Comparison

Meditate vs Restate

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

Restate

Features
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Restate is built on one idea: the state you're in can be changed on purpose. Not your life, not who you are — the state you're in right now. Open the app, pick the state closest to where you are, and a voice guides you through a few minutes of practice while a layered soundscape carries you into a different one. No checking in, no streaks, no homework. HOW IT WORKS • Pick where you are and what you need — two simple choices, no long questionnaire • A voice guides you through the practice; a soundscape plays underneath it • Adjust the length to the time you actually have • Put your phone down. It keeps playing with the screen locked. WHAT'S INSIDE • 78 guided practices with a signature voice for every state • 40 background soundscapes, each built from ten tracks mixed live — so the sound never restarts at a loop point • Download once and use them offline • A daily reminder that fits your own rhythm • A home screen widget that suggests a practice for the time of day FREE TO START Install for free and get one full guided practice plus three soundscapes, no account and no sign-up. Every other feature — session length, reminders, the widget, bookmarks and search — is free too. RESTATE PRO An auto-renewable subscription that unlocks the full library: all 78 practices and all 40 soundscapes. • Monthly: USD 8.99 • Annual: USD 39.99 for the first year, then USD 59.99 per year The plan length, price and renewal terms are shown on the upgrade screen before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it's cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. Restore Purchases is available on the upgrade screen. Terms of Use: https://getrestateapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://getrestateapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Meditate4 screens
Restate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Meditate at 4 against Restate's 2. Meditate also leads on iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Restate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditate ships an update every 6 days, Restate weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meditate versus Restate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditateRestate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (119 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings119 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB150 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhythmicWorks建利 白

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
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

Restate

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
2 purchases

Restate

Subscriptions2
  • Restate Pro - 1 monthly$8.991 Month
  • Restate Pro - 1 Year1 Year trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Meditate free?
Meditate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Restate free?
Restate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meditate or Restate have ads?
Neither Meditate nor Restate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditate or Restate?
Meditate ships an update every 6 days, and Restate weekly. Most recently, Meditate was updated on November 9, 2026 and Restate on November 10, 2026.

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