Dharma Seed vs Dharma Leafs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dharma Seed
Access a vast library of dharma talks and guided meditations. Stream content, download for offline listening, and search by keyword or teacher. Support teachers through donations.
- Stream dharma talks and guided meditations
- Download talks for offline playback
- Search talks by keyword and teacher
- Browse recent talks
- View previously played talks
- Support teachers via donations
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Features: • Stream dharma talks and guided meditations • Download your favorite dharma talks for offline playback • Search talk titles and descriptions by keyword • Browse the most recent talks • Find talks by specific teachers • Search a teacher's talks by keyword • View talks you have previously played • View teacher information • Support teachers with your donations Limitations: • Access to talks using a “retreat code” is not supported. Teachers offer their talks via Dharma Seed with the kind intention of dana, or generosity. These teachings are held to be priceless and made available to anyone who is interested, regardless of financial means. It is our deep wish and the wish of the teachers who offer teachings here that this continue. We also want our meditation teachers and Dharma Seed to thrive and continue their good work! To learn how you can offer support, please go to About - Donate in the app, or visit: https://dharmaseed.org/donate We hope you enjoy the app.
Dharma Leafs
Receive daily zen quotes and guided breathing exercises to find calm during stressful moments. It also connects practitioners to an online Zen community for sittings, retreats, and teacher interaction.
- Zen quotes
- Breathing exercises
- Online Zen community
- Zazen sittings
- Virtual retreats
- Teacher interaction
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Tap the screen and you will receive a zen quote and a simple breathing exercise. At trying moments during your day, recite the quote once slowly, then focus on the breath for the times indicated. Repeat as helpful. Treeleaf Zendo is an online practice place for Zen practitioners who cannot easily commute to a Zen Center due to health concerns, living in remote areas, or childcare, work and family needs. Treeleaf seeks to provide Zazen sittings, retreats, discussion, interaction with a teacher, and all other activities of a Soto Zen Buddhist Sangha.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dharma Seed at 4.4 against Dharma Leafs's 4.0. Dharma Seed also leads on ratings volume (77 vs 1) and device support. Dharma Leafs's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Dharma Seed holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dharma Seed has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Dharma Seed's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dharma Leafs's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Dharma Seed | Dharma Leafs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (77 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dharma Seed Tape Library, Inc. | Vincent Pompe van Meerdervoort |
Customer experience
Dharma Seed
Dharma Leafs
Bugs and requests
Dharma Seed
Reported bugs
12 issues- Never completes install
- Stalls at 90%
- Unable to complete app download
- No longer opens on iPhone
- App isn't opening at all
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- Loading bar stalls halfway
- Great talks, rubbish app
- App started interrupting itself with network connection error
- Trouble loading lately
- Only two talks on history list after update
- Latest update frequently cuts out sound
- Can't access older talks due to iOS 7 update
Requested features
22 requests- Add a favorite/like button for talks
- Support for playlists
- Follow authors/teachers
- Transcripts
- Ability to download talks
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- Access private talks using retreat codes
- Listen later feature
- Playlist tab with '+' symbol
- Ability to reorder playlists
- View all talks for a retreat
- Default talks for beginners
- Direct ways to contribute dana
- Privacy policy display
- Offline mode
- Dark mode
- 15-second rewind feature
- Save/favorite meditations for offline listening
- History tab for listened talks
- Android version
- Caching or downloading to phone
- Rating system for talks
- Wishlist/later section
Dharma Leafs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dharma Seed
No in-app purchases
Dharma Leafs
No in-app purchases
Questions
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