Timefully vs Zenti Meditation Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timefully
This app provides a distraction-free meditation timer designed to help users build consistent habits. It offers customizable timers, rewarding progress tracking with virtual tree growth, and detailed statistics to motivate your practice.
- Customizable meditation timer with unlimited presets
- Virtual tree growth for practice motivation
- Comprehensive session statistics and charts
- Emotion and note tracking
- Multiple user profiles
- Apple Watch integration with heart rate tracking
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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
Zenti Meditation Timer
This app offers a streamlined approach to meditation, allowing users to quickly set up custom timers with interval sounds and vibrations. It integrates with Apple Health and supports custom shortcuts for easy access. Focus on your practice without unnecessary distractions.
- Customizable meditation timers
- Interval sounds and vibrations
- Apple Health integration
- Apple Shortcuts support
- Home screen widgets
- Progress tracking
- Privacy-focused design
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Zenti strikes a balance between simplicity and control. Need a 10 minute meditation timer with an interval sound halfway through? With Zenti, that's one screen and three easy taps. Many meditation apps force you to deal with long lists of guided mediations, news feeds, and complex settings just to start a meditation. Zenti gets out of your way so you can jump straight to what's important. Features: - Meditation Links: Create links that can be saved anywhere. Tap them to start a custom meditation. You can now start meditations from third party widgets, save meditations in your notes or reminders, and share meditations with friends. - Apple Shortcuts support: Make custom meditations, play your favorite music, control focus modes, and more - Apple Health support: save your mindful minutes to the Health App - Widgets that put your stats right on the home and lock screens - Quick tap duration and interval times with custom duration and intervals for when you need more control - A stat view for tracking your trends and progress - Customizable start, interval, and end sounds - Vibrations for when you want to meditate in silence - Countdown timer before meditation starts - Ability to finish a meditation early or extend past original timer duration - Prevent the screen from sleeping during meditation - 11 themes all supporting light and dark mode - Privacy focused. No data sharing, your data remains yours. Find your balance with Zenti. --- Zenti does not collect any user information. View the policy at https://zenti.app/privacy Zenti uses Apple’s Standard License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Timefully at 1.1K against Zenti Meditation Timer's 6. Timefully also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (4 vs 2). Zenti Meditation Timer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Zenti Meditation Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Zenti Meditation Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timefully has 1.1K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Timefully's written reviews are positive against 100% of Zenti Meditation Timer's.
Timefully ships an update weekly, Zenti Meditation Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timefully | Zenti Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 395 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lalune Creative AB | The Web Workers |
Customer experience
Timefully
Zenti Meditation Timer
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
Zenti Meditation Timer
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
Zenti Meditation Timer
- Full Access$3.991 Year
- Tip Level 1$1.99
- Zenti Pro$3.99
- Tip Level 2$4.99
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- Tip Level 3$9.99
- Zenti Pro 2$12.99
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