Irumudi ఇరుముడి · Ayyappa Deeksha companion app
Your Ayyappa Deeksha, Supported Every Step of the Way.
Keep your Deeksha days, read the Saranam, plan your Sabarimala trip, set reminders that follow the sun, and find food and puja dates, in six languages, all in one simple app.
Available now on Google Play and the App Store
Your Deeksha
Day 18 of 41, at a glance
Pick 1 to 365 days (41 is the default) and the date you really began. Home shows today’s day, how many days are left and a quiet progress bar.
Every day
A card for each day
Slide through your days, three at a time, from the first to the last. Mark a day when you choose, and change your start date if you began on a different day. It is never ranked against anyone.
Saranam
22 Ayyappa texts, ready offline
Harivarasanam, Ayyappa Saranu Ghosha, the 108 names, the puja texts and more. They are inside the app, so they open with no signal. Search by title or by any word.
Reader
Telugu, English, Malayalam, Tamil
Switch script in one tap, or choose “Mix with English” to follow every two lines with the same two lines in English letters. Four text sizes, and the screen stays awake while you read.
Puja Vidhanam
The puja guide, in six languages
A full Puja Vidhanam guide in Telugu, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi. Read it page by page, zoom in, or send the PDF to another app.
Sabarimala
Plan your trip
Set your trip date and see the countdown, pick a route, and tick off an irumudi and a packing checklist. Travel and Explore cards show how to reach the area and what is near it.
Reminders
An hour before sunrise and sunset
Morning and evening reminders can follow the sun, or ring at fixed times. Choose how often it repeats, and your own sound if you like. Trip reminders can ring a week and a day before you go.
Share
Share your day as a picture
A picture card of “Day N of T”. Day 1 has its own picture, and the days after it go through a set of Ayyappa pictures, or use your own photo and move it to fit.
Swami names
The 18 names of the Deeksha years
A Swami is called by a name that depends on how many times the Deeksha has been taken. See all 18, each with its picture and its name in your language.
Languages
The whole app in six languages
English, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi, chosen on the first screen and changeable any time from the menu.
- 22Saranam texts inside the app
- 4scripts for every text
- 6app languages
- up to 365days in a journey
- 0accounts to create
A companion, not an authority. Irumudi supports devotees through their Deeksha. It does not speak for any temple or organisation, and it never marks a day for you.
Every feature
Everything the app does today
Each card is something you can open in the app now. Where content depends on what has been published, the card says so. The full guide with screenshots.
Your Deeksha
The days, the habits and the reminders that keep you on track.
The Deeksha tracker
Choose 1 to 365 days (41 by default), enter your true start date and see today’s day on a glowing card.
Read more about The Deeksha trackerCheck-ins and the journey calendar
Mark a day complete yourself, undo a slip, and see the whole journey on one calendar.
Read more about Check-ins and the journey calendarDay by day, a card for each
A sideways strip of day cards, days to go, percentage done and a picture grid with one picture for each day.
Read more about Day by day, a card for eachA checklist you shape
Four neutral starters you can rename, reorder, hide or remove. Ticks are kept for each day.
Read more about A checklist you shapeMorning and evening reminders
Follow the sun or choose fixed times, with repeat, snooze and your own sound.
Read more about Morning and evening remindersSaranam counter
A big count button with a target of 108, 1,008 or a number of your own.
Read more about Saranam counterShare your day
A picture card of “Day N of T” or of a Pradakshana, to send or save.
Read more about Share your dayRead and learn
Saranam texts, the Puja Vidhanam guide, guides for the pilgrimage and the Swami names.
Saranam: Ayyappa texts
22 texts, among them Harivarasanam, Ayyappa Saranu Ghosha, the 108 names and the puja texts, inside the app.
Read more about Saranam: Ayyappa textsOne text, four scripts
Telugu, English letters, Malayalam and Tamil, each kept as its own version.
Read more about One text, four scriptsPuja Vidhanam guide
A full puja guide in Telugu, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi.
Read more about Puja Vidhanam guidePilgrimage guide and Deeksha guidelines
Seven short chapters for a first pilgrimage, and 27 guidelines for the Deeksha.
Read more about Pilgrimage guide and Deeksha guidelinesThe 18 Swami names
The names a Swami is called by, according to how many times the Deeksha has been taken.
Read more about The 18 Swami namesListen and sing
Music and karaoke, played within each source’s rules.
Sabarimala and around you
Plan the trip, find Annadanam and Padi Pooja, walk the Pradakshana and see the sun and weather.
