Every affirmation app I tried had the same shape: a library of somebody else’s quotes, a notification you dismiss, and a subscription. What I wanted was simpler — the one sentence I’m working on this month, on the lock screen, where I’ll see it forty times a day without opening anything. Mantra does that, and then keeps it fresh so it doesn’t go invisible.
Write it once
Type a line. Pick serif or sans lettering, a size, a position. It’s on your lock screen in under a minute.
A fresh background every morning
Mantra is an automatic wallpaper changer: every morning (or every few hours, or weekly) your words are re-rendered on a new illustrated background and set as the lock screen, home screen or both. The rotation never repeats what you just saw, so the sentence keeps registering instead of becoming furniture.
Fifty backgrounds in five collections
Still Waters, Wings, Wild Hours, Stone & Light, Dusk Cities — flat-vector illustrations designed so text stays legible on top of them. Tap any background to keep it forever, or leave it on Surprise me.
Or your own photos
Pick photos from your gallery through the Android photo picker (no storage permission needed). Mantra measures the brightness and contrast in the text area and adds a soft scrim only when the photo is busy, so your words stay readable on a sunset or a toddler. Your photos never leave the phone, and this is never paywalled.
More than one mantra
Keep several — a goal, a reminder, a prayer — and let them rotate in order or shuffled. Each one can keep a background it suits or take whatever comes next.
Simple, honest controls
Lock screen + home, lock only, or home only. Change every few hours, every morning, or weekly. Pause any time. Sixteen languages including full right-to-left Arabic.
Free and Plus
Three mantras, the Still Waters collection and daily refresh are free forever. Mantra Plus unlocks all five collections and every one added later — annual with a 7-day trial, or a lifetime purchase. Billing goes straight through Google Play; there is no account on our side.
The Android-specific engineering — including the way setting a wallpaper recreates your Activity a second later — is in the post about building Mantra.
