Get the app

Haribol is free and available as an Android app, a Mac app and a web app at haribol.app, each with the same library.

Device	Use
Android phone or tablet	The Android app. See Install on Android.
Mac	The Mac app. See Install on a Mac.
iPhone or iPad	The web app, added to the Home Screen from Safari. See The web app.
Windows or Linux computer	The web app in a browser; Chrome and Edge can install it. See The web app.

Downloads follow, newest first; the installation steps are at the end of the page.

Haribol 1.8.0

Latest version, released 5 November 2026.

Android 1.8.0 · 469 MB Mac 1.8.0 · 469 MB

What’s new

• A new home page. The search bar sits at the top of nearly every page, with its keyboard shortcut and the AI search wand beside it. Continue reading is the first card among the books, each book you have started shows a button to your last place (such as → 2.13), and the books can be sorted (Default, A–Z, Recently read) and shown as a grid or a list. Śrīla Prabhupāda’s name under the top bar leads to a page about him.
• Swipe between the home page’s tabs on a phone: Books, Videos, Letters, Spoken, Index and Tools.
• A breadcrumb on every page shows where you are, and on reading pages a line at the top names the verse and section in view (such as BG 2.4 · Purport).
• Community. A new page with what readers are writing: public notes and comments, newest first, from the people you follow or from everyone. It is on the Tools tab and in the ⋮ menu.
• Followers and following on every profile, and Share profile on yours, so others can find and follow you.
• @mentions. Type @ in a note or comment to mention someone; they are told.
• Notifications. The bell on the home page shows comments on your notes, mentions, new followers, today’s and tomorrow’s observances, a short weekly summary of the community, new books in the library and new versions of the app. Each kind can be turned off.
• Notes, Bookmarks and Community on the Tools tab.
• Pictures with a mouse: the picture row on book pages has ‹ › buttons, Show all opens every picture as a grid, and the picture page moves with ‹ ›, the arrow keys or a drag.
• Supporting Haribol. Now and then 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.

Fixed

• Other readers’ notes look the same as yours everywhere, with formatting, references and tags. Profiles and the Notes page showed them as plain text.
• Teachings of Prahlāda Mahārāja in Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese and Russian showed the text and titles of The Topmost Yoga System. That book now has its own translations, all nine chapters, and Prahlāda Mahārāja’s teachings read in English. Chapter 2, “We Are Spoiling Our Lives”, has its title again.
• Corrections from the original editions: punctuation in 27 verses of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, two duplicated passages removed from SB 4.29.1–2, two verses of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 9.74, 9.79), and the Spanish Bhagavad-gītā checked against the Peru printed edition.
• People on the Notes page no longer says you follow nobody when the list hasn’t loaded yet.
• Swiping slowly on verse and chapter pages: a page no longer springs back when your finger pauses.
• Find in page: every Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter back.
• “Edited edition” and machine-translation notes scroll away with the text instead of staying on the screen; so does a book’s Continue reading card.
• The ⋮ menu is always in the top right corner.
• Search results in prose books are no longer labelled Purport.
• Screen readers can open the search bar.

Under the hood

• An admin page for reviewing reported notes and comments.
• In Instagram’s and Facebook’s in-app browsers, a banner offers to open Haribol in your browser.
• Tests for every new feature and fix, on the real library.

Earlier versions

Earlier versions you can still download, with what changed in each. A newer version is usually the better choice; the older ones are here if you need one.

Haribol 1.7.6 · 2 November 2026

Android 1.7.6 · 468 MB Mac 1.7.6 · 468 MB

Fixed

• Searches with brackets or quotes no longer come back empty. A stray bracket or an unclosed quote, as in krsna), now finds what the words find.
• Words near each other (NEAR(king paraphernalia, 4)) find the verses where they stand within that many words.
• Searching only the translation or the purport puts the best matches first and says where each result matched.
• A–Z order puts every book in its place, including Dialectic Spiritualism, Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, the Songs of the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa; letters and talks come after the books.
• Suggested chapters and cantos in search are only those that exist (“bg 25” no longer offers a chapter that isn’t there), and the result count for a reference such as cc 1.7.73 matches the results listed.
• Words typed without their accents in German, Spanish and Russian (bewusstsein for Bewußtsein, corazon for corazón) show where they matched and are highlighted on the page you open.
• The highlight on an opened page ignores search syntax such as AND, NEAR and field names, and marks the words themselves.
• A new search starts without the content-type and date filters of the last one.
• An address that doesn’t exist, such as a verse past the end of a chapter, shows “Not in the library” instead of an empty page, and no longer appears in your recents.
• One-page sections at the end of a book (such as the Concluding Words of The Nectar of Devotion) open without a hitch.

