Comparison

Meditation Timer vs Unbounded

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

Head to head
About

Meditation Timer

This app provides a customizable timer for meditation sessions, offering various sound options and detailed statistics tracking. It allows users to personalize presets and ensures uninterrupted sessions with smart restart functionality.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Preset meditations
  • Tibetan singing bowls
  • Session statistics tracking
  • Smart restart after interruptions
  • High-quality sound options
Features
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An elegant meditation timer for iPhone. ** New amazing Meditation Bells ** AMAZING FEATURES: * preset meditations * Amazing Tibetan Singing Bowls * preparation time * repeating interval * cool down time * pause * restart after interruption * fine increment time settings (1 sec) * keep screen on (optional) * hide time (optional) * gorgeous backgrounds TRACK MEDITATION STATISTICS: Track your total sessions completed, total time meditating, and your daily average time meditating. CUSTOMIZE MEDITATION PRESETS With the preset Meditations you can customize the name, time & sound settings to your own custom routines. HIGH QUALITY MEDITATION BOWL SOUNDS We recorded custom authentic high quality Tibetan singing bowls available through in app purchase. These sounds have long fade outs and sound amazing under headphones. NO INTERRUPTIONS: On iPhone you can silence your ringer, which will keep all other sounds such as incomming calls and text message alerts silent, but Meditate's beautiful tones will still chime for you. SMART RESTART: Meditate handles interruptions perfectly for you.If you take an incomming call or answer a text message in the middle of your meditation session ,I know , I know .. who would do that?, well incase you do, Meditate will start right back where you left off. If you want to pick up where you left off, BUT you want preparation time again, simply press and hold the pause button for 2 seconds until Meditate enters preparation mode. FINE INCREMENT MODE You can set Meditation and Interval times in increments of 1 second using the fine increment mode. To do so press AND HOLD the meditation or interval key WHILE pressing the '+' or '-' key. Letting go of the meditation or interval key will return the increment back to 1 minute. BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE: I care about your experience with Meditate. If you need any help, I am here to support you. "You will not be disappointed in this app" Thank you for your Purchase! Trademarks of SIMPLETOUCH LLC, all rights reserved. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Segmented session times
  • Variety of sound options
  • Activity tracking
  • Social support features
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Meditation Timer4 screens
Unbounded4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meditation Timer at 75% against Unbounded's 0%. Meditation Timer also leads on ratings volume (281 vs 72). Unbounded's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meditation Timer sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Unbounded asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Unbounded holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 281 and 72 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Unbounded's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer ships an update every 5 months, Unbounded every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Meditation Timer versus Unbounded: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation TimerUnbounded
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (281 ratings)4.9 (72 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings281 — better72
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIMPLETOUCH LLCPeak Leadership LLC

Customer experience

Meditation Timer

All ratings281 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews234 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral4.7%
Negative20.5%

Unbounded

All ratings70 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Meditation Timer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Timer inaccuracies when device sleeps
  • Purchased sounds disappearing after app reinstall
  • Freezing when attempting to purchase additional sounds

Requested features

4 requests
  • More sound options included by default
  • Ability to set different interval lengths within a session
  • Statistics and reports accessible from main screen
  • Compatibility improvements for newer iOS versions

Unbounded

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Meditation Timer

Subscriptions1
  • Meditate Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time7
  • Tibetan Bowl A$0.99
  • Tibetan Bowl B$0.99
  • Tibetan Bowl C$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Tibetan Bowl D$0.99
  • Tibetan Bowl E$0.99
  • Tibetan Bowl F$0.99
  • Chime Bundle$2.99
None

Unbounded

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer free?
Meditation Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unbounded free?
Unbounded is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer or Unbounded?
Unbounded is rated higher. Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 281 ratings, while Unbounded averages 4.9 from 72 ratings.
Do Meditation Timer or Unbounded have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer nor Unbounded shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer or Unbounded?
Meditation Timer ships an update every 5 months, and Unbounded every 2 months. Most recently, Meditation Timer was updated on October 31, 2026 and Unbounded on November 3, 2026.

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