Cloud Sync in Pandit Ji: What Syncs, What Doesn't, and How to Control It

Pandit Ji is designed to work entirely offline and on-device — your birth data never leaves your phone unless you explicitly enable it. But if you use the app on multiple devices or want to back up your Parivar profiles and Ask the Pandit history, signing in and enabling cloud sync takes care of all of it.

Signing In

Tap Settings → Sign In (the top row of the Settings screen). Pandit Ji supports sign-in via email — just enter your address and tap the one-time code that arrives in your inbox. No password required. Anonymous usage is fully supported; signing in is only needed if you want cloud sync or cross-device access.

What Can Sync (Four Categories)

Once signed in, go to Settings → your account row → Account screen. You'll see four independent sync toggles under "Cloud Sync":

• Birth Info & Parivar — Syncs all your birth profiles and family member charts. Enable this if you want to access your Parivar on a new phone, or to ensure your profiles are backed up. When enabled, profile data is encrypted and stored on Pandit Ji's servers.
• Ask the Pandit History — Syncs your full Ask the Pandit conversation history across devices. Useful if you switch between an iPhone and iPad, or want to refer back to previous answers from a different device.
• Credits — Syncs your Ask the Pandit credit balance to the server. This is important if you use Pro on multiple devices — without this toggle enabled, your credit balance is device-local only and won't carry over to a new phone.
• Preferences — Syncs your app settings (language, calendar tradition, notification preferences, Seeker/Practitioner view, card personalization weights) so you don't have to reconfigure everything on a new device.

Turning a Category Off

You can disable any sync category at any time. When you turn off a toggle for a category that's currently synced, the app shows a confirmation: "Remove from Cloud" — this deletes that category's data from Pandit Ji's servers but keeps it on your current device. This is the correct action if you want to go back to fully local-only storage for a given category.

Signing Out

Tapping "Sign Out" at the bottom of the Account screen signs you out on the current device. Your locally stored data (birth profiles, history, preferences) remains on the device. If sync was enabled, the server copy remains until you explicitly delete it or disable sync categories before signing out.

Who Should Enable Sync

Cloud sync is most valuable if you: use Pandit Ji on more than one device, have recently changed phones and want to restore your Parivar profiles, or are a Pro user who wants their credit balance to persist across devices. If you use the app on a single device and aren't concerned about backup, local-only is perfectly fine and maximizes privacy.