Comparison

Mantra Reader vs BardoNow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mantra Reader

This app helps you practice mantra recitation for mental clarity and spiritual growth. It allows you to use preset or custom mantras, track your progress, and sync data across devices. Enjoy a user-friendly interface with widgets for easy access.

Highlights
  • Preset and custom mantra support
  • Track reading statistics
  • Favorites list for mantras
  • User-friendly interface
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • iCloud data sync
Features
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The repetition of mantras has a beneficial effect on a person in many areas of his life. This process is able to remove suffering on the mental and physical levels and to clarify consciousness. Recite mantras and keep track of your level. In this app: - Use preset mantras or create and set up your own. - Add most actual mantras to Favorites. - Track your readings statistics over time. - Enjoy the user-friendly interface and beautiful design on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac (with M-chip). - Use all kinds of widgets with the necessary data on Home Screen and Lock Screen. - Take advantage of data sync across all your devices via iCloud (works automatically for signed-in users). All data is saved in iCloud and won’t be lost even if the application is deleted. Important information: Recitation of mantras - is a sacrament. Approach this issue with all your awareness. In order for the practice of reciting to be correct, one must receive the transmission of the mantra from the teacher. Transmission is essential to maintain the strength of the original source of the mantra. It is not enough just to read it in a book or on the Internet. For this reason, application doesn't include the mantra texts themselves (except Vajrasattva). They must be given to you by your spiritual mentor and can be added manually later. We wish you deep awarenesses and spiritual growth!

About

BardoNow

Features
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BardoNow is a free offering for the Yuthok Nyingthig sangha. It holds the practical things in one place: the Ngöndro you sit each morning, the eleven practices it is made of, and Shabkar's Flight of the Garuda read aloud. It does not teach and it does not lead. It holds. YUTHOK'S NGÖNDRO The last seven recorded sessions, a new one most mornings. Each a little different — practice alongside whichever morning you like. The eleven practices are here in the order of the liturgy, each with its text in phonetics or Tibetan, a line on why it is in the ngöndro at all, and the recitation to listen to. FLIGHT OF THE GARUDA All twenty-three songs of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol, as translated by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, read aloud in one voice. Audio continues with the screen locked, with lock-screen controls, and the app remembers where you stopped. MEDITATION A sit, the length you choose. PRACTICING WITH THE MOON The four lunar days of the month, and when each one next falls. WHAT IS YOUR TYPE? Dr. Nida Chenagtsang's own constitutional self-assessment, from Foundations of Sowa Rigpa. Twenty-four questions, taken once. Wind, Fire and Earth/Water — loong, tripa and beken. It quietly changes what the app offers you; it does not tell you who you are. DĀNA Offered without expectation. NO ACCOUNTS, NOTHING COLLECTED There is no sign-in and no profile. Nothing is collected, nothing is sent, and there are no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no purchases. The recordings stream from a plain file host, and nothing identifies who asked for them. An internet connection is needed to play the audio. Free, and made to be used.

Screenshots

Mantra Reader4 screens
BardoNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Mantra Reader at 3 against BardoNow's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mantra Reader versus BardoNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMantra ReaderBardoNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr VorobevJAMES HENRY DOVE

In-app purchases

None

Mantra Reader

No in-app purchases

None

BardoNow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mantra Reader free?
Mantra Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BardoNow free?
BardoNow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mantra Reader or BardoNow have ads?
Neither Mantra Reader nor BardoNow shows ads.

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