MalaWatch

Mala / prayer beads counter for iPhone and Apple Watch.

Product Shape

MalaWatch is a quiet daily ritual app for counting mala beads, mantras, prayers, affirmations, or breath cycles. The iPhone app is the primary experience, with an Apple Watch companion for wrist-based counting using tap and Digital Crown input.

MVP

• Count with a large tactile tap target on iPhone.
• Support 27, 54, and 108 bead goals.
• Give gentle haptic feedback on each bead and stronger feedback at completion.
• Show today's current count, progress, and completed rounds.
• Let users choose bead goals, voice mode, and visual theme.
• Keep all data local in the first version.

Positioning

Primary English phrasing:

• App name direction: MalaWatch, Daily Mala, 108 Mala, StillMala
• Category phrase: Prayer Beads Counter
• Keywords: mala, prayer beads, japa mala, mantra counter, meditation counter, Buddhist beads, 108 beads, mindfulness, chant counter

Chinese phrasing:

• 佛珠
• 念珠
• 數珠
• 念佛
• 持咒
• 冥想
• 計數器

Project Layout

This folder currently contains the product source scaffold:

• Shared/: shared app model and defaults.
• MalaWatch iOS App/: primary iPhone SwiftUI experience.
• MalaWatch Watch App/: Apple Watch companion experience.
• PRODUCT.md: product decisions, market notes, and next steps.

project.yml: XcodeGen config for generating an Xcode project.

Generate The Xcode Project

If XcodeGen is installed:

xcodegen generate
open MalaWatch.xcodeproj

If XcodeGen is not installed yet:

brew install xcodegen

The source files can also be attached manually to a new Xcode iOS App + watchOS App project.