Plan your Sabarimala trip
A trip date with a countdown, a route, your stops, and checklists for the irumudi and the packing.
Read more about Plan your Sabarimala tripTravel and Explore
How to reach Sabarimala, and well-known places around it.
Read more about Travel and ExploreAnnadanam and meals
A checked list, nearest first, with meal, open-now and distance filters.
Read more about Annadanam and mealsPadi Pooja dates
Upcoming pujas with date, time and whether lunch or dinner is served.
Read more about Padi Pooja datesPradakshana
A stopwatch with pause and a round counter for your walk around the temple.
Read more about PradakshanaSun and weather
Sunrise and sunset on Home, and the weather for the week when you ask for it.
Read more about Sun and weatherYours alone
Language, privacy, news and the things you can take with you.
Alerts and offers
Messages from the Irumudi team, and shop offers published by the team, when there are any.
Read more about Alerts and offersSix app languages
English, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi, for the whole app.
Read more about Six app languagesYour picture, and the weekday paintings
Put your own picture at the top of the menu, and see a different Ayyappa painting each day.
Read more about Your picture, and the weekday paintingsWith the blessings of a Guru Swami
A page in the menu for Rajesh Guru Swami Garu of Hyderabad.
Read more about With the blessings of a Guru SwamiA short guide to the app
A six-step guide opens over Home the first time, and can be replayed any time.
Read more about A short guide to the appUpdate notices
A gentle notice when a newer version is available.
Read more about Update noticesWorks offline
Your journey, the Saranam texts, the Puja Vidhanam guide and anything you downloaded work with no signal.
Read more about Works offlineYour data stays with you
No account. Export your journeys and lists to a file, and bring them back.
Read more about Your data stays with youThe journey
Your Deeksha days, kept simple
The day number comes from your start date. Marking a day is something you do, never something the app does for you.
Day 1 of 41
Shown for 41 days, the default length. You can choose any length from 1 to 365.
- Choose your days and start date. Started already? Enter the true date and the app finds today’s day.
- See today. The day follows the calendar, so a missed day never changes the day number.
- Mark days when you choose. Opening the app does not mark anything. You can undo a mistake.
- Reach your last day. A quiet summary closes the journey. It is never ranked against anyone.
Saranam
Four scripts, one text
Every one of the 22 texts is written out in Telugu, in English letters, in Malayalam and in Tamil, as four separate versions. The English is a transliteration, so it reads the same words aloud. It is not a translation.
Try it: the first verse of Harivarasanam
హరివరాసనం విశ్వమోహనం
హరిదధీశ్వరం ఆరాధ్యపాదుకమ్ ।
అరివిమర్దనం నిత్యనర్తనం
హరిహరాత్మజం దేవమాశ్రయే
harivarāsanaṃ viśvamōhanam
haridadhīśvaraṃ ārādhyapādukam ।
arivimardanaṃ nityanartanam
hariharātmajaṃ dēvamāśrayē
ഹരിവരാസനം വിശ്വമോഹനമ്
ഹരിദധീശ്വരം ആരാധ്യപാദുകമ് ।
അരിവിമര്ദനം നിത്യനര്തനമ്
ഹരിഹരാത്മജം ദേവമാശ്രയേ
ஹரிவராஸனம் விஶ்வமோஹனம்
ஹரித³தீ⁴ஶ்வரம் ஆராத்⁴யபாது³கம் ।
அரிவிமர்த³னம் நித்யனர்தனம்
ஹரிஹராத்மஜம் தே³வமாஶ்ரயே
All the Saranam texts
Open any text on this site to read it in all four scripts.
Learn
The puja guide, in six languages
The Puja Vidhanam guide opens from a card on Home in Telugu, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada or Hindi. Read it page by page, zoom in, or send the PDF to another app. It is inside the app, so it needs no signal. Two short guides, for a first pilgrimage and for the Deeksha, sit beside it.
Sabarimala
Plan the pilgrimage in one place
Set your trip date and see the countdown and the day of your Deeksha you will be on. Choose a route, add your stops, and tick off an irumudi checklist and a packing checklist. Travel and Explore cards show how to reach the area and well-known places near it. With reminders on, the app rings a week before, the day before and on the day.
Confirm before you travel. The guides and checklists are provisional, distances are straight lines, and the season dates are only expected dates until you enter the ones from the Devaswom Board. Forest paths open and close with the season.
Swami names
The 18 names of the Deeksha years
A Swami is called by a name that depends on how many times the Deeksha has been taken, from Kanne Swami to Narikela Swami. Each card has a picture, the name in your language and the name in English, and a tap shows the picture large with the name in the other languages. Some names, and their order, differ between Guru Swami traditions, so please confirm the list with your own Guru Swami.
