Incense Table: Focus & Shrine

One stick a day, for the thing on your mind. No sign-up, no network, no ads — works in airplane mode.

Incense Table is a digital incense burner that lives in your phone — for focus, remembrance and a quiet moment. Light a stick and it burns on its own; go do something else, come back and see what's left.

OFFER The table holds three sticks at once. Each of the seven incenses makes different smoke: sandalwood rises pale and straight, ambergris barely smokes at all, Tibetan incense is thick and medicinal. Sticks burn on real time, so closing the app doesn't stop them. Six deities to choose from; the hall, smoke and bell change with them.

STILLNESS Pick something to do — read, write, or just sit — and light a stick to start. The screen holds nothing but the stick and its smoke, with a stream, rain, pines or a temple bell if you want one. When the stick is done, so is the session. Leave the app and the stick goes out; that session won't count.

SHRINE A new shrine is empty — nothing is set for you in advance. When you're ready you write it yourself: the title, the name, the date. Tablets are placed by seniority, left and right, the way convention has it. You'll get a word ahead of an anniversary, and at Qingming. Up to twenty-four tablets; earlier generations can share one. Light an eternal lamp and the tablet stays lit for as long as it burns.

ALMANAC Lunar date, sexagenary cycle, zodiac, solar terms and the old auspicious-and-inauspicious lists, all worked out by traditional reckoning. Days you offered incense are marked on the calendar.

THREE SKINS Night Zen is candlelight in the dark, cinnabar and gold. Rice Paper is pale ink on paper, like an old book. Cyber is neon, cold light and pixels. Same screens, same words — only the look changes.

IT DOESN'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE No account, no server, and not one line of code that reaches the network. How many sticks you've lit, what you wished for, whose tablet you set — all of it stays on your phone. Works in airplane mode. No ads, no in-app purchases, no data collected.

The flip side: it only lives on this phone. Change devices or delete the app and the records are gone — there's no cloud backup yet.

WHAT THIS APP WON'T DO

• No fortune-telling, no divination lots, no yearly luck readings. The almanac's lists are part of the calendar itself — a nudge, not a verdict.
• Nothing to buy for luck. No in-app purchases, no paid blessings.
• No promises. Offering incense is intent, not output.

Available in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese and Vietnamese.