Every figure checked 26 July 2026
The best Bhagavad Gita apps, compared honestly.
For most people on Android the answer is our own app, which is free, carries no advertising, and covers all 700 verses in seven languages. Its iPhone build only arrived on 21 July 2026, so treat that one as new. If you want a wider devotional practice, Krishna Bhakti is the better app and the highest rated here. If you want Prabhupada's translation, buy the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust edition. Hindi, Bangla, Telugu and Odia readers have stronger options still, and they are all below.
By the Ved Vyas Foundation, who publish bhagavadgita.com · Published 21 July 2026 · Updated 26 July 2026
At a glance
Best for each thing
- Best dedicated Gita app
Bhagavad Gita Hindi & EnglishOur app
Built for one thing, free, ad-free, and the highest rated on Google Play India among Gita apps with more than 1,000 ratings.
- Best free, ad-free app
Bhagavad Gita Hindi & EnglishOur app
No advertising, no subscription, no in-app purchases, no sponsorship.
- Best all-round devotional app
Bhagavad Gita — Krishna Bhakti
The same Gita text plus kirtans, meditations, audiobooks, courses and lectures. 4,551 ratings, the largest review base here.
- Best audio
Bhagavad Gita — Krishna Bhakti
Verse audio alongside audiobooks, bhajans and kirtans.
- Best AI assistant
Bhagavad Gita Hindi & EnglishOur app
Gita GPT answers from the Gita and cites the verses it drew on. Ten free messages a day once you sign in.
- Best AI alternative
Ask Krishna AI
An independent app built entirely around asking questions rather than reading chapters.
- Most popular in Hindi
Bhagavad-Gita in Hindi, by Banaka
58,591 ratings, roughly 35 times our own review count.
- Best for Bangla
Bhagavad Gita in Bangla, by Banaka
11,156 ratings, the most-reviewed Bangla option.
- Best for Telugu
Bhagavad Gita Telugu, by Learning Game Apps
9,190 ratings, the most-reviewed dedicated Telugu option.
- Best for Odia
Bhagavad Gita in Oriya, by Banaka
7,159 ratings. Krishna Bhakti also ships Odia if you want a named source.
- Largest scripture library
Gita Seva
Far broader than the Gita, with over a million installs.
- Best for structured learning
Learn Geeta, by Geeta Pariwar
The only app here built around a course and a community.
- Best video teaching
Bhagavad Gita For All
Substantial video content, though only chapter one is permanently free.
- Best for Prabhupada readers
Bhagavad-gita As It Is, by the BBT
The only edition published by the rights holder. iOS only, $4.99.
- Best offline
Bhagavad Gita — Song of God, by JKYog India
The clearest offline promise here. Lightweight, English and Hindi, no audio.
Side by side
Every app, compared
| App | Rating | Installs | Price | Ads | Languages | Whose translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhagavad Gita Hindi & EnglishOur appVed Vyas Foundation | 4.91 (1,688) | 500,000+ | Free | None | English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Odia, Spanish | Swami Mukundananda, named in the app |
| Bhagavad Gita — Krishna BhaktiJKYog | 4.85 (4,551) | 100,000+ | Free | None | Multiple, including Hindi and Odia | Swami Mukundananda, named in the app |
| Bhagavad-Gita in HindiBanaka | 4.66 (58,591) | 1,000,000+ | Free | Contains ads, and in-app purchases | Hindi | None. The listing names no translator and says "Assuming it is out of copyright protection." |
| Gita Seva: Hindu Books & AartiGita Seva Trust | 4.86 (15,777) | 1,000,000+ | Free | None declared | Mainly Hindi | Varies by book |
| Bhagavad Gita For All | VideoBhagavad Gita For All | 4.48 (9,215) | 1,000,000+ | Chapter 1 free, then a trial, then paid | None declared, but paid content | Hindi and English | No translator or commentator named |
| Bhagavad Gita in BanglaBanaka | 4.72 (11,156) | 100,000+ | Free | Contains ads, and in-app purchases | Bangla | None named |
| Bhagavad Gita TeluguLearning Game Apps | 4.67 (9,190) | 100,000+ | Free | Contains ads, and in-app purchases | Telugu | None named |
| Bhagavad Gita in Oriya / OdiaBanaka | 4.69 (7,159) | 100,000+ | Free | Contains ads, and in-app purchases | Odia | None named |
| Learn GeetaGeeta Pariwar | 4.75 (1,562) | 100,000+ | Free | None declared | Hindi and English | Geeta Pariwar |
