Comparison

Sacred Spaces vs BuddhaPath

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

Head to head
About

Sacred Spaces

Explore Tibetan Buddhist art and practice within sacred spaces. This app offers virtual access to a shrine room and enhances understanding of Buddhist activities and objects.

Highlights
  • Virtual shrine room exploration
  • Art object engagement
  • Understanding Tibetan Buddhism
  • Complementary exhibition experience
  • Educational tool
Features
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Explore how Tibetan Buddhists encounter and engage with art objects in sacred spaces. Released with the opening of 'Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia' at the Freer|Sackler, this app centers on the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room from the Alice S. Kandell Collection. In the three-year exhibition, the app complements and enhances the immersive viewing experience of the shrine room. At home, the app offers virtual access to the shrine room and acts as a tool for understanding Tibetan Buddhism, its sacred spaces, and the activities and objects therein.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Sacred Spaces4 screens
BuddhaPath3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sacred Spaces at none against BuddhaPath's 8. Sacred Spaces also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BuddhaPath sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Sacred Spaces asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sacred Spaces against 5.0 for BuddhaPath. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sacred Spaces ships an update every 3 weeks, BuddhaPath every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sacred Spaces versus BuddhaPath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSacred SpacesBuddhaPath
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings411 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size231 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmithsonian InstitutionDZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INC

Customer experience

Sacred Spaces

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BuddhaPath

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sacred Spaces

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

BuddhaPath

One-time8
  • 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

Questions

Is Sacred Spaces free?
Sacred Spaces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BuddhaPath free?
BuddhaPath is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sacred Spaces or BuddhaPath?
Sacred Spaces and BuddhaPath are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do Sacred Spaces or BuddhaPath have ads?
Neither Sacred Spaces nor BuddhaPath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sacred Spaces or BuddhaPath?
Sacred Spaces ships an update every 3 weeks, and BuddhaPath every 2 months. Most recently, Sacred Spaces was updated on September 25, 2026 and BuddhaPath on August 23, 2026.

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