Comparison

Pop Up Zendo vs MeditateTime

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

Head to head
About

Pop Up Zendo

A minimalist meditation timer designed by a zen priest. It offers a simple, graceful interface to create meditative space with gentle bell sounds or silence. Build mindfulness into your daily routine with this straightforward tool.

Highlights
  • Minimalist meditation timer
  • Gentle zendo bells
  • Silent meditation option
  • Simple, graceful interface
  • Builds mindfulness
  • Creates meditative space
Features
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Pop Up Zendo is a meditation timer with nothing extra, just the basic tools you need to turn a moment into meditative space wherever you are. Designed and coded by a zen priest, a simple and graceful circle responds to a single tap by releasing itself breath by breath into an ‘empty’ screen - what zen people like to call ‘boundless’. Three zendo bells ring to begin your period of meditation and one will end it, or you can simply press mute and sit in silence until the screen is empty. Just set the time, tap the screen, and enter the zendo. There are no in-app purchases or anything in the way of institutional theory included, just your steps along an ancient path, and a new way to build mindfulness into your daily life. Pop Up Zendo is a simple tool to build a time for meditation or perhaps periods of intentional mindful activity and to bring a sense of calm and expansiveness into your life wherever you live and work. Perhaps an app that disappears from the screen may be just what your device is missing. Even in a technological ecosystem, there is space for a zendo.

About

MeditateTime

A meditation timer designed to conserve battery by putting your device to sleep during sessions. It fosters motivation by showing the number of people meditating simultaneously and integrates with health apps to automatically save mindfulness data.

Highlights
  • Battery-saving sleep mode
  • Real-time meditator count
  • Health app integration
  • Customizable sounds
  • Community sharing
  • Map view of meditators (subscription)
Features
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MeditateTime is a simple meditation timer that works with health app. When you start meditating, the app puts your device to sleep so it doesn't drain your battery. "MeditateTime" always displays the number of people meditating at the same time on the top screen to increase the motivation of your meditation. You can also see each person's total meditation time and approximate position. You can start the session by just setting time and tap the START. Also, you can choose Meditation time to limitless. MeditateTime integrates Health App to use mindfulness datas. When you finish the meditation, MeditateTime saves your session data to your iPhone's mindfulness in the health app automatically. MeditateTime has many awesome sounds for starting, ending and preliminary notification of ending 3 minutes before. (To enable sound during device sleeping, it is needed to turn on notifications for MeditateTime in setting app.) Furthermore, the following functions can be added by registering a subscription. - Hide all ads. - Display the location of the person meditating on the map. MeditateTime supports a community of people who meditate. Enrich your meditation experience by sharing information. Terms of Use http://zekoo2017.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html

Screenshots

Pop Up Zendo4 screens
MeditateTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pop Up Zendo at none against MeditateTime's 2. Pop Up Zendo also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price 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. MeditateTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pop Up Zendo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pop Up Zendo ships an update weekly, MeditateTime every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pop Up Zendo versus MeditateTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPop Up ZendoMeditateTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPop Up ZendoMUTSUAKI KIKUCHI

Customer experience

Pop Up Zendo

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MeditateTime

Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Pop Up Zendo

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

MeditateTime

Subscriptions2
  • General full-featured(1month)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • General full-featured(3month)$7.993 Months

Questions

Is Pop Up Zendo free?
Pop Up Zendo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MeditateTime free?
MeditateTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pop Up Zendo or MeditateTime have ads?
MeditateTime shows ads; Pop Up Zendo does not.
Which is updated more often, Pop Up Zendo or MeditateTime?
Pop Up Zendo ships an update weekly, and MeditateTime every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pop Up Zendo was updated on October 23, 2026 and MeditateTime on October 7, 2026.

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