SRF/YSS vs Yogananda Daily
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.
Yogananda Daily
Discover daily inspirational quotes from Paramhansa Yogananda, author of "Autobiography of a Yogi". Explore significant events from his life on specific calendar days, offering a unique way to connect with his spiritual journey.
- Daily inspirational quotes
- Quotes from "Autobiography of a Yogi"
- Links to online chapters
- Daily historical events of Paramhansa Yogananda
- Spiritual time travel
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This app contains daily inspirational quotes by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic "Autobiography of a Yogi". The quotes are from the same book and the app also contains a link to the chapter which can be read online by following the link. An additional tab, presents special events that occurred in the life of Paramhansa Yogananda on different days of the calendar year. An interesting way to time travel in the footsteps of the great yogi during his time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: SRF/YSS at 399 against Yogananda Daily's 1. Yogananda Daily's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). 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.
Yogananda Daily holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SRF/YSS has 399 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SRF/YSS ships an update every 2 months, Yogananda Daily every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SRF/YSS | Yogananda Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (399 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 399 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Self-Realization Fellowship Church Apps | Ananda Church of Self-Realization |
Customer experience
SRF/YSS
Yogananda Daily
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
Yogananda Daily
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SRF/YSS
No in-app purchases
Yogananda Daily
No in-app purchases
Questions
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