# Bhagavad-gita As It Is — user reviews

> 83 indexed App Store user reviews of Bhagavad by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc., rated 4.90/5 from 558 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 520 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of Bhagavad?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 💐 Beautiful Gift
- 🙏 All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
- 👍 Amazing!
- 👍 Excellent
- 👍 Superb
- 👍 Greatest BG ever
- 💎 Priceless
- 👏 Well conceived
- 👏 YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!
- 👍 Great usage tools/details in the app
- 👍 World's Greatest Book
- 👍 Very nice and great app for Gita !
- 👍 Great app!
- 👍 Лучшая книга!
- 👍 Worth Every Penny
- 👍 Замечательное приложение!
- 🙏 Ом Намо Бхагавате Васудевая
- 👍 Wonderful way to stay with the word of Kṛṣṇa
- 👍 GREAT APP
- 👍 Real knowledge
- 👍 Fantastic tool to stay spiritually connected
- 👍 Nice app

**Cons**

- 🐛 Many bugs in the app, works OK on iPhone but barely works on the Mac
- 🐛 When you remove a bookmark, app crashes
- 🐛 Fix chapter jumps, app exits while browsing within a chapter
- 🐛 По какой то причине в главах далее 41 текста нельзя выбрать текст. Только когда «листаешь» в открытой главе. Я писал два раза разработчикам - никто не отвечает.
- 🐛 Выкидывает из приложения, не успев загрузиться
- 🐛 При выходе из приложения, возвращаясь к чтению, открывает стартовый экран, приходится снова илти в закладки и открывать нужный текст - неудобно...
- 🐛 Сегодня купила Приложение, но оно не работает, нет ни меню, ни текста, только обложка. ПО соответствует: 9.3.6. Прошу пояснить в чем дело и как исправить ситуацию?
- 🐛 Good except the app crashes when the search function is initiated. iPhone 7+not yet the option of seeing the first edition text. If this was an option, this app would be spotless.
- 🐛 Crashes after latest update
- 🐛 It ain't opening
- 🐛 This app eats battery power for lunch and the search option doesn't work. Still waiting for a long overdue update.
- 🐛 Text in search box is not visible
- 🐛 The application crashes in iOS 11 immediately when trying to do a search

**Commonly reported bugs**

- В 18 главе отсутствуют стихи после 41 текста
- Отличное приложение Есть одна ошибка в тексте 18.17 санскрит, слово иман написано как имаl

**Most requested features**

- Add audio for Sanskrit verses
- Add option to zoom in on Sanskrit verses
- Add audio that goes along with the book
- Add option to see the first edition text
- Add Hindi language explanations

## Newest reviews (16 of 83)

### 5/5 — Hare Krsna!

*2025-04-04*

All glories to Guru and Gauranga 💗
All glories to Srila Prabhupada 💗

### 5/5 — Super awesome

*2025-04-03*

Very convenient to catch up where we left. Nice everyday highlights. Easy to use.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita ki Jai. Jai Sri Krishna. Balam Vishnoh pravardhatam. Jai Srila Prabhupada.

### 5/5 — Требуется исправление

*2025-03-24*

В 18 главе, в верху экрана, где нумерация главы и стиха, в выпадающем списке номера стиха только 41 стих. Остальных нет. Исправьте пожалуйста.

### 5/5 — Extremely Handy

*2025-03-07*

Hare Krishna the app is extremely easy to handle. Can increase the font size as well as can turn on dark mode. I can select the chapter and specific verse I want to. If I scroll fast it goes to the next chapter that’s only one small bug I saw. Thank you so much for making this application

### 5/5 — Very good but please fix this issue

*2025-02-23, version 1.5.8*

When you remove a bookmark, app crashes

### 5/5 — Bhagavad Gita as God wanted it

*2025-02-16, version 1.5.8*

This comes from a lineage of eminent fully renounced monks going back 5000 years. This is fully respectful of all religions including Hindu, Islam, Christian, Jew and others

### 5/5 — Awesome 👌👌❤️❤️❤️

*2024-05-05, version 1.5.8*

It’s great read as always, but reading ebook was different experience than reading physical book. I didn’t find any different between hard and soft copies I enjoyed both same.

### 5/5 — Hare Krsna!

*2024-04-15*

All glories to Srila Prabhupada❤️

### 5/5 — Greatest BG ever

*2024-02-15*

Must read and must have 
Please BBT bring Vedabase

### 5/5 — The best book ever( Bhagavad-gita Gita)

*2024-01-20, version 1.5.8*

Priceless

### 5/5 — Fix chapter jumps, app exits

*2024-01-06, version 1.5.8*

Fix chapter jumps, app exits while browsing within a chapter

### 5/5 — 18.41

*2023-12-22*

В 18 главе отсутствуют стихи после 41 текста

### 5/5 — Shrimad Bhagvad Gita ….Enlightening Billions on the Path Dharma…🙏

*2023-09-06*

II

### 5/5 — Best available translation

*2023-08-17, version 1.5.8*

Translating Bhagavad Gītā from Sanskrit is not an easy task if one wishes to remain faithful to the spiritual Vaishnava tradition. This is with very little doubts the only available translation with scholarly commentaries and a clear context.

