Comparison

Isha Kriya vs SRF/YSS

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

Head to head
About

Isha Kriya

A simple, guided meditation designed to bring clarity, health, and joy. This 12-minute practice helps reorganize your energies for enhanced focus, prosperity, and peacefulness.

Highlights
  • Guided meditation
  • 12-minute daily practice
  • Enhanced clarity
  • Improved health
  • Heightened focus and energy
  • Greater prosperity
  • Peacefulness and joy
Features
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Isha Kriya is a simple but powerful guided meditation for clarity, health and joy. This meditation can be practiced by anyone above 12 years of age. 'Isha' means that which is the source of creation. 'Kriya' means an inward action towards that. Daily practice of Isha Kriya, which takes just 12 minutes, will help you to reorganize your energies and provide: Enhanced Clarity Improved Health Heightened focus and energy Greater prosperity and a state of peacefulness and joy This meditation is designed by Sadhguru, a yogi, profound mystic and humanitarian, in an effort to raise human consciousness.

About

SRF/YSS

Explore spiritual teachings and guided meditations based on Paramahansa Yogananda's wisdom. Access digital lessons, audio recordings, and live online meditations to cultivate peace, joy, and a balanced spiritual life.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Live online meditations
  • Digital SRF/YSS Lessons
  • Audio recordings of Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Video instruction in Energization Exercises
  • SRF/YSS News and Events
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Experience a life-transforming awakening of the peace, joy, and wisdom of the soul through the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. The SRF/YSS app is for everyone—whether you are brand new to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda or have been immersing yourself in this great teacher’s wisdom for decades. It is also for anyone who wants to learn more about meditation, the science of Kriya Yoga, and practical ways to live a spiritually balanced life. Featuring: - Guided Meditations on Peace, Living Fearlessly, God as Light, Expansion of Consciousness, and more — with customizable meditation times from 15 to 45 minutes - Free access to live online meditations - SRF/YSS News and Event Information For those who are students of the SRF/YSS Lessons, the app includes the digital versions of your Lessons along with a rich variety of multimedia content to help you apply the SRF/YSS Kriya Yoga teachings in your daily life. Including: - Audio recordings of Paramahansa Yogananda - Guided meditations and visualizations led by SRF/YSS monastics - Classes on the SRF/YSS meditation techniques - Step-by-step video instruction in the SRF/YSS Energization Exercises If you are an SRF or YSS Lessons student, please use your verified account information to access the Lessons in the app. About SRF/YSS Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India are an invitation to the spiritual seeker to journey together on a life-transforming discovery of the soul. This journey embraces the “how-to-live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, which embody the highest techniques for realizing who we truly are and show how to bring lasting peace, joy, and love into our lives and into the world. The goal of SRF and YSS is to offer not just a course of philosophical study, but the actual transmission of sacred knowledge through the living words of one of the great spiritual masters of the modern era. Yogoda Satsanga Society of India was founded in 1917 by Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship was founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920, to spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga worldwide.

Screenshots

Isha Kriya4 screens
SRF/YSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SRF/YSS at 83% against Isha Kriya's 26%. SRF/YSS also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (400 vs 74). Isha Kriya's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SRF/YSS holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SRF/YSS has 400 ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Isha Kriya's written reviews are positive against 83% of SRF/YSS's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Isha Kriya versus SRF/YSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIsha KriyaSRF/YSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (74 ratings)4.8 (400 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.6% of reviews82.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings74400 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsha FoundationSelf-Realization Fellowship Church Apps

Customer experience

Isha Kriya

All ratings73 ratings
Positive57.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative35.6%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive25.6%
Neutral13.4%
Negative61.0%

SRF/YSS

All ratings386 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative11.2%

User reviews

Isha Kriya

From 74 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Effective meditation practice
  • 🧘‍♀️ Peaceful and balancing
  • 😌 Refreshes and relaxes users
  • 👍 Simple and effective guidance

Room to improve

  • ❌ App stops when screen locks
  • ❌ Audio not working
  • ❌ App doesn't load or play
  • ❌ Unusable in background
  • ❌ Orientation issues

SRF/YSS

From 400 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Convenient access to lessons
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🌟 Exceptional content quality
  • 🌍 Global accessibility
  • 🔍 Helpful search and navigation

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and login issues
  • 📱 Limited functionality on mobile devices
  • 🔒 Restrictive access controls
  • 🔋 Requires constant internet connection

Bugs and requests

Isha Kriya

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App shuts down when device times out
  • Audio does not play
  • App stops when screen is locked
  • App doesn't load past introduction
  • App freezes or becomes unresponsive
Show 4 more
  • No sound after initial use
  • App doesn't work in background
  • Video playback issues (no back/forward)
  • App doesn't recognize device

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow app to run in background with screen off
  • Prevent sleep mode during meditation
  • Option to skip introduction
  • Adjustable settings
  • Landscape orientation support

SRF/YSS

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incompatibility with latest iOS updates
  • Unreliable login and authentication
  • Broken lesson access for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode for lessons
  • Landscape mode support
  • Customizable highlighting and note-taking
  • Integrated dictionary
  • Widgets with inspirational content

In-app purchases

None

Isha Kriya

No in-app purchases

None

SRF/YSS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Isha Kriya free?
Isha Kriya is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SRF/YSS free?
SRF/YSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Isha Kriya or SRF/YSS?
SRF/YSS is rated higher. Isha Kriya averages 3.4 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while SRF/YSS averages 4.8 from 400 ratings.
Do Isha Kriya or SRF/YSS have ads?
Neither Isha Kriya nor SRF/YSS shows ads.

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