Dharma Treasure vs BDRC Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dharma Treasure
Access a vast library of ancient Tibetan scriptures and upload your own personal texts in RTF format. View scriptures horizontally or vertically, with automatic adjustment to Pecha-format. Includes a Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary and encyclopedia with phonetic lookup.
- Library of ancient Tibetan scriptures
- Upload personal scriptures (RTF)
- Horizontal and vertical text viewing
- Automatic Pecha-format adjustment
- Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary
- Phonetic lookup
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* Library of ancient Tibetan scriptures * Upload of personal scriptures in RTF-format in Tibetan script * Viewing of texts in Tibetan horizontally and vertically, automatically adjusting to Pecha-format in landscape mode * Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary and encyclopedia with phonetic lookup
BDRC Mobile
Access a vast digital library of Buddhist texts in Asian languages on your mobile device. Search and view digitized manuscripts and books, with offline search capabilities. Requires internet for image viewing.
- Search BDRC library offline
- View digitized Buddhist texts
- Access Open Access Tibetan collection
- Mobile access to digital archive
- Browse manuscripts and books
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A mobile application to search through and view the BDRC library. Buddhist Digital Resource Center is the world’s leading digital conservator of Buddhist texts in Asian languages and has digitized over 20 million pages of manuscripts and printed books. BDRC Mobile provides mobile access to the Open Access Tibetan part of the BDRC library, otherwise available on our website. The app’s search tool can work offline, but the image viewer requires an Internet connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dharma Treasure at 80% against BDRC Mobile's 14%. Dharma Treasure also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). BDRC Mobile's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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.
BDRC Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dharma Treasure has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Dharma Treasure's written reviews are positive against 14% of BDRC Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dharma Treasure ships an update every 4 months, BDRC Mobile every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dharma Treasure | BDRC Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Rabten Stiftung | Buddhist Digital Resource Center |
Customer experience
Dharma Treasure
BDRC Mobile
In-app purchases
Dharma Treasure
No in-app purchases
BDRC Mobile
No in-app purchases
