BAPS Nirnay vs Desh Gujarati Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BAPS Nirnay
This Hindu calendar app integrates festivals, observances, and auspicious timings from the Hindu lunar calendar with the Western solar calendar. It features a monthly calendar view, personal note-taking, and a Muhurat view for planning important events.
- Hindu lunar and Western calendar integration
- Festival and observance highlights
- Personal note-taking and sharing
- Muhurat (auspicious timings) view
- Eclipse day notifications
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BAPS Nirnay is a Hindu calendar app that combines the Hindu lunar calendar’s festivals, observances and auspicious timings with the Western (Solar) calendar used in day-to-day life through a feature-filled, but clean user interface. BAPS Nirnay offers a monthly calendar view that highlights important Swaminarayan Hindu festivals and observances such as Ekadashi, Poonam and Amas. Personal notes on each day can easily be made and shared with friends and family as a reminder for special events. The Muhurat view, or auspicious timings view, provides an easy-to-navigate monthly overview with details on auspicious timings for buying, selling, marriage, vastu, janoi and other important events according to the Hindu jyotish scriptures. It also has separate views highlighting festivals, auspicious days and days of the solar and lunar eclipse, respectively. This well-designed app will make knowing about and planning for Hindu festivals and observances much more convenient in our busy modern lives.
Desh Gujarati Keyboard
This keyboard extension simplifies typing in Gujarati using English transliteration and intelligent word predictions. It offers easy language switching, spell correction, and access to emojis and stickers for enhanced communication across all your apps.
- English to Gujarati transliteration
- Word predictions and spell correction
- Easy language switching
- Emoji and sticker support
- Customizable keyboard settings
- Clipboard for saved text
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Desh Gujarati Keyboard is a keyboard extension that makes Gujarati typing super easy: • Type in English letters and get Gujarati words with our transliteration technology • Type faster using word predictions • Easily switch to English with the language key • Word predictions and spell-correct is available in English also • Emoji button is available after pressing 123 Open the app and follow instructions to get your new Gujarati keyboard: • Enable keyboard from settings • Activate the keyboard by holding the Globe icon and selecting "Desh Gujarati Keyboard" • Type Gujarati everywhere! Allowing full access: • When enabling the keyboard, you may enable "Allow Full Access" • This allows us to access crash reports and will help us improve the stability of the app • We respect your privacy. No personal information is collected • A standard warning is shown when you enable any downloaded keyboard app How to access settings: • Tap on the ⋯ button after opening the app and tap Settings. This option will be available after keyboard is activated • Available settings: sound on key press, vibrate on key press, emoji row, number row Using the clipboard: • The clipboard lets you save text that you frequently use and paste them easily • After you copy any text, it can be viewed from the clipboard by tapping on "Paste copied text". You can use the Pin button to save it permanently • To show copied text automatically when clipboard is opened, you can change the "Paste from Other Apps" setting to "Allow" Using stickers to make your chats more fun: • Open the stickers page by clicking on the sticker icon on the keyboard. Click on any sticker you like to copy it • Navigate back to your chat app and use your phone's Paste option in the message box • The sticker will be pasted in the chat. Note that animations are currently sent as GIFs due to technical limitations Do share your feedback and help us improve Desh Gujarati Keyboard. And don't forget to leave a review if you like it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Desh Gujarati Keyboard at every 2 months against BAPS Nirnay's every 5 months. Desh Gujarati Keyboard also leads on ratings volume (135 vs 33). BAPS Nirnay's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). 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 — 4.7 for BAPS Nirnay against 4.7 for Desh Gujarati Keyboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 135 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 93% and 93% positive.
BAPS Nirnay ships an update every 5 months, Desh Gujarati Keyboard every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | BAPS Nirnay | Desh Gujarati Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (33 ratings) — better | 4.7 (135 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better | 93.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 135 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha | ClusterDev Technologies Private Limited |
Customer experience
BAPS Nirnay
Desh Gujarati Keyboard
In-app purchases
BAPS Nirnay
No in-app purchases
Desh Gujarati Keyboard
No in-app purchases
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