Comparison

Mersenne Primes vs Sutra

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

Head to head
About

Mersenne Primes

Explore and view the digits of all known Mersenne prime numbers. Witness the generation process for extremely large primes, page by page, and locate specific digits by their sequence number.

Highlights
  • View all digits of known Mersenne Primes
  • Witness prime number generation process
  • Page-by-page digit exploration
  • Locate specific digits by sequence number
  • Generates primes using mobile CPU
Features
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Prime numbers are fundamentally important in mathematics and they are also very beautiful numbers. The largest known prime number we know now is 2^77232917-1 and it is a Mersenne Prime (a prime number of the form Mn = 2^n − 1 for some integer n which is also a prime number). The current largest Mersenne Prime number M77232917 (found in 2017 by GIMPS - Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) has 23,249,425 digits. There is no website that can show you all the digits in a webpage because it is too huge. This app will generate and show you all digits of all known Mersenne Primes. You can also have close look of every digit page by page. The digits will be generated by your mobile phone's CPU and saved to your storage card. You will witness the whole process of the generation for the big ones (i.e. M77232917 , M74207281, M57885161, M43112609, M42643801, M37156667, ...), because it might need one day or two to print the digits all. You can also locate a digit by its sequence number. e.g. the 23249268th digit of M77232917 is 8.

About

Sutra

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Sutra — A pocket Tripitaka. An offline, distraction-free reader for the Chinese-Buddhist canon, with text sourced from CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association, latest open release), grounded in the Taishō Tripitaka. Translations by Kumārajīva, Xuanzang, Yijing and others — organized for daily reading. ■ 35 scriptures The Dharma-Drum daily-recital selection: Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Amitābha Sutra, Universal Gate of Avalokiteśvara, Samantabhadra's Vows, 42 Sections, Medicine Buddha, Earth Treasury, Śūraṅgama, Perfect Enlightenment … Four major repentance liturgies: Liang Emperor, Threefold Samādhi Water, Great Compassion, Earth Treasury Jeweled, 88 Buddhas, Ten Small Mantras. Oldest-stratum short collections: Dhammapada, Aṭṭhakavagga, Itivuttaka, Saṃyukta-āgama selections (including Pabhassara Sutta, Mahāparinibbāna verse). ■ Four-language parallel reading Four core scriptures carry four reading modes:  Chinese — Classical Chinese translation (Xuanzang, Kumārajīva …)  Sanskrit — IAST + Devanāgarī, the original sound  English — translation, opening the meaning  English→Chinese — modern Mandarin transcribed from the English An in-app "Reading Languages" essay explains why each mode exists. ■ Traditional vertical ↔ modern horizontal One tap to switch. Vertical preserves the handwritten-sutra ritual feel; horizontal suits commuting and night reading. Four font sizes (S/M/L/XL); the size stays put when TTS playback is on. ■ Cinnabar-stamp aesthetic, sprinkled-gold paper Visual identity drawn from Song-Yuan sutra manuscripts: cream cotton-paper texture in light mode, royal navy with sprinkled gold in dark mode. Restrained palette designed to be easy on the eyes during long readings. ■ Recitation TTS Built-in Mandarin voices (Tingting / Meijia / Sinji) read along with you — useful when driving or eyes closed. ■ Six reflective essays  • Textual Strata — what layer of "the Buddha's word" we are reading  • Three Buddhas — the three shapes the Buddha takes in text  • Path of Deification — the five stages from man to god  • "Are all sentient beings originally Buddha?" — tracing the lineage of a Chan koan  • Reading Languages — positioning the four modes  • Sources & Attribution — CBETA license + acknowledgements ■ Reminders Daily passage push at 06:00; 16 major Buddhist holidays (Buddha's bath day, Avalokiteśvara's anniversary, Earth-Treasury Bodhisattva's anniversary …) push at 09:00. Optional integration with the system Reminders app. ■ Privacy Zero data collection. No tracking, no analytics, no upload. The sutra database ships with the app; your reading progress and bookmarks stay on your device. No ads, no IAP, no subscription, free forever. — Sutra text © CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association), latest open release. Base: Taishō Tripitaka © Daizo Shuppan K.K. (CBETA holds input and publication permissions). License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Taiwan — https://www.cbeta.org/copyright.php This app is non-commercial. Sutra texts are unaltered in substance, with CBETA attribution and version noted.

Screenshots

Mersenne Primes4 screens
Sutra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sutra at none against Mersenne Primes's 1. Mersenne Primes's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Mersenne Primes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sutra asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mersenne Primes ships an update weekly, Sutra every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mersenne Primes versus Sutra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMersenne PrimesSutra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer华 魏一創系統有限公司

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mersenne Primes

One-time1
  • One Support$0.99
None

Sutra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mersenne Primes free?
Mersenne Primes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sutra free?
Sutra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mersenne Primes or Sutra have ads?
Neither Mersenne Primes nor Sutra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mersenne Primes or Sutra?
Mersenne Primes ships an update weekly, and Sutra every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mersenne Primes was updated on October 16, 2026 and Sutra on October 11, 2026.

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