Pocket Meditation Timer vs Calming Sounds
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.
Calming Sounds
Discover a curated collection of sounds designed to aid meditation, promote relaxation, and eliminate distractions. Enjoy nature, water, white noise, Zen, and LoFi beats. Set a timer for continuous playback, even with your screen locked.
- Nature sounds
- Water sounds
- White noise
- Zen sounds
- LoFi beats
- Sleep timer
- Background playback
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*No In App Purchases* Calming Sounds is a collections of sounds to help you meditate, relax or free you from distraction. Sounds of: Nature Water White Noise Zen LoFi Beats Spend less time finding your sound and more time relaxing. Set the timer and your chosen sound will continue playing even when you lock your phone. This app is great with headphones when your in a noisy environment and you want to enjoy some calm and its great for falling asleep to. Enjoy some white noise. If you have a baby that needs it or if its what you need, we have some here.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Calming Sounds at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Calming Sounds also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Calming Sounds holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 79% positive.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Calming Sounds every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Calming Sounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.4K ratings) | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1.3K |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Gurmokh Sangha |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Calming Sounds
User reviews
Pocket Meditation Timer
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🕰️ Customizable timer options
- 🔔 Pleasant chime sounds
- 🧘♀️ Helpful for meditation practice
- 📊 Syncs with Health app
Room to improve
- 📢 Disruptive ads with sound
- 🔇 Ads ruin meditation experience
- 🔁 Can't save multiple timer settings
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
Calming Sounds
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Calming and relaxing sounds
- 🙌 No ads or in-app purchases
- 💤 Helps with sleep and relaxation
- 🎶 Wide variety of sound options
- 🕰️ Ability to set timers for sounds
Room to improve
- 🔇 Limited sound selection
- ⏱️ 10-minute playback limit
- 🔀 Inconsistent sound playback
- 🔍 Lack of advanced features
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
Calming Sounds
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sounds randomly stopping during playback
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More sound options (e.g., brown noise, binaural beats)
- Ability to customize timer duration
- Background playback without time limits
- Additional music and ambient sound choices
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Calming Sounds
No in-app purchases
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