BuddhaPath vs Dharma Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Dharma Player
Access a vast library of dharma talks and guided meditations on your mobile device. Stream or download content for offline listening, and easily search and filter by teachers, talks, or retreats. Organize your favorites for quick access.
- Stream dharma talks and guided meditations
- Search and filter library
- Download for offline listening
- Favorite talks, teachers, and retreats
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The Dharma Player app brings the Dharma Seed library to your phone. • Stream dharma talks and guided meditations • Search the whole library and filter by talks, teachers, and retreats • Download talks and entire retreats for offline listening • Star your favorite talks, teachers, and retreats
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dharma Player at none against BuddhaPath's 8. BuddhaPath's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. BuddhaPath sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Dharma Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BuddhaPath against 5.0 for Dharma Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively.
BuddhaPath ships an update every 2 months, Dharma Player every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BuddhaPath | Dharma Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INC | Redspring Software, LLC |
Customer experience
BuddhaPath
Dharma Player
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
Dharma Player
No in-app purchases
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