Comparison

Meditation Timer Pro vs Mindful

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Mindful

This app helps you become more present and less distracted throughout your day. Receive customizable notifications to pause your thoughts and feel calmer, more connected, and focused. It also offers a journaling feature for personal affirmations and reminders.

Highlights
  • Customizable mindfulness reminders
  • Adjustable reminder frequency
  • Selectable reminder tones
  • In-app journaling
  • Personalized message creation
  • Reminder scheduling view
Features
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Mindful is about helping you find a way to become more present and less distracted in your day-to-day life. The objective is to feel calmer, connected with those around you and to be balanced and focused. This is achieved by being reminded to be mindful throughout the day. Whenever a notification is received, this is the time to stop your thoughts and just be present. The app could also be used to provide regular affirmations or reminders of what sort of person you would like to be. You can select how often you want to be reminded each day: seldom, sometimes or often. This corresponds to roughly every 3 hours, 2 hours or hourly. There is a plus or minus variance of 20% on the reminder period. Tap on settings (the blue gear icon) to select the start and stop time for reminders. You can also choose your reminder tone from this screen. You can select multiple tones and these will be allocated to your messages. Using multiple reminder tones helps prevent notification fatigue. The green journal contains messages, which will be randomly included when your reminder is displayed. You can edit or delete these (swipe left) or add your own messages. The Calendar Icon provides a list of what messages are scheduled when. When you want the reminders to start, tap on the Start button. To stop all reminders, tap Stop!

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Pro4 screens
Mindful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mindful at Free against Meditation Timer Pro's $1.99. Mindful also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). Meditation Timer Pro's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 1). On review sentiment, ads and device support 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

Mindful 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. Mindful asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meditation Timer Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer Pro has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Meditation Timer Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mindful's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, Mindful every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Meditation Timer Pro versus Mindful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer ProMindful
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews95.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Reefwing Software

Customer experience

Meditation Timer Pro

All ratings1,153 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews586 reviews
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative3.2%

Mindful

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Mindful

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Meditation Timer Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
  • Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year
None

Mindful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Pro free?
Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Mindful free?
Mindful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer Pro or Mindful?
Meditation Timer Pro is rated higher. Meditation Timer Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Mindful averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Meditation Timer Pro or Mindful have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Pro nor Mindful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Pro or Mindful?
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Mindful every 3 months. Most recently, Meditation Timer Pro was updated on October 14, 2026 and Mindful on September 28, 2026.

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