Audio Dharma vs BuddhaPath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Dharma
Access a vast library of Dharma talks and guided meditations from leading teachers worldwide. Explore diverse traditions, search for specific topics, and create personalized playlists. New content is added regularly.
- Thousands of Dharma talks
- Guided meditations
- Searchable library
- Download and share talks
- Add notes to talks
- Create custom playlists
- Community listening trends
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Easy and powerful access to thousands of Dharma talks. These talks were given over a 20-year period at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA, which is led by Gil Fronsdal. Listen to hundreds of leading Dharma teachers from around the world, representing many different traditions and viewpoints, speak on a wide variety of topics. New talks are continually added. Search for talks, download and share them, add notes, build your own play lists and see what the community is listening to.
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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The clearest difference is rating: BuddhaPath at 5.0 against Audio Dharma's 4.5. BuddhaPath also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Audio Dharma's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (81 vs 11). On price, update cadence, ads 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. BuddhaPath sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Audio Dharma asks for nothing beyond the download.
BuddhaPath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Audio Dharma has 81 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Audio Dharma's written reviews are positive against 100% of BuddhaPath's.
Audio Dharma ships an update every 4 weeks, BuddhaPath every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Dharma | BuddhaPath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher Minson | DZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INC |
Customer experience
Audio Dharma
BuddhaPath
In-app purchases
Audio Dharma
No in-app purchases
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
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