Comparison

Meditation Timer Pro vs Storysurf

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

Storysurf

Discover thoughtful, timely, and timeless stories designed to make you think and feel. This app offers a unique way to engage with narratives that align with your moods, providing a mental gymnasium for productive leisure.

Highlights
  • Snackable, contextual stories
  • Mood-aligned narratives
  • Thought-provoking content
  • Timely and timeless stories
  • Mental gymnasium for users
Features
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Facts are dividing us. Stories shall unite us. Read thoughtful, timely, timeless, good-looking, contextual, snackable stories that make you think and feel. A snack and gymnasium for the mind, Storysurf is the most productive way to waste your time with stories that know and go with your moods. Because each mood is a wave. Each wave is a story. Each story is you. Drift with the waves. Submerge in them. Dip your feet in them. Sink or jump over them. Float on them or ride them. Welcome to Storysurf. Now, Get Lost.

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Pro4 screens
Storysurf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Storysurf at Free against Meditation Timer Pro's $1.99. Storysurf also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months). Meditation Timer Pro's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 26) and chart position (#182 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment 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

Storysurf 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. Storysurf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meditation Timer Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer Pro has 1.2K ratings behind it against 26, 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 Storysurf'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, Storysurf every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Meditation Timer Pro versus Storysurf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer ProStorysurf
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.6 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews94.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better26
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB45 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developer倩 赵Gonecase

Customer experience

Meditation Timer Pro

All ratings1,153 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews631 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.5%

Storysurf

All ratings26 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews9 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

Storysurf

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

Storysurf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Pro free?
Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Storysurf free?
Storysurf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer Pro or Storysurf?
Meditation Timer Pro is rated higher. Meditation Timer Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Storysurf averages 4.6 from 26 ratings.
Do Meditation Timer Pro or Storysurf have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Pro nor Storysurf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Pro or Storysurf?
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Storysurf every 5 weeks. Most recently, Meditation Timer Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Storysurf on November 3, 2026.

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