BuddhaPath vs Short Moments
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
Short Moments
This app offers ancient wisdom teachings in a modern format to enhance daily life. It provides access to guided practices, a community of learners, and a library of educational content to foster clarity and insight.
- Daily teachings
- Community of practitioners
- Library of books, video, and audio
- Livestreams
- In-depth training programs
- Free introductory course
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Greater ease. Greater confidence. Empowerment in daily life. Spontaneous love and compassion. Sign up for your free account and access the teaching: https://www.bright.how/ Short Moments is your guide to learn and practice Dzogchen, the highest ancient wisdom teachings, in a contemporary format to bring the results of practice into every moment of life: Access ancient wisdom anywhere, anytime. Short moments makes life easy! Receive an introduction to the nature of mind from a Lineage Successor of Dzogchen wisdom teachings. Enjoy a simple practice and teachings that empower your clarity, wisdom and insight in daily life. Connect with a vast community to support your own practice. Features: • Free course "Discover the Ease of Being" • Daily teachings • Community of practitioners and teachers • Ever-expanding library of books, video and audio content • Livestreams directly to the app • In-depth training programs for all levels of experience END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Short Moments at none against BuddhaPath's 8. Short Moments also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Short Moments 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 Short Moments. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
BuddhaPath ships an update every 2 months, Short Moments every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BuddhaPath | Short Moments |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INC | Bright Media Inc. |
Customer experience
BuddhaPath
Short Moments
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
Short Moments
No in-app purchases
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