Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Essential energy

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

Essential energy

Features
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Take control of your health and wellness with Fitness and Nutrition programs built to help you hit weight loss and overall health goals within your time frame. This app gives you daily specialized meal plans tailored to your specific nutrition needs and food preferences along with daily curated workouts to make sure you make your end goal. Tag in your fitness coach or join a group with similar goals and together you’ll motivate each other to reach your daily, weekly, monthly progress goals. You’ll also gain access to numerous articles, podcasts and videos to inform you on techniques and teach how to reach Total Fitness Features and programs adapted to your goals accessible from this app whether at home, at the gym, or on the go! - Choose your GOAL and Timeframe - Generate your PLAN according to your ACTIVITY LEVEL. - Build your profile and see the phases of success with BODY VISION. - Set your MEAL PLAN Preferences and choose the meals you love from our thousands of recipes - View your WORKOUT PROGRAMS and select routines that match your physical styles - Organize your ROUTINE for how you like to eat and when you like to workout - Integrate your fitness WEARABLE devices to automate your daily inputs - Access HUNDREDS of articles to keep you informed and inspired. - Add your PERSONAL TRAINER and invite them to join - FOLLOW your evolution and PROGRESS to your goal!! This app integrates with your Fitbit to track and log your water consumption, steps, and other physical activities

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Essential energy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Essential energy at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Essential energy also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Essential energy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerEssential energy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵More Active, LLC

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

Essential energy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Essential energy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Essential energy free?
Essential energy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Essential energy have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Essential energy does not.

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