Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs CountUp

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

CountUp

This app provides a simple timer to help you maintain focus during meditation. It rings a bell at intervals, allowing for extended meditation sessions without losing track of time.

Highlights
  • Interval bell reminders
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Focus aid for meditation
  • Time tracking for sessions
  • Simple and intuitive interface
Features
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A simple timer that rings a bell every so often to remind the meditator to refocus their attention. This timer app is designed so that you can meditate as long as you would like while also not losing track of time.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
CountUp1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CountUp at 5.0 against Pocket Meditation Timer's 4.4. CountUp also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CountUp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Meditation Timer has 1.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus CountUp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerCountUp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Christian Cordy

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

All ratings1,440 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews532 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.5%

CountUp

All ratings1 ratings
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

CountUp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

CountUp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CountUp free?
CountUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or CountUp?
CountUp is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while CountUp averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or CountUp have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; CountUp does not.

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