Comparison

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader vs GitaVani

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

Head to head
About

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader

Access a comprehensive collection of spiritual texts, historical documents, and media related to the Ramakrishna Order. This app offers offline reading, advanced search capabilities, and fact-checking resources to explore the teachings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.

Highlights
  • Offline reading of books and magazines
  • Searchable knowledge platform
  • Archival content access
  • Quotations and biographies
  • Bhajans and chanting lyrics
  • 3D geo-mapping of Swami Vivekananda's travels
  • Spiritual Q&A repository
Features
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Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader is the official App for Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Publications. This is a one-stop browsable and searchable unified knowledge platform containing the essential books, archival books, magazine archives, quotations, history and chronology, short biographies, bhajans and chanting lyrics pertaining to Ramakrishna Order in English and major Indian Languages. The app includes media content pertaining to Holy Trio and 3D geo-mapping of Swami Vivekananda's visits in India and foreign countries. The app also contains a) AWAKE Questions/Answers (QA) are a one-stop searchable digital knowledge repository of Spiritual and Scriptural Knowledge derived from the Ramakrishna Math and Mission publications in a Question-Answer format. b) AWAKE Fact Checker is to educate the public with the factual information about Ramakrishna, Vivekananda & Ramakrishna Math/Mission derived from original publication sources and dispel misinformation circulating in social media

About

GitaVani

Features
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GitaVani is a clean, ad-free reader for the Bhagavad Gita. Read all 701 verses across 18 chapters with Sanskrit text, transliteration, and translations from 12 renowned scholars in Hindi and English. Listen to Sanskrit verse audio to practice pronunciation. Explore 11,000+ commentaries from 17 scholars in English, Hindi, and Sanskrit. Built for focused, distraction-free reading and listening of the Gita. FEATURES • Sanskrit verse audio: Listen to all 701 verses chanted in Sanskrit — play, pause, and follow along with the text • Complete Bhagavad Gita: All 18 chapters, 701 verses • Sanskrit shlokas in Devanagari with optional Roman transliteration • Translations from 12 scholars including Swami Sivananda, Swami Ramsukhdas, Sri Shankaracharya, and others • Hindi and English translations with author picker • 11,000+ commentaries from 17 scholars in English, Hindi, and Sanskrit • Search across all verses — find by keyword in Sanskrit, transliteration, or translations • Save favorite verses and browse them with sort by recent or chapter order • Share verses as beautiful themed image cards • Swipe between verses — navigation flows across chapters • 4 reading themes: Sattva (light), Parchment (warm), Dusk (dark), Lotus (saffron) • Adjustable font size with Dynamic Type support • Bookmark your place — resume reading where you left off • First-launch onboarding and built-in help PRIVACY No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No internet required. All data is stored locally on your device. Your reading is entirely private. DATA SOURCE Verse data sourced from the Vedic Scriptures project by Pt. Prashant Tripathi, used under LGPL-3.0 license. Original Sanskrit shlokas are ancient public domain text.

Screenshots

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader4 screens
GitaVani4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader and GitaVani are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader versus GitaVani: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRamakrishna Vivekananda ReaderGitaVani
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 45 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRamakrishna MathNIKHIL SINGHAL

In-app purchases

None

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Reader

No in-app purchases

None

GitaVani

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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