| Ask Krishna AIHNIX Innovations | 4.75 (647) | 10,000+ | Free to install | In-app purchases. No ads declared | English | Not stated |
| Bhagavad Gita — Song of GodJKYog India | 4.66 (309) | 10,000+ | Free | None declared | English and Hindi | Swami Mukundananda |
| Bhagavad-gita As It IsThe Bhaktivedanta Book Trust | 4.89 (557) | Not stated | $4.99, one-time | None | English, German, French, Hungarian, Russian | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, published by the BBT |
Ratings from Google Play India, read from the stores’ own structured data. Play shows one decimal; these are its underlying value to two.
How did we compare these apps?
We searched Google Play across seven query variants covering English, Hindi and the phrasing people actually use, which surfaced 117 distinct apps. We kept the ones with either enough scale to matter or a purpose none of the others served, and dropped the rest.
Every rating, review count, install band and price here was read from the stores' own structured data rather than the rendered page, because the rendered Play listing mixes in ratings from its similar-apps carousel and reading those gave us a wrong number for our own app the first time round. Each figure was confirmed on 26 July 2026.
We have not run these apps side by side on a phone for a fixed set of tasks. What follows is a comparison of what each app offers, what it costs, and what it tells you about its own sources, not a hands-on bench test, and we would rather say that than imply testing we did not do. Where we could not verify something, the entry says so.
We do not report any claim we could not evidence. There are apps here we suspect ship poorly proofed text, and we have left that out because suspecting is not knowing. What an app states on its own listing, we quote.
In order
The apps, ranked
Bhagavad Gita Hindi & EnglishOur app
By Ved Vyas Foundation · 500,000+ installs
4.911,688 ratingsThe most focused option here. It does one thing, which is help you read the Gita, and it carries no advertising and nothing to pay for.
- Get it if:
- Anyone who wants the complete Gita and nothing competing for their attention. On Android without reservation; on iPhone the build is a day old.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone wanting several commentators side by side, or a wider devotional practice.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- None
- Languages:
- English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Odia, Spanish
- Whose translation:
- Swami Mukundananda, named in the app
What works
- All 18 chapters and 700 verses in seven languages
- Sanskrit recitation, plus translation and commentary audio
- Scripture text reads offline
- Free with no advertising, subscription or in-app purchases
What does not
- One translation and commentary, not a choice of several
- The iPhone build only shipped on 21 July 2026. Its nine store ratings, 2.0 in the US and 3.0 in India, all predate it
- Gita GPT asks you to sign in, and gives ten messages a day
Bhagavad Gita — Krishna Bhakti
By JKYog · 100,000+ installs
4.854,551 ratingsThe same Gita text inside a much wider devotional app, and the best-reviewed option on this page.
- Get it if:
- Anyone who wants a whole practice rather than only the Gita: kirtans, meditations, courses and lectures alongside the text.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who finds extra features distracting and only wants to read.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- None
- Languages:
- Multiple, including Hindi and Odia
- Whose translation:
- Swami Mukundananda, named in the app
What works
- 4,551 ratings on Google Play, plus 4.93 from 736 on the App Store
- Audiobooks, bhajans and kirtans alongside verse audio
- Ask Swamiji covers the Gita and Swami Mukundananda's other books
- Free with no advertising
What does not
- Much more than a Gita app, which is the point but will not suit everyone
- Same single commentator as our own app
Bhagavad-Gita in Hindi
By Banaka · 1,000,000+ installs
4.6658,591 ratingsComfortably the most-reviewed Hindi Gita app, with 58,591 ratings. Popularity and provenance are different things.
