Meditation Timer Pro for iPad vs Less
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad
This app helps users focus on their meditation practice by managing time and providing customizable features. It supports various meditation styles and offers tools for stress reduction and enhanced well-being. Practice anywhere, anytime with personalized settings and progress tracking.
- Customizable meditation sessions
- Prepare, interval, and cool-down timers
- Unique sound settings
- Background customization
- Meditation log saving
- Practice reminders
- Password protection
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No matter if you are going to join meditators, a beginner or practice meditation for a long time, Meditation Timer Pro 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. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Support iPod media background. ⁃ Supports adding users' own pictures add background. ⁃ Supports settings default background picture. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by maxwellapp@tom.com.
Less
This app provides a simple and elegant timer for self-guided meditation sessions, featuring high-quality sound bells. An optional in-app purchase unlocks features like streak tracking, meditation history, and customizable themes.
- Minimal meditation timer
- High-quality meditation bells
- Streak tracking
- Meditation history
- Customizable themes
- HealthKit integration
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Less is a minimal meditation timer with high-quality meditation bells—perfect for a hassle-free, self-guided meditation experience. A small in-app purchase for Less+ offers the ability to track your streaks and meditation history*, and includes many beautiful themes to choose from. Begin your mindfulness journey with Less. *When permitted, Less writes meditation data to HealthKit and allows the user to import their meditations for usage in the stats page. Terms of Use: https://beginwithless.ca/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Less at Free against Meditation Timer Pro for iPad's $1.99. Less also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Meditation Timer Pro for iPad's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (151 vs 12). On review sentiment, 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
Less is free to download; Meditation Timer Pro for iPad costs $1.99 up front. Meditation Timer Pro for iPad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Less sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer Pro for iPad has 151 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Meditation Timer Pro for iPad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Less's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad ships an update every 2 months, Less every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Timer Pro for iPad | Less |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (151 ratings) — better | 4.2 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 151 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | New Ancients |
Customer experience
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad
Less
Bugs and requests
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer freezing or stopping unexpectedly
- Chimes/sounds not playing correctly
- Incompatibility issues with certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add music/ambient sound options
- Allow multiple interval lengths in a single session
- Integrate with calendar/scheduling apps
- Enable landscape mode
- Improve background customization options
Less
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meditation Timer Pro for iPad
- Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
- Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year
Less
- Less+ Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Less+7 Days trial$2.991 Year
- Less+ Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Unlock Mala Features$2.99
Questions
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