Shipping Forecast Mindfulness vs LastTimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness
This app provides spoken weather forecasts from the UK Met Office, designed for relaxation and focus. It offers customizable forecast lengths and can sync mindfulness minutes to your Health app.
- Spoken UK Met Office forecasts
- Customizable forecast lengths (short, medium, long)
- Syncs mindfulness minutes to Health app
- Text-to-Speech voice
- Relaxation and focus aid
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The Shipping Forecast from the UK Met office is a tight, compact meteorological forecast for the areas around the UK and Ireland used by boats in the region. Due to its poetic structure, it has a listenership far beyond its intended audience. It lends itself nicely to relaxation and focus. These minutes can be saved to Health app for mindfulness credit. Depending on your available time, you can select between short, medium and long versions and the Text-to-Speech voice will read the dynamic forecast.
LastTimer
This interval timer app helps you maximize workout efficiency by guiding your training sessions. Create custom timers with prep time, exercise intervals, rest periods, and audio cues. Track progress visually with widgets and live activities.
- Customizable interval timers
- Prep time and rest periods
- Multiple exercises per cycle
- Up to 10 cycles per workout
- Audio cues
- Home screen widgets
- Live Activities integration
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A timer keeps you honest. No more rushing through sets or resting too long between rounds. You set the work, the rest, and the pace, and LastTimer holds the line so you can focus on training, not on watching the time. Built for rounds, tuned for everything. LastTimer runs jiu jitsu, boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, and wrestling rounds with a clean bell that cuts through a noisy room, and it is just as at home with HIIT, Tabata, circuits, yoga, meditation, or a Pomodoro block. NEW IN 1.4.0 - ON YOUR WRIST, IN SYNC, ONE SCAN AWAY - Apple Watch app: a real timer on your wrist that runs on its own, with no iPhone nearby. Start a round, drop your wrist, and it keeps running and taps you at every change. - Your timers, everywhere: iCloud keeps saved timers and workout history in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Build a timer on the phone and it is already on your wrist. - Scan to run: hand someone a workout with a scan. It opens the timer instantly, with nothing to install. - Every built-in preset is on the Watch too, ready without saving a thing. ONE TIMER, EVERY SCREEN - A full native iPad app with a coaching dashboard: the whole session at once, a big ring beside a board of every round, session stats, and what is up next. - Presentation Mode: a full-screen room display for a TV or projector over AirPlay or a USB-C to HDMI cable, so the whole class reads the timer from across the mat. - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island controls: pause, resume, and skip a round without unlocking. - Interactive Home Screen widget: start a saved timer with one tap; pause, resume, or skip the running one. - Voice announcements: spoken round call-outs, a 3-2-1 countdown, and "Workout complete." - Named, colored rounds: label each slot (Warm-up, Guard Passing, Sparring) and the ring tints to match, everywhere the round shows. - Round presets: boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling, per-belt IBJJF match times, Tabata, and EMOM, ready in one tap. - Session history and streaks: every finished workout logged with a daily streak. - Share a timer: send any timer (rounds, names, colors) as a link a training partner imports. - Siri and Shortcuts: "Hey Siri, start Boxing Rounds in LastTimer." BUILD YOUR PERFECT TIMER - Prep, exercise, and rest periods - Multiple exercises per cycle, up to 10 cycles - A bell that mixes over your music and plays even on silent - Accurate in the background when you switch apps WORKS FOR - Jiu Jitsu, boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling - HIIT and Tabata - Circuit and strength training - Yoga and stretching - Meditation - Pomodoro study sessions - Cooking (yes, really) PRIVACY No account. No ads. The developer collects no data. Your timers and history live on your device and sync privately through your own iCloud, where only you can see them. LastTimer costs less than that 12 oz can of sugar water. Download it and take control of your training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LastTimer at 100% against Shipping Forecast Mindfulness's 9%. LastTimer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). Shipping Forecast Mindfulness's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness is free to download; LastTimer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LastTimer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Shipping Forecast Mindfulness's written reviews are positive against 100% of LastTimer's.
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness ships an update every 13 months, LastTimer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shipping Forecast Mindfulness | LastTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | (optional.is) | Matthew weppler |
Customer experience
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness
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In-app purchases
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness
No in-app purchases
LastTimer
No in-app purchases
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