Pocket Meditation Timer vs ZenOto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Meditation Timer
This app helps users focus on their meditation practice without worrying about time. It offers customizable timers with unique sounds, background options, and reminders to support mindfulness and stress reduction.
- Customizable meditation schedules
- Prepare, interval, and cool down timers
- Unique sound options for each section
- Shake to change background images
- Unlimited 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 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: ⁃ One Default meditation schedule and you can edit it. ⁃ 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. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to remind you practicing meditation. ⁃ Passwords protection. ⁃ Vibrate or not when switching sections. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Support iPod media background. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. ⁃ Supports universal version. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by userfeed@vip.tom.com.
ZenOto
Begin your meditation journey with this Zazen app. It offers authentic Zen temple sounds, a guided introduction, and a customizable timer to help you build a consistent practice. Track your progress with a diary and illustrated learning materials.
- Authentic Zen temple sounds
- Guided meditation introduction
- Customizable meditation timer
- Sound combination feature
- Illustrated learning materials
- Meditation diary and activity log
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This is a smart introductory Zazen app. It has all the features you need to start meditating for free. It's a great way to start a meditation habit. A simple Zen sound player. 〜Listen to simple sounds and relax. 〜You can combine sounds to your liking. Authentic sound sources that resonate in your heart 〜The sound of bells, drums, sutras, and many other sounds (from Zen temples) Very easy to understand introductory guide 〜Step-by-step level design 〜Gentle and essential explanations (supervised by Zen temples) A full-fledged timer that you can customize. 〜A timer that can be freely designed to your preference 〜Infinite number of combinations of sound sources Many features to keep you going Illustrated books and cards to make learning fun A diary and a record of everyone's activities to help you continue. About the sound of Zen In Zen temples, time is told by sound. In Zen temples, time is indicated by sounds, such as waking up, gathering, eating, chanting, and sleeping. We have recorded such authentic sounds of Zen temples. In Buddhism, "Zen" in particular has a simple, stripped-down purity. Please try this application to feel the atmosphere of a Buddhist Zen temple. This software uses "CRIWARE (TM)" of CRI Middleware Co.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ZenOto at 4.8 against Pocket Meditation Timer's 4.4. ZenOto also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.3 vs 16.0). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 24). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ZenOto holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Meditation Timer has 1.5K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 80% positive.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, ZenOto every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | ZenOto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | ZEN APP |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
ZenOto
Bugs and requests
Pocket Meditation Timer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Timer issues (minutes counting as seconds, not working properly)
- App freezing or crashing
Requested features
4 requests- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Ability to save multiple timer presets
- Background ambient sounds during meditation
- Interval chimes at custom time points
ZenOto
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
ZenOto
No in-app purchases
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