Longchen
Sangngak Tenzin Rinpoche
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: pray together with the people around you. One person leads, and everyone nearby follows verse by verse in their own language. Over Bluetooth, no internet needed.
Longchen is a companion for daily Tibetan Buddhist practice — bringing the prayers, the lineage, the teachings, and the community of practitioners into one calm,
focused space.
THE PRAYER BOOK
• Read prayers in interlinear form — Tibetan script, phonetic transliteration, and translation, line by line.
• Auto-scroll at your own pace, with adjustable speed, per-verse repeat, and text sizing.
• Search across prayers and build your own collection of favorites.
• Create and save your own custom prayers.
THE MANDALA OF THE ROOT MASTERS
• Explore the lineage through the Mandala of the Root Masters of Sangngak Tenzin Rinpoche.
• Tap any master to read their biography and view a gallery of photographs.
TEACHINGS
• Watch video teachings and structured courses with captions, multiple qualities, and playback speed.
• Pick up right where you left off with progress tracking.
PRACTICE & COMMUNITY
• Count mantras and prayers — including the Vajra Guru mantra and the Seven-Line Prayer.
• Track prostrations with clear statistics over time.
• Join shared recitations and accumulate together with practitioners around the world.
THE GURU'S BOOKS
• Read "A White Conch Spiraling Towards Happiness" — poems of a Tibetan master — in a clean, distraction-free reader.
THOUGHTFUL DETAILS
• Available in English, Russian, Vietnamese, and Tibetan.
• Full support for iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape.
• Light and dark mode.
• Read offline.
May it support your practice.
more • Pray together: read a long verse at your own pace. Scroll it with your finger and you stay with the group; when you let go, the page moves on with the leader
• When the leader ends the prayer, every phone in a large group now hears it, even the farthest ones
• "Back to the leader" takes you straight back to where the group is
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.24.1 1d ago
• New: Pray together. Lead a prayer and everyone nearby follows you verse by verse, each in their own language. Phones connect to each other over Bluetooth, iPhone and Android alike; no internet needed
• Your own prayers and practices sync more reliably between devices: a deleted one no longer comes back
• A prayer read in Tibetan always shows its Tibetan text
• Teachings: the language labels on course cards no longer squeeze; VoiceOver on the Teacher page matches what is on screen
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.24.0 4d ago
• Listen: hear classes as audiobooks — the translation read aloud, without the pauses, about half the length of the video. Plays with the screen locked, with speed, a sleep timer and offline downloads
• Russian voice-over for many classes in Watch — choose the audio language in the player
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.23.0 Sep 27
• Write your prayers in several languages — add translations in the prayer editor, and each prayer opens in your language, switchable while you read
• Duplicate a practice from its list menu to build a variation without starting over
• Add prostrations you did away from the app, on the day you did them
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.22.0 Sep 9
• Save a class, series or talk and watch it with the network off — downloads now stay put on your device
• Tap Watch while reading a teaching — including one opened from a daily notification — and the video picks up exactly where you were reading
• Your practice statistics and charts are on the counter screen every time you open it
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.21.3 Aug 23
• Download classes, series and talks to watch offline — with a new Downloads screen and storage management in Settings
• Clearer verse layout in the prayer book
• Practice-rhythm heatmap, counter search, and notes on highlights
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.21.1 Aug 21
• The prayer book is now available in Chinese, with chantable phonetic lines
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.20.0 Aug 13
• All your highlights in one place — from courses, series and talks alike
• Highlights you made in series and talks are now visible too
• Filter by kind, or by whether a highlight carries a note
• Smaller fixes and improvements
5.19.0 Aug 9
• All-new prayer editor: create and edit your own prayers from Tibetan, transcription, translation and picture blocks — drag to reorder, preview before saving
• Share any prayer from the book, including collections
• Deleted prayers now leave Recents and Favorites
• Prayer pictures keep working after app updates
• Stability fixes for saving and editing
5.18.0 Aug 7
• Fixed the course screen opening shifted under the top bar and not responding to taps
• Fixed the Teacher screen opening without its background, with the Guru's name sitting too close to the top of the display until you scrolled
• Personal invitation links now open in the app — tap the link you were sent to activate access to a course
• If an invitation has expired or has already been used, the app says so and tells you what to do next
• Links of a kind this version doesn't recognise now open in your browser instead of doing nothing
5.16.2 Aug 6
• Fixed the Teacher screen opening without its background, with the Guru's name sitting too close to the top of the display until you scrolled
• Personal invitation links now open in the app — tap the link you were sent to activate access to a course
• If an invitation has expired or has already been used, the app says so and tells you what to do next
• Links of a kind this version doesn't recognise now open in your browser instead of doing nothing
5.16.1 Aug 2
• Personal invitation links now open in the app — tap the link you were sent to activate access to a course
• If an invitation has expired or has already been used, the app says so and tells you what to do next
• Links of a kind this version doesn't recognise now open in your browser instead of doing nothing
5.16.0 Aug 2
• Long-press any prayer while building a practice to read it in full before adding it
• Courses now say which translations were generated by AI
• Signing out of Google now lets you pick a different account
• Class numbering in courses is correct again, and in your own language
• Highlights and notes keep syncing instead of quietly stopping
5.15.0 Aug 1
Sharing prayers by link
You can now share any prayer or practice as a link. Send it in a message and whoever opens it reads the whole text — in the app if they have it, in their browser if
they don't. They can add it to their own prayers in a single tap.