### 5/5 — Review

*2023-07-26, version 1.5.8*

This App is well conceived

### 4/5 — Ошибка

*2023-06-15*

По какой то причине в главах далее 41 текста нельзя выбрать текст. Только когда «листаешь» в открытой главе. Я писал два раза разработчикам - никто не отвечает. 

For some reason, it is impossible to select the text in the chapters below 41 of the text. Only when you "scroll" in an open chapter. I wrote to the developers twice - no one answers.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Incomplete purports !

*2020-05-25, version 1.5.6*

Many purports are I complete on this app! Very upsetting.  Please fix ASAP.  I have recommended this app to many people

### 1/5 — Ошибка

*2019-11-08*

Сегодня купила Приложение, но оно не работает, нет ни меню, ни текста, только обложка. ПО соответствует: 9.3.6. Прошу пояснить в чем дело и как исправить ситуацию?

### 1/5 — Possibly better than one star

*2018-11-01, version 1.2*

I gave this app one star because, after I had tapped out a long question to my priest regarding a sloka that I was trying to forward to him for interpretation, one of those “rate this app” pop ups that hounds you for a rating popped up. My keyboard was covering the send button and the only way I could get out was to force close the app and lose everything I had written.

### 2/5 — Excellent content however Poor App functionality

*2025-03-04, version 1.5.8*

Many bugs in the app, works OK on iPhone but barely works on the Mac

### 2/5 — Неутешительные выводы

*2024-02-08*

Видя такое отношение со стороны издательства BBT к созданию и распространиению в App Store электронных книг Шрилы Прабхупады невольно возникает сожаление… Неужели никто в ВВТ не желает поддержать миссию Шрилы Прабхупады в App Store на достойном уровне?

### 2/5 — It ain’t opening

*2019-02-16*

It’s yesterday been updated after which it isn’t opening. I have spent precious amount on it to purchase. So please refund my money or resolve the issue. Consider it imperative.

**Developer response:** We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Hoping the latest update, 1.4.1, resolved the issue.

### 3/5 — Word of God

*2025-12-11, version 1.5.9*

Very wonderful app. Love the verse by verse and the purports. Love that it is copy and paste friendly for preaching purposes. Sometimes the app will jump to the verse you at but ahead to that number verse in the next chapter. It happens while scrolling reading a purport or something. Maybe also while scrolling to select to copy paste. A good idea in my opinion, to be honest. Is compare the system with the Quranly app. Like how they have the scroll setup and maybe even add an option to copy paste the verse and purport in a formal way. It’s very nice. Quranly doesn’t have that feature. But yes like a verse and purport per slide. Like how they used to have Gita base but be inventive. I can kinda see it in my head. Haha perhaps I will
Make an app idk. God bless. And thank you. I love the app how it is anyway if nothing changes but just my constructive review for inspiration and seva etc. Jai Jesus. Hare Krishna. Nitai Gaura Hari bol. Hari Om Tat Sat. Amen. ✝️🩸🕊️📖☮️🧔🏽‍♀️🐑💗🕉️🙌📿🙏

### 3/5 — Everyone loves Srila Prabhupada’s Books

*2019-10-03, version 1.5.1*

Good except the app crashes when the search function is initiated. iPhone 7+not yet the option of seeing the first edition text. If this was an option, this app would be spotless. 

Jaya Srila Prabhupada

### 3/5 — Needs work

*2018-08-01, version 1.2*

Good idea but this app eats battery power for lunch and the search option doesn’t work. Still waiting for a long overdue update.

### 4/5 — Hindi translation

*2026-03-07*

Hare Krishna, pls add Hindi language to this app as it is very important for Indian devotees. Also selection of shloka is not working even if we select chapter and verse it start from one only pls fix this bug

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Loved it

*2026-08-01, version 1.5.9*

I always keep this on my phone because this is the only knowledge any human being needs to liberate from all the pain.

### 5/5 — Супер

*2026-02-02*

Наконец-то нашёл лучшее приложение по Бхагавад Гите!

### 5/5 — Shutdown bug

*2026-01-25*

Great app. There is a bug when I am searching the app is getting shutdown automatically

### 5/5 — Superb well thought out

*2026-01-06*

App is designed very well with multiple customisations. Thank you.

### 5/5 — Beautiful Gift

*2025-12-27, version 1.5.9*

Life Changing … Aum Namo Bhagavatey Vasudevaya, ys Gaurang
💐🙇🏻‍♂️💐🙇🏻‍♂️💐🙇🏻‍♂️

### 5/5 — All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

*2025-11-25, version 1.5.9*

Read and be blessed.

### 5/5 — Amazing!

*2025-10-28, version 1.5.9*

Very easy to read and understand! Thanks for making this available. Far better than social media stuff to read and understand!!

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2025-10-09, version 1.5.9*

Great app. Much appreciated

### 5/5 — Superb

*2025-08-31, version 1.5.9*

Very very good customisation options, well done!

### 5/5 — Superb app

*2025-07-29*

We spend thousands of rupees for worthless, I urge you to spend some penny for this wonderful app which will benefit you unlimitedly I say so as I also thought several times before purchase but I’m so satisfied by having it really I’m loving this app thank you BBT thank you Srila Prabhupada!!!

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