Unbounded vs DLF Timer Meditation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unbounded
This app offers a customizable meditation timer with segmented sessions and various sounds. It allows users to track their mindfulness activity and connect with others for mutual support. Integration with Apple Health logs mindful minutes automatically.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Segmented session times
- Variety of sound options
- Activity tracking
- Social support features
- Apple Health integration
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Unbounded is an elegant meditation timer that lets you set time segments and sounds, track your activity, and engage with colleagues and friends to support each other’s meditation practice. Integrates with the Apple Health app to log mindful minutes.
DLF Timer Meditation
This app supports individuals with a regular Transcendental Meditation practice. It offers a customizable timer with adjustable lead-in, interval, and outro times, along with sound and volume controls. Users can also access guided meditations.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Adjustable lead-in, interval, and outro times
- Customizable sound and volume
- Access to guided meditations
- Supports Transcendental Meditation practice
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The DLF Meditation Timer app was created by the David Lynch Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, specifically to enhance and support individuals who have a regular Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice. The timer is dynamic, allowing users to select lead-in, interval and outro times as well as customize sound and volume. The app also offers easy access to twice daily phone meditations with Bob Roth Since 2005, the mission of the David Lynch Foundation has been to help prevent and eradicate the all-pervasive epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at-risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of the evidence-based TM program in order to help improve health, cognitive capabilities and performance in life. Research over the last 40 years demonstrates that TM has a significant impact on hypertension and cardiovascular disease, insomnia, symptoms of PTSD/TBI, substance use disorders, stress, anxiety, depression and more. The foundation has delivered the program to populations nationwide including: military veterans, first responders, frontline healthcare workers and survivors of domestic violence. The DLF Meditation Timer app is by the David Lynch Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, to support individuals who are trained in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DLF Timer Meditation at 50% against Unbounded's 0%. DLF Timer Meditation also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Unbounded's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (72 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Unbounded holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unbounded has 72 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Unbounded's written reviews are positive against 50% of DLF Timer Meditation's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Unbounded ships an update every 2 months, DLF Timer Meditation monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Unbounded | DLF Timer Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (72 ratings) — better | 3.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Peak Leadership | Monty Media LLC |
Customer experience
Unbounded
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In-app purchases
Unbounded
No in-app purchases
DLF Timer Meditation
No in-app purchases
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