Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Active Meditation

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

Active Meditation

Access a library of guided meditations and courses designed to enhance focus, relaxation, and sleep. Features binaural beats for brainwave entrainment and bite-sized lessons for daily practice.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Meditation courses
  • Binaural beats
  • Sleep meditations
  • Mini meditations
  • Progress tracking
Features
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The Active Meditation™ free mobile app delivers high-quality meditations and courses conveniently to your mobile devices. It offers a variety of meditation experiences from guided courses to sleep meditations to daily mini-meditations. All of the audio content is embedded with expertly tuned binaural beats to activate brainwave entrainment and enhance meditation, focus and relaxation. Active Meditation courses and guided meditations empower you to master the inner workings of your own psychology. Learn to improve your mood, and outlook with bite-sized lessons that can be practiced anywhere, at anytime. Discover your Highest Self! Binaural beats: quickly train your brain to enter deep meditations. Guided courses: track your progress through courses to Master Self-Inquiry or learn to Cope with Chaos in an increasingly hectic and stressful social and political environment Sleep better: Binaural beats entrain the brain to quickly and effortlessly enter deep-sleep brainwave states Mini meditations: A variety of 15-20 minute tracks made to fit easily into a busy schedule Traditionally, meditation techniques and the accompanying spiritual truths are offered free of charge. We embrace this tradition. All Active Meditation content, including audio exercises and written materials are complimentary.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Active Meditation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Active Meditation at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Active Meditation also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (92% vs 79%). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 183). On price, in-app purchases 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Active Meditation 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 183, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Pocket Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 92% of Active Meditation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Active Meditation every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Active Meditation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerActive Meditation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings)4.8 (183 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews91.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better183
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Active Meditation Inc.

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

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

Active Meditation

All ratings164 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.6%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

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

Active Meditation

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Active Meditation

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Active Meditation free?
Active Meditation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or Active Meditation?
Active Meditation is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Active Meditation averages 4.8 from 183 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Active Meditation have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Active Meditation does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or Active Meditation?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Active Meditation every 3 months. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Active Meditation on October 29, 2026.

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