Comparison

Pocket Meditation Timer vs Mindfulness 22

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

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.

Highlights
  • Guided meditation
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Stress reduction
  • Improved concentration
  • Enhanced creativity
  • Mood improvement
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Pocket Meditation Timer4 screens
Mindfulness 224 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, Mindfulness 22 every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pocket Meditation Timer versus Mindfulness 22: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Meditation TimerMindfulness 22
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.5K ratings)4.8 (28 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews95.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better28
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.011.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB103 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer倩 赵Reuben Lowe

Customer experience

Pocket Meditation Timer

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

Mindfulness 22

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.7%

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

Mindfulness 22

From 28 App Store ratings

What 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

None

Pocket Meditation Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Mindfulness 22

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Meditation Timer free?
Pocket Meditation Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindfulness 22 free?
Mindfulness 22 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Meditation Timer or Mindfulness 22?
Mindfulness 22 is rated higher. Pocket Meditation Timer averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Mindfulness 22 averages 4.8 from 28 ratings.
Do Pocket Meditation Timer or Mindfulness 22 have ads?
Pocket Meditation Timer shows ads; Mindfulness 22 does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Meditation Timer or Mindfulness 22?
Pocket Meditation Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Mindfulness 22 every 2 months. Most recently, Pocket Meditation Timer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Mindfulness 22 on November 1, 2026.

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