Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs appRosary

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

appRosary

Features
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Experience a Modern way to benefit from the Rosary with three powerful modes: COUNT MODE • Track your chants with a simple bead counter • Customizable sequences (108 or 33,33,34, of 1,1,3,1.. as per your tradition) • Gives Haptic feedback if your mind wanders and the average frequency is not maintained • Progress tracking and logging LISTEN MODE • Record your chant in your own voice and listen to it in a loop • Can run in the background • Hands-free chanting experience • Continuous playback REMIND MODE • Imagine you are watching a movie with a friend and you are engrossed in the movie and your friend periodically elbows you to say "Its just a movie". • Remind mode is your annoying friend. It gives periodic gentle reminders to be in awareness instead of its contents • Random or fixed intervals • Apple Watch can mirror notifications • Can run in the background FEATURES • Three modes for cleansing of the mind • Customizable settings • Optional logging and history • Simple, Easy to use interface • No ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device Perfect for daily chanting practice or maintaining mindfulness.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
appRosary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: appRosary at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. appRosary also leads on update cadence (weekly 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, appRosary weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus appRosary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerappRosary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Sudhir Pendse

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

appRosary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

appRosary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is appRosary free?
appRosary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or appRosary have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; appRosary does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or appRosary?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and appRosary weekly. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on November 1, 2026 and appRosary on October 31, 2026.

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