# ChantBuddy - Daimoku Tracking — user reviews > 189 indexed App Store user reviews of ChantBuddy by OriCo, rated 4.50/5 from 629 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chantbuddy-daimoku-tracking/id483290672/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chantbuddy-daimoku-tracking/id483290672.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 457 · 4★ 90 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 21 · 1★ 34 ## What do users think of ChantBuddy? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Helpful for daily practice - 👍 Supports chanting and goal tracking - 💡 Provides daily encouragement and access to resources - 👍 Useful for isolated practitioners - 👍 Helps learn Gongyo **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable - 💰 Paid features and hidden fees - 🔧 Inconsistent and needs improvements - 🔧 Timer and tracking issues - 🔧 Audio quality and playback problems **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes - Timer stops unexpectedly - Incorrect daimoku tracking - Compatibility issues with OS updates - Unresponsive support **Most requested features** - Ability to review past daily encouragement - Better goal tracking and progress visualization - More customization options - Improved audio quality and playback - Syncing across devices ## Newest reviews (16 of 189) ### 4/5 — Daily Encouragement *2025-12-21, version 1.3.6* I would like to be able to go back to specific daily encouragement passages. Also, you list support options. I, however, have never received a response when I submitted an inquiry. ### 4/5 — Useful but clunky *2025-11-18, version 1.3.6* I’m just here to say that this is useful because it’s better than filling in little boxes on pieces of paper, but just a few little QA tweaks would really help. I think my biggest issue is that you cannot re-order your goals and by default, the oldest goals are first, which is a pet peeve of mine as a QA person. I would never release an app that did that. ### 2/5 — Sound stopped working *2025-08-02, version 1.3.6* I keep being asked to review but obvious the developer has not been making regular updates based on customer feedback, so I’ve always declined reviewing. I used to promote this app earlier but now I’m planning to shift to something else because first I had problems with sound and now sound has just stopped completely! I use sound with my hearing aids because in some places I can’t chant aloud. But now I can use this app anymore sadly. ### 3/5 — Good but needs improvement even with the UpGrade *2025-05-23, version 1.3.6* It is very difficult to view the time one has chanted because if one chants several times each day..the Date, Time of day, & Day of the week are easily visible but the actual amount of time one has chanted is frequently unreadable. ### 5/5 — Daimoku *2025-03-16, version 1.3.6* Great ! I love it! ### 5/5 — Suddenly lost sound for Chanting *2025-03-09, version 1.3.6* Can no longer here chanting, which I like to use helps me feel supported. ### 5/5 — Rating *2025-02-24, version 1.3.6* piaddiedee ### 5/5 — Beginners *2025-02-20, version 1.3.6* Absolutely brilliant for someone just starting out. ### 5/5 — Chant/Gongyo zbuddy *2025-02-06, version 1.3.6* This app helps me recite the liturgy with the correct pronunciation. Huge plus! ### 4/5 — Interruptions *2024-11-29, version 1.3.6* I like this app and have been using it for a few years, but today there were interruptions. I checked my WiFi connection, no issue there. ### 5/5 — Great APP *2024-11-16, version 1.3.6* I use this to help me keep in rhythm when I chant at home. I’m a 56 1/2 year SGI member in the USA who loves this Buddhist practice and chanting to the Gohonzon. Thank you for providing such a great APP. ### 3/5 — Keeps me on daily targets *2024-10-23, version 1.3.6* I use this app for my personal goals and targets. It’s satisfying to see my progress over the years. It keeps me consistent and I’m encouraged to chant more daimoku. It is also quite helpful in teaching gongyo and group chanting. It is buggy, cutting off when logging daimoku. I hope they make a software update. ### 5/5 — Daily Encouragement *2024-10-09, version 1.3.6* I would like to be able to go back to specific daily encouragement passages. Also, you list support options. I, however, have never received a response when I submitted an inquiry. ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-08-12, version 1.3.6* It’s such a useful app. I learnt gongyo using this app long before I was going to meetings. I love keeping track of my goals using this app. It keeps me focused . ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-07-23, version 1.3.6* Great app. Love that it opens on the daily encouragement and that you can send daimoku to friends in text/whatsapp messages. Also the links to more info on the SGI webpage are very handy. The only issue is that this app hasn’t been updated in the 7 years I’ve had it. Suggested improvements: - I second Miss Winters suggestions (comment on App Store in Feb 2017) - bell available on prayer screen (so you don't have to go back to previous screen) - to be able to move goals into a section for 'completed' goals so that they remind us of our achievements but aren’t lost. I recommend it to loads of people! ### 5/5 — Great Support *2024-04-24, version 1.3.6* I love Chant buddy, especially at times/certain days when I want to chant for a long time. It works really well for me. Thank you chant buddy. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disgusting *2025-07-23, version 1.3.6* Making money of a free Buddhist practice is disgusting. ### 1/5 — Sound stopped working *2025-03-26, version 1.3.6* I keep being asked to review but obvious the developer has not been making regular updates based on customer feedback, so I’ve always declined reviewing. I used to promote this app earlier but now I’m planning to shift to something else because first I had problems with sound and now sound has just stopped completely! I use sound with my hearing aids because in some places I can’t chant aloud. But now I can use this app anymore sadly. