Mindfulness Bell vs Pocket Meditation Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindfulness Bell
This app plays the sound of a Tibetan Singing Bowl at set or random intervals to help you return to the present moment. It includes a meditation timer to enhance your practice. The app continues to ring even when not actively open.
- Tibetan Singing Bowl sounds
- Scheduled interval reminders
- Random interval reminders
- Meditation timer
- Background operation
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Rings a beautiful Tibetan Singing Bowl at a specified interval - or random intervals - throughout the day. The sound of these beautiful bells can help bring you back to your true center - and back into the present moment. Simply set the times that you want to hear the bell and tap Start. You can then exit the app and the bells will continue to ring throughout the scheduled time period. A meditation timer using our lovely bells is also included to help you with your meditation practice. ==================================================== Our Privacy Policy: https://spotlightsix.com/privacypolicy Our Terms of Service: https://spotlightsix.com/tcc_terms.html
Pocket Meditation Timer
This app helps users focus on their meditation practice without worrying about time. It offers customizable timers with unique sounds, background options, and reminders to support mindfulness and stress reduction.
- Customizable meditation schedules
- Prepare, interval, and cool down timers
- Unique sound options for each section
- Shake to change background images
- Unlimited practice reminders
- Password protection
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No matter if you are going to join meditators, a beginner or practice meditation for a long time, Meditation Timer can help you do it better. You can just focus on meditation without thinking about the time. Meditation is a classic, simple and inexpensive way to lead you into wonderful state of inner peace and inner calm, and it helps to keep you relax from anxious, tense, worried etc and also stress reduction, meditation enhance your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. With Meditation Timer, you can practice meditation anywhere and anytime. Key Features: ⁃ One Default meditation schedule and you can edit it. ⁃ With prepare time, interval time and cool down time. ⁃ Set unique sound for beginning, interval switching, ending and cool down end. ⁃ Sounds play one, two or three times. ⁃ Ten amazing background pictures, shake to change. ⁃ Start, stop, restart or resume meditation. ⁃ Hide the time. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to remind you practicing meditation. ⁃ Passwords protection. ⁃ Vibrate or not when switching sections. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Support iPod media background. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. ⁃ Supports universal version. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by userfeed@vip.tom.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Meditation Timer at none against Mindfulness Bell's 2. Pocket Meditation Timer also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 59%). Mindfulness Bell's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Mindfulness Bell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Pocket Meditation Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mindfulness Bell holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindfulness Bell has 12K ratings behind it against 1.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Mindfulness Bell's written reviews are positive against 79% of Pocket Meditation Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mindfulness Bell ships an update every 3 weeks, Pocket Meditation Timer every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindfulness Bell | Pocket Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (12K ratings) — better | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 1.5K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spotlight Six Software LLC | 倩 赵 |
Customer experience
Mindfulness Bell
Pocket Meditation Timer
User reviews
Mindfulness Bell
From 12K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎶 Lovely bell sounds
- 💤 Helpful for meditation and mindfulness
- ⏰ Useful timer and reminder features
- 🕰️ Simple and easy to use
Room to improve
- 🔇 Bell doesn't always sound as expected
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 📵 Doesn't work when phone is locked
- 🤔 Confusing or limited settings
Pocket Meditation Timer
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🕰️ Customizable timer options
- 🔔 Pleasant chime sounds
- 🧘♀️ Helpful for meditation practice
- 📊 Syncs with Health app
Room to improve
- 📢 Disruptive ads with sound
- 🔇 Ads ruin meditation experience
- 🔁 Can't save multiple timer settings
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
Bugs and requests
Mindfulness Bell
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when starting timer
- Purchased bells not working as expected
- Random bell feature not functioning properly
Requested features
4 requests- Allow customization of bell sounds
- Add option to run in background without draining battery
- Improve reliability of bell notifications
- Expand timer and scheduling options
Pocket Meditation Timer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Timer issues (minutes counting as seconds, not working properly)
- App freezing or crashing
Requested features
4 requests- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Ability to save multiple timer presets
- Background ambient sounds during meditation
- Interval chimes at custom time points
In-app purchases
Mindfulness Bell
- Premium Bell Upgrade One Year$1.991 Year
- Full Upgrade$0.99
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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