Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Slab

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

Slab

This app focuses solely on tracking your daily protein intake, displaying it as a single, prominent number. It simplifies logging with quick-tap options for frequently eaten foods and offers barcode scanning for packaged items. The app emphasizes consistency by tracking streaks of hitting your protein target.

Highlights
  • Protein-only tracking
  • Visualized daily progress blocks
  • One-tap food logging
  • Barcode scanning
  • Custom food saving
  • Streak tracking for consistency
Features
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Slab is a protein tracker that never shows you a calorie. Not buried in settings. Not calculated in the background. One number, all day: grams of protein, and how far you are from your target. Slab requires a subscription to use. Your first month is free, then $29.99 a year or $5.99 a month. THE STACK Everything you log drops in as a block, sized by the protein it added. A dashed line marks your target. You can read your whole day from across the room. ONE TAP The foods you actually eat sit on the home screen, most-logged first. Chicken breast, whey, Greek yogurt, eggs. Tap once and the block drops in. Most days you never leave this screen. FOR EVERYTHING ELSE • Search a catalog built from USDA data and curated by hand, not scraped from restaurant menus • Scan a barcode for anything packaged • Save your own foods once and log them forever • Type any amount, anywhere, and everything is in grams WHAT HISTORY LOOKS LIKE No charts to interpret. Slab answers the only question worth asking: how often do you hit your target. Hit target 24 of the last 30 days. The streak counts days you logged, not days you were perfect, because one bad Sunday shouldn't erase three weeks. WHAT IS NOT IN HERE No calories. No macro wheels. No food photography. No feed. No account to make. No ads. And no premium tier above the subscription you already have — search and barcode are part of the app, not an upsell. Your data stays on your phone and syncs through your own iCloud. It never reaches a server of ours, because we don't have one. Your first month is free. If Slab isn't the fastest way you have ever logged protein, cancel before the month ends and pay nothing. — Slab, yearly: $29.99 per year, with one month free Slab, monthly: $5.99 per month, with one month free Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Slab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Slab at 5.0 against Pocket Meditation Timer's 4.4. Slab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 2). On price 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. Slab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Pocket Meditation Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Slab 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 2, 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 Slab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Slab every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Slab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerSlab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.4K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer倩 赵One Step Forward Ventures

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

All ratings1,440 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews531 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.3%

Slab

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Slab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Slab

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slab free?
Slab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or Slab?
Slab is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Slab averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Slab have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Slab does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or Slab?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Slab every 4 days. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and Slab on October 20, 2026.

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