Under the hood

• Every one of these was found by the new search and navigation tests (176 of them, on the real library), and each fix is now checked by a test.

Haribol 1.7.5 · 1 November 2026

Android 1.7.5 · 468 MB Mac 1.7.5 · 468 MB

What’s new

• A new look. Haribol has a new logo: Kṛṣṇa in lotus petals and peacock feathers, on every app icon, the web app and the start screen.
• Notes from the community. On the Notes page and in a page’s notes, choose Mine, Following or Everyone (combine them as you like). A page shows the public notes written on it and those that cite it from elsewhere. Public notes, profiles and people search are open to everyone, with no account needed to read them.
• Comments on public notes. Anyone can read the comments under a public note; with an account you can write one. The author can turn comments off. You can report a note or comment that goes against the community guidelines, or block a person so their notes and comments no longer appear.
• Profile pictures. Add a picture to your profile; it appears beside your public notes and comments.
• One menu for every note. Edit, share, make public or private, copy the link and delete, in the same menu wherever a note appears.
• What’s new after an update. The first start after an update says so, with a link to these notes.

Fixed

• Swiping between chapters moves one chapter each time and the next chapter loads straight away. It could stop on a loading circle, skip a chapter, or go back a chapter when you changed your mind halfway through a swipe.
• Pinching to change the text size no longer turns to the next or previous chapter.
• The dictionary finds words that the word-for-word lists write apart, such as apekṣā kari’ or ataḥ param (over 21,000 entries), under each of their words.
• Find in page goes to the word itself, also in a long purport or a chapter of prose.
• Chapter names appear in search results and in the breadcrumbs (“Chapter 9 · Mother Yaśodā Binding Lord Kṛṣṇa”).
• A tap clears a text selection on the verse page too.
• An answer from AI search arrives even if you leave the app while it is being written.
• An unreadable saved date in your recents or bookmarks can no longer leave the app blank.

Under the hood

• Every test of the app now runs before each release and web update, and a release stops if one fails. New tests cover going back from a verse, every kind of swipe and pinching on all kinds of chapter pages, and stepping through real search results.
• The Mac app now needs macOS 12 Monterey or later.
• Builds are downloaded from the Get the app page.

Haribol 1.7.4 · 30 October 2026

Android 1.7.4 · 461 MB Mac 1.7.4 · 462 MB

What’s new

• Four new books.
  • Śrīla Prabhupāda-Līlāmṛta As It Is (compiled by Mukunda dāsa, 2001): Śrīla Prabhupāda’s life told in his own words, through Ādi-, Madhya- and Antya-līlā, with 38 photos. Almost every quotation is taken from the library itself, and each one’s source is a link to the talk, letter or verse it comes from.
  • The Hare Kṛṣṇa Cook Book (1973): every recipe with its ingredients and steps laid out, and the original cover painting.
  • The Higher Taste: health, karma and a vegetarian life, with recipes.
  • Hare Kṛṣṇa Handbook (1970): the early movement’s history, teachings and practices.
• Chapter pages remember your place too. Read a chapter page partway down, close the app, and Continue reading takes you back to that chapter page at the verse you were reading. Opening the chapter again from the book page comes back there as well, even after showing or hiding sections or changing the text size.
• AI search, quicker to start. The question box is now at the top of the AI search page; your earlier chats are listed below it, with a search box, newest first or A–Z, and each chat’s date. In search, with the wand on, pressing Enter asks the AI straight away.
• AI translations are labelled. The Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian books from vedabase.cc were translated by AI, and now say so at the top of the page, as the German Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta and Nectar of Devotion already did. The German Bhagavad-gītā and Kṛṣṇa book, translated by devotees, are not labelled.

Fixed

• Continue reading now shows chapters you read on the chapter page; before, it only knew verses read one at a time.
• A Referenced by chip always opens its page, even when the passage to mark can’t be found right away.
• The new-version notice is a small bar at the top again; in the web app it could cover the right half of the window.

Under the hood

• A chapter visit adds one entry to your recent pages, which follows you as you scroll, so the list doesn’t fill with every verse scrolled past.
• New books are kept in the repository as Markdown, converted once from their source (website or PDF), with every link to the library checked when the library is built.

Haribol 1.7.3 · 28 October 2026

Android 1.7.3 · 456 MB Mac 1.7.3 · 458 MB

What’s new

• Back where you left off. Opening a page again — from Continue reading, the book page, or after closing the app — brings you back to the paragraph you were reading, not the top of the page. Long prose chapters no longer start over from the first paragraph. Opening a search result still goes straight to the passage you searched for.
• Shared links show the book. A link to a verse, chapter or page sent on WhatsApp, Telegram or iMessage now shows its title, the first lines of its text and the book’s cover. Letters and talks show their title and date.

