Comparison

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.

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

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.

Highlights
  • Guided sleep meditations
  • Sleep affirmations
  • Belly breathing exercise
  • Relaxation meditation
  • Optional music and nature sounds
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
iSleep Easy Meditations Light2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus iSleep Easy Meditations Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimeriSleep Easy Meditations Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings)4.5 (480 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews90.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better480
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Meditation Oasis

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

All ratings1,440 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews532 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.5%

iSleep Easy Meditations Light

All ratings480 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive90.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.0%

User reviews

Pocket Meditation Timer

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

iSleep Easy Meditations Light

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iSleep Easy Meditations Light free?
iSleep Easy Meditations Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or iSleep Easy Meditations Light?
iSleep Easy Meditations Light is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while iSleep Easy Meditations Light averages 4.5 from 480 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or iSleep Easy Meditations Light have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; iSleep Easy Meditations Light does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or iSleep Easy Meditations Light?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and iSleep Easy Meditations Light fortnightly. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on November 1, 2026 and iSleep Easy Meditations Light on November 3, 2026.

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