Comparison

Chant Counter vs KeepThoughts

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

Head to head
About

Chant Counter

This spiritual companion uses on-device speech recognition for hands-free mantra counting during meditation. It supports rapid chanting, flexible goals, and multiple languages, all while prioritizing your privacy with offline processing.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated counting
  • Rapid chant support
  • Flexible goal setting
  • Multi-language support
  • 100% privacy focused
  • Smart screen lock
Features
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Experience the freedom of hands-free chanting. Chant Counter is a privacy-first spiritual companion designed to help you focus entirely on your meditation and devotion. Unlike traditional counters that require a physical tap for every repetition, Chant Counter uses on-device speech recognition to count your mantras automatically. Key Features: Voice-Activated Counting Simply speak your mantra. The app listens and increments the count for you, letting you keep your eyes closed and your focus inward. Rapid Chant Support Advanced recognition logic handles fast-paced chanting (e.g., "Om Namah Shivaya") without missing a beat, even when words merge together. Flexible Goals Choose traditional milestones like 21 or 108, or set a custom target for your specific Sadhana. Multi-Language Support Specially tuned for Sanskrit and English pronunciation to ensure accuracy across different mantras and slokas. 100% Privacy Focused Your privacy is sacred. All speech processing happens offline on your device. No audio is ever recorded, stored, or sent to any server. Smart Screen Lock The app keeps your screen awake during your session, ensuring you never lose track of your progress. Perfect for: Daily Japa practice Completing 108 repetitions Learning new Slokas or Stotrams Hands-free meditation during commutes or yoga Download Chant Counter today and elevate your spiritual practice.

About

KeepThoughts

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and memories in a simple, distraction-free environment. This app helps you organize personal reflections, daily notes, and important moments for easy revisiting. It offers a clean and intuitive space for journaling, brainstorming, and tracking information.

Highlights
  • Create and manage personal thoughts
  • Simple writing experience
  • Organize entries
  • Fast and responsive UI
  • Passcode protection
  • Edit and update notes
  • Share entries
Features
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Some thoughts are for everyone. Some are for no one but you. KeepThoughts is a quiet journal for both. Write a line or a long entry, tag how you felt, and lock the ones meant only for you behind their own passcode. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK • Start with a title and write as much or as little as you like • Format with simple Markdown: headings, bold, lists and quotes • Add photos from your library or straight from the camera • Pin the one entry that matters most to the top of your list • Star your favourites and filter down to them in a tap TAG A THOUGHT, FIND IT LATER • Mark an entry as a Note, an Idea or a Plan • Or tag how you felt: Happy, Grateful, Calm, Anxious, Sad or Angry • Filter your journal by any tag to see a mood take shape over time • Browse by date in the calendar and open any day you wrote LOCK A THOUGHT, NOT JUST THE APP • Lock individual entries with a passcode used only for locking • A locked entry is encrypted on your device, and its title and text are unreadable until you open it • Locked entries stay locked inside your backups, and open on a new device with the passcode that sealed them • Unlock one for a moment to read or edit it, then let it seal itself again • Separately, you can ask for a passcode or Face ID when the app opens YOUR ENTRIES STAY YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no profile to fill in • Your journal lives on your device • Export everything to a single backup file and protect it with a password • Import that file on another iPhone to move your journal across KEEPTHOUGHTS PREMIUM Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription. • Remove ads and write without banners or interruptions • Dictate entries instead of typing them • Add videos from your library, or record a 10-second clip • Attach PDFs, Word documents and spreadsheets, up to 25 MB each • Back up automatically to your own iCloud, and restore on a new iPhone EIGHT LANGUAGES KeepThoughts follows your iPhone's language: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese (Brazil). Write a line a day, or write when it matters. KeepThoughts keeps it.

Screenshots

Chant Counter4 screens
KeepThoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chant Counter at none against KeepThoughts's 1. Chant Counter also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). KeepThoughts's advantage is iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. KeepThoughts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chant Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chant Counter against 5.0 for KeepThoughts. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chant Counter ships an update every 2 days, KeepThoughts every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chant Counter versus KeepThoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChant CounterKeepThoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperARAVIND SAI TALLAPANENIMashqur Habib Himel

Customer experience

Chant Counter

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

KeepThoughts

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Chant Counter

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

KeepThoughts

One-time1
  • KeepThoughts Premium$3.99

Questions

Is Chant Counter free?
Chant Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KeepThoughts free?
KeepThoughts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chant Counter or KeepThoughts?
Chant Counter and KeepThoughts are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Chant Counter or KeepThoughts have ads?
Neither Chant Counter nor KeepThoughts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chant Counter or KeepThoughts?
Chant Counter ships an update every 2 days, and KeepThoughts every 2 weeks. Most recently, Chant Counter was updated on October 8, 2026 and KeepThoughts on October 17, 2026.

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