Oak vs SETimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oak
This app guides users through meditation, breathing exercises, and sleep aids to foster a more mindful and relaxed lifestyle. It offers customizable sessions, progress tracking, and community features to support habit formation.
- Guided mindful meditations
- Loving-kindness meditations
- Sleep meditations
- Unguided meditation sessions
- Breathing exercises
- Progress tracking
- Customizable session duration
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**2018 New Apps We Love** - Apple **Oak will guide you to more mindful, relaxed living** - AppAdvice Oak helps you decompress by transforming your meditation practice from an experiment into a habit. We support you from your first session to your 500th, with mindful, loving-kindness, and sleep meditations as well as unguided sessions and breathing exercises. Individualize your meditations by duration, and customize with silence or calming background sounds. Oak tracks your progress and encourages you to continue building a healthy meditation practice. WHAT'S INCLUDED: Meditation - Guided mindful and loving-kindness meditations with male and female instructors - Choose a guided session duration ranging from 5 to 30 minutes in length - Choose unguided meditation sessions ranging from 5 minutes to 24 hours in length - Sit in silence or choose soothing background tracks (bells, blocks, bowls, streams, and other gentle sounds) that encourage restfulness - Courses: go deeper and learn to practice Mantra meditation with a 10-day course Breathing - Simple yogic breathing exercises that can easily be performed on-the-go - Options include Box Breathing, Deep Calm, and Awake sessions - Animated instruction removes the guesswork Sleep - Guided breathing exercises help relax your mind as you drift off to sleep - Choose silence or gentle background sounds to play during and after your session Meditation Timer - For unguided meditation, set your custom mediation duration, background sounds (or silence), and interval chimes Progress Tracking - Oak tracks the number of minutes/hours you’ve meditated, mindful breaths you’ve taken, and the number of meditation/breathing sessions you’ve accomplished, as well as any consecutive streaks - Discover new accomplishment badges the more you breathe and meditate with us - The power of community: Monitor the number of Oak members mindfully breathing and meditating in real time - Oak supports Apple HealthKit for tracking “mindful minutes” with the Health app (optional). Thank you for taking care of yourself through meditation. Have questions or feedback? Reach out to us anytime at support@oakmeditation.com.
SETimer
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Build routines that run themselves. SETimer is a focused routine timer for workouts, deep work, study, breathing, stretching, meditation, cooking and more. Choose a ready-to-run template or create your own sequence of timed stages and repeat groups. START IN SECONDS • 34 built-in routines, including HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, Pomodoro, Box Breathing, Meditation and Yoga • One-tap starts from Home and recently used routines • Clear previews showing every stage, duration and repeat group BUILD YOUR OWN ROUTINE • Create, edit, duplicate and save custom routines • Use exact seconds or enter durations in minutes • Combine stages with single-level repeat groups STAY FOCUSED • Immersive full-screen sessions in portrait and landscape • Pause, resume and skip without losing timing accuracy • Optional offline voice prompts, countdown announcements and background rhythm • Live Activities, Lock Screen controls and Dynamic Island support • English and Simplified Chinese SETimer uses absolute time anchors so your routine stays accurate through UI updates, audio prompts and background transitions. No account is required. The free version includes core templates and a limited number of custom routines. SETimer Pro unlocks unlimited custom routines, the full template library, advanced voice options and enhanced system integrations. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://setimer.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Oak at 15.6 against SETimer's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Oak sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SETimer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Oak | SETimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (32K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 32K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NYLLON LLC | 知昶 臧 |
Bugs and requests
Oak
Reported bugs
3 issues- Meditation progress not saving properly
- Mantra meditation course becoming locked after updates
- Meditation sessions not stopping automatically
Requested features
5 requests- More guided meditation and breathing exercise options
- Dark mode or adjustable background colors
- Apple Watch app integration
- Ability to adjust volume levels independently
- Customizable meditation timer with chime/vibration alerts
SETimer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Oak
- Course: Mantra MeditationFree
SETimer
- SETimer Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- SETimer Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- SETimer Pro Lifetime$39.99