Fixed

• Book covers keep their titles. On the home page the top of most covers, where the title is, was cut off. Each cover now has its own shape, from the top.
• The arrow keys move only the page you’re reading. After a search, ← could jump to a verse in a different book or chapter — one you had been reading before. Thank you for reporting it.

Under the hood

• The web app’s pages carry their own preview (title, text, picture with its size), so messaging apps show it the first time a link is shared.

Haribol 1.7.2 · 27 October 2026

Android 1.7.2 · 456 MB Mac 1.7.2 · 458 MB

What’s new

• Why Worship Only Kṛṣṇa? ISKM’s book (revised edition, 2025) is now in the library, beside Initiations After 1977: the scriptural evidence — Kṛṣṇa’s own words, the Vedic scriptures, the demigods, the great sages and saintly kings — for who the supreme worshipable Lord is. Every citation opens the verse or purport it quotes, and the verses it quotes list it under Referenced by.
• Sign in with Google, straight away. On Android, signing in now uses Google’s own sign-in sheet instead of a browser tab; in the web app, Google’s own button. AI search has the button right on its page — there’s no account to create.

Fixed

• Pictures and their titles match again. Since the last update, each picture in a book’s gallery showed the picture before it, from the second one on. Thank you for reporting it.
• Lists in the text are plain lines again, each number in front of its item.

Under the hood

• The web app no longer blocks Google’s sign-in window (it stopped at “accounts.google.com/gsi/transform”).
• A check in the library build keeps pictures and their titles from drifting apart again.

Haribol 1.7.1 · 22 October 2026

Android 1.7.1 · 456 MB Mac 1.7.1 · 457 MB

What’s new

• Initiations After 1977. ISKM’s position paper (version 2.0, English) is now in the library, last on the Books tab: the documentary and śāstric evidence for Śrīla Prabhupāda’s ṛtvik system of initiations, with its appendices. Every quotation’s source is a link — the verse, the purport, or the letter or talk in the archive — and the verses it quotes list it under Referenced by. Its pictures, the July 9th letter among them, are in the text and in the book’s gallery.
• Quotations, headings and pictures in the text. Books can now set a quotation apart with its source on the right, number their sections with real headings, and show pictures between paragraphs. Links to websites, e-mail addresses and phone numbers open outside the app.
• 8 books to a row on the home page on a computer (was 6).

Fixed

• Even book cards on the home page: a cover was taller when its book’s title took one line instead of two.
• No collapse button on the Books tab: the books always show, and the tabs have room — Tools is no longer cut off on a phone.

Under the hood

• In the web app, a browser that can’t run Haribol (Instagram’s in-app browser on Android) now says so after a while and offers Open in Chrome, instead of a blank screen.
• The help pages link to the app pages they describe.

Haribol 1.7.0 · 21 October 2026

Android 1.7.0 · 456 MB Mac 1.7.0 · 456 MB

What’s new

• Vaiṣṇava calendar. Home → Tools → Vaiṣṇava calendar: festivals, Ekādaśīs with the time to break the fast, appearance and disappearance days and vows, 2025 to 2036. The dates are Māyāpur’s, as in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s time, one calendar for everyone; times are Māyāpur’s clock times, kept on your own clock. Month, week and list views, filters, and the Vaiṣṇava month and Gaurābda year. Each observance has a page: what the day is, how to observe it, where to read about it in his books, and Śrīla Prabhupāda on this day, his talks and letters given on that day.
• The calendar in your own calendar. Subscribe from the calendar in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook (all of it, or only the groups you choose), or add one observance with Add to my calendar.
• Reminders in the Android and Mac apps: the evening before, the morning of, and when to break the fast. Off until you switch them on with the bell in the calendar; they’re scheduled on your device.
• Tools on the home page: the calendar, the dictionary and AI search in one place.
• Share an AI chat by its link: anyone can read it, no account needed. Continue this chat copies it into your own chats.
• Menus in all 21 languages. The interface is now translated into every reading language, with dates and numbers written that language’s way.
• Front matter as one section. A book’s preface, introduction and other opening pages are under one Front Matter tile; appendices and glossaries come after the chapters as Back Matter. Previous/Next and swiping go through the whole book, from the front matter to the last chapter, with no dead ends.
• Letters and talks by date. Choose a date range in search or on the Letters and Spoken pages to list everything from those days, oldest or newest first, with no search words needed.
• Help. Help in the menu and at the foot of the home page opens the reader’s guide at docs.haribol.app, in English and German.
• About, contact and support. The home page ends with About, Data sources and the legal pages. The About page has contact details, ways to contribute, and a donation link.

