Vespera

A Ropolabs product · Coming to iOS in 2026

A small room you can sit in.

Vespera gives you one verse a dayfrom the tradition you choose, with a quiet evening reflection. That's it.

No feed. No streaks to defend. No notifications begging for your attention. A book-like rhythm in app form.

Join the launch list

A day with Vespera

1

Morning

A verse arrives.

One verse from the tradition you chose during setup — Bible, Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Tanakh, Buddhist, Sikh, Stoic, or secular wisdom. Push notification optional; you can also just open the app whenever.

2

With each verse

Read who said it, when, and why it lands.

Each verse comes with a three-line context — who is speaking, when in their life, why this line matters here — plus a longer story-form context (preview free, full read on Vespera+) and quiet echoes from neighbouring traditions.

3

Throughout the day

Save what stays with you.

Tap save on any verse that lands. Saved verses live in your Library, organised by tradition, ready to come back to. Free tier saves up to 25 verses; Vespera+ removes the cap.

4

Evening

A short reflection — only if you want.

Three soft sliders (heaviness, aliveness, closeness) plus a free-text note. Takes a minute. Nothing is shared. Nothing is required.

5

Over weeks

A journey you can look back on.

The Days screen shows your reflections as a quiet heatmap. The Library shows verses that landed. Switch tradition any time — your reflections, saves, and full journey carry across; only today's verse changes lens.

What you get

Nine traditions, ready out of the box

Hand-curated verse pools for Bible, Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Tanakh, Buddhist, Sikh, Stoic, and secular wisdom. Each tradition's content reviewed for canonical accuracy.

Context with every verse

Three-line interlocutor card (WHO speaks, WHEN, WHY). Author biography. Story-form context. Cross-tradition echoes. Scholar commentary.

A journey you own

Library of saves with the actual tradition badge. Days screen heatmap of your reflection cadence. Switch lenses freely — nothing is lost.

Crisis-safe by design

When you tap ‘I'm not OK', Vespera surfaces local crisis-line resources before any other content. This is never paywalled and never delayed.

Tradition-specific care

Sikh users see the day's Hukamnama from Sri Darbar Sahib alongside Gurmukhi original script. More tradition-specific surfaces in time.

Festival days marked

Each tradition's major Gurpurabs, feasts, fasts, and Sabbaths surface gently when they arrive. Toggle on or off per category.

Free + Vespera+

Free

Forever. No card.

  • · One verse a day from your chosen tradition
  • · Three-line context (WHO / WHEN / WHY)
  • · Story-form context — preview
  • · Cross-tradition echoes
  • · Evening reflection + Days heatmap
  • · Saved-verses Library (free-tier save cap applies)
  • · Crisis-safe surfaces — always free
  • · Banner ads on Today, Library, Explore, and Profile

Ads are NEVER shown on the reflection screen, the Days journal, or any verse-context surface.

Vespera+

One subscription. Cancel any time in Apple ID.

  • · Everything in Free, plus —
  • · Multi-tradition lens (all nine at once)
  • · Unlimited saves
  • · Weekly story — composed Sunday recap
  • · Scene mode — full-screen verse render
  • · Full story-form long-context
  • · AI-personalised framing per reflection
  • · Ad-free everywhere

Subscription processed by Apple App Store. Pricing shown at checkout; cancel any time.

Privacy, in plain language

  • · Your reflections are yours. Encrypted at rest. Encrypted in transit.
  • · We never sell your data. We never use your reflections to train AI.
  • · Ads are never shown on personal-reflection surfaces.
  • · Delete your account any time from Profile → Settings. Soft-delete with 30-day retention for legal compliance, then purged.
  • · The crisis-safety pool — verses + resources — is always free, always available.

Sit with the day.

Join the launch list

Vespera is built by Ropolabs. Available on iOS at launch. Android in time.