Kṛṣṇa vs Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kṛṣṇa
Access the complete text of "Kṛṣṇa, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" in multiple languages. Enhance your reading experience with customizable text, a searchable database, and an image gallery. Save your progress with bookmarks and notes.
- Full text in English, German, Russian
- Extensive image gallery
- Full text search functionality
- Bookmarks, notes, and highlights
- Customizable typeface, text size, line spacing
- Day/night modes and color palettes
- Resume reading from last position
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• Contains the full text of "Kṛṣṇa, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" in English, German and Russian. • An extensive image gallery. • The text is fully searchable. • Create bookmarks, notes, and highlights, and customize the look by changing the typeface, text size, and line spacing. • Dynamic glossary. • Day/night color modes and multiple daytime color palettes personalize the app. • Resume reading from where you left off. Easily access the menu for when you want to go elsewhere in the app.
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader
Access a comprehensive collection of spiritual texts, historical documents, and media related to the Ramakrishna Order. This app offers offline reading, advanced search capabilities, and fact-checking resources to explore the teachings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.
- Offline reading of books and magazines
- Searchable knowledge platform
- Archival content access
- Quotations and biographies
- Bhajans and chanting lyrics
- 3D geo-mapping of Swami Vivekananda's travels
- Spiritual Q&A repository
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Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader is the official App for Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Publications. This is a one-stop browsable and searchable unified knowledge platform containing the essential books, archival books, magazine archives, quotations, history and chronology, short biographies, bhajans and chanting lyrics pertaining to Ramakrishna Order in English and major Indian Languages. The app includes media content pertaining to Holy Trio and 3D geo-mapping of Swami Vivekananda's visits in India and foreign countries. The app also contains a) AWAKE Questions/Answers (QA) are a one-stop searchable digital knowledge repository of Spiritual and Scriptural Knowledge derived from the Ramakrishna Math and Mission publications in a Question-Answer format. b) AWAKE Fact Checker is to educate the public with the factual information about Ramakrishna, Vivekananda & Ramakrishna Math/Mission derived from original publication sources and dispel misinformation circulating in social media
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader at Free against Kṛṣṇa's $4.99. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Kṛṣṇa's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 45 months) and ratings volume (42 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader is free to download; Kṛṣṇa costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kṛṣṇa has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Kṛṣṇa's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader's.
Kṛṣṇa ships an update every 7 months, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kṛṣṇa | Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. | Ramakrishna Math |
Customer experience
Kṛṣṇa
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In-app purchases
Kṛṣṇa
No in-app purchases
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader
No in-app purchases
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