Comparison

Shanti vs Timefully

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Shanti

This app helps you establish a daily meditation practice to improve your mental and physical well-being. Track your sessions, monitor progress with detailed statistics, and customize timers with various sounds and music. Integrate mindfulness into your daily life for greater peace and awareness.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timers
  • Unlimited timer creation
  • Progress tracking with statistics
  • Add favorite relaxation music
  • 14 different guiding sounds
  • Health App integration (Mindful Minutes)
  • Home screen timer access (iOS 9)
Features
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Practicing meditation daily is amazingly beneficial for you mind and body. Did you know that just a few minutes of meditation per day is enough to achieve a healthier life? With Shanti you can practice meditation and keep track of how many sessions and hours you have meditated so far. You will feel more relaxed, with more energy and more aware about your body and mind. It will help you to achieve inner peace, calm, joy and to integrate mindfulness into your daily life. Features: - Easy to use, select a timer and start your meditation - Create an unlimited number of timers for whatever you need (meditation, reiki, therapy, ...) - Keep track of your progress with beautiful stats - Easy to configure: Meditation, Interval and Preparation - Add you favourite relaxation music - If you have cats, you can enable: Hold for (3s) to pause - Customize your timers with 14 different sounds to guide your sessions - Search and start meditation timers directly from your home screen (iOS 9) - Share your meditation progress with your friends - Works with the Health App, track your Mindful Minutes (iOS 10+) - Designed for iPhone and iPad You can use Shanti to track different types of meditations, reiki, auto-hypnosis, other holistic therapies, and much more. Enjoy your meditation with Shanti. Contact e: support@seedrop.com f: facebook.com/seedropofficial i: instagram.com/seedropofficial

About

Timefully

This app provides a distraction-free meditation timer designed to help users build consistent habits. It offers customizable timers, rewarding progress tracking with virtual tree growth, and detailed statistics to motivate your practice.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer with unlimited presets
  • Virtual tree growth for practice motivation
  • Comprehensive session statistics and charts
  • Emotion and note tracking
  • Multiple user profiles
  • Apple Watch integration with heart rate tracking
Features
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Timefully helps meditators build a practice that lasts. A beautifully simple meditation timer with deep tracking, tree-growth motivation, and comprehensive statistics — trusted by 40,000+ meditators worldwide and rated 4.8 stars. WHY TIMEFULLY? Timefully is designed for meditators who know what they want — a distraction-free timer that stays out of your way, tracks your progress, and keeps you motivated. No guided content, no social feed, no ads. Just a powerful, beautiful tool for the practice you already have — Vipassana, Zen, mindfulness, mantra, yoga, or breathwork. YOUR TIMER, YOUR WAY • Unlimited presets per profile — create as many as you need • Unlimited segments: warm-up, main, intervals, cool-down, and more • Tap any segment to adjust its duration during setup • Open session mode for indefinite meditation • Count up or count down — your choice • Simple Mode hides the clock for deeper focus • Beautiful curated backgrounds, or use your own photos • Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your session in view BEAUTIFUL BELLS & SOUNDS • 40 bell sounds: Tibetan bells, singing bowls, gongs, wind chimes, flutes, and more • Starting and ending bells (1–3 rings each) • Interval bells at set times or repeating • 6 ambient sounds: Rain, Forest, Ocean, Wind, Fireplace, Birds • Add your own custom sounds • Fade-in option and volume control • Silent mode with haptics TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Automatic session tracking from the timer • Manual entry — including backfilling past sessions • Post-session mood and emotion tracking • Notes and reflections, with a word cloud built from your notes • 6 statistics reports with weekly, monthly, and yearly views • Monthly calendar glance view • AI insights with Apple Intelligence STAY MOTIVATED • Set daily and weekly practice goals • Grow virtual trees through consistent practice • 6 tree species: Oak, Cherry Blossom, Mangrove, Maple, Olive, Wisteria • Earn milestones and achievements, and keep your streak • Inspiring quotes after each session — or turn all in-app text off for quiet, focused sessions BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH • Standalone timer on your wrist • Real-time heart rate and HRV during sessions • Haptic guidance and Always-On Display support • Complications, and sessions saved as workouts • Fully 1:1 with iPhone — including intervals MULTIPLE PROFILES & PRESETS • Profiles for different practices: Meditation, Yoga, and more • Unlimited presets per profile, each with its own background • Quick switching between configurations PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required — your data stays in your own iCloud • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Export and import your data anytime (Open Sit, CSV and JSON) SEAMLESS INTEGRATION • Apple Health — sessions saved as Mindful Minutes • Siri & Shortcuts, with a ready-made Timefully Shortcut and Action Button support • Do Not Disturb automation • 6 Home Screen widgets and 4 Lock Screen widgets ON YOUR MAC • Native macOS app, ideal for desk meditation during work breaks • Large screen for comprehensive statistics • iCloud sync keeps your practice in step with iPhone and iPad PRICING AND TERMS The timer is always free — no account, no ads, no trial limits. Timefully Pro unlocks iCloud sync, Apple Watch heart rate & HRV, statistics & AI insights, tree growth, achievements & streaks, mood tracking, unlimited profiles, premium bells, and widgets. Timefully Pro offers two auto-renewing subscription options: Monthly: $2.99 per month Annual: $11.99 per year You can also purchase Lifetime access for a one-time payment of $24.99. These prices are for United States users. Pricing in other countries may vary. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: https://www.timefully.co/terms PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.timefully.co/privacy

Screenshots

Shanti4 screens
Timefully4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Timefully at 1.1K against Shanti's 2. Timefully also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Shanti's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shanti sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Timefully sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timefully holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timefully has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Shanti's written reviews are positive against 85% of Timefully's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shanti ships an update every 3 weeks, Timefully every 6 days. Both last shipped on September 18, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shanti versus Timefully: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShantiTimefully
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews85.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB391 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArtem UmanetsLalune Creative AB

Customer experience

Shanti

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Timefully

All ratings1,083 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative8.1%

Bugs and requests

Shanti

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Timefully

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Timer not always completing sessions
  • Apple Watch integration problems
  • Incorrect activity log data

Requested features

5 requests
  • More bell/chime sound options
  • Ability to adjust timer from Apple Watch
  • Option to disable tree growth feature
  • Expanded emotion/mood tracking
  • Sync progress across devices

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Shanti

One-time1
  • Shanti Pro$2.99
5 purchases

Timefully

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly$5.993 Months
  • Annual2 variants$11.991 Year
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  • Timefully Annual, 14-day Trial14 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Shanti free?
Shanti is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timefully free?
Timefully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shanti or Timefully?
Timefully is rated higher. Shanti averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Timefully averages 4.8 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Shanti or Timefully have ads?
Neither Shanti nor Timefully shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shanti or Timefully?
Shanti ships an update every 3 weeks, and Timefully every 6 days. Most recently, Shanti was updated on September 18, 2026 and Timefully on September 18, 2026.

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