Questions and answers
Is Haribol free?
Section titled “Is Haribol free?”Yes, with no advertising and no tracking. Reading, searching and taking notes require no account. To help with its costs, see Support us.
Why do I sometimes see a request for support?
Section titled “Why do I sometimes see a request for support?”Haribol is free and has no ads; readers’ gifts pay for its servers and AI search. A short card asks for support at most once a day on the Community page and once a week at the end of a chapter or verse page. Not now hides it for a month. See Support us.
Which edition am I reading?
Section titled “Which edition am I reading?”In English, Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta are available as the Original edition, as first published in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s time and checked against photographs of the printed books, and as the BBT’s later Edited edition. Choose one with the eye button above the text; Show changes marks the differences, and in a wide window Compare shows both side by side. See View options. Other languages have one version of each book.
Where do the texts come from?
Section titled “Where do the texts come from?”Most books come from the Vedabase Original Edition project, published under the MIT License. The Data sources page lists the source of every book, the letters, the talks and the translations: haribol.app/sources.
Does Haribol work without an internet connection?
Section titled “Does Haribol work without an internet connection?”Yes. The Android and Mac apps include the English library; the web app reads it offline after you download the offline library, and other languages after you download them. Recordings of the talks and videos always require a connection. See Read without a connection.
Is there an app for iPhone, iPad or Windows?
Section titled “Is there an app for iPhone, iPad or Windows?”No. On those devices, use the web app at haribol.app; on an iPhone or iPad, add it to the Home Screen. See The web app.
Why is the Android app not in the Play Store, and why does my Mac show a warning?
Section titled “Why is the Android app not in the Play Store, and why does my Mac show a warning?”Haribol is not distributed through app stores, so Android asks to allow installing apps from your browser, and macOS asks you to confirm Open Anyway once for each new version. See Install on Android and Install on a Mac.
Do I need an account?
Section titled “Do I need an account?”Only to sync notes, bookmarks and history across devices, to use AI search, and to share notes and follow other readers. See Account and sync.
Why is a book in my language machine-translated?
Section titled “Why is a book in my language machine-translated?”Haribol prefers a translation of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s original editions. For Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese and Russian, and for the German Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta and The Nectar of Devotion, the only such translations are machine translations; every such page is labelled. See Translation labels.
Why are the menus in English?
Section titled “Why are the menus in English?”Menus follow the reading language in all 21 languages. If they appear in English, update to the newest version; see New versions.
How do I report a problem or a mistake in a text?
Section titled “How do I report a problem or a mistake in a text?”Email jai41khanna@gmail.com with the page’s address (⋮ › Share link, or Copy link on a computer). See Report a problem.