Center Meditation Timer vs move/think
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.
move/think
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movethink is a voice-driven fitness journal built around how you feel, not just what you did. Log a run, walk, or workout by speaking — describe where you went, how your body felt, what was on your mind. move/think captures it all and tracks your mood and energy alongside your activity, so you can start to see the connection between movement and mental clarity over time. No complicated metrics. No performance pressure. Just a simple, honest record of how exercise makes you feel. Features - Voice-first logging — just talk, move/think fills in the details - Mood and energy tracking alongside every activity - Weekly mileage goals with a clean visual summary - Route mapping and automatic distance calculation - A personal history that reflects the whole picture — body and mind
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: move/think at none against Center Meditation Timer's 6. Center Meditation Timer's advantage is device support (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. move/think asks for nothing beyond the download.
Center Meditation Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, move/think every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Center Meditation Timer | move/think |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (781 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 781 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanner Christensen | Zach Walsh |
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
move/think
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
move/think
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Center Meditation Timer free?
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