Fixed

• Blank prose chapters. If Purport was switched off for verse pages, the chapters of Dialectic Spiritualism and every other prose book showed nothing. A prose chapter now always shows its text.
• Pictures off by default on verse and chapter pages; switch them on with the eye button.
• Swiping on phones past a chapter’s last verse opens the next chapter. On desktop browsers, sideways trackpad swipes go back and forward in the browser instead of turning pages.
• Showing or hiding a section on the chapter page keeps your place.
• Index entries keep their nesting; a book filter keeps the heading of each match.
• A note that refers to several verses of a chapter shows once in the chapter’s notes, not under each verse.
• Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa pages in chapter order (they were 1.1, 1.10, 1.2).
• Chips no longer show faint or cut-off labels, and long suggested questions in AI search no longer disappear.
• Chapter bookmarks sync between devices.

Under the hood

• The web app loads its renderer and fonts from haribol.app itself, so nothing comes from Google, and it starts where Google is blocked.
• The calendar is computed from the positions of the sun and moon over Māyāpur and checked against the Māyāpur calendars 2021–2027: every observance, Ekādaśī and break-fast window matches.

Haribol 1.6.0 · 14 October 2026

Android 1.6.0 · 454 MB Mac 1.6.0 · 455 MB

What’s new

• AI search. Ask anything — a question, a word, something from your life — and get an answer from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books, letters and talks, in his own words with every quotation’s source. It tells you plainly when he didn’t speak of the thing itself, and suggests questions to explore further. Your chats are saved under AI search in the menu; Save as note keeps an answer in your notes. In search, the wand button adds an “Ask AI” section above the results. For signed-in readers, 20 questions a day, English only for now.
• 15 more languages. Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian — every book available in them. These are translations of the later edited editions, and say so on the page; the menus stay in English for them.
• The dictionary in your language. The dictionary page has a tab in the reading language, from that language’s word-for-word translations, and its search finds words and meanings in it.
• Pictures on their verses. Bhagavad-gītā pictures that illustrate a verse now show on it, on the verse page and in the chapter view (switch them off with Pictures in the section menu).
• A page’s notes over the page. The note button above a page opens its notes — yours and those of people you follow — without leaving it. Notes can now be shown on prose books and front matter too. On a Mac, Cmd+N opens this page’s notes, Cmd+Shift+N all notes.
• Links in notes. Paste a haribol.app link into a note and it becomes the short reference (@bg2.13). Shared or exported notes link every reference, so it opens from WhatsApp or e-mail.
• Share a public note by its link: anyone can open it, signed in or not.
• Share link on every page, from the ⋮ menu. Addresses now read like the book: haribol.app/bg/2/47, haribol.app/sb/1/2/6.
• Index for the Bhagavad-gītā and Caitanya-caritāmṛta. The Index tab now covers SB, BG and CC, with a book filter.

Fixed

• Readable colours in both themes: some chips, buttons and the date picker had pale text on a pale background.
• Bigger tap areas for the home tabs and the buttons above a page.
• Prose chapters swipe to the next chapter on their own page when opened from Continue reading, a link or a bookmark.
• Back leaves the reading the same way on the web and in the apps, instead of stepping back through every verse.
• Stray characters removed from some book and chapter titles.

Under the hood

• AI search runs on Google Cloud in the EU (Frankfurt and the Netherlands). The service doesn’t store or log your questions; your chats are saved only in your own account, included in Download my data and deleted with it. The privacy policy says so.

Haribol 1.5.3 · 8 October 2026

Android 1.5.3 · 450 MB Mac 1.5.3 · 451 MB

What’s new

• Every language in the app. Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and German are now in the Android and Mac apps too, with the menus in that language. They’re read online by default. In the language list, download a language to read and search it offline; search in a downloaded language works just like in English.
• Links in what you share. Sharing a verse or chapter, and Copy with citation, now include the page’s haribol.app link, which anyone can open.
• Web links open in the Mac app. In the web app, Get the app → Links → Open haribol.app links in the Haribol app hands shared links to the installed app on your Mac (or Android phone) instead of the browser.

Fixed

• Talks that wouldn’t play. 491 recorded talks had an audio link that no longer worked. They now play. 39 talks whose recordings aren’t available anywhere, and 32 more without audio, no longer show a player that can’t play.

