Meditation Timer Pro vs Center Meditation Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meditation Timer Pro
This app assists users of all meditation experience levels in practicing mindfulness. It offers customizable timers with interval bells, background sounds, and visual themes to enhance focus and relaxation. Track your progress with detailed logs and statistics, and set reminders to maintain a consistent practice.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Interval and cool down times
- Unique sound options
- Background images with shake to change
- Automatic meditation logging
- Powerful statistics
- Unlimited practice reminders
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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: ⁃ Default meditations and you can custom you own. ⁃ 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. ⁃ Save meditation logs automatically and you can add logs manually. ⁃ Powerful statistics function. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to remind you practicing meditation. ⁃ Passwords protection. ⁃ Vibrate or not when switching sections. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Support iPod media background. ⁃ Share to Facebook or Twitter. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports iCloud backup and restore. ⁃ Supports universal version. Apple Health Meditation Timer Pro is able to write meditate data only according to your permissions and preferences. If allowing MEDITATION to write data, you could transfer the meditate data to Health App easily. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by userfeed@vip.tom.com.
Center Meditation Timer
A silent meditation timer designed for serious practitioners. It offers a minimalist interface with customizable session lengths, intervals, and sounds. Track your progress without pressure or gamification.
- Silent timer with optional bells
- Customizable session lengths and intervals
- Minimalist interface with themes
- Daily reminders and widgets
- Apple Watch support
- iCloud sync
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Center is a silent meditation timer for serious practice. No guides, no voices, no lessons, and no music. Center exists for people who already know why they meditate and want a calm, precise tool to support long-term practice. Start a session in one tap. Practice in silence or with simple bells. Customize session lengths, intervals, sounds, and themes to match your ritual. Center works across all Apple platforms and stays out of your way. # Designed for real practice • Silent timer with optional bells and intervals • Fully customizable session lengths • Minimal interface with multiple themes • Widgets and daily reminders • Apple Watch support • Syncs seamlessly with iCloud # Optional tracking, never pressure • View trends and streaks if you want them • Manually log sessions when needed • No rankings, no goals, no gamification # Built to last • No subscriptions • No ads • No data harvesting • Supported by optional donations Center is not a course, a coach, or a content platform. It is a quiet instrument for mindfulness, offered with restraint and intention. If Center supports your practice, you may choose to support its continued development.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Center Meditation Timer at Free against Meditation Timer Pro's $1.99. Center Meditation Timer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and device support (6 vs 3). Meditation Timer Pro's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 70%) and chart position (#43 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Center Meditation Timer is free to download; Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99 up front. Meditation Timer Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Center Meditation Timer sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Meditation Timer Pro against 4.7 for Center Meditation Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 777 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Meditation Timer Pro's written reviews are positive against 70% of Center Meditation Timer's.
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, Center Meditation Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Timer Pro | Center Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (777 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.0% of reviews — better | 70.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 777 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #43 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Tanner Christensen |
Customer experience
Meditation Timer Pro
Center Meditation Timer
User reviews
Meditation Timer Pro
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💻 Easy to set and use
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Flexible and easy to use
- 👍 Straightforward and intuitive
- 👍 Customizable
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔇 Limited sound options
- 🔇 Abrupt ending of sounds
- 🔇 Lack of volume control
- 🔒 Subscription model change for existing users
Center Meditation Timer
From 777 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and efficient
- 👍 Minimalist and focused design
- 🌟 Elegant and calming UI
- 💰 Free with no ads or subscriptions
- 🔒 No data collection
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs with interval sounds and end chime
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔇 Doesn't work in silent mode
- ⏱️ Timer stops when screen locks
- 🕰️ No option for open-ended meditation
Bugs and requests
Meditation Timer Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer stopping unexpectedly
- Connectivity issues with Apple Watch app
- Inconsistent behavior with background music volume
Requested features
6 requests- More interval chime options
- Ability to edit existing meditation settings
- Vibration alerts on Apple Watch
- Customizable background images
- Numerical rating system for sessions
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- Ability to set custom times for interval bells
Center Meditation Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Interval sounds not playing consistently
- Timer stopping when screen locks or goes to sleep
- Sync issues between iPhone and Apple Watch app
- Inability to change screen sleep settings
Requested features
4 requests- Add Apple Watch complications and background tracking
- Allow manual entry of meditation sessions
- Extend bell/chime duration for better resonance
- Add option to play background nature sounds
In-app purchases
Meditation Timer Pro
- Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
- Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year
Center Meditation Timer
- Donate $1$0.99
- Donate $2$1.99
- Donate $3$2.99
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- Donate $4$3.99
- Donate $5$4.99
- Donate $18$17.99
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