Pocket Meditation Timer vs Dhyāna Meditation Timer
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.
Dhyāna Meditation Timer
A straightforward timer designed for various mindfulness practices like meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises. Customize sessions with multiple steps and be guided by the gentle sound of a Tibetan singing bowl to mark the end of your practice.
- Customizable multi-step timers
- Tibetan singing bowl alerts
- Ideal for meditation and yoga
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Supports breathing exercises and relaxation
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Simple timer for yoga, breathing exercises, relaxation, meditation and anything else you can think of! Add multiple steps to each timer to fit your practice. The sound of a tibetan singing bowl lets you know when the session is over.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dhyāna Meditation Timer at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Dhyāna Meditation Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). 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.
Pocket Meditation Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. 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. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Pocket Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dhyāna Meditation Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Dhyāna Meditation Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Dhyāna Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Dag Norberg |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Dhyāna Meditation Timer
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
Dhyāna Meditation Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Dhyāna Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
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