Comparison

SRF/YSS vs Yoga Timer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Yoga Timer

Design, customize, and practice personalized yoga sequences with an intuitive drag-and-drop builder. Generate flows with AI, import videos, or use your camera to detect poses. Includes breathwork, meditation, and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop yoga flow builder
  • AI-powered flow generation
  • Pose detection via camera
  • Guided practice player
  • Breathwork and meditation timer
  • Progress tracking and analytics
  • Custom pose creation
Features
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FlowBuilder is a yoga sequencing app for teachers and home practitioners. Build a flow pose by pose, practice it with guided playback, and see how your practice grows. Version 1.6 redraws every pose, adds the 3D Figure, and brings FlowBuilder to Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro. BUILD • 315 poses, more than 100 of them new, with English and Sanskrit names, cues and new pose pictures • Drag-and-drop sequencing with sections, sides and hold times, plus Quick Add and Undo • Generate a Flow: a balanced flow for any length, level and focus, put together on your device by FlowBuilder's own sequencing rules • Flow Library: 64 ready-made flows in 17 categories, from Sun Salutations up, ready to adapt CREATE FROM WORDS, VOICE AND VIDEO • Text to Flow: paste a written sequence and get a playable flow • Voice to Flow: say the poses and hold times out loud, and each pose is added as you say it • Video to Flow: turn a yoga video you already have into a flow • Pose to Flow: the camera advances the flow when you reach each pose Text, Voice and Video to Flow use Apple's on-device model where Apple Intelligence is available, and FlowBuilder's built-in parser everywhere else. Pose to Flow recognizes poses on your device. 3D FIGURE • One tap away in the player: turn it to see any pose from any angle • Choose a stick figure or a low-poly body PRACTICE • Guided playback with voice cues, chimes and breath cues • Sanskrit names spoken from pre-recorded clips • Teach mode for leading a class at your own pace • Breathwork with classic patterns like Box and 4-7-8 • Meditation timer, guided meditations and healing frequency tones • Music Sync with Apple Music playlists • Live Activities, widgets, Siri and Shortcuts BODY HEAT MAP • See at a glance which muscles each session works TRACK • Streaks, goals and achievements with tiered medals • Practice statistics, chakra and muscle-group breakdowns • Apple Health support APPLE WATCH • Practice, breathe and meditate on your wrist. It all counts toward your streak, stats and goals on iPhone • Complications for your streak, goals, Breathe and Meditate, also in the Smart Stack MAC • A complete Mac app with My Flows, Flow Library, Generate a Flow and Text to Flow • Open flows side by side in their own windows • Make your own pose from a photo, with drag and drop or Continuity Camera APPLE TV • Play your flows on the big screen. Flows you save on iPhone, iPad or Mac appear through iCloud • Top Shelf: recent sessions, Quick Start and the Daily Pose APPLE VISION PRO • The 3D Figure opens in its own volume beside the player, with the next pose waiting next to it • Your flows arrive through iCloud. Pinch one to play ALSO • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro • FlowBuilder speaks 17 languages FlowBuilder is free to use, with optional Premium plans for advanced AI features, analytics and cloud sync. No ads and no third-party tracking. Terms of Use: https://flowbuilder.yoga/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://flowbuilder.yoga/privacy.html

Screenshots

SRF/YSS4 screens
Yoga Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SRF/YSS at none against Yoga Timer's 7. SRF/YSS also leads on ratings volume (400 vs 9) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Yoga Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, rating and ads 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. Yoga Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. SRF/YSS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for SRF/YSS against 4.9 for Yoga Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SRF/YSS has 400 ratings behind it against 9, 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 100% of Yoga Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SRF/YSS ships an update every 2 months, Yoga Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SRF/YSS versus Yoga Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSRF/YSSYoga Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (400 ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings400 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB236 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSelf-Realization Fellowship Church AppsAJA Digital LLC

Customer experience

SRF/YSS

All ratings386 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative11.2%

Yoga Timer

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Yoga Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SRF/YSS

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Yoga Timer

Subscriptions5
  • iCould Storage Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Analytics Pro$2.991 Month
  • Unlimited$9.991 Month
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  • Premium$12.991 Month
  • FlowBuilder.yoga Premium7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • iCloud Backup & Sync$3.99
  • FlowBuilder.yoga Premium Lifetime$129.99

Questions

Is SRF/YSS free?
SRF/YSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yoga Timer free?
Yoga Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SRF/YSS or Yoga Timer?
Yoga Timer is rated higher. SRF/YSS averages 4.8 out of 5 from 400 ratings, while Yoga Timer averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do SRF/YSS or Yoga Timer have ads?
Neither SRF/YSS nor Yoga Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SRF/YSS or Yoga Timer?
SRF/YSS ships an update every 2 months, and Yoga Timer every 2 weeks. Most recently, SRF/YSS was updated on November 2, 2026 and Yoga Timer on November 5, 2026.

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