How to use this app

Open the app and the Live Crowd Tracker is already on the home page. It is the whole point of this app — the queue, not the walk, is what decides how many mandals you actually see tonight.

1. 1The three mandals at the top are the shortest queues near you right now.
2. 2Green means walk straight in. Yellow means there is a queue but it is moving. Red means thirty minutes or more.
3. 3Grey means nobody has reported that one yet — not that it is empty.
4. 4Every report expires after ninety minutes, so what you see is tonight, not last week.
5. 5Tap “See every mandal on the map” to open the same colours across the whole city.

This is the part that keeps the app alive. If you are standing in the lane, three seconds of your evening tells everyone else in Pune whether to come.

1. 1Allow location when the browser asks — every time. Your coordinates never leave your phone; the app sends only which mandal.
2. 2Walk up to a mandal and a “You’re here” card appears on the home screen with the three buttons.
3. 3Or open any mandal’s page and use “How’s the crowd?” — you can report from up to 1.5 km away.
4. 4Tap Short, Moving, or 30+ min. That is the whole thing. No account, no sign-in.
5. 5You can report the same mandal again after an hour, so a report near the end of a queue is welcome too.

Map is the second button on the bottom bar. Every mandal in the app is on it, drawn in the colour of its queue this minute, along with the metro stations.

1. 1The pin colour is the live queue: green, yellow, red, or grey for not yet reported.
2. 2Metro stations are marked too. Mandai is drawn hollow because it is exit-only during the festival — you cannot get off there.
3. 3Tap any pin and its card slides up with the crowd, the distance from you, and the same three report buttons.
4. 4Tap “View Ganpati” on that card for the full page.
5. 5The chips at the top — Nearby, मानाचे गणपती, Famous, Historic — narrow it down.

Short on time and want to cover as much as you can? Tap “Build my route”. It plans from where you are standing and counts the queue as well as the walk, because at the big mandals the queue is most of the evening.

1. 1Say how long you have — one hour to six.
2. 2Pick what you want: मानाचे गणपती, the famous ones, dekhava and light shows, historic mandals, calm temples, or surprise me.
3. 3Choose how you are getting around — Walking, Two-wheeler or Metro.
4. 4Tap Build my route and it opens your plan straight away.

Your plan opens with the stops in a sensible order and a straight-line estimate. One tap turns that into the real thing.

1. 1Tap Optimise order. It reorders the stops so you walk the least and still see all of them, and redraws the line along the actual lanes.
2. 2Watch the distance change — the dotted straight line becomes a solid path that follows real streets.
3. 3Drag any stop by its handle to move it, or tap ✕ to drop it.
4. 4On Metro it tells you where to board, which line, how many stops and where to get off.
5. 5Tap “Start my darshan” to hand the whole route to Google Maps for turn-by-turn from your front door.

Explore is the full list — every mandal in the app with its live queue on the card, searchable by name, mandal or area.

1. 1Search by English or Marathi name, by mandal, or by peth.
2. 2Each card carries the queue colour, the Manache rank where it has one, and the peth.
3. 3Open one for its story, its exact spot, and the crowd right now.
4. 4Get directions sends you straight there. Add to darshan drops it into your route.
5. 5The heart saves it to Saved, on this phone, no account needed.

No time to plan anything? Routes has walks already put together — the Manache Paach in ceremonial order, the Sadashiv Peth stretch after dark, the late-night one for short queues.

1. 1“Good for right now” picks the ones that suit the actual time of day in Pune.
2. 2Every route shows stops, distance and a time that already includes queuing.
3. 3Open one to see the stops in order on a map.
4. 4Start it from where you are, or add it to your own darshan and change it.

One person built this and there is no support desk — which means the email and the phone number at the bottom of every page reach him directly, and something you point out today can be fixed tonight.

1. 1A mandal missing, a pin in the wrong lane, a name spelt wrong, timings that are not right — say so and it gets corrected.
2. 2Ideas are just as welcome as problems. Much of what is here came from someone asking for it.
3. 3Write to singhgurnoor080@gmail.com or call +91 62830 31102. Both are on the About page.
4. 4If it is a mistake in the app, mention which mandal or which screen — that is usually enough to find it.
5. 5Your data, in the footer, lists everything kept on your phone and clears any of it with one tap.