Matrubharti vs Book Pratha
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matrubharti
Discover and share original regional content from Indian language enthusiasts. Engage with stories, poems, and blogs, and purchase classic eBooks for offline reading. Connect with writers and readers in a vibrant literary community.
- Write and publish stories
- Read and comment on regional content
- Share quotes, poems, and blogs
- Follow favorite users
- Buy and read eBooks offline
- Get notified for topics
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Matrubharti is a community of Indian language lovers, it is a place of readers and writers to express themselves and inspire the world. Here people join the community to get access to the original regional content shared by the most enthusiastic writers. The stories on Matrubharti have deep social and emotional values, written to impact the society with new wave of thoughts and ideas by young Indians. It is also the place to buy the most popular classic collection from legendary authors. How to use Matrubharti? 1. Write a story, draft it or Publish it for readers 2. Search, Read a story, comment, rate and share it 3. Share Quote, Poems or Blogs as Bites with Community 4. Follow the users of your choice 5. Get notified for Favorite Topics 6. Buy eBooks of your choice and Read offline 7. Get Ads free Premium User benefits
Book Pratha
Discover and purchase a vast collection of Gujarati books from an organized online store. This app offers easy searching, online payments, and worldwide shipping to numerous countries.
- Extensive Gujarati book collection
- Organized online store
- Easy search functionality
- Online payment options
- Worldwide shipping
- Over 10,000 book titles
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Largest and most Organized Gujarat book store with over 10,000+ book titles. Easy to search and well organized online book store selling. Online payment accepted and shipping in India, USA, Europe, Middle East, Australia, NZ etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Book Pratha at 100% against Matrubharti's 56%. Book Pratha also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Matrubharti's advantage is ratings volume (443 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Book Pratha holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matrubharti has 443 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Matrubharti's written reviews are positive against 100% of Book Pratha's.
Matrubharti ships an update monthly, Book Pratha every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matrubharti | Book Pratha |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (443 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 443 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Matrubharti Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Bharat Tarachandani |
Customer experience
Matrubharti
Book Pratha
Bugs and requests
Matrubharti
Reported bugs
29 issues- App crashes when opening
- App crashes on iPad
- App crashes after iOS update
- Suffering from not opening the app
- No data availability when app opens
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- Unable to use application due to mail issue with PIN
- Paid for one year plan, finishes in one month
- Not giving proper answers for payment issues
- App crashes everytime you open it
- App is not working and keeps on crashing
- Not able to share own book through WhatsApp link
- Word of the day shows 'click to participate' and shows random video
- Language selection not working
- Cannot edit or delete stories
- Viewers not displayed for uploaded posts
- Ads are too frequent
- Cannot read whole story
- Purchased membership, books not opening
- Cannot download story
- Whenever trying to open story, jumps to Vishesh plan
- Purchased app for one year, still showing trial version
- App not working after login
- Updated version is very slow
- Showing different errors
- Unnecessary ads from Google are disturbing
- Payment processing fails
- Cannot login with Facebook ID
- Cannot access library and downloaded books in new version
- 98% books are premium
Requested features
6 requests- Option to remove uploaded content
- Improvement in subscription plans for Visesh novels
- Upload all books of Bakor Patel by Hariprasad Vyas
- Show viewers for uploaded posts
- Add feature to delete books without internet
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- Expand language coverage
Book Pratha
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Matrubharti
No in-app purchases
Book Pratha
No in-app purchases
Questions
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