Bahá’í Calendar1.9.2 - App Store

A unified calendar for a coherent Bahá’í life.

This is a Bahá’í Calendar for personal and professional time-management, planning and reference. It uses your existing calendars accounts, like Apple / iCloud, iCal, Google, Outlook etc.., so all events also appear on any Mac, PC or other device that use the same accounts. The Badí (Bahá’í) calendar is shown with the Gregorian calendar, or the calendar from your region, culture or country (through settings). This makes it easy to unite the routines and spirit of a Bahá’í daily life, with the daily planning and scheduling requirements of work, school and social life in general.

Bahá’í holydays (with local times), periods and feasts are clearly marked with colors and text. Graphical elements and coloring are used as educational elements to indicate sunset and seasons (each have their specified color).

The 4 seasons goes like a colored thread through the year, according to the "Badí calendar" which is the name of this unique solar calendar system: 3 white spring- months, 4 yellow summer-months, 6 green autumn-months, and 6 red winter-months.

Events added and edited in the Bahá’í Calendar app is part of the general system of notifications, meetings-invitations, Siri-control, maps etc. This app may thus accompany or even replace the built in calendar.
Functionality:

- Displays the system-date alongside the Bahá’í dates for a unified use
- Each calendar event is marked as a dot with the color of the calendar it belongs to (family, work, google, outlook...)
- Search for events
- Holydays, special periods and Nineteen Day Feasts are shown, and can also be populated as events into any of you calendar accounts.
- Select first day of the week: Jalál (Glory/Saturday), Sunday or Monday.
- Display the calendrical names in Arabic, English or System language (translations in progress)
- Holydays with specified times are calculated according to local sunset times of that day, and daylight saving
- Date-shifts and local sunrise/set times are calculated separately for each day, and thus follow natural seasonal variations
- Settings allow dates to shift at 6 in the evening in the northern regions of the world
- Seasons are illustrated with coloring, as given in the writings (3 x white, 4 x yellow, 6 x green, 6 x red)
- The Nineteen Day Feasts are marked with the color of the season
- Additional date-info is shown to make it easier to see which events belong to which Bahá’í and system-dates
- 3D Touch actions supported for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus (and newer)
- Dates and holydays are strictly calculated according to the 50 years of dates published by The Universal House of Justice
- Dates beyond year 172-220 displays only system dates
- Works in both portrait and landscape
- The app language is english for now, but date-formats are still local (translations are in progress)
Support development:

This app will never contain ads, require an account or collect your personal data, but it still requires months of dedicated development to create a professional-grade solution. By purchasing it, you not only get it for your own use, but also support and enable further development of e.g. a week view, reminders, more beautification, info behind the holydays, translations, Apple Watch integration, etc...
Plans and ideas for coming and future updates (in any order, and as time/revenue allows):

- Year view
- Week-view
- Utilize the larger space of iPad and iPhone Plus screens
- Translations
- iOS 8+ Widget
- Apple Watch
- Show, add and edit events using the Bahá’í dates alongside system dates
- Layout refinements and optimizations
- Performance enhancements
- More functionality and different ways to show the calendar, based on user feedback and devices/versions in use
...and more

The logo is created by the Norwegian photographer and designer Jens von Krogh, and represents the four seasons, with their colors and duration.

Use feedback@bahaicalendarapp.com to let me know what's important for you.

Version History This is a years overdue catch-up update with support for the newer iPhones and iPads without Home button (and some minor bug-fixing). 1.9.2 08/03/2021 Just minor graphical bug-fix. 1.9.1 02/13/2017 New tool available: With "Populate calendar", you can now use this app to populate any of you calendar accounts with holydays, nineteenday feasts and other significant days from the Bahá'í calendar. This can be useful if you want to see these dates in e.g. your your work, school or a shared family calendar, or if you just want to see them in other calendar tools using the same account(s); on Mac/PC or in other apps. 1.9 01/03/2017 Critical fix before upgrading to iOS 10.
This update applies to iOS 8 and newer. 1.8.1 09/10/2016 This is the last planned bug-fix for iOS 7 and iOS 8. Coming updates will only apply to iOS 9 and onwards, but this version will still appear in App Store for iOS 7 and iOS 8 (older devices).

For all devices:
- Events created exactly on the dateline (sunset) for Naw Ruz were not shown in the events list: Fixed. 1.8 08/09/2016 This version makes some adjustments to the Bahá'í date info in the events list. It might be more logical now, and thus easier to read each calendar system individually: Look at the Bahá'í date header to follow the BE dates, or look at the bold system dates to the left of the event to follow your chosen system calendar (Gregorian being the default).

The seasons-coloring has also moved to the left side, so it runs more like a continuous thread as you scroll through events. The period of Riḍván is also marked with a rose red thread throughout the festival.

