Comparison

NityaPooja vs Kalamanam

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

Head to head
About

NityaPooja

Features
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NityaPooja is your complete Hindu devotional companion, designed for Telugu-speaking families worldwide. Whether you're at home or abroad, stay connected to your spiritual roots with daily prayers, accurate Panchangam, and guided rituals — all in Telugu and English. DAILY DEVOTION • Today's Shloka — a fresh Sanskrit verse with Telugu and English meanings every day • Morning Suprabhatam and Evening Aarti reminders • Personalized Sankalpam with your name, gotra, and nakshatra PANCHANGAM • Accurate daily Panchangam with Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana • Sunrise, sunset, and Rahu Kalam timings for your city • Moon phase tracking — Pournami and Amavasya alerts • Grahanam (eclipse) notifications with Sparsha/Moksham times • Works for any city worldwide DEVOTIONAL LIBRARY • Stotrams, Keertanalu, Bhajans, Mantras, Suprabhatam • Aartis with audio playback via Spotify • Ashtottara Shatanamavali (108 names) • Hanuman Chalisa, Lakshmi Chalisa & more • 10+ deity profiles with mythology and prayers SPIRITUAL TOOLS • Japa Counter — track 108-bead malas with streaks and history • Guided Puja — step-by-step ritual instructions • Pooja Timer for your daily worship • Virtual Pooja Room with offerings ASTROLOGY • Rashifal — daily horoscope for all 12 zodiac signs • Jataka Chakram — Vedic birth chart generation • Guna Milan — compatibility matching for marriages PURANAS QUIZ • 300+ questions across 12 Puranas in Telugu and English • Daily quiz notifications to test your knowledge • Share your score with family and friends FESTIVALS & TEMPLES • Upcoming Hindu festival countdown • Temple directory with details • Devotional store with puja essentials PERSONALIZATION • 4 themes — System, Light, Dark, Saffron • Adjustable font size for comfortable reading • Configurable notifications for every feature • Bookmarks and reading history Built with love for the Telugu Hindu community. All content available offline. Your data stays on your device — we respect your privacy. Contact: nityapooja.contact@gmail.com

About

Kalamanam

This app provides a comprehensive Telugu Panchangam with detailed guides for 30 festivals, including step-by-step rituals and mantras. It offers a Telugu calendar, auspicious timings, family event tracking, and a temple locator, all working offline.

Highlights
  • Offline Telugu Panchangam
  • Guided festival rituals
  • Telugu calendar with auspicious timings
  • Family event and birth-star tracking
  • Nearby temple locator
  • Home screen widgets
  • Adjustable text size
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Kalamanam is your family's dharmic almanac, computed for your own city's sunrise. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, vara, Rahu Kalam, auspicious muhurtams, festivals, rashi phalam, devotional stotras and your family's sacred dates, all in one place. Highlights: • Sandhya times: pratah, madhyahna and sayam sandhya, over a living sky of sun and moon. • Sankalpam for your place: shaped by your location and time, with gotra and name, ready to share. • Your daily panchangam at a glance, on a living cosmic dial. • Month calendar: tithi, Ekadashi and Pournami marked under every date, with family occasions. • Festivals and vratams: step by step puja vidhanam, materials, sankalpam and the katha (story). • Bhakti: sahasranamas, chalisas and ashtakas, with meaning. • Auspicious muhurtam, Rahu Kalam and daily rashi phalam. • Shraddha (abdikam) dates for departed elders, by the traditional tithi and aparahna window. • Nearby temples, family birthdays and anniversaries, reminders and home-screen widgets. Kalamanam keeps a dharmic dinacharya close, for every home. Your details stay on your device. We never ask for a phone number. No ads.

Screenshots

NityaPooja4 screens
Kalamanam4 screens

Verdict

The call

NityaPooja and Kalamanam are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NityaPooja ships an update every 6 days, Kalamanam weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NityaPooja versus Kalamanam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNityaPoojaKalamanam
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDurgaprasad ChavaliNaga Manoj kasyap Chilakamarthy

In-app purchases

None

NityaPooja

No in-app purchases

None

Kalamanam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NityaPooja free?
NityaPooja is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kalamanam free?
Kalamanam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NityaPooja or Kalamanam have ads?
Neither NityaPooja nor Kalamanam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NityaPooja or Kalamanam?
NityaPooja ships an update every 6 days, and Kalamanam weekly. Most recently, NityaPooja was updated on October 1, 2026 and Kalamanam on October 10, 2026.

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