MalaMode

This wonderful app has greatly improved my daily Dharma practice through the “gamification” of Mantra accumulation. Amazing. Developer is incredibly responsive and solved all of the important bugs that come from dealing with the ephemeral fast changing unstable underpinnings of the “reactive” Big Tech AppleMetaAlphaJS ecosystem. Besides “letting go”, to deal with impermanence be sure to backup your Tangkha pictures / mantra correlations with iOS screenshot pix. His web interface also lets you see all your mantras at a glance.

Out of all the Mala apps I’ve tried this one is superior as far as I’m concerned. Works great with lots of customizable features. Had the basic free version for a year and that was great but finally decided to “splurge” and support this app that I got so much use out of and the premium features made me enjoy it so much more. So whether you just want the free version or are willing to spend a few bucks for the upgrade, this app is the one to get- don’t waste your time looking for any others.

Today, I searched desperately for a counter/tally app suitable for Mala Beads style counting. The functions needed for this, I think, are obviously alerts at targeted counts and auto-repeat/auto-reset functions with data for rounds/lap functions, with different alerts for counts and rounds/laps/target-completion. Downloaded and tested more than 20 counter apps and more than half a dozen mala-like apps. Other apps are found to be nowhere near the functionalities and customaziblity of this app. I can customize the count sounds and lap sounds. Very flexible counter text size and positions. Able to add/change my own background. History function. Almost whole screen tap area. Lock mode for prevention of accidental calling up of menus. Amazingly, I don't need to buy in-app purchase to get a fully functional and very customazible app. That's all I need. I just need only one counter and don't need to syncronize across all devices. That said, as a donation for the great efforts of the creator of the app, I just bought 1.99$ in-app purchase; which hopefully 😆 will give me using multiple counters and syncing across device, I think. With that I got, unexpectly, a few more color themes to choose.*[edit: sorry, the available additional color themes come intelligently from the colors from the chosen background photo, not from purchase 😁.] Some customizable options need slightly steep learning curve, imo. I'm using iphone 7 (ios 11.3) purposefully haven't yet upgraded to ios 12. So far so good. I hope the devs won't screw up the app in next updates 😬. So far, the app crash once while writing this [while switching and testing the app], that's not good of course, but it doesn't make me to down vote from my five stars. May be I'll update later according to my experiences with this app.