What you share stays yours. Settings → My shared links shows everything you've sent and how often it's been opened, and you can stop sharing any of it at any time.
Prayers from the prayer book share instantly, with nothing published and no account needed.
A rebuilt practice editor
Creating and editing a practice has been rewritten from the ground up. Adding prayers, reordering them and finding one in a long collection are all faster and clearer,
with a new filter for searching within your own prayers.
Fixes
• Favorites and recent prayers no longer vanish after deleting a practice
• A prayer opened from a link no longer appears blank
• Practices you create now sync reliably when you return to the list
• Corrections throughout the sharing screens
5.12.0 Jul 30
Practice charts
See how your practice builds up over time. Every counter and the prostration screen now show a running curve and a calendar of the days you practiced.
Notes on your highlights
Highlight a line in a class text and keep a note with it. Filter a class by highlights with or without a note.
Your highlights, on every device
Highlights and notes now sync with your account, so they follow you to every device you sign in on.
Light, dark, or follow your phone
The theme setting now has a real System option alongside Light and Dark. The book reader keeps its own theme, as before.
Easier to read
Text, dividers, charts and buttons were reworked so the contrast holds up in both themes.
Also fixed
• Round counts stay switched on when you leave a counter and come back.
• Logging out actually signs you out.
• Contact the developers now opens the correct address.
• Tapping to turn a page in the book saves your place.
• The page slider reaches the last page.
• Practice reminders re-sync if scheduling did not go through.
• Prostration sessions recorded on a second device no longer overwrite the first.
Thank you for your feedback!
5.11.0 Jul 27
New: Read course classes as text! Every class with subtitles can be read like a book — switch between reading and watching anytime, continuing from the same place.
• Reading themes (light/sepia/dark), font size & language
• Highlight text, share quotes, or jump to the video at that exact sentence
• Share courses, classes, exact moments, and gallery photos — links open right in the app
• Pin your favorite gallery photo
• Now in Simplified Chinese
5.10.0 Jun 13
This release brings Longchen fully to iPad, alongside refinements across the app.
• Full iPad support — every screen now adapts to the larger display in both portrait and landscape, with comfortable reading widths and support for Split View and Stage
Manager.
• Video teachings now rotate to landscape for full-screen viewing.
• A new master has been added to the Mandala of the Root Masters.
• Course descriptions can now be expanded and collapsed for easier browsing.
• Smoother photo gallery — tap a teacher's photo to open it full-screen, then step back to the full gallery.
• Reading and layout polish throughout, plus bug fixes.
Thank you for practicing with us.
5.9.1 Jun 8
This release brings Longchen fully to iPad, alongside refinements across the app.
• Full iPad support — every screen now adapts to the larger display in both portrait and landscape, with comfortable reading widths and support for Split View and Stage
Manager.
• Video teachings now rotate to landscape for full-screen viewing.
• A new master has been added to the Mandala of the Root Masters.
• Course descriptions can now be expanded and collapsed for easier browsing.
• Smoother photo gallery — tap a teacher's photo to open it full-screen, then step back to the full gallery.
• Reading and layout polish throughout, plus bug fixes.
Thank you for practicing with us.
5.9.0 Jun 7
Interlinear Prayer Mode
A completely new way to study prayers — text in multiple languages side by side. Autoscroll, adjustable font size, quick navigation between sections, customizable
display, and a beautiful background. Works with both standard and custom prayers.
5.8.1 Jun 2
Interlinear Prayer Mode
A completely new way to study prayers — text in multiple languages side by side. Autoscroll, adjustable font size, quick navigation between sections, customizable
display, and a beautiful background. Works with both standard and custom prayers.
5.8.0 May 28
Interlinear Prayer Mode
A completely new way to study prayers — text in multiple languages side by side. Autoscroll, adjustable font size, quick navigation between sections, customizable
display, and a beautiful background. Works with both standard and custom prayers.
5.7.1 Mar 30
Interlinear Prayer Mode
A completely new way to study prayers — text in multiple languages side by side. Autoscroll, adjustable font size, quick navigation between sections, customizable
display, and a beautiful background. Works with both standard and custom prayers.
5.6.1 Mar 9
Interlinear Prayer Mode
A completely new way to study prayers — text in multiple languages side by side. Autoscroll, adjustable font size, quick navigation between sections, customizable
display, and a beautiful background. Works with both standard and custom prayers.
5.6.0 Mar 6
• New notification settings in the app
5.5.0 Feb 4
• Pray together: read a long verse at your own pace. Scroll it with your finger and you stay with the group; when you let go, the page moves on with the leader
• When the leader ends the prayer, every phone in a large group now hears it, even the farthest ones
• "Back to the leader" takes you straight back to where the group is
• Smaller fixes and improvements
more Version 5.24.1 1d ago
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