Pocket Meditation Timer vs Silentium WCCM
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.
Silentium WCCM
This app offers guided meditation sessions rooted in the Christian tradition of silence and stillness. It provides tools for building a daily practice, fostering calm, clarity, and spiritual growth.
- Guided audio and video meditations
- Customizable meditation timer
- AI-powered practice insights
- Daily reflections and readings
- Smart meditation reminders
- Meditation history and streaks
- Offline mode
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Silentium is the official meditation app of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) — a global community sharing the ancient Christian tradition of silence and stillness. Guided by the teaching of John Main OSB, Silentium helps you build a daily rhythm of meditation and reflection. Experience calm, clarity, and connection through a practice that unites body, mind, and spirit. Features: • Audio and video meditation instructions available in multiple languages. • A customizable timer with gentle bells and ambient backgrounds • AI-powered insights to help you understand and deepen your practice • Daily reflections and readings from the WCCM community • Smart meditation reminders to keep your rhythm steady • Tracking of meditation history, streaks, and achievements • Offline mode for uninterrupted silence anywhere • Access to WCCM resources and global community events Silentium is more than an app — it’s a space for stillness, awareness, and shared spiritual growth across the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Meditation Timer at 4.4 against Silentium WCCM's 3.6. Pocket Meditation Timer also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 50%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 9). Silentium WCCM's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months). 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
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 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Meditation Timer has 1.5K ratings behind it against 9, 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 50% of Silentium WCCM's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Silentium WCCM every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Silentium WCCM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better | 3.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — 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 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | The World Community for Christian Meditation |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Silentium WCCM
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
Silentium WCCM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Silentium WCCM
No in-app purchases
Questions
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