Comparison

Meditation Timer Meiso vs Stillness Timer

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

Head to head
About

Meditation Timer Meiso

This app offers a simple, ad-free meditation timer with real-time heart rate variability analysis. Track your progress with a contribution graph, achieve badges, and use it standalone on Apple Watch. Integrates with HealthKit and supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Real-time HRV analysis
  • Countdown and count-up modes
  • 12-month contribution graph
  • Achievement system
  • Standalone Apple Watch app
  • HealthKit integration
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Make quiet time a daily habit. Meiso is a meditation timer without ads or subscriptions. Set a timer, keep a session log, and meditate at your own pace. TIMER Choose a preset such as 3 or 5 minutes, or use count-up mode without a time limit. Switch the ending sound and vibration on or off. SESSION LOG Review your activity graph, weekly meditation time, streaks and total time. Achievement badges help you track milestones. APPLE WATCH Use the timer without keeping your iPhone nearby, then sync your session history to iPhone. WIDGETS AND HEALTH Home screen widgets and Live Activities are supported. With your permission, save meditation time as Mindful Minutes in Apple Health. HEART RATE VARIABILITY (HRV) Record and analyze metrics such as SDNN and RMSSD using beat intervals from a compatible Bluetooth heart rate sensor. Apple Watch uses available heartbeat data. Compatible hardware and permissions are required; available data and metrics depend on recording conditions. An iPhone alone cannot measure HRV in this app. HRV displays are reference information for personal reflection. They do not establish meditation benefits or assess your health, and are not for diagnosis, treatment or medical decisions. Consult a healthcare professional for medical advice. YOUR PREFERENCES Light and dark modes. Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish. Free to use, with no ads, subscriptions or account registration. Compatible external hardware is obtained separately.

About

Stillness Timer

Features
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Stillness is a quiet meditation timer for unguided practice. It gives you structure without noise: no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and no account required. Build the session you actually practice. Create simple or multi-phase meditation sessions with custom intervals, chimes, sounds, and haptics. Give each interval its own chime — a soft bell to change posture, a gong to close the practice — or keep one sound throughout. Use Stillness for mindfulness meditation, autogenic training, breathwork, body scans, silent contemplation, or any practice that benefits from timed silence. Practice with your screen locked. Start a session, lock your phone, and set it down. The timer keeps running and your interval chimes sound on time, with minimal battery use. If a phone call arrives, your session pauses and resumes on its own, and the call time is not counted toward your practice. Prefer to watch the timer? Keep the screen awake instead — the choice is yours. Return to presence during the day. Scheduled reminders help you keep a daily rhythm. Spontaneous reminders arrive at unexpected moments during your active hours, gently interrupting autopilot and inviting you back to awareness. You can also keep spontaneous reminders away from scheduled sessions with a 10, 20, or 30 minute buffer. Keep your rhythm across time zones. Stillness supports reminders tied to local time or to a specific time zone. This is useful when traveling, following a fixed practice schedule, or keeping a home-time routine while away. Track progress privately. See your completed sessions, streaks, milestones, total minutes, and favorite practices. Your data stays on your device. Optional Apple Health integration can write completed sessions as Mindful Minutes when you choose to enable it. Move to a new device privately. Device Migration lets you back up sessions, statistics, reminders, and settings to your private iCloud container, restore them on a new device, and clear the transfer data when you are done. No accounts. No external servers. Stillness is for people who want meditation to stay simple: a timer, gentle cues, useful reminders, private progress, and space to practice.

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Meiso3 screens
Stillness Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Meditation Timer Meiso at every 9 days against Stillness Timer's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Meiso ships an update every 9 days, Stillness Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Meditation Timer Meiso versus Stillness Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer MeisoStillness Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasayuki YamajiAlexey Prudkov

In-app purchases

None

Meditation Timer Meiso

No in-app purchases

None

Stillness Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Meiso free?
Meditation Timer Meiso is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stillness Timer free?
Stillness Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Timer Meiso or Stillness Timer have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Meiso nor Stillness Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Meiso or Stillness Timer?
Meditation Timer Meiso ships an update every 9 days, and Stillness Timer every 2 months. Most recently, Meditation Timer Meiso was updated on October 16, 2026 and Stillness Timer on October 10, 2026.

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