First start
A few taps and you are on Day 1
Choose a language, your number of days and the day you begin, then decide about reminders. You can skip any step you do not want. A short guide then opens over Home, and you can replay it from the menu any time.
Listening and singing
Listening, done within the rules
Songs can play through YouTube’s own embedded player, with its controls and advertising. That needs the internet. A playing video can float over the app while you look around, and it stops when you leave the app.
Irumudi never downloads or extracts audio or video from YouTube, and never plays it in the background. Audio that its rights holder has cleared keeps playing when you leave the song, can play in the background with controls on the lock screen, and can be saved on your phone. If a video will not play, the app says why and offers a link to open it in YouTube.
Coming later
In-app sing-along with moving lyrics, voice recording and Google Drive backup are planned for a later version. A recording will hold your voice only, never the backing music.
See what is comingOffline
What works without a signal
Your journey, the Saranam texts and the Puja Vidhanam guide live on your phone. Shared content needs a connection to download first.
| Works without internet | Needs internet |
|---|---|
| Your tracker, check-ins, checklist and Saranam counter | Downloading songs, listings and Padi Pooja dates the first time, and later updates |
| The Saranam texts, in all four scripts, and the Puja Vidhanam guide in six languages | Playing a YouTube video |
| Pradakshana, reminders, your trip plan and sharing your day | Opening directions in a maps app, and the weather for the week |
| Listings and dates already downloaded (they may be out of date) | Re-checking the rights of a downloaded song, every 30 days |
Annadanam and Padi Pooja
Find a meal or a puja, nearest first
Choose a city or share your location once, and the lists show the nearest first. Filter by meal, by “open now” and by distance. Each listing shows whether it is free, by donation or paid, its times, and when it was last checked. Anything unknown is shown as not provided, never guessed.
Please confirm before you travel. Timings, meals and locations can change. Irumudi does not run, sponsor or guarantee any meal service, and listings appear only after they have been verified and published.
Privacy
No account. Your Deeksha stays on your phone.
Your journey, check-ins, checklist, favourites, bookmarks, Pradakshana walks, trip plan, Saranam counts, pictures and preferences stay on your phone. Nothing personal is uploaded unless you choose to export it.
What leaves your phone
- The app downloads shared content from our server, which sees your IP address in routine logs.
- A YouTube player sends your IP address and device details to Google when it loads.
- Your location is used only when you ask and is kept on the phone. Only if you tap “Get weather” is a place, rounded to about a kilometre, sent to Open-Meteo.com.
What is Irumudi?
Irumudi is a companion app for people observing the Ayyappa Swamy Deeksha. It brings a day tracker, reminders, 22 Saranam texts in four scripts, a Puja Vidhanam guide in six languages, a Sabarimala trip planner, listening, Pradakshana and Annadanam listings into one place.
Which languages does the app support?
The whole app is available in English, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi. You choose when you first open it and can change it later from the menu. The Puja Vidhanam guide and the 18 Swami names are in all six languages.
Each Saranam text is written out in Telugu, English letters, Malayalam and Tamil as four separate versions, and the English is a transliteration, not a translation. The Saranam texts are not written out in Kannada or Hindi script.
The wording of the app in Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi is still to be reviewed by a native reader, so some phrases may change in later updates.
Can the app help me plan my Sabarimala trip?
Yes. The Sabarimala tab lets you set a trip date, with a countdown and the day of your Deeksha the trip falls on, choose a route and add your stops. It has an irumudi checklist and a packing checklist that you can tick and edit, a link to the official booking site, Travel cards for the nearest station, bus station and airport, and Explore cards for well-known places nearby.
The guides and checklists were written for the app and are provisional, so please check them with your own Guru Swami. A season timeline is shown as expected dates only, until you enter the dates from the Devaswom Board, and forest paths open and close with the season, so confirm before you travel. Distances are straight lines, worked out on your phone.
Does the app need an account?
No. There are no devotee accounts. Your journey, check-ins, checklist, favourites, bookmarks, trip plan and counter are kept on your phone.
How does YouTube playback work?
Some songs play through YouTube’s own embedded player inside the app. It keeps YouTube’s standard controls and advertising and needs an internet connection. While you look around the app a playing video can float in a small card, and it stops when you leave the app or lock the screen. YouTube is never played in the background.
If a video is removed, made private, or its owner does not allow it to play in other apps, the app says so and offers a link to open it in YouTube instead.
Get Irumudi
Available now for Android and iPhone.