AyuRythm vs GunaFood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AyuRythm
This app offers a personalized holistic wellness plan based on ancient Indian medicine and modern science. It uses your smartphone's camera to perform a pulse diagnosis, assessing your mind-body constitution to provide tailored recommendations for diet, yoga, meditation, and herbal supplements.
- Personalized holistic wellness plans
- Smartphone-based pulse diagnosis (Naadi Pariksha)
- Ayurvedic health parameter assessment
- Diet, yoga, and meditation recommendations
- Home remedies library
- Integration with HealthKit
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AyuRythm is a patent-pending personalised holistic wellness digital solution. It is probably the world’s first application where you can complete the age-old and renowned Naadi Pariksha (Pulse based diagnosis), with the help of your smartphone. This app offers a wonderful mix of modern science and ancient medicine knowledge, from India. Naadi Pariksha is the most effective non-invasive system of diagnosing an individual’s mind-body constitution. Once the constitution of the person is known, a personalised holistic wellness regime like Diet suggestion, Yogasana, Pranayama, Meditation, Mudras, Kriyas, Herbal supplements etc., inclusions and exclusions, are suggested basis your body type. AyuRythm assesses your Ayurvedic health parameters to recommend above traditional wellness methods. Taking PPG from the help of camera it derives your heart rate, blood pressure, arterial stiffness and pulse morphology and many similar parameters. These health-parameters are then converted to ayurvedic health parameters and are bucketed in the form of Kapha, Pitta and Vata by deriving the high, medium and low values. To ascertain the correct values, our algorithm uses age, height, weight and gender of the users and that's why we take Date of Birth to arrive at users age. To help with the accuracy of these values, our app is integrated with HealthKit to enhance usability so that the users need not worry about updating their basic information (age, gender, height, weight) as it is already done once. App works as follows: Differential diagnosis expert system to assess the Prakriti (Inherent body type assessment of an individual, in terms of Kapha, Pitta and Vata balance) based on the literature and published work. Total 30 questions. Pulse diagnosis (Naadi Pariksha) with a scientific base and backed by proven diagnosis methods using smartphone sensors and related publications by several researchers in this field. This is to establish the current mind-body constitution of you, called Vikriti (In terms of Kapha, Pitta and Vata, in 30 seconds. Post this, our recommendation engine customizes the app for you and wellness, better health and lifestyle, basis the variance in Kapha, Pitta and Vata are suggested to you as to how to bring back the balance, thus overall wellness. Leading physicians and hospitals have evaluated AyuRythm and certified it to be suitable for wellness evaluation and recommendations. Please do check for the certificates in the app. AyuRythm also has a library of a few hundred home remedies, to help you relieve from basic ailments at odd times, using simple methods and ingredients from your home and kitchen.
GunaFood
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Discover the ancient wisdom behind every food you eat. GunaFood classifies 433+ foods as Sattvic (pure), Rajasic (stimulating), or Tamasic (heavy) based on classical Ayurvedic and Yogic texts -- and tells you the best time to eat each one. Ever wondered why certain foods make you feel calm and focused, while others leave you restless or sluggish? The ancient Ayurvedic tradition has answers. The three Gunas -- Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic -- describe the fundamental qualities of every food and their effects on your mind, body, and spirit. WHAT YOU CAN DO: - Search any food and instantly see its Guna classification - Learn why each food is classified the way it is, with citations from the Bhagavad Gita, Charaka Samhita, and other classical texts - See the best times to eat each food (before meditation, after workout, evening meal...) and when to avoid it - Explore how preparation methods change a food's Guna - Browse educational guides for each Guna quality - Discover seasonal eating wisdom from the Ayurvedic calendar (Ritucharya) - Save your favorite foods for quick reference DATABASE: - 433 foods with complete Guna classifications - Both traditional Indian foods (dal, ghee, tulsi) and modern foods (oat milk, quinoa, dark chocolate) - Hindi and regional name aliases -- search in your language - Composite dishes (khichdi, avocado toast, paneer butter masala) WORKS OFFLINE: The entire food database is built into the app. No internet required for searching, learning, or browsing. Your data stays on your device. EDUCATIONAL, NOT PRESCRIPTIVE: GunaFood presents the traditional Ayurvedic framework as one lens for understanding food. All classifications cite classical sources. This is not medical or nutritional advice. Coming in future updates: meal logging, AI food photo scanner, and personalized guidance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GunaFood at none against AyuRythm's 23. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. AyuRythm sells 23 one-off in-app purchases. GunaFood asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | AyuRythm | GunaFood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HOURONEARTH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS PRIVATED LIMITED | Gowtham Kethineedi |
In-app purchases
AyuRythm
- FaceNaadi 1 Month Subs India$0.99
- 1 Month Diet Plan$0.99
- FaceNaadi 3 Month Subscription$1.99
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- Sparshna 1 Month USD$2.69
- FaceNaadi 1 Month Subscription$2.99
- FaceNaadi 6 Month Subscription$3.99
- Sparshna 6 Month IND$3.99
- 6 Month Diet Plan$3.99
- FaceNaadi 3 Month Subscription$4.99
- FaceNaadi 12 Month Subscriptio$5.99
- Home Remedies 6 Month IND$5.99
- Sparshna 12 Month IND$6.99
- Sparshna 3 Month USD$7.49
- 1 Month Subscription DISC$7.99
- 12 Month Diet Plan$7.99
- 3 Month Diet Plan$7.99
- FaceNaadi 6 Month Subscription$8.99
- Home Remedies 12 Month IND$9.99
- Sparshna 6 Month USD$12.99
- FacaNaadi 12 Month Subscriptio$14.99
- 3 Month Subscription DISC$19.99
- Sparshna 12 Month USD$23.99
- 12 Month Subscription DISC New$49.99
GunaFood
No in-app purchases








