Monk Mode vs Mindful Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monk Mode
This app functions as a meditation timer, logging your sessions as mindful minutes directly into Apple Health. It also features a heart rate tracker to monitor your heart rate during meditation and provide an average at its conclusion.
- Meditation timer
- Log mindful minutes
- Apple Health integration
- Heart rate tracker
- View average heart rate
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A meditation timer that makes mindfulness effortless. Sit down. Breathe. Let everything else fade. Whether you prefer silence or guided narration, Monk Mode meets you where you are. Pick a focus, set your duration, and begin meditating. Your mindful minutes are saved to Apple Health automatically. With your Apple Watch connected, your heart rate is tracked in real time so you can see how your body responds to stillness. Start from your iPhone, your Watch, or straight from a home screen widget. Every session brings you closer to the version of yourself that shows up calmer, clearer, and more present. What you get: • Guided and unguided meditation timer (1-60 min + unlimited) • 5 focus types: Breath, Body Scan, Loving-Kindness, Open Awareness, and Sleep • On-device narration in 6 languages that adapts to your session • Live heart rate tracking via Apple Watch • Mindful minutes and workouts saved to Apple Health • Daily goals, weekly streaks, and progress at a glance • Configurable widgets that can auto-start a session with a tap • Haptic breathing cues, custom bell tones, and adjustable guidance • A dedicated sleep meditation mode • Seamless sync across iPhone and Apple Watch Your meditation practice. No subscriptions. No accounts. Just you and the timer. Privacy Policy https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-privacy-policy Terms & Conditions https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-terms-conditions
Mindful Meter
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Mindful Meter is a watch app that lets you quickly record your minutes spent mindfully engaging in various activities, such as thankfulness, insight (e.g., reading), meditation, exercise and service. You can also switch the mindful meter to only track gratitude, if you only want to record thankfulness. You can add a complication to your watch face that shows the status of your mindful minutes (or just your gratitude) compared to a daily goal you set. The number of minutes shown gradually decreases during the day, so when the complication shows a low status you can be reminded to engage in additional mindful activities to keep meeting your daily goal. When you enter you mindfulness activity, if you select "Other" and manually input an activity, that added activity will be added as an option for that activity (and if you later want to delete that option, swipe left on that option to delete it).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mindful Meter at Free against Monk Mode's $4.99. Mindful Meter also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Monk Mode's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On 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
Mindful Meter is free to download; Monk Mode costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Monk Mode ships an update every 2 months, Mindful Meter every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monk Mode | Mindful Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin David Tanner | Piryon Enterprises LLC |
In-app purchases
Monk Mode
No in-app purchases
Mindful Meter
No in-app purchases
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