Pocket Meditation Timer vs Mindfulness 22
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.
Mindfulness 22
This app simplifies mindfulness practice, drawing on Western psychology and Eastern traditions. It offers guided meditations designed to improve mood, concentration, creativity, and stress management. Suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners.
- Guided meditation
- Mindfulness practice
- Stress reduction
- Improved concentration
- Enhanced creativity
- Mood improvement
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This app is about getting OUT of your mind and INTO your life! This is about making mindfulness simple... Did you know that science shows that practising mindfulness can have a powerful effect on - improving mood, - better concentration, - increased creativity, - reducing stress, - and even how we manage our emotions? You might learn more than you expected within this app. Why? Because it draws on both Western psychology as well as Eastern mindfulness practices. Many people find stress relief in learning how to practice this. These meditations are suitable for all. Whether you’re a beginner or someone had some experience to meditation already. This mindfulness app was researched and written by Reuben Lowe, founder of Mindful Creation and co-founder of a charity called ACT on it, also a mindfulness therapist and clinical practitioner specialising in contextual psychology. It's free. No adverts. No catches!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mindfulness 22 at none against Pocket Meditation Timer's shown. Mindfulness 22 also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Pocket Meditation Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 28). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mindfulness 22 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Meditation Timer has 1.5K ratings behind it against 28, 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 95% of Mindfulness 22's.
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Mindfulness 22 every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Pocket Meditation Timer | Mindfulness 22 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — 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 | 11.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Reuben Lowe |
Customer experience
Pocket Meditation Timer
Mindfulness 22
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
Mindfulness 22
From 28 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 😊 Calm and soothing voice
- 💡 Great selection of meditations
- 💖 Helpful for mental health crises
- ✨ Teaches ACT and mindfulness concepts
Room to improve
- 🐛 App pauses meditation when iPhone goes into screensaver
- 🤔 Some users miss older audio versions
- 🤔 Some users prefer older bells for starting/ending meditations
- 🤔 Some activities (e.g., Body-Scan) are superficial
- 💸 Unclear directions to paid options
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
Mindfulness 22
Reported bugs
2 issues- App pauses meditation when iPhone goes into screensaver
- Doesn't work after update for one user
Requested features
4 requests- Leave old audio versions available
- Include old bells for starting and ending meditations
- More extensive and clinically credible content (compared to another app)
- Update app to prevent pausing during screensaver
In-app purchases
Pocket Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Mindfulness 22
No in-app purchases
Questions
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