SRF/YSS vs Radiant Return Wellness
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.
Radiant Return Wellness
This app offers a practice space for nervous system regulation and emotional well-being through live and on-demand sessions. Explore guided Kundalini yoga, meditations, and community gatherings to cultivate calm and clarity.
- Live Kundalini Yoga sessions
- On-demand meditation and yoga library
- Live community gatherings
- Pause-Feel-Respond™ Methodology
- Signature multi-day programs
- Community space for connection
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Welcome to the Radiant Return Wellness App - your complete practice space for employing my Paulse-Feel-Respond™ Methodology to live with more calm, clarity and connection. You'll learn how to regulate your nervous system and interrupt reactive patterns, feel your emotions safely and respond to life with clarity and intention. As a member of the Radiant Return Collective, inside you will find two distinct and complementary dimensions of practice - the live and the on-demand - working together to support you exactly where you are, whenever you need it. Live Yoga with Catherine: Twice each week, Catherine shows up live for a guided Kundalini Yoga session - breathwork, movement and meditation to regulate your nervous system and return to yourself. Live Community Rise with Catherine: Once a month the full community gathers for the Collective Rise - a live topic-based session combining teaching, practice and shared presence. Not recordings. Not automated. Catherine, present, in real time. On-Demand - 60+ Practices and Growing: A rich and ever-expanding library of meditations, Kundalini yoga, breathwork sessions, sound practices, healing series and masterclasses - available any time, on any device, wherever you are. Whether you have 10 minutes or an hour, a practice is waiting for exactly where you are right now. A Shared Community Space: Be part of a group of people walking a similar path - a space for connection, reflection and shared practice. There is something quietly powerful about knowing you are not doing this alone. All available as part of The Radiant Return Collective membership Signature Programs: In addition to the Radiant Return Collective membership, you can go deeper with Radiant Return Signature Programs - immersive multi-day journeys (14-day, 3-month, 6-month) built around the Pause-Feel-Respond™ methodology, each exploring a specific dimension of transformation through nervous system regulation, somatic practice and embodied presence. The Pause-Feel-Respond™ Methodology: Everything inside this app is built around Catherine's Pause-Feel-Respond Methodology, a practical, repeatable approach to mind-body wellness developed over two decades of lived experience and teaching. It teaches you how to interrupt reactive patterns, feel your emotions safely and respond to life with clarity and intention. Calm is not a personality trait. It is a trained capacity. The Radiant Return Wellness app is where you build it - live, on-demand and in community. ▷ Already a Member? Sign-In to access your subscription. ▷ New? Subscribe in the app to get instant access. Radiant Return Wellness offers auto-renewing subscriptions. You'll receive unlimited access to content on all your devices. Payment is charged to your account at confirmation of purchase. Pricing varies by location and is confirmed prior to purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period, or the trial period (when offered). Cancel anytime in Account Settings. For more information see our: -Terms of Service: https://www.radiantreturnwellness.com/terms -Privacy Policy: https://www.radiantreturnwellness.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SRF/YSS at none against Radiant Return Wellness's 2. SRF/YSS also leads on ratings volume (398 vs 2). Radiant Return Wellness's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Radiant Return Wellness sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $47.00 per month. SRF/YSS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Radiant Return Wellness holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SRF/YSS has 398 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of SRF/YSS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Radiant Return Wellness's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SRF/YSS | Radiant Return Wellness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (398 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 398 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Self-Realization Fellowship Church Apps | Radiant Return LLC |
Customer experience
SRF/YSS
Radiant Return Wellness
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
Radiant Return Wellness
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SRF/YSS
No in-app purchases
Radiant Return Wellness
- Monthly Membership7 Days trial$47.001 Month
- Annual Membership7 Days trial$469.991 Year
Questions
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