Comparison

Meditate vs BoxBeat Timer

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 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.

Highlights
  • Visual Mandala progress tracker
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Interval alerts (haptic/sound)
  • Apple Health integration
  • Detailed meditation statistics
  • Apple Watch independent app
  • Background music options
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. 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/

About

BoxBeat Timer

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BoxBeat Timer is a workout timer for EMOM, AMRAP, For Time, Tabata and interval training. Create simple timers in seconds or build multi-stage workouts by combining workout types and rest periods into a single session. Save your favorite workouts as presets for quick reuse. The large timer display and visual progress fill make it easy to track workout progress from across the gym. Features: • EMOM, AMRAP, For Time, Tabata and Interval timers • Multi-stage workouts with rest periods • Workout presets for quick reuse • Large, easy-to-read workout display • Visual progress fill for at-a-glance timing • Workout history Competition Mode: Record AMRAP and For Time competition workouts with a built-in competition proof overlay embedded directly into your video. Capture workout evidence while keeping timing and workout details visible throughout the recording. Whether you’re training in the gym, at home, or preparing for competition, BoxBeat Timer helps you stay focused on the workout. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meditate4 screens
BoxBeat Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Meditate at every 3 weeks against BoxBeat Timer's every 2 months. Meditate also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meditate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and BoxBeat Timer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditate ships an update every 3 weeks, BoxBeat Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meditate versus BoxBeat Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditateBoxBeat Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (118 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings118 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhythmicWorksKARIN PIETRUSKA

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
Show 18 more
  • 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
Show 5 more
  • 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

BoxBeat Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Meditate

Subscriptions3
  • Bronze Contributor$9.991 Year
  • Silver Patron$19.991 Year
  • Gold Supporter$29.991 Year
1 purchases

BoxBeat Timer

Subscriptions1
  • BoxBeat Premium$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Meditate free?
Meditate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoxBeat Timer free?
BoxBeat Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meditate or BoxBeat Timer have ads?
Neither Meditate nor BoxBeat Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditate or BoxBeat Timer?
Meditate ships an update every 3 weeks, and BoxBeat Timer every 2 months. Most recently, Meditate was updated on October 22, 2026 and BoxBeat Timer on September 19, 2026.

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