SGI User Reviews

SGI-USA
SGI-USA
Soka Gakkai International - USA

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral18.6% of reviews
Negative experience31.4% of reviews

~ Based on 118 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is SGI Safe?

SGI-USA appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for SGI is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 728 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.0/5.

Safety Analysis

71.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
18.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 713 App Store ratings for SGI.

Is SGI Legit?

SGI-USA appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SGI is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

I love this

It’s great to have the app to go! I even shared it with a new friend!

Great App for Every Aspect of My Practice

I use the app every day as my Gongyo book, to track my daimoku and chant along with me, to study, to access the SGI website,

Excellent app. Please add Apple Watch Support

I love all the features. I use it for gongyo and counting my daimoku.

A must have!

I access this app everyday for the daily guidances, connections to members experiences and Sensei’s spirit. Never disappoints!!

Great work some limitations

Love this app! However I find the 55/minute chant count limiting and it would be great to be able to change target goal dates instead of having to start a new one. Goals sometimes take longer than expected. Love it otherwise.

Your data

You may lose you data And no way to get it back

Rebirth

This app has been very helpful for me in learning more about Nichiren Buddhism. It’s great to chant with, and it offers lots of good information and links.

Jjg

Would be great to have a link to make donations.

Works better on Android

I have this app installed in both iPhone and Android devices. I mainly use the “chant” function on the timer setting whenever I’m chanting by myself. However, the loop transition’s more smoothly on Android, as on the iPhone there is a gap between the looping.

This app is not working properly

I can no longer able to load my SGI ID and there’s no option to upgrade/update. Please fix!

Almost perfect

Use this app Daily. So important for my practice as is all of the media that SGI USA publishes.
My only complaint is every time my iPhone updates. I have to reset my password because the digital ID doesn’t work afterwards.

I like it!!

I like this app and maybe with a few tweaks…i will love it…the chanting loops between the 4-5 minute mark so it’s hard to get into a rhythm maybe if it needs to loop spread it out further also there should be more than two speeds for liturgy if those two things could be fixed i would give this app 5 stars!! 😊😊😊
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Non-continuous loop

This app has been around nearly two decades and I've always sent feedback about making the chanting loop non-stop but never have gotten a response back. I guess I'll see if a negative review gets a response... It's a nuisance when the Daimoku loop stops and starts again--throws off the rhythm, esp. when chanting in a group. Please take a moment and fix this. Thx
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Invaluable app

As a new member to the SGI community, this app has been incredibly helpful. Having the ability to chant with the app has provided support and pronunciation and most important a type of support that I had not expected. It has given me the confidence to believe in the power of chanting. It is a life changer if you are courageous enough to believe in the power of chanting.
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Timers/User friendly

Please fix the timer/ please make it user friendly. Let’s do it for the youth 🙏🏽

Landscape Mode Please

It would be so helpful if the app would go into landscape mode on my iPad.

So helpful for my practice!

I have been an SGI-USA member for over 17 years and only recently did I realize the group daimoku audio was game-changing for my practice!

But please please change the audio so it just loops seamlessly. The audio fades out and restarts at a slightly different pace after about 3 minutes.

It would help so much if the audio lasted longer and looped smoother.

Also, please add more options to the speed variation setting in the Liturgy similar to being able to change daimoku speeds.

The ability to rewind gongyo audio would also be helpful when teaching new members or as a way for new members to practice on their own when working on difficult sections of pronunciation.

Also, there does not seem to be a way to add daimoku manually to an active campaign, making it difficult to contribute time towards a goal when chanting at a meeting, etc.
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Won’tvrefresh

The app will not refresh the quotes for 2030 on my iPhone, whether I use as guest or login to the portal. It’s seems very random when it finally shows the current quote then won’t refresh for days some times a week or two. Annoying to sat the least

Daimoku timers

The problem is that the timer, as well as the stopwatch function, cancel out after a minute or so if you pause them. if I get called away from the altar and it’s more than a minute, the timer is canceled out. it would be more encouraging if I could set the timer for the day and it would not reset when I stop it, unless I reset it. it would be more holistic.
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Making Great Greater

The App is great for it provides 2 sets of Daily Encouragement which can taken anywhere with you - I enjoy reading the quotations and sharing them with guests and members who, like me, need a daily perk in Faith in Sensei's own words.

Add to this there are translations available on a click. This is awesome... I was able to share the Spanish translations of Sensei's words with more than one guest . However, there is room for improvement at the translation : When I trid to get a French translation it sent me Dutch - When I clicked on Portuguese, it sent me Romanian - I could not tell the difference.... To make this great App even greaert, we need to upgrade the translation service ...
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