Comparison

Bahá'í Readings vs Hadvad Dham

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Bahá'í Readings

Access the central writings of the Bahá'í Faith with a book-like reader. Features include offline access, customizable themes, search functionality, note-taking, and an optional guided starter path for new users. Listen to passages read aloud.

Highlights
  • Offline access to 600+ Bahá'í writings
  • Customizable reading themes and sizes
  • Full-text search with snippets
  • Save favorites, notes, and highlights
  • Listen mode for audio playback
  • Guided starter path for new users
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Baha'i Readings is a quiet, personal companion for the central writings of the Baha'i Faith. Browse 600+ works - from Gleanings and The Hidden Words to The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Some Answered Questions, and more - in a reader designed to feel like a book, not a web page. Read at your own pace. Switch between light, sepia, and dark themes, pick serif or sans, and choose from five reading sizes. The reader remembers where you left off in every writing, so returning is one tap. Search across everything at once. Type a phrase and the app scans every writing and shows matches grouped by book, with a snippet for each hit. Searches are diacritic- and case-insensitive, so Baha finds Baha'u'llah. Keep your place, your highlights, and your notes. Save a favorite, jot a note, tie a passage to a thought. Everything lives on your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Listen mode reads any writing aloud. Choose a speed and let the words come to you while you walk, cook, or commute. A gentle starter path. New to the Writings? Answer one question about what you are looking for - solace, growth, or curiosity - and the app suggests five short passages to begin with. Private by default. No account, no sign-in, no ads. The app works entirely offline. A small anonymous counter (e.g. "a writing was opened") tells us the app is alive; no text, no identifiers, and no IP address is collected or stored. A small, careful app. Open it, find a passage, close it, and get on with your day.

About

Hadvad Dham

Explore spiritual knowledge and teachings of Anadi Mahamuktraj Jatashankar Bapashri. This collection offers insights for seekers on their spiritual journey, featuring selected preachings and letters.

Highlights
  • Spiritual knowledge collection
  • Teachings of Anadi Mahamuktraj Jatashankar Bapashri
  • Selected preachings
  • Gleanings from letters
  • Guidance for spiritual progress
Features
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This is a valuable collection of spiritual knowledge about Anadi Mahamuktraj Jatashankar Bapashri, which is gathered to help the seekers on their path of spiritual progress. Anadi MahaMuktraj Bapashri was born in Halvad (a small town in Surendranagar district in Gujarat State of India). In Vikram Samvat (Hindu Almanac) 1953 a series of highly incandescent mystical spiritual experiences happened first at Halvad and then in Dholka (both Towns in Gujarat State). These experiences continued for more than three and half months and comprised of people getting into trance, seeing oceans of divine light, occasional showers of flowers and sandal drops etc. Some of the younger one's became medium through which great souls like Gopalanand and Vasudevanand Swami chanted Vedic rhymes and sometimes recited devotional poems. Shriji Maharaj also appeared and announced that three Anadi MahaMukt’s have assumed human form for the salvation of spiritual seekers. Shriji identified them as Abji Bhagat of Kutch, Swami Haricharandasji of Charadwa and Jatashankarbhai (Jatashankar Bapashri) of Halvad. Shriji Maharaj said that serve them and I will be served, please them and I will be pleased and they are here to give salvation. Once Shriji Maharaj said, "Tomorrow I will come and partake food at the house of all present. On the next day, whosoever offered food-plate (Thal), found that the quantity of every item was reduced to almost half. Thus Bapashri was made known to us by none other than Shriji Maharaj through Samadhi Prakrans. This abridged collection comprises of the selected preaching of Bapashri pains takingly recorded by his devotees and the gleanings from the numerous letters that he wrote to his disciples. May the readers who are seekers get the benefit of Satsang with Bapashri through his words and get his blessings for the moksha.

Screenshots

Bahá'í Readings4 screens
Hadvad Dham3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bahá'í Readings at 4.8 against Hadvad Dham's 4.2. Hadvad Dham's advantage is device support and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bahá'í Readings holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bahá'í Readings versus Hadvad Dham: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBahá'í ReadingsHadvad Dham
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better5
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size682 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames TanPratik Patel

Customer experience

Bahá'í Readings

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hadvad Dham

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bahá'í Readings

No in-app purchases

None

Hadvad Dham

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bahá'í Readings free?
Bahá'í Readings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hadvad Dham free?
Hadvad Dham is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bahá'í Readings or Hadvad Dham?
Bahá'í Readings is rated higher. Bahá'í Readings averages 4.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Hadvad Dham averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.

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