MeditationWise vs Sorta Zen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MeditationWise
Explore over sixty meditation techniques from diverse spiritual traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. Discover methods for stilling the mind, powerful mantras, dynamic movement, and advanced visualization practices.
- Extensive library of meditation techniques
- Techniques from world spiritual traditions
- Basic sitting methods
- Mantras and visualization practices
- Dynamic movement meditations
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The MeditationWise library contains more than sixty techniques from each of the world’s great spiritual traditions. You’ll find meditations from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sufism, Taoism, Judaism, and Ageless Wisdom. There are basic sitting methods that still the mind, along with powerful mantras, dynamic movement, and advanced visualization practices.
Sorta Zen
This app provides a minimalist meditation timer with optional background sounds and interval bells. It focuses on a simple, distraction-free experience without gamification or tracking features. Designed for quiet contemplation, it offers a straightforward way to practice mindfulness.
- Meditation timer
- Background sounds
- Interval bells
- Ad-free experience
- No user accounts
- Distraction-free interface
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It’s a meditation app. Eventually, you meditate. If you need a little help getting there, you can start with Touchscreen Meditation or a short daily talk. Then the app shuts up. The timer, Touchscreen Meditation, background sounds, and interval bells are free. The first 10 daily talks are free too. After that, the talks are an optional $20/year subscription that renews until canceled. There are no courses to complete. No libraries to browse. No streaks, badges, leaderboards, notifications, user accounts, mood tracking, sleep stories, ads, or little graphs implying you’re becoming a better person. Just a simple place to sit quietly for a while. Enlightenment not guaranteed. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sortazen.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sorta Zen at weekly against MeditationWise's fortnightly. Sorta Zen also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). MeditationWise's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. MeditationWise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Sorta Zen sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $20.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MeditationWise against 5.0 for Sorta Zen. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
MeditationWise ships an update fortnightly, Sorta Zen weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | MeditationWise | Sorta Zen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Uma Dhamija | Patrick Griffith |
Customer experience
MeditationWise
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In-app purchases
MeditationWise
- Meditation Wise Monthly Plan$6.991 Month
- Meditation Wise Yearly Plan$49.991 Year
Sorta Zen
- Food For Non-Thought1 Month trial$20.001 Year
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