Comparison

Spirit Stream vs AskAGuru

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

Head to head
About

Spirit Stream

Listen to spiritual teachers and topics like meditation and relationships on your iPhone. Create custom playlists from searches and enjoy streams while commuting or relaxing. Stay updated on new uploads and share favorites.

Highlights
  • Stream spiritual teachers
  • Listen to topics like Money, Relationships, Health, Meditation
  • Create custom playlists
  • Listen offline (implied by commuting/relaxing)
  • Track new uploads
  • Share favorite streams
Features
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Take your favorite spiritual teachers with you on the road with Spirit Stream - a stream player for iPhone. Download Spirit Stream and listen to streams of your favorite topics - such as Money, Relationships, Health and Meditation - from your favorite spiritual teachers - Like Abraham Hicks, Bashar, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer and more - directly on your iPhone. Create your own playlists of streams from searches. Listen to your streams while commuting to work or relaxing on the beach without keeping your phone unlocked with Spirit Stream. Keep track of newly uploaded streams and share your favorite streams with your friends and much more. We have two subscription plans that give you full access to our app: - A monthly subscription for $9.99 charged per month. - A yearly subscription for $99.99 charged per year. This plan includes 14 days free trial where we do not charge you. If you have not selected a plan after the 14 days free trial, you will not get charged. After the additional 14 days free trial from the yearly plan is over and you have not unsubscribed, we will charge your iTunes account the amount of your chosen plan. If you have set up auto-renewal on your phone, we will charge you automatically after end of each period in your plan. Please follow this guide from Apple if you no longer want to subscribe to our app https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
 - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal 
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
 Read more in our terms of service: http://spiritstream.dk/terms-service.html We keep your privacy safe and keep your data only to improve our app. We do not give your information to any 3rd party. Please read our policy to find out what we collect: http://spiritstream.dk/privacy-policy.html

About

AskAGuru

Create and discover curated lists of music, books, movies, and TV shows. Engage with a community to enhance content and climb global rankings. Get rewarded for your contributions and become a top guru.

Highlights
  • Create curated music, book, movie, and TV show lists
  • Discover content across all genres
  • Contribute recommendations to existing lists
  • Track progress via global rankings
  • Get rewarded for successful content contributions
  • Manage user recommendations
Features
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AskAGuru is the ultimate app for sharing the art you love with the world and discovering more! Join an exclusive community where you can craft or participate in epic playlists, booklists, movie lists, and tv watch lists for your enjoyment and the worlds' delight! Simply create a new playlist by selecting songs from Apple Music or Spotify's extensive catalogs; curate a booklist from Google Books' vast collection; or collaborate on a truly binge worthy movie or tv watch lists that cinema lovers will scream 'bravo!' for! Watch your lists evolve with suggestions from other users, and make your own recommendations to existing content. The more you engage with the platform's community, the better the curated content becomes and the higher you will climb in the rankings! Track your progress via the global rankings. The more your lists gain attention and the more you contribute to others' lists, the higher your rank will be. Can you climb to the top and become one of the top-3 gurus? FEATURES: * Enjoy human-curated music playlists, booklists, movielists, and tvshowlists. * Discover music, books, movies, and tv spanning every genre. * Choose from a wide selection of songs, books, movies, and tv to add to your lists. * Create new content lists based on your favorite songs, books, movies and tvshows. * Contribute song, book, movie and tvshow recommendations to existing lists, and see your contributions recognized in the global ranking. * Manage recommendations from other gurus for your lists; you're in control. * Get rewarded for successful content lists. Make it to the hall of fame of the community. Privacy Policy: https://askaguru.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://askaguru.com/terms-and-conditions

Screenshots

Spirit Stream4 screens
AskAGuru4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: AskAGuru at 100% against Spirit Stream's 46%. AskAGuru also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Spirit Stream's advantage is ratings volume (94 vs 6) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15). On price, ads and device support 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. Spirit Stream sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. AskAGuru asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AskAGuru holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spirit Stream has 94 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Spirit Stream's written reviews are positive against 100% of AskAGuru's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spirit Stream ships an update every 6 weeks, AskAGuru fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Spirit Stream versus AskAGuru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpirit StreamAskAGuru
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (94 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings94 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB26 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKarsten KiilerichASKAGURU CORP

Customer experience

Spirit Stream

All ratings95 ratings
Positive67.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative25.3%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive45.7%
Neutral15.2%
Negative39.1%

AskAGuru

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Spirit Stream

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes
  • No content appears
  • Cannot add playlists
  • New streams don't update
  • App freezes
Show 10 more
  • Won't load content
  • Pause button not working correctly
  • Constantly stops working
  • Sign-in issues recognizing payment
  • Constantly makes users log in to Apple ID
  • Buffering and crashing
  • Keeps buffering and/or skipping seconds
  • Playback never starts
  • WARNING pop-up every 6 seconds about slow network
  • Audio player starts too long sometimes

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to download content for offline listening
  • Search functionality
  • Fix pause/resume functionality
  • Add more information about speakers
  • Updates to the app
Show 3 more
  • Fix sign-in issues where it asks to pay repeatedly
  • Improve network warning pop-ups
  • Add dark mode

AskAGuru

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spirit Stream

Subscriptions2
  • Spirit Stream Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Spirit Stream Subscription14 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

AskAGuru

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spirit Stream free?
Spirit Stream is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AskAGuru free?
AskAGuru is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spirit Stream or AskAGuru?
AskAGuru is rated higher. Spirit Stream averages 3.8 out of 5 from 94 ratings, while AskAGuru averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Spirit Stream or AskAGuru have ads?
Neither Spirit Stream nor AskAGuru shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spirit Stream or AskAGuru?
Spirit Stream ships an update every 6 weeks, and AskAGuru fortnightly. Most recently, Spirit Stream was updated on November 2, 2026 and AskAGuru on November 3, 2026.

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