SRF/YSS vs Soul33
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SRF/YSS
Explore spiritual teachings and guided meditations based on Paramahansa Yogananda's wisdom. Access digital lessons, audio recordings, and live online meditations to cultivate peace, joy, and a balanced spiritual life.
- Guided meditations
- Live online meditations
- Digital SRF/YSS Lessons
- Audio recordings of Paramahansa Yogananda
- Video instruction in Energization Exercises
- SRF/YSS News and Events
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Experience a life-transforming awakening of the peace, joy, and wisdom of the soul through the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. The SRF/YSS app is for everyone—whether you are brand new to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda or have been immersing yourself in this great teacher’s wisdom for decades. It is also for anyone who wants to learn more about meditation, the science of Kriya Yoga, and practical ways to live a spiritually balanced life. Featuring: - Guided Meditations on Peace, Living Fearlessly, God as Light, Expansion of Consciousness, and more — with customizable meditation times from 15 to 45 minutes - Free access to live online meditations - SRF/YSS News and Event Information For those who are students of the SRF/YSS Lessons, the app includes the digital versions of your Lessons along with a rich variety of multimedia content to help you apply the SRF/YSS Kriya Yoga teachings in your daily life. Including: - Audio recordings of Paramahansa Yogananda - Guided meditations and visualizations led by SRF/YSS monastics - Classes on the SRF/YSS meditation techniques - Step-by-step video instruction in the SRF/YSS Energization Exercises If you are an SRF or YSS Lessons student, please use your verified account information to access the Lessons in the app. About SRF/YSS Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India are an invitation to the spiritual seeker to journey together on a life-transforming discovery of the soul. This journey embraces the “how-to-live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, which embody the highest techniques for realizing who we truly are and show how to bring lasting peace, joy, and love into our lives and into the world. The goal of SRF and YSS is to offer not just a course of philosophical study, but the actual transmission of sacred knowledge through the living words of one of the great spiritual masters of the modern era. Yogoda Satsanga Society of India was founded in 1917 by Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship was founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920, to spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga worldwide.
Soul33
Receive 24/7 spiritual guidance and support on your soul journey. Access guided meditations, intuition teachings, and learn to harness spiritual energy for healing and manifestation. Connect with a community of like-minded seekers and track your moods with lunar phases.
- Guided meditations added weekly
- Intuition awakening teachings
- Spiritual energy harnessing
- Mood tracking with moon phases
- Quarterly Spiritual Health Magazine
- Group chat with like-minded seekers
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Acclaimed International healer, Gaia Chinniah has created The Beacon by Soul 33. Gaia has an extensive wait list and wanted to create an app where you can receive her support 24/7. This is your spiritual guidance app to support you on your soul journey. This app will help you understand what life is about and get you through the hard times. You'll find guided meditations created by Gaia which are added to each week, teachings to awaken your intuition, elaborations on what the spiritual energy is for you to harness and manifest what you want and work with the universal energies for your healing. You also have access to the quarterly magazine Spiritual Health Magazine (SHM) which features articles from some of the best seekers and truth tellers in the world. In the app you have the capacity to enter and monitor your feelings and moods with the phases of the moon. This app is like having your spiritual healer with you at all times. You can request topics and meditations that you want and have support as your spiritual journey unfolds. Group chat allows you to network with other like minded seekers and Gaia will answer your questions. You can now have your spiritual healer in your pocket and have soul healing at your finger tips!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: SRF/YSS at free against Soul33's freemium. SRF/YSS also leads on ratings volume (392 vs 14). Soul33's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (92% vs 83%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for SRF/YSS against 4.8 for Soul33. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SRF/YSS has 392 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of SRF/YSS's written reviews are positive against 92% of Soul33's.
SRF/YSS ships an update every 2 months, Soul33 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SRF/YSS | Soul33 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (392 ratings) — better | 4.8 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 392 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Self-Realization Fellowship Church Apps | Gaia Chinniah Consultancy Ltd |
Customer experience
SRF/YSS
Soul33
Bugs and requests
SRF/YSS
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incompatibility with latest iOS updates
- Unreliable login and authentication
- Broken lesson access for some users
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode for lessons
- Landscape mode support
- Customizable highlighting and note-taking
- Integrated dictionary
- Widgets with inspirational content
Soul33
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SRF/YSS
No in-app purchases
Soul33
No in-app purchases









