Pocket Meditation Timer vs Morning Meditations
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.
Morning Meditations
Start your day feeling happy, inspired, and calm with a free daily morning meditation. This app uses peaceful music, relaxing sound effects, and various mindfulness techniques to gently wake your mind and body. Set positive intentions, overcome challenges, and cultivate gratitude for a confident and energized start to your day.
- Free daily morning meditations
- Calming music and sound effects
- Visualizations of global sunrises
- Mindfulness and relaxation techniques
- Setting daily intentions and goals
- Gratitude affirmations
- Positive affirmations
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A free morning meditation every day so you can start the day feeling happy, inspired and calm. Perfect for those who struggle to get out of bed. Calm peaceful music and relaxing sound effects gradually soothe you from your slumber. A variety of meditation, mindfulness and relaxation techniques allows you to begin each morning feeling inspired, energised and full of confidence. Features: Wake up to beautiful visualisations from all around the world: watching the sunrise on a tropical island, enjoying dawn on the African plains and many more. Use meditation and mindfulness skills to gently wake your mind and body ready for the day ahead: Body scan techniques, breathing meditation and progressive muscle stretching and relaxation. Start the day inspired and in the right frame of mind. Be mindful of the day's challenges or obstacles and set your intention to overcome them. Get out of bed with positive intentions. Be clear on your goals for the day ahead and be inspired to achieve them. Use gratitude affirmation to become more aware of your own happiness. Use positive affirmations and visualisation techniques to start the day in the right frame of mind: positive, motivated, calm, charismatic, confident, happy, inspired, productive, refreshed, relaxed or full of energy. Daily meditations for free A new morning meditation every day for all users Customise your morning meditation Complete streaks or upgrade the app to customise the audio to create the perfect mindful meditation for you. Morning meditations is the perfect way to start your day. Download now to begin everyday inspired and energised **** 1) Morning Meditations uses HealthKit to save completed mindfulness minutes to Apple Health 2) Terms and Conditions: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/73576441 3) Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/73576441
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Meditation Timer at none against Morning Meditations's 2. Pocket Meditation Timer also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 156). Morning Meditations's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). On price 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. Morning Meditations sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pocket Meditation Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Morning Meditations 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 156, 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 100% of Morning Meditations's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Morning Meditations every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Morning Meditations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 156 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Olson Meditation and Mindfulness Apps Ltd |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Morning Meditations
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
Morning Meditations
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Morning Meditations
- Monthly subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Permanent access to Premium$19.99
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