BKMS vs SMVS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BKMS
This app helps BAPS volunteers and members manage their youth activity involvement. It simplifies weekly and monthly reporting, user profile management, and event access for faster data handling.
- Weekly and monthly reporting
- User profile management
- Event registration and payment
- Dashboard access
- Alerts
- Powerful report filters
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The BKMS app enables BAPS volunteers and members to manage their involvement in youth activities using smartphones and tablets. The app is designed to provide ease with weekly and monthly reporting, managing users’ profiles and accessing events. The app is designed to provide easy and faster access to routine data and reports. With BKMS app you can access (based on your permission level) - Dashboard - Reports - User records - Personal Profile - Alerts Dashboard offers - Easy event registration and payment - Faster survey fill outs - Checkout upcoming birthdays Reports to manage - Weekly Sabhas - Monthly Karyakar Gosthis - Networking - BST / KST - Niyam Assessment - Campus Hangouts User Records allow - Quicker search for user profiles - Update user profile Reports and User records are equipped with powerful filters.
SMVS
Access daily spiritual practices, scripture readings, and event updates from the SMVS organization. Engage in meditation, listen to prayers, and watch or listen to live and recorded Satsang sessions.
- Daily Darshan of Lord Swaminarayan
- Today's Prayer guidance
- Guided Meditation with MP3
- Vachnamrut scripture reading with bookmarking
- Bapashri ni Vato discourses
- Video and Audio collection of events
- Live Satsang streaming
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SMVS Satsang is the perfect app provided by SMVS organization for human beings to fulfill/complete their daily rules provided by Lord Swaminarayan and to see upcoming event updates from SMVS. * Daily Darshan: Look at the daily darshan of Lord Swaminarayan presented in different temples and on different dates. * Today's Prayer: will show today's prayer to follow, so no need to remember all the prayers of the month. * Meditation: Visualization of lord Swaminarayan murti and peaceful MP3 play for lord Swaminarayan dhyan. * Vachnamrut: read 273 principal scriptures of the Swaminarayan Sampraday with a zoom feature and have an auto bookmark feature where you last read in the listing. * Bapashri ni Vato: complete collection of Jeevanpran Shree Abji Bapashree's discourses given in this section with similar features to the Vachnamrut section. * SMVS Video: Video collection of all different events handled at SMVS under different categories. * 5 Minutes Satsang: Same as SMVS Video section but with solutions to all your questions with short video clips. * SMVS Audio: An audio collection of all different events handled at SMVS under different categories with kirtans in audio format. * Live Satsang: Live Satsang of P.Santo can be available in audio and video streaming formats. * Updates: Past and upcoming event updates of/from SMVS. For more information, visit www.smvs.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SMVS at 5.0 against BKMS's 4.5. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
SMVS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 4, 2026.
| Parameter | BKMS | SMVS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha Inc | SMVS swaminarayan mandir vasna sanstha |
Customer experience
BKMS
SMVS
In-app purchases
BKMS
No in-app purchases
SMVS
No in-app purchases
