Last updated: 29 July 2026
Gujarati Calendar 2026 is a daily panchang and calendar app for Gujarati speakers. It is published by MD TECH and listed on the App Store under the developer name Ankur Dhameliya. It has been on the stores since April 2021 and has passed 50,000 downloads on Google Play.
Most people open a Gujarati calendar to answer one of a small number of questions. What tithi is it. Is today ekadashi. When is the next good choghadiya. What time is sunrise. Are the banks open. Is there a festival this week.
Those questions used to be answered by a printed panchang pinned to a wall, and for a lot of households they still are. The app exists to do the same job on a phone, in Gujarati, without needing a signal — because the household that most wants a panchang is often not the household with the most reliable data connection.
Everything except the news section works with no internet connection. The news needs one, because it fetches new articles.
Panchang figures are astronomical calculations, and astronomical calculations are location-specific. Sunrise in Ahmedabad is not sunrise in Rajkot, and because choghadiya, rahukaal and the tithi-at-sunrise rule are all derived from sunrise, a difference of a few minutes in the input produces a difference in everything downstream.
The app publishes timings for major reference cities. If you are somewhere else, the nearest listed city is an approximation, and it is worth knowing that it is one.
There is a second and more important limit. Panchang traditions genuinely differ. Which tithi "owns" a calendar day, when a particular vrat should be kept, whether rahukaal is computed from a fixed table or from actual local sunrise — these are questions on which reputable sources disagree, and have disagreed for a very long time. A one-day difference between this app and your family's panchang is not necessarily an error in either.
Where they differ, follow your family's tradition. An app is a convenience. It is not an authority over your household's practice, and it is not trying to be.
The app is entirely in Gujarati — tithis, months, festival names, rashifal, kathas and aartis are all in the Gujarati script. This website is in English so that people searching in transliteration, which is how a great many people search on a phone, can still find the app and the explanations. The guides section gives the Gujarati script alongside the English throughout, so it also works as a bridge for readers who know the practice but not the terminology, or the other way around.
The app is free to download and free to use. It is supported by ads. An optional Premium subscription is available as an in-app purchase — see the pricing section for the current App Store prices, and pricing.md for a machine-readable version. Subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google, not by us, and can be cancelled in your account settings at any time.
Support, corrections and feature requests all go to the same place: app-support@md-tech.in. If you have spotted a genuine error in a date or timing, please say which date, which city and which panchang you are comparing against — that makes it fixable.
Common questions about subscriptions, restoring purchases and data are answered on the support page.
