Dalai Lama vs CalmlyReply
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dalai Lama
Stay informed about the activities, travels, and teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Access official news, photos, videos, and live streams directly from his office.
- Official news updates
- Event schedule
- Photo galleries
- Video streams
- Teachings
- Biography
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Dalai Lama, the official app from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, lets you stay up to date with what His Holiness is doing, his travels, and his teachings. Get official news, videos, and photos from His Holiness’s Office, including live video streams when they are available. FEATURES • Stay up to date with official news • Get His Holiness’s official schedule of events • Browse through photo galleries • Watch videos of His Holiness’s events, including live video streams • Learn about His Holiness’s life • Read His Holiness’s teachings
CalmlyReply
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Find the right words before the hard conversation even starts. CalmReply helps you prepare for the moments that make your stomach drop — confronting a coworker, setting a boundary with family, or replying to a message that stung. Instead of freezing up or firing back in anger, you get calm, clear language built for your exact situation. Describe what's going on privately: the situation, how you feel, how intense it is, who's involved, and what you're hoping to achieve. CalmReply then streams in four distinct response strategies in real time — Assertive and Empathetic, Focus on Needs, Setting Boundaries, and De-escalate First — each written around your specific words, not generic templates. Every response is yours to shape. Edit the tone, copy it to your clipboard, or save it to My Responses for later. A before-and-after emotional check-in tracks how much your intensity drops after finding the right words, so you can see real progress over time. When you want to go deeper, the expert-informed guidance library offers searchable, bookmarkable reading on handling conflict with more confidence. Your Journey tab keeps a private history of past situations and saved responses, so you can look back and notice how you've grown. CalmReply works offline with built-in fallback suggestions, so you're never stuck without support. There's no account required, nothing to sign up for, and everything you save stays on your device — private, always. This is a communication tool, not therapy or medical advice. It's built for real people who freeze up or blow up in conflict and want a better way to respond — at work, at home, or anywhere words matter. Stop rehearsing the same argument in your head. Open CalmReply and find your words.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dalai Lama at 16.0 against CalmlyReply's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Dalai Lama | CalmlyReply |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (226 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 226 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tenzin Choejor | Sheena Terrell |
Bugs and requests
Dalai Lama
Reported bugs
4 issues- Widget doesn't work, shows white image
- Line of white pixel at the very top on iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Videos in iOS have no sound
- App appears unable to recognize Landscape mode and reorient appropriately
Requested features
9 requests- Fix broken widget
- Add push notifications for messages
- Support for landscape view
- Offline content option
- Pre-download content
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- Support for multiple languages (Tibetan, Chinese etc.)
- More sharing features for social media
- Smart & Granular notification choices
- Calendar sync
CalmlyReply
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dalai Lama
No in-app purchases
CalmlyReply
No in-app purchases









