Vedic Studies vs Ahoratra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vedic Studies
This platform provides guided Vedic education with features like playlists, audio downloads, and playback control. It aims to make the wisdom of the Vedas accessible globally through an enriching online learning experience.
- Create and add to playlists
- Download audio content
- Listen to history
- Resume playback from previous location
- Bookmark audio to the exact second
- Background audio playback
- Sync downloads between devices
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|| Shri Hari Vayu Gurubhyo Namah || Vedic Students is now Vedic Studies. Since the last update, everything has been rebuilt: the app, the player, and the library behind it. What you can do now: * Listen to the same chant three ways: Learn repeats after the teacher, Understand explains it, Listen plays the full rendition. * Add a chant's text from a link, a paste or a PDF and read along full screen. Vedic svara marks are drawn as marks, exactly as printed. * Split sandhi into its words and keep private study notes on any line. * Download chants and listen with no signal at all. * Repeat a chant 108 or 1008 times with an honest counter: only full recitations count. * See which parts of a chant you have truly heard, not just how far you scrubbed. * The daily panchanga for your own city, drawn from printed almanacs, with any day shareable as a picture. * Playlists, bookmarked moments, and your place kept across devices. * A light theme and a warm dark theme for evening practice. Free, with no ads and nothing to buy, from a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Corrections to any text are genuinely welcome: write to contact@vedicstudies.org. || Shree Krishnarpanamastu ||
Ahoratra
This app provides accurate Vedic astrology calculations and knowledge from ancient texts. It's designed for both trained astrologers and the general audience interested in learning.
- Accurate planetary calculations
- Modern interface design
- Vedic Jyotish knowledge
- Caters to trained astrologers
- Accessible to general audience
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Ahoratra - Jyotish Mobile Application is built on the all new modern interface design with high degree of accuracy in planetary calculations, imparting the knowledge of seers and ancient texts catering to trained Vedic Jyotishas as well as General Audience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ahoratra at none against Vedic Studies's 1. Vedic Studies's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (31 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Vedic Studies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ahoratra asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Vedic Studies against 5.0 for Ahoratra. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vedic Studies has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Vedic Studies ships an update every 2 weeks, Ahoratra every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vedic Studies | Ahoratra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vedic Studies Inc | Sudheendra Kumar Kaanugovi |
Customer experience
Vedic Studies
Ahoratra
In-app purchases
Vedic Studies
- Buy 5 Token$2.99
Ahoratra
No in-app purchases
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