Questions
About the snan, the river figures, prices and your data. If yours is missing, write to us.
The snan
What happens on my screen?
Five parts, the same every morning, three minutes in all. 15 seconds with the river's figure for the day. 45 seconds of breathing, with a waterline that rises and falls at the river's own pace. Your sankalp, held under your thumb for 11 seconds while the ink fills. 60 seconds of a black screen. Then 20 seconds while the morning writes itself into your register.
The waterline is the only clock. Only the river changes from one morning to the next.
Why does the screen go black for a minute?
That minute is the stillness. The screen asks you to put the phone down and goes dark. It cannot be skipped, and it comes back on its own when the minute is over.
Do I have to sit before sunrise?
Sit when you wake. You tell us the hour, and the reminder comes at that hour in your own time zone. Many people sit in the evening.
The muhurat windows are computed for each ghat's own sunrise. Sit inside one if that matters to you.
What if I miss a day?
Sit the next morning. Your mornings stay on your account until you use them, and your register lists the mornings you kept.
Do you send anything by post?
Everything arrives on your screen the moment you finish: the sitting, your Sankalp Patra and your register. It works the same wherever you live.
What is the Sankalp Patra?
One sheet for each morning. It carries the names you added, your portrait if you added one, the water and the ghat, the moment you sat in your own time and in Indian time, the river's published figure that day, the tithi, and an engraving drawn from that figure. A monsoon morning draws dark and crowded. A January morning draws pale and open.
The figure on the sheet is the one the model published for that day, and anyone can check it against the public source.
The river
Where does the river figure come from?
It is modelled river discharge from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service global flood model, read through Open-Meteo at the grid cell covering that reach. The data is public and licensed CC BY 4.0, and every page that shows a figure names the source.
It is a model, not an instrument in the water, so we write modelled every time.
Sunrise, sunset and rain are read for each ghat's own coordinates. Tithi and the muhurat windows are computed for that sunrise.
What does the percentile mean?
Where today's flow sits among every daily value the model produced for the same three weeks of the year, from 1997 to 2025. That is 609 days of the river's own history.
It is the fair way to compare rivers. The Kaveri at Talakaveri is a mountain stream and the Sangam at Prayagraj is a wide river, and the percentile says whether either is high or low for the time of year.
How can I check that a sheet is genuine?
Every sheet names its water, its day and its figure. Take that day's figure from the flood model and it matches. The method is in our public code.
To forge a sheet you would first have to forge the public record for that day.
What happens when the feed is quiet?
The page says so and shows the median for that time of year over 1997 to 2025, labelled as the median. A figure a day old is shown with its real date. We never fill in a guess.
Money
What am I paying for?
A morning: three minutes with the river's published state that day, at the hour you chose, with your own words.
And what it leaves you: a Sankalp Patra with your family's names and that day's figure, and a line in your register.
What does it cost?
One morning, $2€2£2C$3₹101. Eleven mornings, $11€11£11C$11₹501. Sixty mornings, $48€45£42C$48₹2,100.
You pay once. The mornings stay on your account until you use them.
Why eleven?
Card fees. A single small charge loses about a third of itself to the card network. Eleven at once loses about six percent. Selling eleven together is what keeps the price per morning low.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Mornings you have not used are refunded in full on request. Write to hello@snanify.com.
A morning you have already sat is used and is not refunded. If the site failed you during a sitting, write to us and we refund that morning.
Do I need an account?
For the snan, yes, so that your mornings, your sheets and your register belong to you. Sign in with Google or with a link sent to your email. Reading the site needs no account.
Names and family
Can I put my family's names on the sheet?
Up to five names, your own first. They are printed on every sheet you keep.
Name people who would be glad to see their name there. If someone asks us to remove their name, we remove it.
Can I sit in memory of someone who has died?
Yes, and many people do. Put their name among the five and say what you want to say in your sankalp. The sheet is one to keep and to send to the family.
I am not Hindu. Can I use this?
Yes. Anyone can sit. People sit for a Hindu parent, for a spouse, or for three quiet minutes of their own.
