Pocket Meditation Timer vs Mindfulness Bells
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.
Mindfulness Bells
This app provides gentle bell sounds at set or random intervals to help you practice mindfulness and return to your breath. It offers a minimalist interface with customizable bell sounds and timing, supporting a more conscious and present day.
- Interval bell ringing
- Random interval ringing
- Hourly chime
- Customizable bell sounds
- Minimalist interface
- Background operation
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Mindfulness Bell is a very simple tool that help to: - Ring the bell at the given interval - Ring the bell at random interval - Ring bell as a regular hourly chime app Useful for those who are practicing mindfulness. It's a bell to remind you to return to your conscious breathing. Help you to keep mindful the day long. KEEP IN MIND PLEASE: App can work when you put the app to the background by click home button, but it won't work if you kill the app (remove app from recent app list). If you want something to work even the app got killed then Mindfulness Bell is not for you. Mindfulness Bell is a very simple application that rings the bell at fixed interval, random time or as a hourly chime. Helpful for those who are practicing mindfulness, or practicing other meditation methods. Benefits of practicing mindfulness Practicing mindfulness has been shown to have beneficial effects on both physical and mental health. Helps reduce anxiety, control stress, increase concentration, control emotions... to improve quality of life. How to Use the Bell of Mindfulness Choose the bell and the interval according to your needs then turn on the bell. Every time the bell rings, no matter what you're doing, pause everything and return to your breath, to yourself. Practice until every sound in your life becomes a bell of mindfulness. Why you should choose the Bell of Mindfulness - There are many pleasant bells available. - Minimalist interface, easy to use, no extra configuration steps - One click to go - Full customizable: bell sound, interval, start-end time - Support ring the bell at fixed interval (5 mins, 10mins, 15mins, 20mins, 25mins, 30mins, 1 hour, 2 hours...) - Support random ringing. - Support ringing the bell at the beginning of every hour (Blip blip, hourly chime, grandfather clock) - Does not ask for unnecessary/crazy permissions. https://apps.langhoangal.dev/en/mindfulness-bell
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Meditation Timer at none against Mindfulness Bells's 6. Mindfulness Bells's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Mindfulness Bells sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Pocket Meditation Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mindfulness Bells holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 634 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Pocket Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 89% of Mindfulness Bells's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Mindfulness Bells every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Mindfulness Bells |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (634 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 88.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 634 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Lang Hoang |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Mindfulness Bells
User reviews
Pocket Meditation Timer
From 1.5K 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
Mindfulness Bells
From 634 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🕰️ Gentle reminder to be mindful
- 🎶 Pleasant and soothing sounds
- ⏱️ Helpful for time management
- 🧘♀️ Supports mindfulness practice
Room to improve
- 🔔 Chime volume too loud
- 🕰️ Inconsistent chime timing
- 🔌 Stopped working after iOS update
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
Mindfulness Bells
Reported bugs
2 issues- No sound or alert when chime is set
- Chime not ringing at the correct time
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to set specific chime days
- Option to choose quieter chime sounds
- Customizable chime duration
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Mindfulness Bells
- A cup of coffee$1.99
- Small support$1.99
- A dinner$2.99
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- Medium support$4.99
- Large support$9.99
- Supporter$19.99
Questions
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