SGI vs Stoop NYC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SGI
Support your daily Buddhist practice with tools for chanting, recitation, and goal tracking. Find local facilities and access Buddhist resources.
- Chanting calculator with target tracking
- Audio guide for daily recitation
- Goal setting and progress monitoring
- SGI-USA facility locator
- Links to World Tribune website
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This app provides resources to support your daily practice of SGI Nichiren Buddhism. First, there is a chanting calculator that allows you to set and track chanting targets (campaigns). There is also an audio guide useful as an aid in learning the daily recitation of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo and the Lotus Sutra. You can set your goals and watch your progress! There are several other useful tools such as a location finder for SGI-USA facilities and links to the new World Tribune website.
Stoop NYC
Streamline your NYC apartment search by consolidating listings from multiple sites. Collaborate with housemates to score and compare properties based on individual priorities and dealbreakers, ensuring the best fit wins.
- Consolidate listings from multiple sites
- Score apartments based on personal priorities
- Collaborate with housemates
- Compare top picks side-by-side
- Track application status
- Calculate door-to-door commute times
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Keep your search organized. Stoop gives your household one shared place to collect listings, agree on what matters, and decide together. Someone drops a StreetEasy link in the group chat. Someone else finds a place on Zillow. Three days later nobody remembers which one had laundry. Stoop keeps every listing, every opinion, and every trade-off in one place, so deciding feels easy instead of exhausting. HOW IT WORKS 1. Paste a listing. Drop a URL from StreetEasy, Zillow, Apartments.com, RentHop, or Craigslist and Stoop pulls the details onto one clean card: price, beds, baths, square footage, address, and photos linked straight from the source. 2. Agree on what matters. Set your criteria together, up front — weight the ones you care about most, and mark your dealbreakers. 3. Everyone weighs in. Rate each place privately before you see anyone else's take, so every voice counts — not just the loudest one. 4. See it clearly. Stoop blends everyone's input, ranks your list, and lays the trade-offs out side by side. BUILT FOR DECIDING TOGETHER - Shared priorities set once, up front, before anyone falls in love with a place. - Rate privately, then reveal: honest input without the pressure. - A compare table that highlights the best rent and the best overall fit. - A map with every place pinned and color-coded by how it ranks, plus door-to-door commute times to the destinations you choose. - Threaded comments with @mentions and a live activity feed, visible only to the people you invite. - A simple status pipeline that tracks the search: interested, toured, applied, got it. - Notifications when your people add or rate a place. - Full-screen photo viewing and an offline mode that works on the subway. Score, edit, and update listings, and your changes sync when you're back online. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - We only ingest listings you paste. No scraping, no crawling. - Listing photos are linked from the source, never re-hosted. - Analytics are configured to mask what you type: names, emails, addresses, notes. - No ads. No data brokers. We never sell your data. Stoop is free. Starting with NYC rentals and for-sale listings, expanding to more cities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SGI at 50% against Stoop NYC's 0%. SGI also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (734 vs 3). Stoop NYC's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SGI holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SGI has 734 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SGI's written reviews are positive against 0% of Stoop NYC's.
SGI ships an update every 4 months, Stoop NYC every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SGI | Stoop NYC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (734 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 734 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soka Gakkai International - USA | Victor Lepri |
Customer experience
SGI
Stoop NYC
Bugs and requests
SGI
Reported bugs
4 issues- Daimoku count not updating accurately
- Writings of Nichiren Daishonin not loading
- Crashes or freezes when using certain features
- Incorrect or outdated content displayed
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to adjust chanting/gongyo speed
- Seamless looping of chanting audio
- Sync daimoku counts across devices
- More customization options (e.g. font size, themes)
- Improved navigation and organization of content
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- Ability to maintain active campaigns/goals across updates
Stoop NYC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SGI
No in-app purchases
Stoop NYC
No in-app purchases









