Timefully vs Resonant Breathing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timefully
This app offers a distraction-free meditation timer with deep tracking and motivational features like virtual tree growth. It allows for extensive customization of sessions, sounds, and progress monitoring, all while keeping your data private.
- Customizable meditation timer presets
- Deep session tracking and statistics
- Virtual tree growth for motivation
- Extensive bell and ambient sound library
- Apple Watch integration for standalone use
- Privacy-focused with iCloud sync
- Integration with Apple Health and Siri
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Timefully helps meditators build a practice that lasts. A beautifully simple meditation timer with deep tracking, tree-growth motivation, and comprehensive statistics — trusted by 40,000+ meditators worldwide and rated 4.8 stars. WHY TIMEFULLY? Timefully is designed for meditators who know what they want — a distraction-free timer that stays out of your way, tracks your progress, and keeps you motivated. No guided content, no social feed, no ads. Just a powerful, beautiful tool for the practice you already have — Vipassana, Zen, mindfulness, mantra, yoga, or breathwork. YOUR TIMER, YOUR WAY • Unlimited presets per profile — create as many as you need • Unlimited segments: warm-up, main, intervals, cool-down, and more • Tap any segment to adjust its duration during setup • Open session mode for indefinite meditation • Count up or count down — your choice • Simple Mode hides the clock for deeper focus • Beautiful curated backgrounds, or use your own photos • Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your session in view BEAUTIFUL BELLS & SOUNDS • 40 bell sounds: Tibetan bells, singing bowls, gongs, wind chimes, flutes, and more • Starting and ending bells (1–3 rings each) • Interval bells at set times or repeating • 6 ambient sounds: Rain, Forest, Ocean, Wind, Fireplace, Birds • Add your own custom sounds • Fade-in option and volume control • Silent mode with haptics TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Automatic session tracking from the timer • Manual entry — including backfilling past sessions • Post-session mood and emotion tracking • Notes and reflections, with a word cloud built from your notes • 6 statistics reports with weekly, monthly, and yearly views • Monthly calendar glance view • AI insights with Apple Intelligence STAY MOTIVATED • Set daily and weekly practice goals • Grow virtual trees through consistent practice • 6 tree species: Oak, Cherry Blossom, Mangrove, Maple, Olive, Wisteria • Earn milestones and achievements, and keep your streak • Inspiring quotes after each session — or turn all in-app text off for quiet, focused sessions BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH • Standalone timer on your wrist • Real-time heart rate and HRV during sessions • Haptic guidance and Always-On Display support • Complications, and sessions saved as workouts • Fully 1:1 with iPhone — including intervals MULTIPLE PROFILES & PRESETS • Profiles for different practices: Meditation, Yoga, and more • Unlimited presets per profile, each with its own background • Quick switching between configurations PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required — your data stays in your own iCloud • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Export and import your data anytime (Open Sit, CSV and JSON) SEAMLESS INTEGRATION • Apple Health — sessions saved as Mindful Minutes • Siri & Shortcuts, with a ready-made Timefully Shortcut and Action Button support • Do Not Disturb automation • 6 Home Screen widgets and 4 Lock Screen widgets ON YOUR MAC • Native macOS app, ideal for desk meditation during work breaks • Large screen for comprehensive statistics • iCloud sync keeps your practice in step with iPhone and iPad PRICING AND TERMS The timer is always free — no account, no ads, no trial limits. Timefully Pro unlocks iCloud sync, Apple Watch heart rate & HRV, statistics & AI insights, tree growth, achievements & streaks, mood tracking, unlimited profiles, premium bells, and widgets. Timefully Pro offers two auto-renewing subscription options: Monthly: $2.99 per month Annual: $11.99 per year You can also purchase Lifetime access for a one-time payment of $24.99. These prices are for United States users. Pricing in other countries may vary. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: https://www.timefully.co/terms PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.timefully.co/privacy
Resonant Breathing
Facilitates deep meditative states by guiding users through resonant breathing exercises. This method aims to quickly activate the parasympathetic nervous system, making meditation more accessible and effective.
- Heart Rate Variability guidance
- Parasympathetic system activation
- Deep meditative state induction
- Personalized comfortable breath patterns
- Automatic meditation success
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Heart Rate Variability Resonant Breathing is the fastest way to get into a deep meditative state by awakening the parasympathetic system. By following the breath pattern and finding the rate which is most comfortable for you, Resonance is established within a few minutes; potentially cutting out years of meditative struggle. This technique is giving you a handle on your own dorsal vagal parasympathetic system. Getting a handle on that system allows you to become successful in meditation automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Resonant Breathing at none against Timefully's 7. Resonant Breathing also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Timefully's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 43) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Timefully sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Resonant Breathing asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Timefully against 4.7 for Resonant Breathing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timefully has 1.1K ratings behind it against 43, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Timefully's written reviews are positive against 96% of Resonant Breathing's.
Timefully ships an update every 8 days, Resonant Breathing fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timefully | Resonant Breathing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better | 4.7 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.2% of reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 399 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lalune Creative AB | John goodstadt |
Customer experience
Timefully
Resonant Breathing
Bugs and requests
Timefully
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer not always completing sessions
- Apple Watch integration problems
- Incorrect activity log data
Requested features
5 requests- More bell/chime sound options
- Ability to adjust timer from Apple Watch
- Option to disable tree growth feature
- Expanded emotion/mood tracking
- Sync progress across devices
Resonant Breathing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Timefully
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Quarterly$5.993 Months
- Annual2 variants$11.991 Year
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- Timefully Annual, 14-day Trial14 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99
Resonant Breathing
No in-app purchases
Questions
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