Comparison

Unwind vs Timber

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

Head to head
About

Unwind

This app guides you through mindful breathing exercises to reduce stress, improve sleep, and enhance focus. It offers a distraction-free experience with beautiful visuals, soothing ambiances, and personalized tracking to support your mindfulness journey.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Background ambiances
  • Mindfulness history and stats
  • iOS widgets
  • Voice prompts and haptics
  • Daily reminders and quotes
  • Sync to Apple Health
Features
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Unwind is a refreshing, delightful, and distraction-free mindful breathing companion to help you with meditation and get you through the day. Unwind combines beautiful illustrations with background ambiances to create an atmosphere that is perfect for mindful breathing. HOW DOES UNWIND WORK? We’ve forgotten the true significance of mindful breathing. We are so busy that we have even forgotten how to breathe correctly—which drastically affects our overall health and happiness. Unwind fixes that. Unwind comes with a number of guided breathing exercises including the following exercises: - Start your day fresh This breathing exercise gets you ready for the day feeling refreshed, relaxed, and also shaking off any lingering remnants of sleep - Relax & unwind This breathing exercise relieves your mind of any stress or anxiety. By the end of this exercise, you’ll feel relaxed and more focused. - Sleep better & faster When you are ready for bed, this deep relaxing breathing exercise helps you get calm, and fall asleep in minutes. ------ And it doesn’t end there! UNWIND COMES WITH THE FOLLOWING EXTRA FEATURES - Mindfulness History Unwind securely backs up all your session details with any notes or mood you’ve logged. Reflect on your past and get better with just a tap. - Stats and Insights Find it hard to stay motivated? Track your mindfulness journey and set daily targets and build streaks to make sure you stay motivated and spend some time daily to be mindful. - Widgets With support for iOS 17 Lock Screen and Home Screen Widgets out of the box, you’ll be able to track your daily mindfulness progress right from your home screen. - Background Ambiances Unwind comes with over 30 background ambiances each with a unique sound and illustrations so that you can craft the perfect atmosphere for your mindful breathing session. The ambiances help reduce distractions and improve focus on the breathing. - Breathing Companion After you begin a session, Unwind breathes with you by animating the background scenes to help you stay mindful and in sync. - Voice Prompts Unwind also supports voice prompts to guide you through the breathing exercises if you prefer to do them with your eyes closed. - Haptics Unwind comes with the best haptic feedback during exercises. - Daily Reminders Enable daily reminders and Unwind will gently remind you when it's time to do your breathing exercise. You can also set custom reminders. - Daily Mindfulness Quotes After each session, Unwind displays a fresh mindfulness quote for you to absorb in the perfect state of mind. - Sync to Apple Health You can choose to track your Mindful Minutes in Apple Health by enabling the “Sync to Apple Health” option. - iCloud Sync Your stats and mindfulness history is backed up privately in your private iCloud account and can only be seen you. So if you decide to switch your phone and use multiple devices, your data will never be lost. --- You can subscribe and pay on the App Store, using your Apple ID. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renew may be turned off after purchase by going to the ‘Manage Subscription’ page in settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. The subscription will renew at the same cost. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/mysticalbits/unwind-tos/blob/main/privacy-policy.md Terms of Use: https://github.com/mysticalbits/unwind-tos/blob/main/terms-of-use.md

