KinhMõ for iPhone · free
Read. Understand. Recite.
KinhMõ accompanies you through the prayer book read at funeral and memorial services — even if you do not read Vietnamese: with translation, pronunciation and the rhythm of recitation.
Features
What the app does.
Each feature has a video with sound, divided into chapters — and a guide to read.
Reading and tracks
The original text stays where it is. German, English and a simplified pronunciation settle in underneath it, block by block — or not at all. Small ⓘ notes explain a page, misprints included.
Lookup
Tap a word: what it means in German, English or both, the Hán-Việt characters behind it where it has them — with a note of where the meaning came from. Around 1,100 distinct words stand in the book.
Recitation and rhythm
Mõ, ding and bell keep the ceremony in time, at the tempo of the Sunday service at the temple. The text moves with the beat — you follow the rhythm instead of chasing your place.
Review
A short round over words and lines taken from the book itself: tap, choose, match — never on a keyboard. It ends after a handful of questions, and tomorrow there is a new one waiting.
Words by frequency
The app has counted all 48 pages and ranks every word by how often it stands in the book. Tap any one of them to look it up — so what you meet most often in it is what you learn first.
Learn
35 short articles: who the figures in the prayers are, what the sections mean, how the ceremony runs and what kinds of text the book holds — sutra, verse, mantra and invocation.
The book
The prayer book of the Linh Thứu pagoda in Berlin.
KinhMõ reproduces exactly one book: the 48 pages read there at funeral and memorial services. The reading view keeps the same page numbers and the same paragraphs as the printed book — open the real book at the temple and you will find the same page in the app.
The name
KinhMõ — the text and the beat.
Kinh經
means sutra — and it is the word the community itself uses for the prayers and for this book.
Mõ
is the wooden fish, the temple block struck during recitation. Together with the bell it keeps the beat everyone follows.
The spelling
The two capitals show the two syllables — Kinh · Mõ — so that nobody reads it as “Kin-hmõ”. And the small mark over the o belongs to the word; it is not decoration.
Nothing is collected
Everything stays on your iPhone.
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no server. The app makes no network request at all — dictionary, sounds and articles are entirely bundled.