Akshar Amrutam

BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha

About this app

This app contains three main sections, which can be accessed through the tabs on top.
1. Home 2. Kirtan 3. Katha 4. Audio Books
Within each section, there are separate panels, such as:
Kirtan Section - Daily rituals, Prabhatiya, Aarti, kirtans on Murti, philosophical kirtans, kirtans for fasting, kirtans for children, and many others.

Katha Section - blessings of Guru Parampara, discourses of sadhus, different albums such as AARSH lecture series, Sant samagam lecture series, sant vyakhyanmala and many others.

Audio Section - Vachanamrut, Swamini Vato, Bhagwan Shri Swaminarayan’s detailed Jivan Charitra (5 parts), Bhaktachintamani, Aksharbrahma Shri Gunatitanand Swami’s detailed Jivan Charitra (2 parts), Brahmswarup Bhagatji Maharaj’s detailed Jivan Charitra, Brahmaswarup Shastriji Maharaj’s detailed Jivan Charitra, Brahmaswarup Yogiji Maharaj’s brief Jivan Charitra, Brahmaswarup Pramukhswami Maharaj’s detailed Jivan Charitra (part 1 to 3), Eternal Virtues, Mahant Swami Maharaj’s brief Jivan Charitra (English version), Bhagwan Shri Swaminarayan na Bhaktratno and many other audio books.
This beneficial audio streaming app will be regularly updated with new content.
More than 2,000 kirtans, more than 900 katha and over 6,000 audio books - in total, around 9,000 audio tracks - all of them completely free. You will find most of the audio publications of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha and Swaminarayan Aksharpith in the last 40 years should be found here.

Some of the salient features of this app are:

- Search for a kirtan by its singer's name or album
- Sing along with the Gujarati lyrics of the kirtan, with English transliteration wherever available
- Create your own playlist of favorite tracks
- Share any album or track that you like, with anyone else using the app, and also with others through whatsapp, text messenger or email.
- Download your favorite tracks or albums and listen to them later without an internet connection
- Get notifications whenever a new album is uploaded on the app.
- Customize the home screen.
- Play position of the tracks are saved, so if you leave a track midway, it will replay from the point where you left.
- Place your favorite album on your home screen for easy access.
- Titles are shown in Gujarati as well as in English.

Ratings and reviews

Great content. User experience needs work. For example, audio stops playing when audible notification received. And you have to open app to resume and it may not be resumed from last stopped place. The player not seen on lock screen. No way to pause or play while phone is locked. The app simply doesn't remember where you stopped to resume playback. It always goes back to some place it stopped in past.

App required significant improvements to improve user experience. Many issues on android and ios latest versions. Any mobile notification stop playing. Screen time out stop playing. Automatic resume wont happen. Download wont work. Very frustrating expirence where app does not help to leverage such a rich contents. Saw many other people postes similar feedback. Request to look in to this and provide an update which can resolve such fundamental function which any music app can provide.

Great content in the app. I am okay with the UI, but UX is not so great. I use it almost everyday. 1. Lags when going through long list of media. 2. It completely stops playing the media when a notification is received instead of just pausing for a second or 2 and then resuming the media. 3. Sometimes when it is playing a list of media, it stops. And when you open the app, it says "You don't have permission to access...". Gimme access to the content and I can make a new one in a month. 🙏

What's new

- Minor bug fixes