Pocket Meditation Timer vs iSleep Easy Meditations Light
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.
iSleep Easy Meditations Light
This app offers guided meditations designed to help users fall asleep and achieve deeper sleep. It includes three distinct meditations focusing on affirmations, breathing exercises, and general relaxation techniques. Users can customize their listening experience by choosing to include or exclude music and nature sounds.
- Guided sleep meditations
- Sleep affirmations
- Belly breathing exercise
- Relaxation meditation
- Optional music and nature sounds
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The Meditation Oasis® iSleep Easy Free app contains three guided meditations to help you fall asleep and sleep deeply. You can listen to the meditations with or without music or nature sounds. The app includes the guided meditations described below. Sleep Affirmations -- Helps set the stage for falling asleep. Belly Breathing -- An easy exercise for quick relaxation. Relax into Sleep -- Relax easily into sleep with this meditation. ***************************** Created by Mary Maddux, MS, HTP and Richard Maddux, best known for their popular Meditation Oasis podcast, apps and CDs. Mary and Richard bring over 30 years of meditation practice and teaching to the creation of their guided meditations and music. In addition to teaching meditation, Mary has worked in both conventional and alternative settings as a counselor and healing arts practitioner. Richard has played and composed music all of his life. His music is composed especially for meditation, relaxation and healing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: iSleep Easy Meditations Light at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. iSleep Easy Meditations Light also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 480). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Pocket Meditation Timer against 4.5 for iSleep Easy Meditations Light. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 480 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Pocket Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 91% of iSleep Easy Meditations Light's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, iSleep Easy Meditations Light fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | iSleep Easy Meditations Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.5 (480 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 90.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 480 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Meditation Oasis |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
iSleep Easy Meditations Light
User reviews
Pocket Meditation Timer
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🕰️ Customizable timer options
- 🔔 Pleasant chime sounds
- 🧘♀️ Helpful for meditation practice
- 📊 Syncs with Health app
Room to improve
- 📢 Disruptive ads with sound
- 🔇 Ads ruin meditation experience
- 🔁 Can't save multiple timer settings
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
iSleep Easy Meditations Light
From 480 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💤 Helps with sleep
- 🎶 Relaxing sounds and voice
- 🕰️ Customizable timer
- 🆓 Free app
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes or stops working after updates
- 📱 UI issues on newer devices
- ⏱️ Short duration of free version
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
iSleep Easy Meditations Light
Reported bugs
2 issues- App not playing after version 1.9 update
- Play button hidden on newer devices
Requested features
3 requests- More sound options
- Longer duration for free version
- Ability to create custom playlists
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
iSleep Easy Meditations Light
No in-app purchases
Questions
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