Comparison

Timefully vs Sitting Time

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Sitting Time

This app provides a straightforward timer for meditation sessions, allowing users to set durations and delays. It features a dimming screen option and continues to play gongs even when the device is locked, supporting both light and dark modes.

Highlights
  • Adjustable timer (1-60 minutes)
  • Customizable setup delay (1-60 seconds)
  • Screen dimming for focus
  • Background gong playback
  • Light and Dark mode support
Features
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Sitting Time is a simple app to aid you in your dedicated sitting meditation. It does one thing - timing your sitting whilst getting out of your way doing so. Features: - Start, pause and stop your timer (1-60 minutes) - Add a delay while you get your sitting position set up (1-60 seconds; double tap on the labels at the bottom to show/hide this option) - Dim the screen to avoid distraction whilst counting down - Gongs continue to play even if the device is locked - Light and Dark mode support I hope it helps you in your sitting practice.

Screenshots

Timefully4 screens
Sitting Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sitting Time at none against Timefully's 7. Sitting Time also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Timefully's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timefully sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sitting Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sitting Time 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 2, 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 Sitting Time's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timefully ships an update weekly, Sitting Time every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Timefully versus Sitting Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimefullySitting Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.1K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size395 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLalune Creative ABDaniel Segall

Customer experience

Timefully

All ratings1,086 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews161 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative8.1%

Sitting Time

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Sitting Time

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Timefully

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99
None

Sitting Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timefully free?
Timefully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sitting Time free?
Sitting Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Timefully or Sitting Time?
Sitting Time is rated higher. Timefully averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Sitting Time averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Timefully or Sitting Time have ads?
Neither Timefully nor Sitting Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timefully or Sitting Time?
Timefully ships an update weekly, and Sitting Time every 2 days. Most recently, Timefully was updated on October 11, 2026 and Sitting Time on October 9, 2026.

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