Tipitaka.app
Pāḷi Canon with commentaries
Free
The complete Pāḷi Tipiṭaka – the texts of Theravāda Buddhism – with the commentaries (aṭṭhakathā), sub-commentaries (ṭīkā) and other Pāḷi texts, in the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition of the Vipassana Research Institute.
Everything works offline: the texts, the full-text search and the dictionaries are on your device.
READ
• The Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Piṭaka with the commentaries and sub-commentaries, the Visuddhimagga, grammars and chronicles
• In 22 scripts: Roman, Sinhala, Devanagari, Thai, Myanmar, Khmer, Lao, Bengali, Tibetan and more
• The commentary on a passage next to the text, linked paragraph by paragraph
• Variant readings, page numbers of the printed editions, bookmarks and reading history
LOOK UP
• Tap a word to see its meaning: the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary (DPD) with grammar, and the PTS, Buddhadatta, DPPN and other dictionaries in English, Sinhala, Myanmar, Thai and more
• Places and people of the suttas and the commentary stories, with a map
SEARCH
• Full-text search over the whole canon with all the word forms of a word
• Search titles and dictionary entries
Light, sepia and dark themes, adjustable text size and line spacing. Free, with no ads, no accounts and no tracking.
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- A guide to the app (Help), and a menu for moving around the texts
- Places and people: descriptions in Sinhala and Thai, and the Setting tab now shows where a sutta was taught for book and vagga pages too
- Commentary linked for more commentaries and sub-commentaries
- Dictionary fixes, and faster script conversion
- Fixes: title search with diacritics, reading and map improvements
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Information
- Seller
- Path Nirvana Foundation
- Size
- 846.6 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Path Nirvana Foundation