Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Ochre

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

Ochre

Features
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Ochre is a super simple meditation timer that integrates with Apple Health. I built Ochre because none of the other meditation timers I've found on the App Store do what I want: to keep track of my mindful minutes without unnecessary bells and whistles, and without having to create yet another account. If that sounds like something you need, then I hope this app will be useful to you. If you find that Ochre doesn't fulfill your needs, or it doesn't work the way you would expect, then please, by all means, leave a review, or reach out to me. I really value your feedback.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Ochre2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket Meditation Timer at Free against Ochre's $0.99. Ochre's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). On 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

Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download; Ochre costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Ochre every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Ochre: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerOchre
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Arturo Vergara

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

Ochre

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Ochre

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ochre free?
Ochre costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Ochre have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Ochre does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or Ochre?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Ochre every 6 days. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Ochre on October 25, 2026.

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