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2024-11-25, version 1.3.6* The app is very buggy! It turns off when I phone locks, the app shuts down every time I click settings, even if I just try to move to another option- say from timer to stopwatch it shuts down. I tried contacting app support and receive an error message. I don’t think anyone is monitoring the app? I try to be patient and deal with the app but the number of bugs now makes it near impossible. If the developers are reading this and have a solution- please contact me. (I have deleted and reinstalled the app several times- all the issues remain). ### 1/5 — No one is managing this app *2024-09-16, version 1.3.6* This app was created about 10 years ago, there have been no new features, it has lots of bugs, no one is ever responding to the messages, there is no improvements, and the guidance has not changed since 2009 Stand by this review. 2 years later is is the same ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work after ios 17 update *2024-03-10, version 1.3.6* Stopped working and i can’t seem to be able to access my history either 😢 ### 1/5 — Miss winters *2024-02-03, version 1.3.6* Write this back in 2019 and still don’t have my paid version back. I think it must be 1.99 a year not a one off payment Still chasing up for the paid app - despite paying twice previously still only got the basic free app. App says successfully restored. But nothing has been restored, have sent emails to be ignored. Don’t pay the extra , lost my extras two weeks later no response. I’m total have paid for extras twice to still not have them ! Think the app developers have given up with the app & r on holiday spending our money we paid for a better version with. My screen only have accessible. Paid for upgrade version still can't play gongyo use to be able to. - this was the case is 2016 and still in 2019. This time I have contacted them 3 times in the last week to be ignored. Don’t pay for the extras you don’t get them !! I would really like to be able to click a button and see - how many days in a row I have chanted for. And a daily average. Also really want to be able to log when I have done morning and evening gongyo. - this i will pay the extra 1.99 for. Since new update iv lost my graph? The amount of diamoku iv chanted and how many d's and how many more to go :( plz bring back only brought app for that x ### 1/5 — Helps *2023-11-06, version 1.3.6* It helps a lot for me especially when i travel and there are no members to chant with . I have been using the app for over 5 years ### 1/5 — You pay as you go! *2022-03-26, version 1.3.6* I bought this app and discovered you have a fee for one bell, 3 bells, to enlarge text, to basically do anything.. there’s more to the initial app payment. Was not a seamless first chant. Rather stick to the real SGI ### 1/5 — Old accounts and new *2021-04-09, version 1.3.6* Now I do love the app. That’s what I find on here stinks , as a businesswoman I had to change my number twice. So I had to re-download end it required another another payment. There should be a way for people who have it for a long period of time to be able to transfer your old account over🤷🏽‍♀️ ### 1/5 — LETTER TO THE DESIGNER & NEW USERS *2021-01-25, version 1.3.6* This app is not sponsored by the SGI. If it were, it would be free. I purchased this app 4 years ago. It has required several updates and each time required me to PAY for a new app, as if it was never purchased. I wrote to Chantbuddy several times and NEVER had a reply. It just just happened again!!! Will someone please contact me? If you are charging users multiple times for the same service, this is not only unethical but also profiting off the sincerity of new members. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Feedback useful today *2026-08-04, version 1.3.6* It’s OK, more than ok, it is at my heart of my practice when on my own a great pal to my Gongyo Thanks Peter ### 5/5 — Great app to help tracking chanting *2026-07-16, version 1.3.6* Most helpful. ### 5/5 — Great support! *2026-06-22, version 1.3.6* This app is great to support your daily practice. It keeps track of your daimoku and goals. It helps with morning & evenings prayers & basic chanting. Has access to many supportive resources. I love it! ### 5/5 — Wow! *2026-05-11, version 1.3.6* Only just found out about this app and I’m obsessed. Love everything about it so far. Thank you to whoever created it NMRK ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2026-05-07, version 1.3.6* Great app! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Great app- I love the way to keep track of my chanting *2025-10-16, version 1.3.6* I love the app, I reinstalled it after a few years, I love the option of sending Daimoku via text to someone of a session that I had completed. Gongyo @ different speed with a clear pronunciation is wonderful! But being able to keep track of my goals and sessions that can work on the background is great! ### 5/5 — Great *2025-08-23, version 1.3.6* Very useful ### 5/5 — ChantBuddy partner *2025-07-31, version 1.3.6* I use ChantBuddy every single day to chant and to reach my goals. Makes me feel Like I am not chanting by my self and it really helps me. I love this App ### 5/5 — Booster Gongyo and Daimoku *2025-06-24, version 1.3.6* My wife and I use the app to boost our Gongyo and Daimoku to make it seem like a group, and amplify it more with a Bluetooth Speaker! Good to be able to record amount chanted as well! ### 5/5 — Old user *2025-04-14, version 1.3.6* I download ChantBuddy as soon as it became available I have had it for some years close to 10 probably I love it it has allowed me to memorize and stay accurate on my chanting. I love that it’s on my phone. I can take it with me wherever I go I have had no issues at all.💙 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-16.*