Sitara
The sky, calculated. Four centuries of transits, in your pocket.
A Vedic astrology companion built for people who actually cast charts — accurate positions, a transit timeline running from 1826 to 2226, and a panchang that works with the aeroplane mode on.
Sitara is in private beta and is not yet on Google Play. It is free while it is being tested, and there is nothing to buy. If you would like to try it, write to vishnupriyassoma@gmail.com.
What Sitara does
Not a horoscope app. A calculation tool that happens to be pleasant to look at.
Charts you can trust
Natal charts from positions, with your choice of ayanamsha, mean or true node, and outer planets on or off. Birth times are resolved through the real time-zone history of the place — including the ones that changed their clocks.
A four-century transit timeline
Rāśi and nakṣatra ingresses, pada changes, retrogrades, stations and eclipses, from 1826 to 2226. Scroll to a client's grandmother's birth year, or to their grandchildren's, and the answer is already on the device.
Panchang, properly computed
Tithi, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa with real boundary instants, plus sunrise, sunset and moonrise for your location — not a lookup table rounded to the nearest day.
Alerts that respect your attention
Choose the transits worth interrupting you for. Sitara arms them ahead of time and stays quiet about everything else.
A home-screen widget
The current chart with the Moon's bhāva lit, live degrees, and what is coming next — without unlocking anything.
Works offline. Syncs when it can.
The almanac downloads once and lives on the device, so a consultation in a basement works exactly like one at your desk. Your charts sync to your account and follow you to a new phone.
Built for practising astrologers
Sitara was written for a working practice, and it shows in the details that only matter when you use something daily: names in English, Devanagari or IAST roman with diacritics you can switch off, an ayanamsha setting that genuinely re-derives everything downstream of it, and a client list that is yours to export at any time.
Everything is computed. Nothing is interpreted for you.
Questions
Does it work without the internet?
Yes, once it has downloaded its almanac — about 5 MB, once, after you sign in. Charts, transits, panchang and the widget all read from the device. You need a connection to sign in, to cast a new chart, and to sync.
Which ayanamsha does it use?
Lahiri by default, and you can change it. Changing it re-derives every position, transit and dignity in the app rather than relabelling the old ones.
Is my clients' data private?
Yes. Charts are stored on servers in India, isolated per account at the database level. There is no advertising, no analytics SDK and no third-party tracking of any kind in the app, and nothing is ever sold. See the privacy policy.
Can I move to a new phone?
Sign in on the new one and your charts arrive. You can also export them to a file at any time — they are yours.
Does Sitara predict my future?
No, and it does not claim to. Sitara computes astronomical positions to a high standard and presents them in the Vedic idiom. What they mean is your reading, not the app's — and nothing in it is medical, legal or financial advice.
Sitara is built and operated by VishnuVaaku, Hyderabad.
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