Tibetan vs BuddhaPath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tibetan
Learn the Tibetan script and language with step-by-step character introductions and basic vocabulary. Features over 600 sound files for accurate pronunciation, covering characters, combinations, conversations, Dharma verses, and Mantras.
- Step-by-step script learning
- Basic vocabulary introduction
- Character combinations
- Over 600 sound files for pronunciation
- Learn conversations, verses, and Mantras
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A complete introduction to the Tibetan script and language. While learning the characters step by step, you also learn a basic vocabulary, which has been carefully selected from spoken and written Tibetan. The complete range of characters and their combinations is introduced, up to a first conversation, a first verse of Dharma, and a number of Mantras. Tap on any character displayed to make it sound, over 600 soundfiles will help you to get the pronunciation right.
BuddhaPath
This app offers resources for learning, contemplation, and meditation on Buddhist teachings. It includes texts on the Four Noble Truths and daily practice, along with a meditation timer and a campaign for accumulating mantras.
- Four Noble Truths text
- Daily practice texts
- Meditation timer
- Mantra recitation campaign
- Multi-language support
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Welcome to The Buddha Path, the Swiftest Means to Enlightenment. This app provides invaluable resources to aid Dharma practitioners in their learning, contemplation, and meditation on the essence of Buddha Shakyamuni’s entire teachings. Currently this app offer three features: 1) The Four Noble Truths This text, entitled How to Knowingly Practice The Four Noble Truths of the Enlightened conatins the sence of all Buddha’s teachings presented as a very concise daily recitation practice. 2) The Buddha Path The Buddha Path is a daily practice text containing all the Buddha’s teachings in profound and practical meditation sections: Preliminary Practice, Learning Practice, Sutra Practice and Concluding Practice. 3) 108 Million Mantra Campaign In addition to the texts, The Buddha Path app includes a meditation timer function and an easy means to participate in the 108 Million Auspicious Mantras Recitation Campaign, an international group mantra accumulation practice. About These Sacred Texts These Buddhist study and practice texts are part of a global effort to benefit all beings and to preserve and promulgate the Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni around the world. These texts have been translated into numerous languages including English, Tibetan, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Dutch, Estonian, and Finnish. About The 108 Million Mantra Campaign Your recitations of these most powerful mantras can be recorded using My Daily Practice which is included in the app and added to the global mantra recitation campaign. Please report your accumulations on a daily or weekly basis. Everyone is welcome to participate in this auspicious mantra recitation campaign! It is our goal to accumulate these mantras throughout the whole year and complete the accumulation by Chotrul Duchen, the 15th day of the 1st lunar month of the Iron Ox year, the 27th of February, 2021. We will make a special empowerment blessing for those help to reach this goal for the benefit of all beings in this world. Register at My Daily Practice Report: https://www.thebuddhapath.org/wp-login.php?action=register (https://www.thebuddhapath.org/wp-login.php?action=register) About The Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage The Buddha Path was developed under the guidance of renowned Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation master, His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, for use by his thousands of international students and by anyone interested in practicing Dharma for the benefit of beings worldwide. It is the main aspiration and project of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche to preserve and promulgate the traditional Tibetan Buddhist system in modern society by making the Buddha’s teachings easily accessible to all who aspire to practice peace, happiness and wisdom. These inspiring and transformative practices are being released this year to commemorate the 2,900th anniversary of the parinirvana of the Supreme Guide Buddha Shakyamuni. For more information about the Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage, please visit website: www.thebuddhapath.org facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DzogchenKhenpoChogaRinpoche/ email: info@thebuddhapath.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BuddhaPath at 100% against Tibetan's 45%. BuddhaPath also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 16 months). Tibetan's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, 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. Tibetan sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and BuddhaPath sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BuddhaPath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Tibetan's written reviews are positive against 100% of BuddhaPath's.
Tibetan ships an update every 16 months, BuddhaPath every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and August 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tibetan | BuddhaPath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rabten Stiftung | DZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INC |
Customer experience
Tibetan
BuddhaPath
In-app purchases
Tibetan
- Suffixes and Prefixes$1.99
- Superscript and Subscript$1.99
- Spoken And Written Tibetan$1.99
BuddhaPath
- Concise Buddha Path English$11.99
- Concise Buddha Path German$11.99
- Concise Buddha Path Russian$11.99
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- Concise Ed. Trad. Chinese$11.99
- Concise Buddha Path - Japanese$11.99
- Buddha Path 2nd Ed. English$27.99
- Buddha Path 2nd Ed. S. Chinese$27.99
- Buddha Path 2nd Ed. T. Chinese$27.99









