Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Be Still

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

Be Still

Discover sacred moments through guided meditations and customizable playlists. Explore themes like presence, world issues, life's journey, and body-mind connection. Create your own meditation experience with ambient sounds and adjustable durations.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Customizable playlists
  • Ambient sound options
  • Adjustable meditation duration
  • Automatic reminders
  • Christian-focused meditations
  • Welcoming to all faiths
Features
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Learn to discover that all moments are sacred with guided meditations and your own playlist. Meditation is a great way to relax and reconnect. Be Still helps you learn to see the divine in the sidewalks of life, in the mundane and seemingly unimportant everyday life tasks. Discover what your best life can be. Be Still has two options: pre-made guided meditations, or create your own playlist to meditation how you choose. The guided mediations are in five categories: 1. The Groundwork - this is a good place to start where we meditate on Being Still, Being Present and other basic principles of meditation and life. 2. The World - issues that face the world as a whole - Justice, Peace, Nature 3. Life's Journey - meditations on what we personally can face through life - suffering, forgiveness, love 4. Body & Mind - let's look at our breathing 5. Coming Home - coming back to your faith tradition, meditations on Communion, Prayer, breathing meditations with a Christian focus. You don't want to be guided? Then create your own playlist/s. The options to choose from are; 1. Meditation introduction (male or female voice) 2. Select and Ambient sound; choices include bowls, forest, waves, rain, Gregorian Chant, morning sounds. 3. Decide how long you want to listen to that sound for. 4. Add some silence onto the end 5. Select from one of 4 ending bells or bowls Forget to meditate? Set up an automatic reminder sent straight to your phone. The Be Still community has grown out of, and is grounded in, the Christian tradition. However we welcome here all spiritual faiths and traditions who are united in the desire to be connected to God. Our hope is that this community builds to be what you need. Today people are recognising that there is more to life that what can be seen. We, at Be Still believe that it's great people are taking time to inwardly look at themselves to discover their potential. At Be Still we believe that the missing link is the Greater Being which connects us all, and if you tune in daily you will begin to recognize the gentle nudges that are around you every day, pointing you in the direction to live your best life. https://www.be-still.community/

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Be Still4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Be Still at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Be Still also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Be Still fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Be Still: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerBe Still
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Orchid Apps

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

All ratings1,440 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews531 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.3%

Be Still

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Be Still

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Be Still

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Be Still free?
Be Still is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Be Still have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Be Still does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or Be Still?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Be Still fortnightly. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on October 22, 2026 and Be Still on October 11, 2026.

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