Center Meditation Timer vs somno
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Center Meditation Timer
A silent meditation timer designed for serious practitioners. It offers a minimalist interface with customizable session lengths, intervals, and sounds. Track your progress without pressure or gamification.
- Silent timer with optional bells
- Customizable session lengths and intervals
- Minimalist interface with themes
- Daily reminders and widgets
- Apple Watch support
- iCloud sync
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Center is a silent meditation timer for serious practice. No guides, no voices, no lessons, and no music. Center exists for people who already know why they meditate and want a calm, precise tool to support long-term practice. Start a session in one tap. Practice in silence or with simple bells. Customize session lengths, intervals, sounds, and themes to match your ritual. Center works across all Apple platforms and stays out of your way. # Designed for real practice • Silent timer with optional bells and intervals • Fully customizable session lengths • Minimal interface with multiple themes • Widgets and daily reminders • Apple Watch support • Syncs seamlessly with iCloud # Optional tracking, never pressure • View trends and streaks if you want them • Manually log sessions when needed • No rankings, no goals, no gamification # Built to last • No subscriptions • No ads • No data harvesting • Supported by optional donations Center is not a course, a coach, or a content platform. It is a quiet instrument for mindfulness, offered with restraint and intention. If Center supports your practice, you may choose to support its continued development.
somno
A beautiful, distraction-free meditation timer with a simple interface. Choose from soothing sounds, configure intervals, and integrate with iOS Health. Enjoy a peaceful meditation experience without ads or notifications.
- Simple, intuitive interface
- Soothing meditation signal sounds
- Configurable interval duration
- iOS Health integration
- No ads or push notifications
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somno is a beatiful, distraction-free meditation timer. it has the following features: - simple, intuitive and easy-to-use interface - choice of several soothing meditation signal sounds - configurable interval duration - iOS Health integration - no ads - no push-notifications - no third-party behavioural tracking tools
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: somno at none against Center Meditation Timer's 6. somno also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks) and review sentiment (90% vs 71%). Center Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (783 vs 11) and device support (6 vs 2). On price, rating and ads 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. Center Meditation Timer sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. somno asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Center Meditation Timer against 4.7 for somno. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Center Meditation Timer has 783 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Center Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 90% of somno's.
Center Meditation Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, somno every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Center Meditation Timer | somno |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (783 ratings) | 4.7 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 783 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanner Christensen | Corne Driesprong |
Customer experience
Center Meditation Timer
somno
Bugs and requests
Center Meditation Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Interval sounds not playing consistently
- Timer stopping when screen locks or goes to sleep
- Sync issues between iPhone and Apple Watch app
- Inability to change screen sleep settings
Requested features
4 requests- Add Apple Watch complications and background tracking
- Allow manual entry of meditation sessions
- Extend bell/chime duration for better resonance
- Add option to play background nature sounds
somno
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Center Meditation Timer
- Donate $1$0.99
- Donate $2$1.99
- Donate $3$2.99
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- Donate $4$3.99
- Donate $5$4.99
- Donate $18$17.99
somno
No in-app purchases
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