Advanced Shiva Puja vs Gurudeva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Advanced Shiva Puja
Explore detailed Hindu worship practices with this comprehensive guide. It offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced puja rituals, including fire sacrifice ceremonies. The app features Sanskrit mantras with phonetic transliteration and English translations, presented in an easily navigable digital book format.
- Beginner, intermediate, and advanced puja rituals
- Complete fire sacrifice (yajna) system
- Sanskrit mantras with transliteration and translation
- Digital book with zoom and bookmarking
- Introductory videos and podcast access
- Daily shareable quotes
- Information about gurus and Devi Mandir
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This Advanced Puja App contains a beginners Puja, an intermediate Puja, an advanced Puja and a complete system for fire sacrifice. The yajna is the union between the fires burning in the ajna cakra, the light of meditation, and the howan kunda, the sacrificial altar. This union allows the sacrifice of all egotism and duality. Book is presented with original Sanskrit mantras (in big and clear font), a Romanized phonetic transliteration, and a complete English translation. Total pages 449. About Author: Esoteric knowledge of Divine worship (puja), which was once only in hold of elite Indian priests, is now made available by Swami Satyananda Saraswati to all sincere seekers of Truth. Who else can better explain this other than a man who moved from West to East, lived there for more than 20 years learning and practicing Divine worship, and then return to the West with his Self-realized guru Shree Maa to share this eternal knowledge with us all. App features: Contains over 25 new features. Book:- you can zoom-in/out with 2-finger pinch, scroll left/right for next page with 1-finger swipe, add bookmarks and jump to any random page-number. Videos(WiFi needed):- Watch Introductory videos, Video classes or hear iTunes podcast offered by Swamiji and ShreeMaa for free. You can change video quality to suite your internet bandwidth. Quote:- Tap on bottom of home-screen to see your quote of the day. New quote is provided everytime you open this App which can be shared on your social media. About US:- Get to know more about Devi Mandir and our Gurus Shree Maa and Swami Satyananda Saraswati. More Apps:- You can browse our other available paid apps and read user reviews. Help('?' icon on home screen):- Here you can connect with our Social media, Email us any questions, Signup for our Newsletter, visit our Website or restart App tour. Supports latest iOS 9 multi-window feature. We really appreciate if you can take a moment to review or rate this app so that other users can read them and make better choice before purchasing this app.
Gurudeva
Access daily wisdom and spiritual teachings from a prominent Hindu leader. This app offers inspiring quotes, photos, and connections to further resources to guide your spiritual practice and daily life.
- Inspiring quotes
- Photos of Gurudeva
- Connections to resources
- Daily spiritual guidance
- Teachings of a Hindu leader
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Inspiring quotes from a great sage. Twentieth century Hindu leader Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, known as “Gurudeva," was founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery, Himalayan Academy Publications and the internationally acclaimed magazine Hinduism Today. He attained Mahasamadhi on November 12, 2001. This app serves to bring his darshan and teachings to today's spiritual practitioners through photos, quotations and connections to other resources. Connecting with his wisdom each day will keep you on track in your inner and your outer life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gurudeva at Free against Advanced Shiva Puja's $12.99. Gurudeva also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). Advanced Shiva Puja's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 41 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Gurudeva is free to download; Advanced Shiva Puja costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Advanced Shiva Puja against 5.0 for Gurudeva. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gurudeva has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Advanced Shiva Puja ships an update every 7 months, Gurudeva every 41 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Advanced Shiva Puja | Gurudeva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 41 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devi Mandir | Himalayan Academy Publications |
Customer experience
Advanced Shiva Puja
Gurudeva
In-app purchases
Advanced Shiva Puja
No in-app purchases
Gurudeva
No in-app purchases
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