Vedic Studies vs Sarvamula
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 ||
Sarvamula
Access the complete works of Sri Madhvacharya offline. Explore 38 texts organized by prasthana, with support for eight scripts and powerful Sanskrit search. Features include verse-commentary layout and research tools for concepts and citations.
- Offline access to 38 works
- Support for eight scripts
- Verse-and-commentary layout
- Powerful Sanskrit search
- Concept locator and citation index
- Adjustable reading size
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Sarvamula is a complete, offline reader of the Sarvamula-grantha — the entire body of works of Sri Madhvacharya (Anandatirtha), founder of the Dvaita (Tattvavada) school of Vedanta. All 38 works in one app, organized by prasthana: • Gita-prasthana — Gita-bhashya, Gita-tatparya • Sutra-prasthana — Brahmasutra-bhashya, Anuvyakhyana, Nyaya-vivarana, Anubhashya • Upanishad-prasthana — bhashyas on the principal Upanishads • Prakarana works — Vishnu-tattva-vinirnaya, Tattva-viveka, Mayavada-khandana, Tattva-sankhyana and the rest • Stotra, Itihasa, Purana and Acara works FEATURES • Eight scripts — read any text in Devanagari, Roman (IAST), Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali or Gujarati, and switch instantly. • Verse-and-commentary layout — mula verses and Madhva's bhashya are clearly structured, with pramana (scriptural citation) blocks set apart. • Powerful Sanskrit search — full-text search across all 38 works or scoped to a single grantha, with vowel-aware matching and highlighted results. • Anusandhana research tools — a concept locator that shows everywhere Madhva treats a concept (taratamya, bheda, moksha, bimba-pratibimba and more) across the whole corpus, plus a citation index of the sources he quotes. • Adjustable reading size and a clean, distraction-free interface. • 100% offline — no account, no ads, no tracking, no internet needed. The entire corpus lives on your device. Built for students, scholars, and devotees of the Madhva (Tattvavada) tradition.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sarvamula at none against Vedic Studies's 1. Sarvamula also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Vedic Studies's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Vedic Studies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sarvamula 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 Sarvamula. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vedic Studies has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Vedic Studies ships an update every 2 weeks, Sarvamula weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vedic Studies | Sarvamula |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| 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 | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vedic Studies Inc | Prathosh AP |
Customer experience
Vedic Studies
Sarvamula
In-app purchases
Vedic Studies
- Buy 5 Token$2.99
Sarvamula
No in-app purchases
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