Comparison

Center Meditation Timer vs Bazee

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Silent timer with optional bells
  • Customizable session lengths and intervals
  • Minimalist interface with themes
  • Daily reminders and widgets
  • Apple Watch support
  • iCloud sync
Features
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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.

About

Bazee

Turn your daily health goals into a fun, competitive team sport. Track your activity rings and intermittent fasting with visual timers and real-time leaderboards. Compete with friends and family to see who can close their rings and crush their goals.

Highlights
  • Activity ring competitions with friends
  • Real-time leaderboards
  • Intermittent fasting tracker
  • Visual ring-based timers
  • HealthKit integration
  • Private and secure data sync
Features
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Bazee turns your daily health goals into a competitive team sport. ACTIVITY RING COMPETITIONS Create or join time-limited competitions with friends and family. Every day you close your Move, Exercise, and Stand rings earns points. Watch the leaderboard update in real time and see who's crushing their goals. - Create competitions with custom start/end dates - Invite friends via a shareable competition code - Daily leaderboard ranked by cumulative points - 600 points available each day across all three rings - Points sync automatically via HealthKit FASTING TRACKER Log and track your intermittent fasting schedule with a beautiful ring-based timer. - Set custom fasting schedules by day of week - Visual ring shows elapsed time vs. your goal - Four metabolic phases: Digestion, Glycogen, Fat Mobilization, Ketogenic - Smart notifications - no duplicate alerts if you've already started - Full history with streaks, average duration, and longest streak ACTIVITY RINGS See your Move, Exercise, and Stand progress at a glance with an animated ring visualization. - Live progress rings synced with Apple Health - Animated gear visualization or clean static view - Detailed breakdown of calories, minutes, and hours - Real-time points preview for today PRIVATE & SECURE - Sign in with Apple - no passwords, no email required - HealthKit data stays on your device - CloudKit sync keeps your data private and backed up

Screenshots

Center Meditation Timer4 screens
Bazee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bazee at every 4 days against Center Meditation Timer's every 4 weeks. Bazee also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Center Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (783 vs 1) and device support (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Center Meditation Timer sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Bazee sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bazee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Center Meditation Timer has 783 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Center Meditation Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, Bazee every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Center Meditation Timer versus Bazee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCenter Meditation TimerBazee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (783 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings783 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTanner ChristensenPranaya Deepak Maganti

Customer experience

Center Meditation Timer

All ratings781 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative18.6%

Bazee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Bazee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Center Meditation Timer

One-time6
  • Donate $1$0.99
  • Donate $2$1.99
  • Donate $3$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Donate $4$3.99
  • Donate $5$4.99
  • Donate $18$17.99
1 purchases

Bazee

Subscriptions1
  • Bazee Premium$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Center Meditation Timer free?
Center Meditation Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bazee free?
Bazee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Center Meditation Timer or Bazee?
Bazee is rated higher. Center Meditation Timer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 783 ratings, while Bazee averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Center Meditation Timer or Bazee have ads?
Neither Center Meditation Timer nor Bazee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Center Meditation Timer or Bazee?
Center Meditation Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, and Bazee every 4 days. Most recently, Center Meditation Timer was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bazee on October 16, 2026.

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