Haribol 1.5.2 · 4 October 2026

Android 1.5.2 · 450 MB Mac 1.5.2 · 451 MB

What’s new

• Haribol on the web. The whole library is now at haribol.app — in any browser, installable like an app, and readable offline after one download. The web app also has every translated language (Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, German) with the menus in that language; these come to the Android and Mac apps later.
• The app tells you about new versions. When a newer version is out, a banner offers to download it, with a link to what’s new. A newer Android version installs over the old one and keeps your notes and bookmarks; the Get the app page explains how to replace the Mac app.
• Release notes in the app. The About page lists each version’s notes, with download links for its builds.
• Get the app in the menu: the apps for your other devices, and the web app.
• Your account and your data. My profile can now download a copy of everything stored for your account, or delete the account. Signing in brings you back to the page you were on.
• Imprint, privacy policy and terms of use are in the menu.
• haribol.app links open in the app on Android: a link to a book, chapter, verse or dictionary word opens right here. Switch it off on the Get the app page if you prefer the browser. In the web app, Open in the app in the menu does the reverse.
• The menu on every page, including the dictionary, About, Data Sources and artwork, so you can go anywhere from anywhere.
• Text size and side margin in the dictionary, as on reading pages.
• Compare editions on tablets. The side-by-side view of the original and edited editions now appears whenever the window is wide enough, such as on a tablet held sideways.
• A new reading font, Noto Serif.

Fixed

• Notes and bookmarks offline. Changes made without a connection are kept and synced later, instead of being lost.
• Only the verse label opens a verse on chapter pages. A tap elsewhere in its row used to open it too.
• Light mode now switches on the first click when the device is in dark mode.
• Faster search, especially for common words.

Under the hood

• Fonts and video thumbnails come from our own servers, so nothing is loaded from Google while you read.

Haribol 1.5.1 · 2 October 2026

Android 1.5.1 · 451 MB Mac 1.5.1 · 452 MB

What’s new

• “The Challenge” in Life Comes from Life. The book’s closing chapter is now included: the 1977 Sunday Times exchange with Dr. Abraham Kovoor and the challenge that followed.
• Verse numbers for more books. Typing just a number now also finds verses in Brahma-saṁhitā, Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Nectar of Instruction, Nārada-bhakti-sūtra and Mukunda-mālā-stotra. For example, “5.22” finds Brahma-saṁhitā 5.22.

Fixed

• Missing verses in grouped texts (#16). Grouped verses in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from Canto 10, Chapter 14 to the end of Canto 12 showed only the first verse’s transliteration, for example SB 11.10.27-29. All 351 are now complete.
• Raw markup after quoted verses. A reference under a quoted verse, such as “[Cc. Ādi 17.21]” after harer nāma in SB 6.3.24, showed as raw code. It is now a link you can tap. This fixes almost 300 places in the original edition.
• Prose shown as quoted verses. 31 passages in the original edition, such as the notes on Keśava Bhāratī in CC Ādi 9.13-15, appeared as centred italic verses. They are now normal paragraphs.
• Slow verse-number searches. Searching for “6.1.2”, or anything with punctuation, could take several seconds right after opening the app. It is now quick every time.
• Opened marks in search now only show for the current search, not for results opened in an earlier one.

Under the hood

• The original-edition source is updated to its latest version.

Install on Android

1. Select Android under the latest version above, or in Haribol select ⋮ › Get the app › Android.
2. Open the downloaded file and install it. Haribol is not distributed through the Play Store, so Android may ask you to allow installing apps from your browser.

A new version installs over the old one and keeps your notes and bookmarks. The download is large because it contains the complete English library for reading and searching without a connection.

Install on a Mac

1. Select Mac under the latest version above, or in Haribol select ⋮ › Get the app › Mac.
2. Open the downloaded zip file and drag Haribol into the Applications folder. When updating, choose Replace to keep a single copy with your notes and bookmarks.
3. Open Haribol. macOS reports that it can’t verify the developer. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down and select Open Anyway. This is required once for each new version.
4. If macOS asks whether Haribol may use data from its previous version, allow it.

The web app

The web app runs in any browser at haribol.app, with all languages and no installation. Installed, it has its own icon and window, without the browser’s toolbars, and opens pages you have already visited without a connection.

Browser	How to install
Chrome or Edge	Select ⋮ › Get the app › Install Haribol, or Install app in the browser’s menu.
Safari on iPhone or iPad	Select the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
Safari on a Mac	In the menu bar, select File › Add to Dock.
Firefox	Not supported. Bookmark haribol.app or install it from another browser.

Caution

On an iPhone or iPad, install the web app to the Home Screen. Safari deletes a website’s data after a week without a visit; installed, Haribol keeps your pages and downloads.

To read the whole library offline in the web app, download the offline library; see Read without a connection.