Yin Timer vs The Mindful Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yin Timer
A discreet timer designed for calm activities like yoga or meditation. Set your desired duration, and the analog face completes one turn, providing a peaceful timekeeping experience without distracting ticking.
- Calm and discreet timer
- Ideal for yoga and meditation
- Analog face timekeeping
- Customizable duration
- No distracting ticking
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A calm and discreet timer. This is perfect for yoga or meditation where a clock with ticking seconds will be distracting and stressful. Just choose how many minutes you want your timer to be, and it will go one turn of the analog face in that time. Slow and calm.
The Mindful Timer
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Mindful timer is a free and open source interval timer for stretching, meditating, yin yoga, and other occasions where you want a simple timer with no ads, distractions, or other nonsense getting in your way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Mindful Timer at every 6 weeks against Yin Timer's every 4 months. Yin Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yin Timer ships an update every 4 months, The Mindful Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yin Timer | The Mindful Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kodare | Charles Burgess |
In-app purchases
Yin Timer
No in-app purchases
The Mindful Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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