Lotus Chant is a free app for daily Gongyo and Daimoku practice in Nichiren Buddhism. It includes sutra text with furigana and romaji, a chant timer with a bell, and daily reminders.

Yes, Lotus Chant is completely free on iOS and Android. No account required — just open and chant.

What features does Lotus Chant include?

Lotus Chant includes a Daimoku timer, the full Gongyo liturgy with furigana, a bell for marking transitions, daily reminders with inspiring phrases, curated study resources, and customizable preferences like dark mode and adjustable text size.

Privacy Policy

Name: Lotus Chant
Author: Lotus Chant

Last updated: May 19, 2026

Overview

Lotus Chant is designed with your privacy in mind. We believe your spiritual practice is personal, and your data should stay that way. The app requires no account, does not sell your information, and does not use advertising networks or data brokers.

Data we collect

We collect only limited data needed to run and improve Lotus Chant. The app does not require an account, and we do not intentionally collect the content of your chanting practice, prayers, audio, or private spiritual reflections.

Data stored on your device

The app stores the following data locally on your device only. This data never leaves your device and is not accessible to us or any third party:

Your preferences (theme, language, sound, and haptics settings)
Notification settings (whether reminders are enabled and at what time)
Session count (used solely to prompt an optional App Store or Play Store review)
Onboarding status (whether you have completed the initial walkthrough)

Network requests

Lotus Chant makes the following types of network requests:

Daily phrase content — The app fetches the "Thought for the Moment" quote from lotuschant.app/api/tmf, our own server. The only parameter sent is your selected language preference. No device identifiers, IP addresses, or personal data are logged by this endpoint.
App updates — The app checks whether a new update is available.
Analytics — Lotus Chant and lotuschant.app may send limited usage and technical information to PostHog, our product analytics provider, as described below.
Contact form — If you choose to contact us through the website, your name, email address, message, and the page URL are sent to our server so we can deliver the message by email using Resend.

All network communication is encrypted via HTTPS. The app functions offline for chanting; an internet connection is only needed for features such as loading the daily phrase, checking for updates, and sending analytics when analytics is enabled.

Analytics and tracking

We use PostHog, a product analytics service, to understand how Lotus Chant is used and how we can improve reliability, usability, and features. This may include usage events such as app screens or website pages viewed, interactions with app or website features, session activity, app version, device type, operating system, browser type, language, approximate region, and performance-related signals such as page load or web vital measurements.

PostHog may process limited technical identifiers, such as anonymous user or session identifiers, IP address, and device or browser information, as part of providing analytics. On the website, analytics is configured to use memory-based persistence instead of persistent analytics cookies.

We use analytics to improve Lotus Chant, fix issues, and make product decisions. We do not use PostHog to sell personal information, serve ads, or intentionally collect the content of your chanting practice, prayers, audio, or private spiritual reflections.

Notifications

Lotus Chant offers two optional daily reminders: a chanting reminder and a daily phrase notification. Both are scheduled entirely on your device using the native operating system scheduler. No push notification backend is used, and no notification tokens are collected or sent to any server. You can enable, disable, or change the reminder times at any point from the app settings.

Permissions

The app may request the following device permissions:

Notifications — Required only if you enable daily reminders. No data is sent externally.
Internet — Used to fetch the daily phrase, check for app updates, and send analytics when analytics is enabled.
Audio — Used to play the bell sound during chanting sessions. No audio is recorded.
Vibration — Used for haptic feedback, which you can disable in settings.

The app does not access your microphone, camera, contacts, location, or any other sensitive device data.

Widgets and Live Activities

Lotus Chant provides optional home-screen widgets and iOS Live Activities to display your chanting status. These features run entirely on your device and do not communicate with any external server.

Third-party services

Lotus Chant uses PostHog as a third-party analytics provider. PostHog processes limited usage and technical data on our behalf so we can understand and improve the app and website. If you submit the website contact form, we use Resend to process and deliver your message by email. We do not use advertising networks, social media SDKs, or data brokers.

Children's privacy

Lotus Chant is designed for users of all ages and does not require an account. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and analytics is not used to build advertising profiles.

Data retention and deletion

Most app data is stored locally on your device. Uninstalling the app removes locally stored preferences and session data. Contact form messages are retained only as long as needed to respond and maintain support records. If you have questions about analytics data or want to request deletion of analytics data associated with you, contact us using the address below.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we will post the changes on this page and update the date above. We recommend checking back periodically.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, reach out at me@reinierhernandez.com.