Meditation Timer Pro vs somno
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.
somno
A beautiful, distraction-free meditation timer with a simple interface. Choose from soothing sounds, configure intervals, and integrate with iOS Health. Enjoy a peaceful meditation experience without ads or notifications.
- Simple, intuitive interface
- Soothing meditation signal sounds
- Configurable interval duration
- iOS Health integration
- No ads or push notifications
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somno is a beatiful, distraction-free meditation timer. it has the following features: - simple, intuitive and easy-to-use interface - choice of several soothing meditation signal sounds - configurable interval duration - iOS Health integration - no ads - no push-notifications - no third-party behavioural tracking tools
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: somno at Free against Meditation Timer Pro's $1.99. somno also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). Meditation Timer Pro's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 11). On rating, 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
somno 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. somno asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Meditation Timer Pro against 4.7 for somno. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer Pro has 1.2K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Meditation Timer Pro's written reviews are positive against 90% of somno's.
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, somno every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Timer Pro | somno |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better | 90.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Corne Driesprong |
Customer experience
Meditation Timer Pro
somno
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
somno
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
somno
No in-app purchases
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