and documents.
- Create your own Collections; explore, save, share, and download public Collections for offline reading and listening.
- A new Library reminder highlights Collections, Continue Reading, and Reading History.
- The redesigned Library brings together Favorites, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus smoother search, audio, sign-in, and startup.
5.3.3 31 Aug
- This maintenance update refreshes the Vignanam app build without changing its existing features or experience.
5.3.2 28 Aug
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for your favorite texts.
- Create and arrange your own Collections; explore, save, and share public ones.
- Download Collections for offline reading and listening.
- The redesigned Library unites Continue Reading, Favorites, Reading History, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus a clearer Membership journey and smoother search, loading, audio, sign-in, and session recovery.
5.3.1 26 Aug
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for your favorite texts.
- Create and arrange your own Collections; explore, save, and share public ones.
- Download Collections for offline reading and listening.
- The redesigned Library unites Continue Reading, Favorites, Reading History, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus a clearer Membership journey and smoother search, loading, audio playback, sign-in, and startup.
5.3.0 22 Aug
- Improved Odia scripture rendering.
- Improved Indic text wrapping for anusvara marks.
- Improved search reliability.
- Improved city search and selection.
- Improved home screen widget reliability.
- Improved app connectivity and stability.
5.2.0 24 Jun
Improved content loading, reliability, and app stability.
5.1.0 29 May
This release improves Vignanam reliability and navigation.
- Better document reading and in-app document link handling
- More reliable app links and deep-link behavior
- Improved audio playback, downloads, and playlist state handling
- More robust push notification handling and device token refresh
- General stability, security, and release-infrastructure improvements
5.0.5 26 May
• Introducing AudioSync!
• Read along as you listen with real-time, precise line-by-line highlighting.
• Enjoy automatic scrolling that keeps your place without needing to swipe.
• Switch between languages seamlessly while staying in sync with the audio.
• You can now add document audio to your playlist without needing to play it first.
• Removed the auto-addition of now-playing audio to the playlist. You can explicitly curate your now-playing playlist by adding the audios you like.
5.0.4 21 Jan
• Introducing AudioSync! - We are proud to bring you the AudioSync feature, a major milestone for Vignanam!
• Read along as you listen with real-time, precise line-by-line highlighting.
• Enjoy automatic scrolling that keeps your place without needing to swipe.
• Switch between languages seamlessly while staying in sync with the audio.
• A smoother, more immersive learning experience for stotrams and scriptures.
• You can now add document audio to your playlist without needing to play it first.
• Improved offline and background audio playback for a smoother listening experience.
• Added quick shortcuts to the Panchanga info screen and Share Vignanam options in the Settings page.
• Fixed an issue where some users were seeing a grey screen in Search.
• You can now easily share articles, including festivals and panchanga information, with your friends.
• Updated formatting for Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy screens
• Updated playlist interface to make it easier to use.
5.0.3 09/12/2025
• Introducing AudioSync! - We are proud to bring you the AudioSync feature, a major milestone for Vignanam!
• Read along as you listen with real-time, precise line-by-line highlighting.
• Enjoy automatic scrolling that keeps your place without needing to swipe.
• Switch between languages seamlessly while staying in sync with the audio.
• A smoother, more immersive learning experience for stotrams and scriptures.
• You can now add document audio to your playlist without needing to play it first.
• Improved offline and background audio playback for a smoother listening experience.
• Added quick shortcuts to the Panchanga info screen and Share Vignanam options in the Settings page.
• Fixed an issue where some users were seeing a grey screen in Search.
• You can now easily share articles, including festivals and panchanga information, with your friends.
• Updated formatting for Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy screens
• Updated playlist interface to make it easier to use.
5.0.2 28/11/2025
• Introducing AudioSync! - We are proud to bring you the AudioSync feature, a major milestone for Vignanam!
• Read along as you listen with real-time, precise line-by-line highlighting.
• Enjoy automatic scrolling that keeps your place without needing to swipe.
• Switch between languages seamlessly while staying in sync with the audio.
