Pocket Meditation Timer vs Calm Exercise
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.
Calm Exercise
Find quick relaxation and improved well-being through simple, enjoyable stretching exercises. This app offers a fun way to de-stress and feel better.
- Quick relaxation techniques
- Simple stretching exercises
- Promotes well-being
- Enjoyable user experience
- Stress reduction
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Calm down quickly and feel better with this simple stretching app. It's kind of fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Calm Exercise at 5.0 against Pocket Meditation Timer's 4.4. Calm Exercise also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 5). On price and in-app purchases 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.
Calm Exercise 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 1.4K ratings behind it against 5, 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 Calm Exercise's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Calm Exercise every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Calm Exercise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Mind Body Aware Games LLC |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Calm Exercise
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
Calm Exercise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Calm Exercise
No in-app purchases
Questions
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