- Get it if:
- Hindi readers who want the option most people have chosen.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who needs to know which edition they are reading and who translated it.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- Contains ads, and in-app purchases
- Languages:
- Hindi
- Whose translation:
- None. The listing names no translator and says "Assuming it is out of copyright protection."
What works
- 58,591 ratings, roughly 35 times our own review count
- Works without a connection
- Free to install
What does not
- Carries advertising and in-app purchases
- No translator or commentator named anywhere on the listing
- The listing describes the text as "assuming it is out of copyright protection"
Gita Seva: Hindu Books & Aarti
By Gita Seva Trust · 1,000,000+ installs
4.8615,777 ratingsMuch broader than the Gita: a large library of scripture texts in one app.
- Get it if:
- Anyone who wants a shelf of scripture rather than one book done thoroughly.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who wants a purpose-built reading experience for the Gita alone.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- None declared
- Languages:
- Mainly Hindi
- Whose translation:
- Varies by book
What works
- Far more than the Gita, spanning many scripture texts
- 15,777 ratings and over a million installs
What does not
- Library breadth rather than depth on any single text
- Reading experience is built around documents, not verses
Bhagavad Gita For All | Video
By Bhagavad Gita For All · 1,000,000+ installs
4.489,215 ratingsThe strongest video teaching here, and also the most heavily monetised app on this page.
- Get it if:
- People who learn better by watching than by reading.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who wants the full text free.
- Price:
- Chapter 1 free, then a trial, then paid
- Ads:
- None declared, but paid content
- Languages:
- Hindi and English
- Whose translation:
- No translator or commentator named
What works
- Genuinely substantial video content, with real production investment
- Topic-led browsing rather than chapter-by-chapter
What does not
- Only chapter one is permanently free
- The subscription price is not published on either store or on their site
- No named translator or commentator
Bhagavad Gita in Bangla
By Banaka · 100,000+ installs
4.7211,156 ratingsThe most-reviewed Bangla option, with 11,156 ratings.
- Get it if:
- Bangla readers.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone needing named sources.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- Contains ads, and in-app purchases
- Languages:
- Bangla
- Whose translation:
- None named
What works
- 11,156 ratings
- Bangla text in a dedicated app
What does not
- Carries advertising and in-app purchases
- No named translator
- Same publisher pattern as the Hindi app
Bhagavad Gita Telugu
By Learning Game Apps · 100,000+ installs
4.679,190 ratingsThe most-reviewed dedicated Telugu option, with 9,190 ratings.
- Get it if:
- Telugu readers.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone needing named sources.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- Contains ads, and in-app purchases
- Languages:
- Telugu
- Whose translation:
- None named
What works
- 9,190 ratings
- Dedicated Telugu app
What does not
- Carries advertising and in-app purchases
- No named translator
Bhagavad Gita in Oriya / Odia
By Banaka · 100,000+ installs
4.697,159 ratingsThe most-reviewed Odia option, with 7,159 ratings.
- Get it if:
- Odia readers.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone needing named sources.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- Contains ads, and in-app purchases
- Languages:
- Odia
- Whose translation:
- None named
What works
- 7,159 ratings
- Dedicated Odia app
What does not
- Carries advertising and in-app purchases
- No named translator
Learn Geeta
By Geeta Pariwar · 100,000+ installs
4.751,562 ratingsThe only app here built around a course and a community rather than solo reading.