Your data
Who can read my sankalp?
You. It is shown to you every morning and printed on your own copy of the sheet. We do not open it.
It is left off the sheet other people open from your link, and off the link preview. Anyone you send the link to sees the names, the water, the day and the figure.
Can I delete everything?
Yes. There is a button on your account page. It removes your photograph and your sheets from storage, then your account with every row attached to it, then your sign-in.
Links to your sheets stop working, including ones you have already sent. Database backups are kept for a limited time and then expire, and payment records stay with Stripe for as long as the law requires.
What tracks me on this site?
Vercel Web Analytics counts page views. It sets no cookie and does not follow you to other sites. Clerk runs on the sign-in and account pages to keep you signed in. Payment happens on Stripe's own page.
There is no advertising script and no session recording anywhere on the site.
Why are some timings marked provisional?
We compute tithi, nakshatra and the muhurat windows ourselves. In September 2026 we checked them against Drik Panchang on eight days at Haridwar, and every one matched to the minute. What is still provisional is the calendar day each occasion falls on, which we give as a month until its day rule has been checked the same way. Where sources disagree, we show the range.
How it is made
Every figure on this site comes from a public source you can check without asking us. This page says where each one comes from, what the sheet records, and who handles your data.
Version 4, September 2026.
What we sell, and what we do not
The practice is yours from start to finish. You choose the water, you say the sankalp in your own words, and you keep the sheet.
Nobody performs a rite for you. There is no priest, no ceremony at a ghat, and nothing offered or recorded on your behalf, and we never say otherwise. We also make no promise about what a morning does for you. The sheet records a river, a day and your own words, and that is what you buy.
Every figure we print can be checked against a public source. The rest of this page says where to look.
The river
The flow shown for each of the six waters is modelled river discharge from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service global flood model. We read it through Open-Meteo at a grid cell on the river's main stem. The model publishes one value a day. The data is licensed CC BY 4.0, and every page that shows a figure names the source.
Each figure is printed with the day it was modelled for. When the feed is quiet, the page shows the median for that time of year over 1997 to 2025, and says that is what it is showing.
It is a model, not a gauge in the water. India's Central Water Commission keeps the register of the country's gauges. Where one sits on one of these reaches, we name it with its agency and coordinates.
The sky
Tithi, nakshatra and the muhurat windows are computed on our own servers with astronomy-engine, an open astronomy library. We take the moon's position, subtract the Lahiri ayanamsa and divide the sky into twenty-seven parts. No outside service is involved, so the same instant always gives the same answer.
Sunrise and sunset are computed for each ghat's own coordinates. That is why Brahma muhurat in Haridwar differs from Brahma muhurat in Nashik.
Tithi, nakshatra and the windows were checked against Drik Panchang on eight days between September 2026 and March 2027, every one to the minute. The day an occasion falls on is labelled provisional until it has been checked the same way. Where sources disagree, the page prints the range.
Your Sankalp Patra
The sheet carries the names you added, up to five, the water and the ghat, the moment you sat in your own time zone and in Indian time, the day's river figure with its source, and the tithi.
The engraving is drawn from your sitting and that day's published figure, so two mornings at the same water never draw alike. The figure on the sheet is the one the model published for that day, and anyone can look it up.
Your sankalp is shown to you alone. It is on your own printed copy and nowhere else. Anyone you send the link to sees the names, the water, the day and the figure. You can also make a sheet private from its own page.
Who handles what
Five companies touch this product. This is each of them and what it holds.
- Payments
- Stripe. Card details go to Stripe and never reach us.
- Accounts
- Clerk. Your email address and your sign-in.
- Records
- Neon, a Postgres database. Your profile, your register and your sheets.
- Files
- Vercel Blob. Your portrait and your rendered sheets.
- Resend. Your receipt and your morning reminder.
- Analytics
- Vercel Web Analytics. Page counts, with no cookie and no tracking across sites.
Write to us about any of it and a person answers.
Another question?
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