Comparison

Meditation Timer Pro vs Serenity

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

Serenity

This app provides a customizable timer for guided meditation sessions. It features a collection of high-definition soundscapes and allows users to set specific durations for preparation, meditation, intervals, and cool-down periods. The app also offers reminders and tracks progress.

Highlights
  • Customizable session timers
  • 16 HD meditation tones
  • Vibrational alerts
  • Daily/weekly meditation reminders
  • Meditation progress statistics
  • Apple Health compatibility
  • Apple Music integration
Features
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Serenity is a beautifully crafted Meditation Timer, perfect for quiet contemplation, stillness and defined focus. • Featured on the App Store Homepage. • Top 10 Meditation & Mindfulness App, US and Canada. Take a deep breath, relax, and allow Serenity to guide you through your daily meditation. Chiming gently throughout your session at times chosen by you. Tibetan Chimes, Singing Bowls, Gongs, Bells and even Didgeridoos form part of your 16-tone collection. Recorded in an HD studio with the utmost of care, these tones sound just incredible. Tempting you into a deeper state of relaxation with every chime. * FEATURES * • Define your Preparation, Meditation, Interval and Cool down times. • Automatically save your selection in one of six customisable presets. • Choose from a collection of 16 HD meditation tones • Assign the tone to chime once, twice or thrice on command. • Adjust your Interval tone, allowing it to repeat or chime at a chosen time. • Enjoy a silent meditation with *vibrational alerts. • Set a daily, weekly or weekend reminder to meditate. • A statistics page, keeping a silent record of your meditation progress. • Apple Health compatible. Sync your meditation data. • Apple Music compatible. Add your own music and have it play behind your selected tones. Although minimal and elegant by design, Serenity really has all you need to create the perfect environment for the ultimate mindful meditation. Allowing you to concentrate on your inner self, rather than the passing time. Its the only meditation timer you'll ever need! *Vibration not available on iPad

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Pro4 screens
Serenity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Serenity at none against Meditation Timer Pro's 3. Serenity also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). Meditation Timer Pro's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 66%) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 210). On rating, 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

Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99 and Serenity $2.99 up front. Meditation Timer Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Serenity asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Meditation Timer Pro against 4.8 for Serenity. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer Pro has 1.2K ratings behind it against 210, 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 66% of Serenity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, Serenity monthly. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Meditation Timer Pro versus Serenity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer ProSerenity
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings)4.8 (210 ratings)
Positive reviews95.1% of reviews — better66.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better210
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Zenoki Ltd

Customer experience

Meditation Timer Pro

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

Serenity

All ratings210 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive66.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative20.3%

User reviews

Meditation Timer Pro

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What 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

Serenity

From 210 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • ⏱️ Customizable timer for meditation stages
  • 🎵 Good selection of bell and sound bowl sounds
  • ✨ Minimalist design, no ads or gimmicks
  • 🧘 Supports unguided meditation effectively

Room to improve

  • 🗣️ All in English (for some users)
  • 🔔 Bell sounds not universally loved
  • 🎵 Lack of built-in meditation music
  • ⏳ Statistics can be inaccurate or not recorded
  • 🐞 Bugs causing app to quit

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

Serenity

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App quits during meditation
  • Statistics are inaccurate or not recorded
  • Interval bells only ring for sessions under 9 minutes
  • App does not work in the background
  • Soundtrack feature not working
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  • Statistics become negative after 600 hours
  • Playlist restarts on new meditation
  • Settings are not saved
  • Horrible truck horn sound interrupts
  • Deep ringing bell tone ends abruptly
  • Tuner not functioning

Requested features

24 requests
  • Ability to set more than one reminder
  • Apple Watch version
  • Sync between iPhone and iPad
  • More presets
  • Save settings
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  • Ability to continue meditation after timer ends and count extra time
  • Stopwatch feature that counts time and sounds at set intervals
  • Connect with Spotify
  • Add default meditation sound tracks
  • Incorporate music into the app itself
  • HealthKit integration to record throughout the session, not just at the end
  • Random playback from playlist
  • Play or pause through Apple Watch
  • Allow background meditation soundtrack purchase directly in app
  • Fix abrupt ending of deep ringing bell tone
  • More control over interval sounds and timing
  • Ability to manage number of repetitive chimes and time between intervals
  • Fix bug where interval bells only ring for sessions under 9 mins
  • Fix bug where app doesn't work in background
  • Fix bug where statistics become negative after 600h
  • Fix bug where app quits during meditation
  • Fix bug where playlist restarts on new meditation
  • Add more sound options
  • Improve sound quality of chimes and bells

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

Serenity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Pro free?
Meditation Timer Pro costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Serenity free?
Serenity costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer Pro or Serenity?
Meditation Timer Pro and Serenity are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1.2K and 210 ratings respectively.
Do Meditation Timer Pro or Serenity have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Pro nor Serenity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Pro or Serenity?
Meditation Timer Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Serenity monthly. Most recently, Meditation Timer Pro was updated on October 18, 2026 and Serenity on October 18, 2026.

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