And some minor bug-fixes here and there... 1.7 05/02/2016 Bug-fix for the missing oval marking today's system-date, during Ayyám-i-Há, the fast and Riḍván. 1.6.2 03/10/2016 v.1.6.1:
- Adjustment for more accurate 3D Touch while pressing on dates from the months view.
- In Settings, the "Chinese calendar" is now correctly called "Chinese lunar calendar".

Support for 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus:
1. Press the icon to create a new event.
2. Press a date to preview the list of events for that date — and then press a bit harder to open it.
3. Press an event to preview it — and then a bit harder to open it. 1.6.1 02/10/2016 Support for 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus:
1. Press the icon to create a new event.
2. Press a date to preview the list of events for that date — and then press a bit harder to open it.
3. Press an event to preview it — and then a bit harder to open it. 1.6 01/29/2016 Important bug fix: On some devices (specially in the U.S), the first weeks of the months were missing. This update will hopefully solve the problem for all. 1.5.3 12/02/2015 Minor update with major benefit ?
- You can now choose to show dates as month name + date instead of just the date/month numbers: E.g. "Mar 21" instead of "03/21".
This might make it easier to identify and distinguish alternative calendar dates from the Bahá’í dates (a work in constant progress... :-))

Please note: Unfortunately, this settings does not work or even make sense in all languages. 1.5.2 11/14/2015 Important note: If you are unable to upgrade to iOS 9 (check Software Update under General in the Settings app, or ask a friend for help), then please let me know through email feedback@bahaicalendarapp.com, and I will keep supporting older versions as long a necessary (and possible). Otherwise, I will stop supporting iOS 7 and iOS 8 in a future update, in order to speed up development, and more easily utilize new technologies.

What's new:
- Location is now displayed in the events list
- iOS 9 fonts (San Francisco)
- Minor visual enhancements
(- Internal code improvements; preparing for future updates) 1.5.1 10/17/2015 Search is now available from the event list ! 1.5 09/16/2015 I'm happy to announce that you can now select which secondary calendar to use. Choose from Chinese, Indian, Ethiopic, Gregorian (default), Islamic and others, through settings. 1.4 08/25/2015 A minor visual update with refinements on the events list, to help orientate and follow dates in both calendar systems:
- Events are now light gray with a seson-colored thread, just like the months view, so the actual event-contents comes more in focus.
- An event without times specified is now labeled "all-day", just like in Apples' calendar.
- All Nineteen Day Feasts headings are now colored with the seasons color to make it easier to see the flow of the year as you scroll through. 1.3.2 08/12/2015 Thanks for buying and thereby supporting further development of this app! Please help share it with friends too. I'd be very happy if you leave a review, or let me know of any problems through feedback@bahaicalendarapp.com.

* Critical bug-fix: If you had the first day of the week set to either Sunday or Monday, the last week of some months would not be visible. This is fixed in this version.

Some other improvements:
- Font-changes to make it easier to see which date/info belongs to which calendar-system.
- Rearranged events-header and events view, to make it easier to follow the natural day-flow of either calendar-systems. 1.3.1 07/16/2015 New:
- Setting: Choose the first day of the week: Jalál (Glory), Sunday or Monday.
- Events added from the events list now defaults to the date you tapped in the months view.
- Improvements on events handling.
- Improved layout on weekdays for iPad and iPhone 6 Plus.
- Improved layout on settings.
Fixes:
- Opening events now shows the event-viewer (with map etc.. just like in the Apple calendar). Tap Edit to modify.
- All-day events spanning several days now show the correct system/gregorian date.

I'd be very happy if you leave a review on App Store to let others know what makes this app useful for you. If you discover problems, bugs or some functional weakness, please use feedback@bahaicalendarapp.com to let me know.

If you're on Facebook, you're are also welcome to the Facebook group listed here under Support URL. 1.3 07/07/2015 Visual enhancements for the months view.

I'd be very happy if you leave a review on App Store to let others know what makes this app useful for you. If you discover problems, bugs or some functional weakness, please use feedback@bahaicalendarapp.com to let me know.

If you're on Facebook, you're are also welcome to the Facebook group listed here under Support URL. 1.2 06/29/2015 - The events lists now updates Today when the app resumes directly to the Events view.
- The first 19-days feast in a new season has the seasons' color as a bright background.
- Events headers are smaller, but adds holydays and other significant days, making them even easier to notice.
- Each event show the corresponding system weekday + date making it easier to see the day-flow of both calendars.
- A sunset-color has been introduced for events and info related to the period between sunset and midnight within the Bahá’í date.
- Color-background for each months-view header of the 1st month of a season
- To help see the start/end of dates; date and sunset is shown in the event header for both system-dates that spans the Bahá’í-day. When following natural sunset (by GPS) it shows just "sunset". While following the clock (in the far north) it shows "6 pm". Natural sunset-times are always shown as additional info to the right in the header.
- Events that ends exactly at sunset (or 6pm by the clock) is now kept on the same Bahá’í date (not as "Ending" the next date). 1.1 06/17/2015 1.0 06/17/2015