- Get it if:
- Anyone who learns better with structure, deadlines and other people.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who wants to read at their own pace, alone.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- None declared
- Languages:
- Hindi and English
- Whose translation:
- Geeta Pariwar
What works
- Structured courses rather than open-ended reading
- An organised community around the study
What does not
- Less useful as a plain reference
- Narrower language coverage
Ask Krishna AI
By HNIX Innovations · 10,000+ installs
4.75647 ratingsThe clearest alternative if what you want is an AI to ask rather than a book to read.
- Get it if:
- People who prefer asking questions to browsing chapters.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who wants a complete, well-attributed reading text.
- Price:
- Free to install
- Ads:
- In-app purchases. No ads declared
- Languages:
- English
- Whose translation:
- Not stated
What works
- Built around asking rather than reading
- 4.75 from 647 ratings
What does not
- Has in-app purchases
- Small review base
- Not a complete reading experience
Bhagavad Gita — Song of God
By JKYog India · 10,000+ installs
4.66309 ratingsThe lightest app here, and the one making the clearest promise about working without a connection.
- Get it if:
- Anyone on a patchy connection or a older phone.
- Skip it if:
- Anyone who wants audio or more than two languages.
- Price:
- Free
- Ads:
- None declared
- Languages:
- English and Hindi
- Whose translation:
- Swami Mukundananda
What works
- Explicitly built to work with no internet after install
- Small and quick
What does not
- No audio
- English and Hindi only
- Small review base
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
By The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
4.89557 ratingsThe only edition here published by the rights holder itself, and the one to buy if you want Prabhupada's translation.
- Get it if:
- Readers who specifically want the Prabhupada edition.
- Skip it if:
- Android users, and anyone unwilling to pay.
- Price:
- $4.99, one-time
- Ads:
- None
- Languages:
- English, German, French, Hungarian, Russian
- Whose translation:
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, published by the BBT
What works
- Published by the rights holder, with the edition stated
- 4.89 from 557 ratings on the App Store
What does not
- iPhone and iPad only. There is no official Android app.
- Costs $4.99
- No Indian language beyond English
Where does our own app fall short?
One commentator, not several. We ship Swami Mukundananda's translation and commentary and nothing else. That was an editorial decision rather than an oversight, but if you want to read Shankaracharya against Ramanuja against Madhvacharya, our app will not do it. Our chapter pages will, free.
Banaka's Hindi app is far more popular than ours. It has 58,591 ratings against our 1,688. If you are a Hindi reader choosing by what other people chose, you would not choose us.
Krishna Bhakti is rated higher and reviewed more. 4.85 from 4,551 ratings, against our 4.91 from 1,688 on the Indian storefront. A rating from four thousand people carries more weight than the same rating from one thousand.
Our iPhone rating is bad, and we are publishing it anyway. Version 2.2.3 reached the App Store on 21 July 2026. The listing carries ten ratings in total: 2.0 from three in the United States, 3.3 from seven in India. Nine of those ten predate this build, because Apple carries ratings across versions, so they describe an app we have since replaced. That is an explanation and not an excuse, and here is the number without it: 2.0 in the United States. We are publishing it because this page criticises another app for advertising a rating its own store does not support, and a page that does that while hiding its own is worth nothing. On Android we recommend our app without reservation. On iPhone it is four days old and you would be finding out with us.
Gita GPT is limited and asks you to sign in. Ten messages a day, and you need an account. That is what a non-profit can afford to run without advertising.
Only audio and the daily verse need a connection. The scripture reads offline, but if you want an app that works with no internet at all, Song of God is built for exactly that and ours is not.
Which Bhagavad Gita app should you choose?
Whose translation do you want to read? This matters more than any feature. The Gita has been rendered into English hundreds of times and the readings differ substantially. If an app will not tell you whose translation it is shipping, you cannot answer this question, and several of the most popular apps here will not tell you.
Are you reading, listening, or studying? Reading apps, audio apps and course apps are genuinely different products that happen to share a title. An app built for one is usually mediocre at the others.
What are you willing to pay with? Free apps here fall into three groups: funded by advertising, funded by a paid tier, or funded by an organisation that has decided not to charge. Knowing which one you are installing tells you what the app will ask of you later.
