Comparison

Longchen vs Elite Education Schools

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Longchen

Features
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Longchen is a companion for daily Tibetan Buddhist practice — bringing the prayers, the lineage, the teachings, and the community of practitioners into one calm, focused space. THE PRAYER BOOK • Read prayers in interlinear form — Tibetan script, phonetic transliteration, and translation, line by line. • Auto-scroll at your own pace, with adjustable speed, per-verse repeat, and text sizing. • Search across prayers and build your own collection of favorites. • Create and save your own custom prayers. THE MANDALA OF THE ROOT MASTERS • Explore the lineage through the Mandala of the Root Masters of Sangngak Tenzin Rinpoche. • Tap any master to read their biography and view a gallery of photographs. TEACHINGS • Watch video teachings and structured courses with captions, multiple qualities, and playback speed. • Pick up right where you left off with progress tracking. PRACTICE & COMMUNITY • Count mantras and prayers — including the Vajra Guru mantra and the Seven-Line Prayer. • Track prostrations with clear statistics over time. • Join shared recitations and accumulate together with practitioners around the world. THE GURU'S BOOKS • Read "A White Conch Spiraling Towards Happiness" — poems of a Tibetan master — in a clean, distraction-free reader. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS • Available in English, Russian, Vietnamese, and Tibetan. • Full support for iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape. • Light and dark mode. • Read offline. May it support your practice.

About

Elite Education Schools

Features
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Elite Education Schools provides a centralized platform for accessing all school applications. By logging in with your Elite email, you can conveniently manage and interact with your children's data from a single location.

Screenshots

Longchen4 screens
Elite Education Schools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Elite Education Schools at none against Longchen's shown. Elite Education Schools also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Longchen versus Elite Education Schools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLongchenElite Education Schools
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB37 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAleksei SolopovHomains OU

In-app purchases

None

Longchen

No in-app purchases

None

Elite Education Schools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Longchen free?
Longchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elite Education Schools free?
Elite Education Schools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Longchen or Elite Education Schools have ads?
Longchen shows ads; Elite Education Schools does not.

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