James Ascher vs BuDhaGirl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
James Ascher
Experience personalized one-on-one customer service for clothing, accessories, and home goods. This app aims to make you feel good about your purchases and the shopping experience.
- One-on-one customer service
- Clothing selection
- Accessory selection
- Home goods selection
- Positive shopping experience
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Our mission at James Ascher is to provide dedicated one on one customer service that shopping small allows vs the big box shopping experience. We aim to make each customer not only feel good about the clothes they wear, but also about the shopping experience itself.
BuDhaGirl
Discover mindful glamour with this app, offering custom mini-meditations, unplugging rituals, a journaling feature, and a community forum. Shop the latest fashion and play a signature bangle stacking game.
- Custom mini-meditations
- Two-minute unplugging rituals
- Journaling feature
- Community forum
- BangleStack™ game
- Shop for fashion
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BuDhaGirl brings you mindful glamour. Shopping and meditations…what else do you need? Our App brings you custom mini-meditations, two-minute unplugging ritual exercises, a journal feature, a community so you can hear what other BuDhaGirl’s are thinking, our signature BangleStack™ game, and of course, access to our shop so you enter the world of incredibly glamorous fashion…the home of All Weather Bangles®.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: James Ascher at 100% against BuDhaGirl's 63%. James Ascher also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). BuDhaGirl's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (151 vs 17). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. BuDhaGirl sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. James Ascher asks for nothing beyond the download.
James Ascher holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BuDhaGirl has 151 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of James Ascher's written reviews are positive against 63% of BuDhaGirl's.
James Ascher ships an update every 3 months, BuDhaGirl weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | James Ascher | BuDhaGirl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (17 ratings) — better | 4.6 (151 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 151 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 248 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jennifer Snowden | BuDhaGirl |
Customer experience
James Ascher
BuDhaGirl
In-app purchases
James Ascher
No in-app purchases
BuDhaGirl
- Aura Gems$2.00
- Zen Starter Kit$2.99
- Level Rescue Kit$3.99
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- Aura Gems$5.00
- Aura Gems$10.00
- Aura Gems$20.00
