Comparison

Beat Procrastination with AJ vs Animal Timer

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

Head to head
About

Beat Procrastination with AJ

This guided meditation app helps you overcome procrastination and achieve your goals. It offers short sessions for focus, inspiration, and habit building, along with relaxation techniques for better sleep and stress relief.

Highlights
  • Short guided meditations
  • Inspirational sessions
  • Mindfulness stories and talks
  • Relaxation techniques
  • Breathing exercises
  • Sleep improvement meditations
Features
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Stay focussed, achieve your goals, and be productive. Beat procrastination in just a few minutes each day – this guided meditation will help you overcome blockers and challenges. Download this app and use it when you need to a mental reset or you feel overwhelmed by life’s daily challenges. Make better use of your time and overcome procrastination – you’ll be self-motivated and able to achieve your goals. This app will help you establish new productive habits to supercharge your day and get things done. Destress, improve your mindset, sleep better, grow your confidence and be healthier with guided meditations, mindfulness sessions and positive messages – and much more. Mindfulness expert, coach and therapist Andrew Johnson has been helping people deal with life’s challenges with guided relaxations, meditations, self-care tools and breathing exercises for many years. His best-selling range of mindfulness apps have a variety of content to help you, whether you are looking for ways to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve your health & confidence, learn relaxation techniques, etc. Key features: • Short meditations you can do anywhere: at work, commuting, at home, walking. • Inspirational sessions to help you tackle life’s challenges, to be calm and find clarity. • Mindfulness stories and talks to help you build better, healthy habits. Meditations to help you feel inspired and find motivated to eat well, workout and stay healthy both in body and mind. Relaxation techniques and tools to help you sleep better every night, to wake feeling energised and refreshed. Breathing exercises and calming meditations for anxiety, panic attacks and stress relief. Meditation sessions to stop anxiety in its tracks and release stress. How do I get more? Start your day mindfully, keep feeling positive and be inspired throughout the day with a range of guided meditations to help during tough or stressful moments. Boost your energy with a Power Nap, stay focussed to Beat Procrastination, and then drift off using a Deep Sleep meditation for a restful night. Think of Andrew as your personal mindfulness coach, always there to help when you need him most. Search for Andrew Johnson to unlock more daily mindfulness and guided meditation sessions.

About

Animal Timer

This timer app notifies you with fun animal sounds when your set time is up. Choose from cats, dogs, or chicks, and set timers ranging from 1 second to 99 minutes. It supports multiple independent timers, each with a different animal sound.

Highlights
  • Customizable animal sound alerts
  • Set timers from 1 second to 99 minutes
  • Multiple independent timers
  • Assign different sounds to each timer
  • Simple start and sound selection
Features
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A timer that notifies you with animal sounds (cats, dogs, chicks) when the set time comes. 1. The time that can be set is from 1 second to 99 minutes and 59 seconds. 2. Touch [Start] to start the timer. 3. Select animal sounds from cats, dogs, and chicks. 4. When the set time comes, it will notify you with animal sounds. The chirping lasts about 1 minute. 5. Multi-timer, 3 timers operate independently. Timer 1 is a cat, timer 2 is a dog, and timer 3 is a chick.

Screenshots

Beat Procrastination with AJ3 screens
Animal Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beat Procrastination with AJ at 68% against Animal Timer's 0%. Beat Procrastination with AJ also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). Animal Timer's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Beat Procrastination with AJ costs $2.99 and Animal Timer $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beat Procrastination with AJ ships an update every 20 months, Animal Timer every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Beat Procrastination with AJ versus Animal Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeat Procrastination with AJAnimal Timer
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsEvery 10 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB29 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperUniversal Relaxation LtdMasahiro Tomosada

Customer experience

Beat Procrastination with AJ

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive67.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative27.5%

Animal Timer

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Beat Procrastination with AJ

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Apps don't open or crash
  • Music and reminders not working on iPhone
  • App crashes on startup on newer iOS
  • Background music is tense
  • Glitch with sound pause at end of session
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  • Intro music too loud or repeating
  • Program length issue with delayed start
  • Quiet even with volume up
  • Intro instructions still play when off

Requested features

6 requests
  • Option to turn off background music
  • Update apps to work on newer iOS versions
  • Redo content to be more universally effective
  • Add more breathing techniques
  • Normalize volume of intro music
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  • Make recordings consistent

Animal Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beat Procrastination with AJ

No in-app purchases

None

Animal Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beat Procrastination with AJ free?
Beat Procrastination with AJ costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Animal Timer free?
Animal Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beat Procrastination with AJ or Animal Timer have ads?
Neither Beat Procrastination with AJ nor Animal Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beat Procrastination with AJ or Animal Timer?
Beat Procrastination with AJ ships an update every 20 months, and Animal Timer every 10 months. Most recently, Beat Procrastination with AJ was updated on October 29, 2026 and Animal Timer on October 8, 2026.

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