Meditate vs Mindfulness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meditate
This app helps you cultivate a consistent meditation practice with a beautiful visual tracker, a flexible timer, and insightful statistics. It offers interval alerts, background music, and seamless integration with Apple Health and Apple Watch for a comprehensive mindfulness experience.
- Visual Mandala progress tracker
- Customizable meditation timer
- Interval alerts (haptic/sound)
- Apple Health integration
- Detailed meditation statistics
- Apple Watch independent app
- Background music options
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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. An optional subscription unlocks Premium features including Timer Presets, advanced interval alerts, Alert Behavior, ambient music, Apple Music, additional Mandalas, advanced statistics, Meditation Insights, Ask Meditate, Apple Health integration, and 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. All subscription plans unlock the same Premium features. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time through your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Mindfulness
This app offers guided breathing exercises and reflective journaling prompts to help you cultivate mindfulness and emotional awareness. Track your moods, gain insights into your emotional state, and build resilience for improved wellbeing.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Mood and emotion logging
- Reflective journaling prompts
- Mindful moment reminders
- Emotional awareness insights
- Health app integration
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The Mindfulness app includes Breathe and Reflect, which are intended for you to pause throughout the day to have a mindful moment. And with State of Mind, you can reflect on how you're feeling, which can help you build emotional awareness and resilience and improve wellbeing. Features: State of Mind: • Log your momentary emotions and your daily moods in an intuitive and engaging way. • Turn the Digital Crown to see the shape adjust based on how you're feeling. • Choose what is contributing to your state of mind, such as hobbies, travel, and work. • Describe your feelings, such as joyful, content, or worried. • Turn on notifications and complications to help you get into the habit of logging your state of mind. • Get valuable insights into your state of mind and how it has changed over time with interactive charts in the Health app on iPhone and iPad. Reflect: • Written prompts guide you toward a kind and thoughtful frame of mind. • Soothing, energetic animation guides you to be more present and mindful. • Choose to receive a reminder to start a session at the beginning or end of your day or at scheduled times. • Customize the duration of the Reflect session from one minute up to five minutes. • Track mindful minutes in the Health app on iPhone and iPad and the Fitness app on iPhone. Breathe: • Follow the animation as it expands with the inhale and contracts with each exhale. • Feel haptics guide your breath at the chosen rate. • Choose to receive a reminder to start a session at the beginning or end of your day, or at scheduled times. • Customize the duration of the Breathe session from one minute up to five minutes. • Set a breath rate ranging from 4 breaths per minute to 10 breaths per minute. • Track mindful minutes in the Health app on iPhone and iPad and the Fitness app on iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Meditate at 4.5 against Mindfulness's 3.7. Meditate also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 34%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). Mindfulness's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Meditate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Mindfulness asks for nothing beyond the download.
Meditate holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 119 and 95 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Meditate's written reviews are positive against 34% of Mindfulness's.
Meditate ships an update weekly, Mindfulness every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditate | Mindfulness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (119 ratings) — better | 3.7 (95 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better | 34.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 95 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 207 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RhythmicWorks | Apple Inc. |
Customer experience
Meditate
Mindfulness
User reviews
Meditate
From 119 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and elegant design
- 🚀 Efficient and straightforward timer
- ✅ Works well on Apple Watch
- ❤️ Motivates with streaks and mandalas
- ✨ Integrates with Apple Health
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive subscription model
- 💰 Free alternatives exist
- 👎 Misleading free trial/download
- ⚠️ Cloud sync causes battery drain
- ❌ Watch control issues after updates
Mindfulness
From 95 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Lovely app, Apple
- 👍 Very good app
- 👍 Very useful app
- 👍 Great idea for an app
- 👍 Beloved feature (original Breathe app)
Room to improve
- 😞 Useless new app
- 😞 Useless update
- 😞 5-minute maximum makes it unusable
- 😞 Robotic, less genuine notifications
- 😞 Broken original app
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
Mindfulness
Reported bugs
17 issues- Cannot set random times to breathe
- Have to schedule breathing sessions
- Cannot install
- App is frozen
- App locked up and would not reset
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- Phone says need 14.2 or later
- App froze
- App freezes constantly
- Button 'done' not working
- App only shows last measurement
- Mindfulness was interrupted
- Cannot be activated
- App disappeared
- Not installed with iOS15
- App is frozen with my watch series 6
- Cannot uninstall and reinstall
- Watch vibrating at the end interrupts session
Requested features
18 requests- Available on iPhone and Watch
- Available to all Apple users
- Offer times up to 30 minutes
- Bring back the old 'Breathe' app
- Offer old app as an option
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- Bring previous animation back
- More breathing options (duration, inhale/exhale)
- Add options to hold breath (box method)
- Longer than 5-minute sessions
- Option to only use Breathe function
- More reminder options
- Flexible reminder time settings
- Increase duration to 10+ minutes
- iPhone companion app
- Option to change animation
- Silencing notifications during sessions
- Allow background sound for headphones
- More time options for breathing
In-app purchases
Meditate
- Bronze Contributor7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Silver Patron7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Gold Supporter7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Mindfulness
No in-app purchases
Questions
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