About

Timber

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Timber is a customizable interval timer and routine builder. Whether you're crushing a HIIT workout, sinking into a deep focus session, or perfecting your morning schedule, Timber lets you build your routine, your way. Create simple countdowns or advanced multi-step routines with reusable blocks, groups, repeats, nested timers, media cues, and background playback. Stop switching between separate apps for HIIT, Tabata, Pomodoro, meditation, stretching, coaching, and cooking. Timber lets you build the exact routine you need. BUILD ONCE, REUSE ANYWHERE Create simple or highly advanced timers using our flexible block-based system. • Create reusable timer blocks • Group blocks into circuits, sets, and rounds • Repeat blocks, groups, or full timers • Nest timers inside other timers • Merge blocks into groups or split them apart • Edit linked blocks once to update them everywhere, or unlink for a custom version • Duplicate timers and blocks for easy modification GUIDE EVERY STEP WITH RICH MEDIA CUES Don't just watch the clock. Attach rich media to any timer step so you know exactly what to do and when to do it: • Add YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion video demos • Attach local video, audio, image, recording, and text prompts • Use text-to-speech voice cues for hands-free guidance • Add music, countdown sounds, and instructions to individual timer steps • Keep cues running with native background playback ONE TIMER FOR EVERY ACTIVITY • Workouts & Training: HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, boxing rounds, circuit training, stretching, and mobility. Add exercise demo videos right into your rest and work intervals. • Focus & Productivity: Pomodoro, deep work, studying, reading, and work sprints • Mindfulness: yoga, breathwork, meditation, and guided practice • Daily life: morning routines, cooking steps, speaking practice, and coaching plans TRACK YOUR PROGRESS See how consistently you’re completing your routines. • View weekly timer time, completed sessions, and streaks • Explore seven-day activity bars and a monthly heatmap • See per-timer stats including times run, total time, and average completion • Review completed, skipped, and unplayed sections of each session SHARE AND IMPORT COMPLETE TIMERS • Share lightweight timers with a QR code • Share media-rich timers as a Timber zip file • Choose which media files to include before sharing • Preview media before exporting or importing • Scan QR codes from another phone or from a saved image • Review, rename, and confirm shared timers before adding them • Imported timers stay clearly marked so you know where they came from RELIABLE BACKGROUND PLAYBACK Run timers with a focused, distraction-free display or continue while using other apps. Timber keeps your countdown, audio cues, TTS prompts, and notifications moving in the background. • Use a focused full-screen playback view • Follow and control timers with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Keep timers and supported media cues running in the background FULL BACKUP & RESTORE Keep a portable copy of your Timber data. • Back up timers, blocks, history, media, and your theme preference • Export everything as a .timber.zip file • Preview a backup before restoring it • Choose individual timers to restore • Restore nested timers and their required media automatically PRIVATE & OFFLINE-FIRST Your data belongs to you. Timers, blocks, history, and local media are stored on your device. You decide when to export, share, back up, or restore them. No account required, no forced logins WHY CHOOSE TIMBER? • Replaces basic countdown timers, stopwatches, and routine apps • Reusable blocks make advanced timers faster to build • Rich media cues help you know exactly what to do next • QR and zip sharing make it easy to move routines between devices • Flexible enough for simple tasks and complex schedules Create once. Reuse anywhere with Timber. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Unwind4 screens
Timber4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Unwind at none against Timber's shown. Timber's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Unwind sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Timber sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unwind ships an update weekly, Timber daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Unwind versus Timber: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnwindTimber
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (590 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings590 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMystical Bits, LLCSREEHARI P C

Bugs and requests

Unwind

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Restore purchase feature not working consistently
  • Apple Watch app stops working when screen dims
  • Widget not showing the correct breathing exercise

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Allow custom background colors and brightness
  • Implement more guided meditation options
  • Improve haptic feedback on Apple Watch
  • Add ability to use own music during sessions

Timber

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Unwind

Subscriptions6
  • Unwind Pro (Weekly)$1.997 Days
  • Unwind Pro (Weekly - Family)$2.997 Days
  • Unwind Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
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  • Unwind Pro (Monthly - Family)$6.991 Month
  • Unwind Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Unwind Pro (Yearly - Family)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Unwind Pro (Lifetime)$24.99
  • Unwind Pro (Legacy)$29.99
  • Unwind Pro (Lifetime - Family)$29.99
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  • Unwind Pro (Lifetime)$56.99
2 purchases

Timber

Subscriptions1
  • Timber Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Timber Pro Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is Unwind free?
Unwind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timber free?
Timber is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Unwind or Timber have ads?
Timber shows ads; Unwind does not.
Which is updated more often, Unwind or Timber?
Unwind ships an update weekly, and Timber daily. Most recently, Unwind was updated on October 14, 2026 and Timber on September 30, 2026.

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