Duongöndro

Track your meditation practice together with your friends.

End-to-end encrypted and fully open source.

  • Coming to the App Store
    iOS first. No release date yet.
  • Coming to Google Play
    Android follows iOS.

Duongöndro is invitation-only. You need an invite from a member to join.

Daily practices, with counts and rounds

Keep as many practices going at once as you do. Each has its own count, its own rounds and its own streak. Names are in Tibetan or Sanskrit first, with the English underneath.

  • Short refugeBefore ngöndro
  • Refuge and the Enlightened AttitudeProstrations
  • Dorje SempaDiamond Mind
  • Mandala offeringOne of the four ngöndro parts
  • Meditation on the LamaGuru Yoga
  • Meditation on the 8th KarmapaAfter ngöndro
  • ChenrezigLoving Eyes
  • AmitabhaMeditation on the Buddha of Limitless Light
  • Your ownA custom practice, with a name and an optional target

Only the ngöndro parts need a count. Everything else can be streak-only.

Friends see streaks. Nobody sees counts.

A streak is the number of days in a row you practised. You choose, practice by practice, whether friends can see it. Counts, rounds, totals and targets stay on your devices, sealed.

A session counts for the day it started, and the streak holds until midnight after the next day, in whichever time zone gives you more time. Travel does not break it.

Nudges from friends

When a friend finishes a practice, you get a note. When you have not, they can poke you. That is the whole social feature, and it is deliberately small. There is no member directory and no feed.

Invitation-only

A member shares an invite as a link or a QR code. It works for seven days. Opening it joins you to the person who sent it as friends. Membership in a Buddhist practice app says something about your beliefs, so nobody can look up who is in it.

Got a link but no app? The invite page shows the code to paste into the app once it is installed.

Works offline

Every count is written to your phone first and synced later. A retreat with no signal loses nothing. You can also use the app on one phone only, with no account.

Encryption, in plain words

Sealed on your phone

Sessions, counts, rounds, targets and notes are encrypted before they leave the device. The keys never leave your devices.

The server never sees a count

It stores sealed blobs it cannot open. It checks sizes and signatures and nothing else.

What it does see

Your account, display name and avatar, your friends, who invited whom, and the streaks you chose to publish. It also sees when you sync and roughly how much.

No tracking

No analytics, no trackers, no third-party fonts or scripts. This site makes no requests to anyone else.

Details are in the draft privacy policy.

Open source

You can read what the app and the server do, and check the claims above against the code.