Comparison

BuddhaPath vs Chan Mindfulness

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

Head to head
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

About

Chan Mindfulness

This tool helps you track your meditation class attendance and progress. It records class status, makeup sessions, and completion milestones, including reaching advanced levels.

Highlights
  • Record class status
  • Track makeup classes
  • Remind course completion
  • Monitor advanced level attainment
  • Meditation progress tracking
Features
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A meditation record tool that can help record the status of classes and make-up classes, and remind you of the completion of the course, whether you have reached the advanced level, etc.

Screenshots

BuddhaPath3 screens
Chan Mindfulness3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chan Mindfulness at none against BuddhaPath's 8. Chan Mindfulness also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). BuddhaPath's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BuddhaPath sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Chan Mindfulness 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 BuddhaPath against 5.0 for Chan Mindfulness. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BuddhaPath has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BuddhaPath ships an update every 2 months, Chan Mindfulness every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BuddhaPath versus Chan Mindfulness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddhaPathChan Mindfulness
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDZOGCHEN SHRI SINGHA FOUNDATION USA INCTaiyi Information Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

BuddhaPath

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

Chan Mindfulness

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
None

Chan Mindfulness

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BuddhaPath free?
BuddhaPath is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chan Mindfulness free?
Chan Mindfulness is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BuddhaPath or Chan Mindfulness?
BuddhaPath and Chan Mindfulness are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BuddhaPath or Chan Mindfulness have ads?
Neither BuddhaPath nor Chan Mindfulness shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BuddhaPath or Chan Mindfulness?
BuddhaPath ships an update every 2 months, and Chan Mindfulness every 7 months. Most recently, BuddhaPath was updated on August 23, 2026 and Chan Mindfulness on September 9, 2026.

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