• A smoother, more immersive learning experience for stotrams and scriptures.
• You can now add document audio to your playlist without needing to play it first.
• Improved offline and background audio playback for a smoother listening experience.
• Added quick shortcuts to the Panchanga info screen and Share Vignanam options in the Settings page.
• Fixed an issue where some users were seeing a grey screen in Search.
• You can now easily share articles, including festivals and panchanga information, with your friends.
• Updated formatting for Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy screens
• Updated playlist interface to make it easier to use.
5.0 24/11/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Fixed some bugs with downloads and widgets data updates.
4.5.5 03/09/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
4.5.4 26/08/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
4.5.3 13/08/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
4.5.2 08/08/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
4.5.1 05/08/2025
• Updated deep linking scheme inside the app for documents, categories, subhāṣitams, and panchāṅgam items.
• Corrected an issue that prevented profile pictures from loading for users who sign in with Google.
• Added local caching for the audio player to minimize buffering and deliver smoother playback.
4.5 30/07/2025
Bug fixes and some minor improvements
4.3 06/05/2025
Bug fixes and some minor improvements
4.2 18/04/2025
A Fresh New Look:
• Completely redesigned app for improved responsiveness and ease of use.
• Redesigned home screen with an emphasis on making festival and category names clearer.
• A new bottom navigation bar, complete with labels for each screen for extra clarity.
• Consolidated all settings into one place, conveniently accessible from the new bottom menu
Enhanced Features:
• The festival details screen now features a user-friendly tab bar, making related documents easily accessible.
• The document details screen now allows you to view other documents within the same category, and you can navigate to the next document with a simple tap.
• Subhashitam details screen now clearly shows related categories and all subhashitams.
• The redesigned full-screen audio player offers easy access to playlist and speed controls.
• The updated document settings screen now includes pagination, in-document search, and a seamless switch between reading view and settings view.
• Upgraded tithi reminders to personal events, which now have support for nakshatra events, visible in your Panchanga calendar.
Smarter Search:
• Global search has received a major upgrade. It can now search across all documents, Subhashitams, festivals, articles, and categories.
• Simply search with what you remember – a phrase like "ayigiri nandini" or a title like "mahishasura mardini."
• See recent search results to pick up where you left off, and preview results with helpful snippets to quickly find the right match.
4.1 21/02/2025
A Fresh New Look:
• Completely redesigned app for improved responsiveness and ease of use.
• Redesigned home screen with an emphasis on making festival and category names clearer.
• A new bottom navigation bar, complete with labels for each screen for extra clarity.
• Consolidated all settings into one place, conveniently accessible from the new bottom menu
Enhanced Features:
• The festival details screen now features a user-friendly tab bar, making related documents easily accessible.
• The document details screen now allows you to view other documents within the same category, and you can navigate to the next document with a simple tap.
• Subhashitam details screen now clearly shows related categories and all subhashitams.
• The redesigned full-screen audio player offers easy access to playlist and speed controls.
• The updated document settings screen now includes pagination, in-document search, and a seamless switch between reading view and settings view.
• Upgraded tithi reminders to personal events, which now have support for nakshatra events, visible in your Panchanga calendar.
Smarter Search:
• Global search has received a major upgrade. It can now search across all documents, Subhashitams, festivals, articles, and categories.
• Simply search with what you remember – a phrase like "ayigiri nandini" or a title like "mahishasura mardini."
• See recent search results to pick up where you left off, and preview results with helpful snippets to quickly find the right match.
4.0 12/02/2025
Updated the app and widgets to work well with the new iOS update
3.4.0 11/07/2024
- Introducing Collections: personal folders and custom playlists for favorite stōtras and documents.
- Create your own Collections; explore, save, share, and download public Collections for offline reading and listening.
- A new Library reminder highlights Collections, Continue Reading, and Reading History.
- The redesigned Library brings together Favorites, Downloads, and Saved Collections.
- Plus smoother search, audio, sign-in, and startup.
more Version 5.3.6 17 Sept
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