Chantify vs Oku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chantify
Track your daily chanting sessions with a smart counter and timer. Set personal goals, monitor your progress over time, and receive motivational notifications to help you achieve your objectives.
- Smart counter for chanting sessions
- Timer function
- Daily chanting target setting
- Progress notifications
- Self trend analysis (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Group trend analysis
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Designed and developed by the healthcare & wellness tech company Brainovations Education Excellence Pvt Ltd, Chantify uses a smart counter feature that allows you to efficiently record your daily chanting, monitor your records and encourage you to meet your targets. Below are the unique features: - Records your Daimoku chanting using a smart counter stopwatch and timer function. - Allows you to set a daily Daimoku chanting target. - Sends you regular notifications of your progress throughout the day and motivates you to achieve your chanting objectives. - Self Trend Analysis: Allows you to see and analyse your daily, weekly and monthly daimoku records. - Group Trend Analysis: Allows you to see the daimoku records of other users and motivates you to achieve higher chanting counts.
Oku
A straightforward meditation timer designed for simplicity. It allows users to set meditation durations and choose a completion sound without distractions from subscriptions, guided sessions, or ads. Focus on your practice with just a press of a button.
- Customizable meditation timer (1-90 minutes)
- Choice of completion sounds (singing bowl, bell, chime)
- Ad-free experience
- No subscriptions required
- No account needed
- Simple, distraction-free interface
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A meditation timer that gets out of your way. No subscriptions. No guided sessions. Just press start and sit. I built Oku because every meditation app I tried wanted me to subscribe, watch a tutorial, or pick from a library of guided sessions. I just wanted to sit down, meditate and track my sessions. So that's what this app does. Set your time anywhere from 1 to 90 minutes with a simple drag gesture. Pick a completion sound you like: singing bowl, soft bell, or warm chime. Press begin. That's the whole app. No subscriptions. No account. No ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oku at 100% against Chantify's 50%. Oku also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Chantify's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Oku holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chantify's written reviews are positive against 100% of Oku's.
Chantify ships an update every 2 weeks, Oku monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chantify | Oku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brainovations Education Excellence Private Limited | Clarissa Watanabe |
Customer experience
Chantify
Oku
In-app purchases
Chantify
No in-app purchases
Oku
No in-app purchases
