Shloka: Gita over Reels/Shorts

Hiten Sharma

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About this app

Open YouTube for one Short. Thirty minutes disappear.

Shloka rebuilds that moment. Before Shorts, Reels or any feed you picked opens, Shloka opens today's Bhagavad Gita verse first — one clear teaching, under 3 minutes.

Read one Shloka. Then scroll if you still want to.

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▶ WHY THIS EXISTS
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YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and TikTok are engineered to be endless. One tap becomes an hour. You didn't choose it; the feed did.

A verse-of-the-day app you can ignore doesn't fix that. So Shloka isn't a passive reader — its whole design point is to sit BETWEEN you and the feeds you want to spend less time in.

That is why the Shorts + Reels blocker is not a side feature. It is the core of what Shloka does. Every day, the feeds you selected pause until you've read your daily Shlokas. You choose the target (1, 2 or 3). You choose the apps. You get snoozes and a 10-minute allowance when you truly need the app.

Shloka just makes sure the Gita gets there before the algorithm does.
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WHAT YOU GET IN EACH SHLOKA

Every verse leads with a real-life hook — overthinking, anger, duty, discipline, focus, peace — so you know why it matters before you read.

• Original Sanskrit verse
• Easy transliteration
• Clear English translation and meaning
• Hindi translation and explanation
• Practical context for daily life

Start at Chapter 1, Verse 1 and move forward one day at a time. No random verses. No overwhelm.

HOW THE SHORTS + REELS BLOCKER WORKS

• Pick the apps to pause — YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Snapchat and more
• Inside YouTube and Instagram, only Shorts and Reels are paused. DMs, search and subscriptions still work.
• Set your daily target: 1, 2 or 3 verses
• Snooze 10 minutes when you actually need the app
• Turn the system off anytime from Shloka or Android Settings

BUILD A DAILY GITA HABIT

• Track your journey from Day 1
• Keep a daily reading streak
• Get reminders for today's Shloka
• See today's wisdom on your home-screen widget
• Create and share verse cards

Over weeks the Gita stops being "a book I meant to read" and becomes how you handle distraction, doubt, work, relationships and calm.

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▶ WHY SHLOKA NEEDS ACCESSIBILITY
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The Shorts + Reels blocker is core to Shloka. To make it work, Shloka uses Android's Accessibility Service — the only supported Android API that can:

• Detect in real time which app is in the foreground, so Shloka can open today's verse before Shorts or Reels start playing.
• Detect when the Shorts or Reels player is on screen inside YouTube and Instagram, so the rest of those apps stay usable and only the doomscrolling surface is paused.
• Keep working when the phone is offline or Shloka is closed, which usage-stats and standard background APIs cannot do.

What Shloka does with this permission:
• Reads only the package name of the foreground app, and — for YouTube and Instagram — checks whether the Shorts or Reels player is on screen.
• Uses this signal only on your device, only in that moment.
• Never records, stores, transmits or shares the content of any other app. No messages, no text you type, no passwords, no browsing history, no screen contents.
• Stops the moment you revoke the permission in Android Settings → Accessibility.

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For anyone trying to scroll Shorts less, understand the Bhagavad Gita, reconnect with Indian wisdom, or build a calmer daily ritual.

Pause the scroll. Read today's Shloka. Continue with intention.