Daily Chinese almanac standby screen for e-ink readers. Lunar dates, moon phase.
A desk almanac that turns its own page every day.
Ink Calendar prepares today's Chinese almanac for you — Gregorian and lunar dates, do's and don'ts, solar terms, zodiac clashes, auspicious hours and the moon phase — as the standby screen of your e-ink device. Pick it up, and it's today.
■ A real almanac
Do's and don'ts, solar terms, clashes, auspicious hours and moon phases are computed for every day, not pulled from a fixed set of images. Lunar dates, solar terms and stem-branch cycles are calculated astronomically; do's and don'ts and clashes follow traditional almanac rules.
■ Made for e-ink
Pure black and white, high contrast, type sizes tuned for 300 ppi. Choose Song (serif) or Kai (regular-script) Chinese type, on a black or white background. Dedicated layouts for 3:4 screens and tall screens.
■ Free-form header
Two lines with their own alignment and size, or split the bar into cells — titles, couplets and signatures all fit.
■ Reminders
The day before a solar term, on the 1st and 15th of the lunar month, and on lunar or Gregorian anniversaries. Everything is computed on the device; each reminder can be switched on or off.
■ Traditional / Simplified in one tap
A complete character table with Taiwan-standard glyphs; the interface switches with it.
■ Offline, frugal, no data collection
No network, no account, no storage permission. Set it up once and you never need to open it again.
■ Three steps to start
1. Open the app and tap "Update now".
2. In your device's standby-screen setting, pick today.png from the InkCalendar folder.
3. Turn off battery optimization for this app (illustrated steps inside the app).
■ Compatibility
Requires an e-ink device running Android 11 or later with Google Play, whose standby screen can show a custom image.
Tested on Boox Go 6 Gen II and Boox Palma 2; full list and setup steps on the support page.
Regular Android phones can use it as a wallpaper or lock screen. Readers that don't run Android cannot install it.
inkcalendar.yuchengkeke.com/support
Almanac content follows traditional calendar rules and is provided for cultural and calendar reference only. It is not medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
What's new
New setup step with an illustrated guide for devices that auto-freeze newly installed apps (which stops the daily page turn); the main screen now warns if the app was stopped by the system. Fixed a traditional-Chinese conversion error in the almanac.