Meditate vs P3TAL
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/
P3TAL
This app helps you map your skincare journey as a connected graph, visualizing your routine history, product interactions, and reactions. Share your progress, get community feedback on your skin's appearance, and earn rewards for contributing knowledge.
- Map skincare journey as a knowledge graph
- Visualize product and ingredient connections
- Community voting on skin improvement
- Post bounties for personalized recommendations
- Earn community currency (dew) and build reputation
- Discover products through user lineage
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P3tal is a skincare knowledge community built around one idea: the people who know your skin best are people who have skin like yours. Unlike review platforms that aggregate opinions into star ratings, p3tal lets you map your skincare journey as a connected graph, showing not just what you use but how you got there, what failed, what replaced it, and why. Your routine has a history. P3tal makes that history visible, shareable, and useful to others. Map your routine as a knowledge graph Every product, ingredient, reaction, and discovery becomes a node. Connections between nodes carry meaning: this replaced that, this caused a reaction, this complements that. Over time your graph becomes a complete, auditable map of your skin journey, including the dead ends. Let the crowd tell you what they see Upload a gallery of photos across your treatment cycle. The p3tal community votes on whether your skin appears improved, broken down by texture, evenness, and overall appearance. No clinical claims. No algorithms. Just honest perception from people paying close attention. Perception is signal. Post bounties. Get real recommendations. When you're stuck, post a bounty with your skin profile, concerns, climate, and constraints. A guild of experienced curators responds with reasoned recommendations, each one backed by a visible knowledge graph showing exactly why they're suggesting what they suggest. You see the reasoning, not just the conclusion. Earn dew. Build reputation. Contribute to the community by curating routines, voting on galleries, and helping others through bounties. Earn dew, p3tal's community currency, and build a reputation that reflects the quality of your knowledge, not just your follower count. Discover through lineage Search for a product or ingredient and find the knowledge graphs behind it. See how other users arrived there, what path they took, and whether that path resembles yours. Fork their graph, prune what doesn't apply, and extend it with your own discoveries. P3tal is for people who want to understand their skin, not just treat it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: P3TAL at 5.0 against Meditate's 4.5. P3TAL also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Meditate's advantage is ratings volume (119 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. P3TAL asks for nothing beyond the download.
P3TAL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditate has 119 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Meditate ships an update weekly, P3TAL every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditate | P3TAL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (119 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 207 MB | 314 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | RhythmicWorks | Joachim Groeger |
Customer experience
Meditate
P3TAL
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
P3TAL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
P3TAL
No in-app purchases









