Center Meditation Timer vs Monk Mode
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.
Monk Mode
This app functions as a meditation timer, logging your sessions as mindful minutes directly into Apple Health. It also features a heart rate tracker to monitor your heart rate during meditation and provide an average at its conclusion.
- Meditation timer
- Log mindful minutes
- Apple Health integration
- Heart rate tracker
- View average heart rate
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A minimalist meditation timer that saves your mindful minutes to Apple Health, automatically. Sit down. Breathe. Let everything else fade. Whether you love silent, unguided sessions or gentle guided narration, Monk Mode meets you where you are. Pick a focus, set your timer, and begin. When you finish, your mindful minutes are saved to Apple Health on their own, so your mindfulness practice always counts. Wear an Apple Watch? Your heart rate is tracked live, so you can watch your body settle into stillness. Start a session from your iPhone, your watch, or straight from a home screen widget. Every session brings you closer to the version of yourself that shows up calmer, clearer, and more present. Free to use, with one optional purchase. Sessions up to 5 minutes are always free, and longer sessions include 4 free sessions each month. Deep Practice is a one-time in-app purchase that removes the monthly limit. Existing customers keep full access at no extra cost. What you get: • Mindful minutes saved to Apple Health after every session, with workouts logged too • A guided and unguided meditation timer (1-60 min + unlimited) • 5 focus types: Breath, Body Scan, Loving-Kindness, Open Awareness, and Sleep • On-device narration in 6 languages that adapts to your session • Live heart rate tracking with Apple Watch • Daily goals, a weekly streak, and progress at a glance • Configurable widgets that can start a session with a tap • Haptic breathing cues, custom bell tones, and adjustable guidance • A dedicated sleep meditation mode • Seamless sync between iPhone and Apple Watch Your meditation practice. No subscriptions. No accounts. One optional one-time purchase. Privacy Policy https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-privacy-policy Terms & Conditions https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-terms-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monk Mode at none against Center Meditation Timer's 6. Monk Mode also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Center Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (783 vs 8) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). 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. Monk Mode asks for nothing beyond the download.
Monk Mode holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Center Meditation Timer has 783 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Center Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Monk Mode's.
Center Meditation Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, Monk Mode every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Center Meditation Timer | Monk Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (783 ratings) | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 783 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanner Christensen | Kevin David Tanner |
Customer experience
Center Meditation Timer
Monk Mode
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
Monk Mode
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
Monk Mode
No in-app purchases
Questions
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