Excluded
Also considered, and why they are not ranked
Bhakti: Gita & Mantras by Kuku Technologies
The largest app in this space by installs, at over five million, with 30,459 ratings. It is a broad devotional audio product covering mantras and chants rather than a Bhagavad Gita reader, so ranking it against reading apps would flatter neither.
Transcend by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
The BBT's actual Android app, and a good one at 4.80 from 1,312 ratings. It is a library of more than 600 ebooks rather than a Gita app, so it sits here rather than in the table.
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is (unofficial) by Listed as an individual developer
Carries Prabhupada's text but is not published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, and its own description disclaims responsibility for the text it ships. If you want this translation, buy the official iOS edition.
Gita Press by Gita Press
One of the most important publishers of Hindu scripture anywhere, but the app itself has a small review base at 232 ratings and we could not verify enough about it to rank it fairly.
Srimad Gita by Decentralized Inc
Its marketing pages claim a 4.8 rating from more than 2,450 reviews and over a million downloads. The stores show 4.28 from 44 ratings on Google Play with 1,000+ installs, and 4.0 from 4 ratings on the US App Store, 1.5 from 2 on the Indian one. We have not ranked it because we could not reconcile those numbers.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Bhagavad Gita app?
It depends on what you want from it. If you want to read the Gita and nothing else, our own app is free, carries no advertising, and covers all 18 chapters and 700 verses in seven languages. If you want a wider devotional practice, Krishna Bhakti has the same text plus kirtans, meditations and courses. If you specifically want Prabhupada's translation, buy the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust edition on iOS.
Which Bhagavad Gita app is completely free?
Ours and Krishna Bhakti are free with no advertising, no subscription and no in-app purchases. Banaka's Hindi app is free to install but carries advertising and in-app purchases. Bhagavad Gita For All gives you chapter one, then asks you to pay.
What is the best Bhagavad Gita app in Hindi?
Banaka's Hindi app is the most popular by a wide margin, with 58,591 ratings. It names no translator, though, and its listing describes the text as assuming it is out of copyright. If knowing your source matters, our app and Krishna Bhakti both carry Swami Mukundananda's translation and commentary in Hindi, with the source named.
Which Bhagavad Gita app works offline?
JKYog's Song of God makes the clearest offline promise, saying no internet is needed once installed. It is a lightweight app in English and Hindi with no audio. The scripture text in our own app also reads offline, though audio and Gita GPT need a connection.
Is there a Bhagavad Gita app with AI?
Ours includes Gita GPT, which answers questions using the Gita and gives ten free messages a day after you sign in. Krishna Bhakti has Ask Swamiji, which covers Swami Mukundananda's wider work as well. Ask Krishna AI is an independent alternative built entirely around asking rather than reading.
Which app has the most translations and commentaries?
None of these apps carries a deep library of commentators. Most ship one, and several name none at all. If you want to compare Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Madhvacharya, Sivananda and others side by side, that is a job for a website rather than an app, and you can do it free in our [side-by-side verse comparison](/verse-parallel).
Is there an official ISKCON Bhagavad Gita app?
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes Bhagavad-gita As It Is on iOS for $4.99. There is no official Android version. An Android app carrying the same text exists but is not published by the BBT, and its own description disclaims responsibility for the text.
How did you choose these apps?
We searched Google Play across seven query variants, which surfaced 117 distinct apps, then kept the ones with enough scale or a distinct purpose to be worth comparing. Every rating, review count and install figure comes from the stores' own structured data rather than the visible page, and each was checked on 25 July 2026.
Every rating, review count and install figure on this page was read from Google Play’s and Apple’s own structured data on 26 July 2026, not from the rendered store page. Ratings differ by storefront; ours are Google Play India. Store figures move, so if a number here disagrees with what you see, the store is right and we are out of date — tell us and we will re-check.