Comparison

sutamaya vs Dict.Dhamma.Gift

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

Head to head
About

sutamaya

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Sutamaya is a reader for the Early Buddhist Texts: the Pali discourses in English (available translations by Bhikkhu Sujato, Bhikkhu Bodhi and Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu), with the Pali a tap away. Everything is inside the app, so it reads offline from the first launch — on a plane, on retreat, or in airplane mode. The whole canon, easy to move around in The four main nikāyas and the Khuddaka books, arranged the way they are actually read: collection, chapter, sutta. Pali beside the English, word by word Show the Pali line under each segment of translation, and tap any Pali word for its entry in the Digital Pali Dictionary, without leaving the text. Highlights, notes and lists Highlight passages in one of three colours, write a note on a sutta, and tag suttas with words of your own. Save suttas to your own lists and group them into folders. What you've recently read, highlighted and noted is kept as lists of its own, automatically. Search Find a sutta by its number, title or description, or search the text of the whole canon in English or Pali, along with your own notes and lists. Set the page the way you read Typeface, text size, line height, light or dark. Verse, headings and speakers are set the way the source marks them. No account needed Everything works without signing in, and nothing you do leaves your device. Sign in only if you want your lists, notes, highlights and reading history on your other devices, and in the browser at app.sutamaya.org. Free, with no ads and no tracking. English translations by Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral, with some editorial changes. Pali definitions from the Digital Pali Dictionary.

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Dict.Dhamma.Gift

Features
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Multiple dictionaries, one page. Type a Pāḷi or Sanskrit word once and read every entry side by side: dictionaries, glossaries and canon definitions in a single answer. No tab juggling, no app switching. PĀḶI LETTERS ON THE KEYBOARD ā ī ū ṁ ṅ ñ ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ and more sit right on top of the keyboard, with a Paste key. Turn the row off in the menu if you don't need it. WORKS OFFLINE The app opens with no network. Download the compact offline dictionary once, and short meanings keep working on a plane or in a retreat. YOUR DICTIONARY ON ANY SITE Reading a sutta, an article, a forum post? Select the word, tap Share, choose Dict.DG, and the full answer opens right there. The same lookup works as a browser extension and on the web. FOUR WAYS TO TYPE Pāḷi with diacritics and autocomplete, Velthuis (kacchapaa gives kacchapā), English, or Russian. Type the word however you already have it. GRAMMAR YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ Declension and conjugation tables sort themselves: tap a column header to order by case, number or gender. STRAIGHT FROM THE CANON Alongside the dictionaries you get definitions and similes as the suttas and the Vinaya give them. RECENT WORDS, ONE TAP AWAY Your history and favourites in the app, and your last words in the icon's long-press menu on the Home Screen. FIND ON THE PAGE, LIGHT AND DARK THEME, FONT SIZE Interface in English and Russian. Free, no ads, no accounts, no tracking. Part of the Dhamma.Gift project: https://dhamma.gift

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dict.Dhamma.Gift at none against sutamaya's shown. Dict.Dhamma.Gift also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

sutamaya ships an update monthly, Dict.Dhamma.Gift every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
sutamaya versus Dict.Dhamma.Gift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersutamayaDict.Dhamma.Gift
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel AszalosPavel Katorgin

In-app purchases

None

sutamaya

No in-app purchases

None

Dict.Dhamma.Gift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is sutamaya free?
sutamaya is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dict.Dhamma.Gift free?
Dict.Dhamma.Gift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do sutamaya or Dict.Dhamma.Gift have ads?
sutamaya shows ads; Dict.Dhamma.Gift does not.
Which is updated more often, sutamaya or Dict.Dhamma.Gift?
sutamaya ships an update monthly, and Dict.Dhamma.Gift every 2 weeks. Most recently, sutamaya was updated on November 10, 2026 and Dict.Dhamma.Gift on November 13, 2026.

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