Pocket Meditation Timer vs Resonant Breathing
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.
Resonant Breathing
Facilitates deep meditative states by guiding users through resonant breathing exercises. This method aims to quickly activate the parasympathetic nervous system, making meditation more accessible and effective.
- Heart Rate Variability guidance
- Parasympathetic system activation
- Deep meditative state induction
- Personalized comfortable breath patterns
- Automatic meditation success
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Heart Rate Variability Resonant Breathing is the fastest way to get into a deep meditative state by awakening the parasympathetic system. By following the breath pattern and finding the rate which is most comfortable for you, Resonance is established within a few minutes; potentially cutting out years of meditative struggle. This technique is giving you a handle on your own dorsal vagal parasympathetic system. Getting a handle on that system allows you to become successful in meditation automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Resonant Breathing at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Resonant Breathing also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 43). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Resonant Breathing holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Meditation Timer has 1.5K ratings behind it against 43, 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 96% of Resonant Breathing's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Resonant Breathing fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Resonant Breathing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.7 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | John goodstadt |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Resonant Breathing
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
Resonant Breathing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Resonant Breathing
No in-app purchases
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