Bahá’í Prayers vs Vignanam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bahá’í Prayers
Access a comprehensive collection of prayers from the Bahá’í Faith, including those from its central figures. This app offers prayers in numerous languages and provides features like search, bookmarking, and customizable reading themes for a personalized experience.
- Extensive prayer collection
- Multi-language support
- Search functionality
- Bookmark and recent prayers
- Customizable reading themes
- Prayer reminders
- Share prayers
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Bahá’í Prayers is your portable Bahá’í prayer book. It contains a large selection of prayers from the Bahá’í Faith. Prayers from Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá are offered in English, Español, Português, 简体中文, Français, Deutsch, Nederlands, Română, Italiano, Svenska, Polski, Русский, беларуская, Marshallese, Gourmanché, 日本語, Magyar, Kiribati, Esperanto, and فارسی و عربي. Please note, by changing the prayer book language within the app, you will not be changing the language of the app - just the language of the currently opened prayer book. Features: - Search - Bookmark / recent prayers - Light and Dark reading themes - Easily find specific prayers in other languages - Select prayer font size and style - Prayer reminder notifications - Share prayers - Keep screen awake while reading prayer
Vignanam
Access a vast collection of Indian spiritual and devotional literature, including quotes, festival information, and Vedic texts. Learn to chant hymns with pronunciation guides and enjoy daily spiritual content in over 20 Indian languages.
- Daily spiritual quotes and excerpts
- Daily Panchāñga with local times
- Offline access to favorites
- Indian festival notifications and details
- Smart global search across all content
- Learn to chant hymns with pronunciation guides
- Vedic texts with svaras marked
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Welcome to Vignanam, the official app for vignanam.org—your comprehensive guide to the beauty and depth of Sanātana Dharma. Brought to you by Vaidika Vignanam, our app offers an enriched experience of Indian cultural knowledge and devotional literature, now presented in a beautifully redesigned and intuitive interface. Available in 20+ Indian languages. Your Daily Spiritual and Devotional Companion • Start your day on a positive note with Subhāṣhitams and share with your friends - quotes, and excerpts from large bodies of Indian texts, with their translations. • View the daily Panchāñga featuring auspicious times and daily Sankalpa for your city, anywhere in the world. • Take your favorite collection anywhere with Offline Favorite access that is available without an Internet connection. Stay up to date with Indian Festivals • Never miss an Indian festival with push notifications for all festivals, and with upcoming festivals within the app and with widgets. • Learn more about the Indian festival with detailed information about Indian Festivals, with easier access to related stōtras for each festival. • Tailor your notification preferences to receive daily Panchāñga summaries, reminders for important festivals, or set custom personal events, with alerts for tithi and nakshastra and masa. Discover and Search with Ease • Smart Global Search: Search across all documents, Subhāṣitams, festivals, articles, and categories with our powerful search tool. • Simply type in a phrase like “ayigiri nandini” or a title such as “mahishasura mardini” to quickly locate what you need. • Recent searches and helpful snippets make it easier than ever to find your desired content. Learn to chant powerful Indian hymns • Discover an improved document details screen with in-document search, pagination, settings view, and a seamless switching to other documents within the category. • Read Vedic texts with svaras correctly marked in all Indian languages. • Listen to the audio and read the meanings for selected stōtras, with our redesigned audio player, which has quick access to playlists and adjustable playback speeds. • Learn how to chant the ślōkas and stōtras with the Śikṣha Learning Series, with detailed pronunciation guides in Indian languages, only available within the Vignanam app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vignanam at every 6 days against Bahá’í Prayers's every 4 months. Vignanam also leads on ratings volume (5.1K vs 90). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bahá’í Prayers against 4.9 for Vignanam. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vignanam has 5.1K ratings behind it against 90, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Bahá’í Prayers's written reviews are positive against 98% of Vignanam's.
Bahá’í Prayers ships an update every 4 months, Vignanam every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on August 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bahá’í Prayers | Vignanam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (90 ratings) | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 98.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 90 | 5.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Tabrizi | Vaidika Vignanam |
Customer experience
Bahá’í Prayers
Vignanam
Bugs and requests
Bahá’í Prayers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Vignanam
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional performance issues and screen loading lags
- Widget not loading properly for some users
Requested features
5 requests- Add audio chanting for more texts and scriptures
- Implement offline access and download options
- Integrate Vedas, Upanishads, and other key texts
- Provide Panchangam/calendar information and notifications
- Enhance search and favorites management functionalities
In-app purchases
Bahá’í Prayers
No in-app purchases
Vignanam
No in-app purchases
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