Kwaunobva for Android and iPhone

Ziva kwaunobva, pasina data.

The dictionary, the proverbs, all sixty totems with their praise poetry, the riddles and the customs. Downloaded once, then it works with the phone in flight mode.

Android 8 and later

iOS 13 and later

A Shona proverb card in the Kwaunobva app

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Kwaunobva welcome screen with totem icons — Ziva kwaunobva. Start by choosing your totem.

The collection gallery — Every collection in one gallery.

Search results grouped by collection — Search across everything at once.

Search filtered to proverbs — Filter to one collection.

A proverb card with its meaning and usage — Proverbs with meaning and usage.

The totem picker grid — Sixty totems, drawn one by one.

Choosing a clan within a totem — Then the clan inside your totem.

An article about the spirits — Customs explained, readable as a story.

A riddle with a guess field — Riddles graded as you type.

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Install it

Free on Google Play and the App Store. No account, nothing to sign up for.

Choose your mutupo

Pick your totem and clan once. The app greets you by your praise name after that.

Read it anywhere

Everything is stored on the phone. Kombi, rural home, aeroplane, it does not matter.

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A dictionary that works both ways

Look up a Shona word or an English one, with the Shona explanation kept.

Proverbs with their meaning

Not a list. Each proverb carries what it means and when it is said.

Totems and praise poems

Sixty totems, their clans, their regions and the full chidawo.

Riddles that answer back

Type a guess. The app accepts the spellings a Shona speaker would.

Customs written plainly

Roora, kurova guva, nhimbe and more, read as a story or a page.

Yours to share

Turn any record into a card and send it to family.

Kwaunobva is a Shona heritage reference for Android and iPhone. It carries a full duramazwi, both English to Shona and Shona to English, alongside tsumo with their meanings, all sixty mitupo with the clans and praise poems that belong to them, zvirahwe that hold their answers behind a tap, madimikira, nyaudzosingwi, ukama, mutauro, ngano and zviera.

Everything ships inside the app, so it reads the same in a kombi, at a rural home or on an aeroplane. There is no account, no advertising and nothing to subscribe to. This website publishes a large part of the same material for anyone reading on a computer; the app is what you carry.

Ziva kwaunobva.

Free, offline, no ads. Take the whole thing with you.