Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs ZenOto

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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: ⁃ 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Authentic Zen temple sounds
  • Guided meditation introduction
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Sound combination feature
  • Illustrated learning materials
  • Meditation diary and activity log
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
ZenOto3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus ZenOto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerZenOto
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings)4.8 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better24
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵ZEN APP

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

All ratings1,440 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews532 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.5%

ZenOto

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral7.5%
Negative12.5%

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

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

ZenOto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ZenOto free?
ZenOto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or ZenOto?
ZenOto is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while ZenOto averages 4.8 from 24 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or ZenOto have ads?
Both Pocket Meditation Timer and ZenOto show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or ZenOto?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and ZenOto every 2 months. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on November 10, 2026 and ZenOto on November 7, 2026.

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