A full Gurbani companion, built with satkar
POTHI opens around five daily pages: Today, Nitnem, Khajana, Learn and My Pothi, with a respectful reader, offline search, live audio, poster making and family learning underneath. Here is what the app includes, and every one of its 81 features is written up with how to use it.
Today ਅੱਜ
Your daily starting point: the vela, the date, and one tap into practice.
- Tuk of the day. A line of Gurbani to begin with.
- Daily Hukamnama. Straight from SGPC, who publish it first, so it is never a day behind. Text, audio, a share card, and the archive.
- Ask Guru Ji. Ask in your own words, and Pothi finds the tuk. It never writes an answer of its own.
- If you have a little time. What you can finish in 5 to 10, 15 to 25 or 30 to 99 minutes.
- Word of the day. With its meaning and how often it appears in SGGS.
- Continue reading. Resume exactly where you left off.
- Live kirtan & Radio. Sri Darbar Sahib, direct from SGPC.
- Nanakshahi calendar. Today's date, and any gurpurab falling on it.
- Home screen widgets. Seven on iPhone and iPad, from the Hukamnama to live kirtan, and today's Hukamnama on Android.
- Editable quick actions. Pin any action from any tab for a personal feel.
Nitnem & Gutka ਨਿਤਨੇਮ
All the daily banis, bundled offline and grouped by the time of day.
- 89 readings. 30 banis and 59 compositions, saloks and shabads, all offline.
- Grouped by vela. Morning, Evening and Night, with Simran, Ardas and More banis.
- Auto-tick when done. Each bani is marked read when you finish the paath.
- Resume per bani. Each bani remembers your place.
- Sehaj Paath. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at your own pace, or one paath shared across a sangat.
- Reading plans. Any banis you choose, paced to a day you choose.
- Gentle reminders. Amrit Vela, Rehras, Sohila, at times you choose.
Khajana, the treasure ਖਜ਼ਾਨਾ
Six granths and the reference treasures around them.
- Six granths. SGGS, Dasam Granth, Sarabloh, Bhai Gurdas Ji's Vaaran and Kabit Savaiye, and Bhai Nand Lal Ji.
- Read a granth right through. Sri Dasam Granth and Vaaran Bhai Gurdas Ji page by page, and jump to any panna by number.
- Raags & authors. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji by raag, and every writer in every granth with what they wrote.
- Pothi Kosh. Tap any word for its meaning: 85,758 entries.
- Sakhis & quotes. 1,372 stories and 10,000 quotes.
- Sikh reference. Rehat Maryada, 52 Hukams, Ardas, timeline.
- Pothi Kirtan. 2,675 shabads from the Amrit Keertan pothi, browsable by subject, author, raag and tag, with the main tuk marked.
- Pothi Radio & Gurmantra. Live Gurbani kirtan streams, a mala, and a simran timer that can walk the four stages with minutes you set.
Six granths: read, search, and browse by section
Learn ਸਿੱਖੋ
From the first Punjabi word to reading Gurbani, framed gently, never gamified.
- Punjabi & Gurmukhi. 21 levels, 408 lessons, games and quizzes.
- Gurmukhi basics. 35 akhar, laga matra, pairin akhar, muharni.
- Learn by heart. Any bani, a few tuks at a time, each tuk covered a little more as it comes back to you.
- Santhiya. A bani one tuk at a time, with its pauses and each word the teeka explains. It does not replace santhiya from a Gursikh.
- Historical Gurdwaras. 899 Gurdwaras across the Gurus' lives, each with its sakhi and its place.
- Read together. A calm parent-and-child reading mode.
- Learn about Sikhi. 156 topics for children.
- Quizzes & sheets. Sakhi and Sikhi quizzes; printable practice.
- Certificates. Marking progress, not streaks.
My Pothi ਮੇਰੀ ਪੋਥੀ
Everything you save stays yours, on your device.
- Bookmarks. Long-press any line.
- Comment & save any tuk. Add a note to any tuk or word and save it.
- Saved library. Lines, shabads, words, quotes, Hukamnamas, posters.
- Collections & lists. Organise and annotate what matters.
- History & reading record. Retrace what you have read, and every bani you finish, day by day.
- Backup, restore & sync. Export and import a file, or move everything between your own devices over Wi-Fi, with no account.
- Create poster. Turn the Hukamnama, a shabad, a tuk or a word into a poster: 17 frames, your own colours, heading and gurdwara name.
- Pothi on Device. A guide to every page of the app, card by card, inside About Pothi and on this website.
Tapping a word ਸ਼ਬਦ ਛੂਹਣਾ
Any word of Gurbani can be tapped for its meaning, and the panel that opens does more than show it.
- The meaning. The word's arth from Pothi Kosh, with its source named.
- Padh arth. Where Prof. Sahib Singh's padh arth explains the word in that tuk, it is quoted beneath.
- Where else it appears. How many tuks carry the word, and a list of every one.
- One word leads to the next. Every Gurmukhi word inside a meaning can be tapped too.
- Keep it. Save the word, share it, make a poster of it, write a comment on it, or file it in a list.
- A study aid. The dictionary entries are machine extracted and still under review, so they are a study aid, not an authority.
The reader, search, poster maker, audio & themes
Respectful reader
Gurmukhi with transliteration, Punjabi arth and padh arth (Prof. Sahib Singh), the Fareedkot Teeka, English (Sant Singh Khalsa) and Hindi, any of them together. Line, Larivaar, Paragraph and Gutka Sahib page styles. Tap any word for its meaning, and turn on auto-scroll for hands-free paath.
Offline search
Full-text search across Gurbani, Kosh, kirtan, quotes, sakhis and learning: by words, by first letters, or Auto, which reads what you type every way at once. With history and saved searches.
Poster & wallpaper maker
Turn the daily Hukamnama, any shabad, any single tuk or a word into a dignified, attributed poster or phone wallpaper, in your own colours and frame, ready to share. See examples →
Live audio
Live Sri Darbar Sahib kirtan, daily Hukamnama audio, and Pothi Radio, with a lock screen player, all attributed to SGPC.
Themes & languages
Twenty-two themes, a colour of your own for the Gurbani, and a fully trilingual interface: English, Punjabi, Hindi.
Free & private
No ads on scripture, no account, no third-party tracking. Bookmarks, notes, history and settings stay on your device by default.
Every feature, so nothing is missed
This is the guide the app carries under About Pothi, page by page. Each one opens with how to use it.
Today
Khajana
Learn
Reading a bani
Tapping a word
Projector and second screen
The same Pothi on a desktop, free, and 62 things it does there
The same Gurbani and the same offline database, with what a keyboard, a mouse and a second screen make possible. Every one of these is written up with how to use it.
Reading
The Fareedkot Teeka · Turn pages with the keyboard · Search and jump to an Ang · Resize with the mouse wheel…
Kirtan
Media keys and the volume card · Close to the tray, keep playing · Play from the taskbar · The mini player…
Quick ways in
One Pothi only · The taskbar jump list · The clock-side menu · Summon Pothi…
Saving, sharing and printing
Finishing a poster on a PC · Copy image · Save As everywhere · Print practice sheets…
Hukamnama on your desktop
Set as wallpaper · The widgets panel · Print for the notice board
The darbar hall
The wall over HDMI · The mirror option · The wall remembers its screen
The gurdwara broadcast system
Captions on the livestream · A phone as the remote · Announcements · Ceremony slides, one tap…
Reminders
Windows notifications with a Play button · Gurpurab morning notes · The tuk in the Hukamnama toast
Getting Pothi on Windows
Install from the Microsoft Store · Bring your saves from the phone
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