# Tipitaka.app — Pāḷi Canon with commentaries

> Pāḷi Canon with commentaries (iPhone/iPad app by Path Nirvana Foundation.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tipitakaapp/id6824157493 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Path Nirvana Foundation](https://appshunter.io/developer/1434955292)
- Category: Reference, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 807 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is Tipitaka.app?

The complete Pāḷi Tipiṭaka – the texts of Theravāda Buddhism – with the commentaries (aṭṭhakathā), sub-commentaries (ṭīkā) and other Pāḷi texts, in the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition of the Vipassana Research Institute.

Everything works offline: the texts, the full-text search and the dictionaries are on your device.

READ
• The Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Piṭaka with the commentaries and sub-commentaries, the Visuddhimagga, grammars and chronicles
• In 22 scripts: Roman, Sinhala, Devanagari, Thai, Myanmar, Khmer, Lao, Bengali, Tibetan and more
• The commentary on a passage next to the text, linked paragraph by paragraph
• Variant readings, page numbers of the printed editions, bookmarks and reading history

LOOK UP
• Tap a word to see its meaning: the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary (DPD) with grammar, and the PTS, Buddhadatta, DPPN and other dictionaries in English, Sinhala, Myanmar, Thai and more
• Places and people of the suttas and the commentary stories, with a map

SEARCH
• Full-text search over the whole canon with all the word forms of a word
• Search titles and dictionary entries

Light, sepia and dark themes, adjustable text size and line spacing. Free, with no ads, no accounts and no tracking.

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## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 3.0.3 — 2026-10-26

- A guide to the app (Help), and a menu for moving around the texts
- Places and people: descriptions in Sinhala and Thai, and the Setting tab now shows where a sutta was taught for book and vagga pages too
- Commentary linked for more commentaries and sub-commentaries
- Dictionary fixes, and faster script conversion
- Fixes: title search with diacritics, reading and map improvements

### 3.0.2 — 2026-10-23

No release notes.

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