Comparison

Meditation Timer Pro vs Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

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

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

This app helps you establish a regular meditation practice with a beautiful, intuitive interface. It offers customizable timers, gentle sound cues, and interactive reminders to support your well-being. Enhance your experience with optional features for tracking history and setting intentions.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation duration
  • Gentle singing bowl sound alerts
  • Interactive reminders
  • Today widget for quick access
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Meditation history and notes (in-app purchase)
  • Intention setting for gradual duration increase (in-app purchase)
Features
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Built to support your practice Lotus Bud is a meditation timer built for practitioners who want a focused tool that respects the work they do. No content library, social network, music player or other distractions standing between you and the cushion. Just you and the cushion. FREE FEATURES • Simple timed or untimed meditation • Widgets and Live Activities: Start a session directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Track elapsed time throughout your sit with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. °Siri Shortcuts: Start, pause, or end sessions with your voice. Create automations using your meditation data to make regular practice easier to maintain. • Apple Watch app • Assistive Access: For those using Assistive Access Lotus Bud offers a dramatically simplified user experience. PAID FEATURES (one time purchase) • Custom Meditation Plans: Create structured sessions with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns. Build a sequence that matches your practice, whether you need a simple timer or a detailed progression. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, you can just describe the plan you want to create a new one. • Insights: Understand how your practice develops over time with streaks, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heat maps. Review your consistency and identify patterns in your sessions. • Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation time or session frequency. Progress updates help you stay connected to the intentions you set. • Private logs: Write private notes about your sits, observations, and experiences. Keep your reflections alongside your practice without sharing them publicly. With Apple Intelligence you get tag suggestions that help you categorize your notes. ----- I started building Lotus Bud more than fifteen years ago to support my own daily practice. My hope was to create a tool that could support others as they develop a deeper meditation practice. Meditation has profoundly changed my life for the better, but that change required ongoing effort and focus. I had to do the work myself, and Lotus Bud has helped me stay on track. Many meditation apps focus on relaxation and stress reduction. Meditation can certainly support both, but it can also become a deeper, long-term practice that fundamentally changes how you relate to the world, your loved ones and yourself. Lotus Bud is designed for people who want to build and understand that practice without unnecessary distractions or dependence on extra content. I am the sole designer and developer of Lotus Bud. I built it, along with the related Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell app, because I use these tools in my own practice and hope they can benefit others. I aim to make Lotus Bud useful, simple, accessible and beautiful while giving you the space to practice on your own terms. ----- Try Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell to support mindfulness throughout the day. It plays randomized bells that invite you to pause and return your attention to the present moment.

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Pro4 screens
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Meditation Timer Pro and Lotus Bud Meditation Timer both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of Meditation Timer Pro's written reviews are positive against 41% of Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's. Meditation Timer Pro also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 5) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On rating, 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

Lotus Bud 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 Lotus Bud Meditation Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Meditation Timer Pro's written reviews are positive against 41% of Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, Lotus Bud Meditation Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Meditation Timer Pro versus Lotus Bud Meditation Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer ProLotus Bud Meditation Timer
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews95.1% of reviews — better41.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Chad Sager

Customer experience

Meditation Timer Pro

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

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral23.5%
Negative35.3%

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

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

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
1 purchases

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

One-time1
  • Intention and Reflection (Goals and Journaling)$2.99

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Pro free?
Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Lotus Bud Meditation Timer free?
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer Pro or Lotus Bud Meditation Timer?
Meditation Timer Pro is rated higher. Meditation Timer Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Lotus Bud Meditation Timer averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Meditation Timer Pro or Lotus Bud Meditation Timer have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Pro nor Lotus Bud Meditation Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Pro or Lotus Bud Meditation Timer?
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Lotus Bud Meditation Timer monthly. Most recently, Meditation Timer Pro was updated on October 26, 2026 and Lotus Bud Meditation Timer on October 24, 2026.

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