Comparison

Meditate vs Set Your Intention

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

Head to head
About

Meditate

This app offers a customizable meditation timer and journaling feature to help users build a consistent mindfulness practice. Track progress, visualize your journey with a growing Mandala, and gain insights into your practice over time.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Visual Mandala progress tracker
  • Session journaling and reflections
  • Detailed practice statistics
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Widgets and shortcuts for quick access
Features
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Build a meditation practice that feels truly yours. Shape each session with a flexible meditation timer, watch your personal Mandala bloom as you practice, and capture how every meditation feels with free reflections and journaling. An Apple Design Award finalist for Visuals and Graphics, Meditate brings your practice to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. MEDITATE YOUR WAY Keep your timer simple or shape every stage of your meditation. Choose a fixed duration or an open goal, set alerts at chosen moments or repeating intervals, select sounds or haptics, and meditate with ambient music or Apple Music. Save complete sessions as Timer Presets so they are always ready. On supported devices, simply describe the meditation you want and let Meditate configure it for you. If you continue beyond the completion alert, Meditate keeps tracking your extra time. WATCH YOUR MANDALA GROW Your personal Mandala blooms as you meditate. Return each day, maintain your streak, and watch your practice take shape over time. REFLECT ON EVERY SESSION Record how you felt before and after meditating, capture your thoughts, and add or edit a reflection for each day. All reflection and journaling features are free, helping you notice how your practice feels—not only how long it lasts. You can also log meditations completed outside the app so your history, goals, and streaks remain accurate. UNDERSTAND YOUR PRACTICE Explore today’s progress, your past seven days, monthly calendars, individual sessions, and long-term statistics. Meditation Insights helps you discover meaningful patterns across your practice. Ask Meditate lets you ask questions about your meditation history and receive answers grounded in your recorded sessions. You choose whether optional information from reflections and Apple Health can contribute to your insights. With Meditate Premium, connect Apple Health to bring mindful minutes and supported sessions from other apps into your history. Track heart rate during supported sessions and relate sleep and State of Mind to your practice. MADE FOR APPLE WATCH Meditate works independently on Apple Watch. Run advanced sessions, use Timer Presets, monitor heart rate, record reflections and State of Mind, review your progress, and keep your practice within reach with complications and Smart Stack widgets. ALWAYS WITHIN REACH Start a meditation or check your progress from widgets, the Lock Screen, Control Center, Shortcuts, Siri, and Live Activities. Use Siri or Spotlight to find past sessions on supported devices, and keep your meditation history, reflections, and progress up to date across your devices with iCloud. Share sessions, achievements, and statistics as beautiful artwork, with personalized visuals available on supported devices. MADE FOR APPLE VISION PRO Meditate is also available on Apple Vision Pro, bringing your meditation practice into a beautifully immersive spatial experience. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Meditate includes essential features such as the meditation timer, session history, daily goals, streaks, seven-day summaries, CSV export, and all reflection and journaling tools. Premium unlocks Timer Presets, advanced interval alerts, Alert Behavior, ambient music, Apple Music, additional Mandalas, advanced statistics, Meditation Insights, Ask Meditate, and Apple Health integration. Choose a monthly or yearly plan, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Family plans cover up to six people through Family Sharing. Ask Meditate requires English and a compatible Apple Intelligence device. Natural-language timer setup and other features may vary by device and operating-system version. Apple Music requires an Apple Music subscription. Apple Health features require your permission. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Set Your Intention

Track your mental well-being with daily intentions and mindful minutes. This app visualizes your progress using data from Apple Health and supported complications, integrating seamlessly with your preferred meditation apps.

Highlights
  • Daily intention setting
  • Mindful minutes tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Complication support
  • Progress visualization
Features
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Similar to the concept of Activity rings for physical health, Set Your Intention makes it easy to monitor your mental well being. Simply set your daily Intention & keep track of your Mindful Minutes through Apple Health and the supported Complications. You can use your preferred Meditation App — with support for Apple Health — on the iPhone or Apple Watch and the carefully crafted App will visualise your progress.

Screenshots

Meditate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Set Your Intention at none against Meditate's 8. Set Your Intention also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Meditate's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Meditate sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Set Your Intention asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditate ships an update every 6 days, Set Your Intention every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Meditate versus Set Your Intention: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditateSet Your Intention
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (119 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings119 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhythmicWorksPaul Weichhart

Customer experience

Meditate

All ratings119 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral10.8%
Negative18.3%

Set Your Intention

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Meditate

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App no longer works properly after cloud sync
  • Cloud sync causes massive battery drain
  • Streaks keep miscalculating
  • Support link broken
  • Watch control not working since last update
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  • Timer breaks without error
  • Lock Screen widget cannot display 3 digits for streak
  • Streak reset after 100+ days
  • Mandala resets if one day is missed
  • App terminates meditation to show 'save mandala' message
  • Notification about app sent to background
  • Unable to use app on watch after update
  • App crashes on watch
  • Cannot set intervals
  • Countdown timer removed
  • Watch app crashes
  • Haptic intervals not ideal
  • Interval bells not available on watch app
  • App constantly backs to settings
  • Reminders not working
  • Watch app does not save sessions
  • App disappears from older watch versions
  • App not found on App Store easily

Requested features

10 requests
  • Lifetime purchase option
  • Widget showing meditation streak
  • Randomized mindfulness reminders
  • iCloud sync for watch and iPhone
  • Mandala reset logic improvement
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  • Option to disable alert sound on watch
  • Automatic Do Not Disturb mode
  • Breathing prompts
  • Widget to display Mandalas and total time on watch
  • Optional white noise

Set Your Intention

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Meditate

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Bronze Contributor$9.991 Year
  • Silver Patron$19.991 Year
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  • Gold Supporter$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Family Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$89.99
  • Family Lifetime$129.99
None

Set Your Intention

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditate free?
Meditate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Set Your Intention free?
Set Your Intention is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditate or Set Your Intention have ads?
Neither Meditate nor Set Your Intention shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditate or Set Your Intention?
Meditate ships an update every 6 days, and Set Your Intention every 5 months. Most recently, Meditate was updated on November 6, 2026 and Set Your Intention on November 3, 2026.

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