Maya Calendar app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
2928 ratings )
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Developer:
Edwin Barnhart
0.99 USD
Current version:
1.7, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 21 Feb 2009
App size: 9.4 Mb
A great resource for those who want to go back and forth between Maya and Christian Calendar dates. No internet connection needed, so it can be in your pocket as you travel through Maya ruins and use it to calculate the Gregorian calendar dates from Maya long counts on monuments.
Maya Calendar gives you the Maya calendar date for today or any date in history – past, present, and future. Convert dates back and forth between the Maya and Gregorian calendars, learn about the various Maya cycles of time, and gain a better understanding of why December 21, 2012 A.D. is an important Maya date.
In addition, this app can calculate your birthday in the Maya sacred calendar and learn what it says about your personality traits and destiny.
Maya Calendar offers these great features:
– The Home Page displays the current day in the Maya Calendar, both in hieroglyphs and in modern text formats.
– “This Day in Maya History” cites a major event in Maya history for almost every day of the year.
– The “Maya Calendars” section provides a detailed explanation of each of the major Maya calendrical cycles, a discussion of the calendar correlation debate, and the thinking behind the possible end date of 2012 A.D.
– The “Calculator” allows you to convert any Gregorian date into its Maya calendar equivalent.
– The “Long Count” feature allows you to convert any Maya Long Count date into its Gregorian calendar equivalent.
– The “Birthdays” feature allows you to calculate and store the Maya birthdays of everyone you know. Once calculated, the app provides a host of information about that individual: personality traits; animal, color, and directional associations; and events in Maya history that occurred on the same date as their birth.
– The “Known Birthdays” feature lists and saves the names of everyone whose Maya birthday you have recorded and notifies you when their birthday comes around.
– “What to Do Today” lists the activities that modern Maya calendar priests recommend for any given day.
Maya Calendar, created by Dr. Ed Barnhart, is an invaluable tool for students investigating Maya inscriptions, and for anyone fascinated with the workings of the Maya calendar.
Pros and cons of Maya Calendar app for iPhone and iPad
Maya Calendar app good for
Should have the Lord of the Night calculation for the next version, anyway is the best Maya Calendar app for i Phone/iPod!
Dr. Barnharts program covers all the bases, providing a glimpse into the inner workings of the Maya Calendar. It has a basic Long Count-Gregorian conversion calculator for determining dates - very handy if you are writing up notes and dont have all your books handy. The short essays on different aspects of the calendar are clearly written and up-to-the-minute. An elegant mix of scholarship and technology.
The glyphs in this program look great, and I use this app daily for a quick history lesson and an idea of what the Maya think I should do today.
Its very informative, a great insight into a culture as great as the maya. My animal association is an armadillo! color red! its pretty awesome, Thaks Dev!
Wow! Very cool app! I love the daily interpretations of the glyphs, it is kind of like a maya horoscope!
The birthday calculator is also cool. It allows you to find out the maya day names for your birthday.
Now when I erect a stele, I will know that I have the date carved correctly!
The addition of the Maya birthdate calculator is great! My Maya birthday is the day before my gregorian birthday! Wow, two birthdays in a row! Woo!
Great App! This App has great graphics and teaches youa pretty good lesson on the Mayan Calender !
Some bad moments
The Maya Calendars are confusing to understand. This app does not really help novices understand what is going on. I personally bought this app thinking it would help me get a better idea of the meaning of the various glyphs and how they relate to each day. In this sense the app fails. I prefer using the free app Tzolkin Explorer. Tekin Tontu seems to give more information on each of the glyphs and how they apply to specific dates. If you are looking for a calendar that gives you an idea of what the day is like, then this is not the app to get. If on the other hand, you are a researcher, then maybe this is the app. Since Im not a researcher, I have no idea how I would use this app.
I also do not like the birthday interface with my address book. It lists every contact regardless of having a birthday listed. Tzolkin is smart enough to only list contacts with birthdays listed. Also, email sent on persons birthday only says "Happy Birthday". Geez, you would think it would send the additional Maya info for the birthday.
$3 is not a lot of money. However, the free Tzolkin app is much better for impressions of what the days are about.
The birthday thing doesnt work. It just shows a list of contacts and an option to add more. But i cant figure out how to add birthdays or generate any charts. Am i missing something? How does it work?
This app did not fully download onto my iPhone. I wrote Mr. Barnhart and hope to hear back from him.
This counter used to work fine on my iPhone 4S, and my iPhone 5S. It seemed to work okay yesterday, March 20, and now it freezes all the time. I deleted it and even read downloaded it, and it simply will not work.
