Comparison

Meditation Timer for iPad vs Relax Utopia

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meditation Timer for iPad

This app helps users focus on their meditation practice without worrying about time. It offers customizable schedules with preparation, interval, and cool-down periods, along with unique sound options and background customization. Practice mindfulness, relaxation, and stress reduction anywhere, anytime.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation schedules
  • Prepare, interval, and cool-down times
  • Unique sound settings
  • Background picture customization
  • Unlimited reminders
  • Password protection
  • Today Widget support
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. ⁃ Hide the time. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Ten amazing background pictures, shake to change. ⁃ Start, stop, restart or resume meditation. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to alert you practicing meditation or anything else. ⁃ Passwords protection. ⁃ With or without sound. ⁃ Support iPod media background. ⁃ Supports adding users' own pictures add background. ⁃ Supports settings default background picture. ⁃ Share to Facebook or Twitter. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by maxwellapp@tom.com.

About

Relax Utopia

This app creates a calming atmosphere with a seamless slideshow of nature images and relaxing sounds. It's designed to help you unwind, meditate, or fall asleep more easily, with customizable controls for brightness and audio.

Highlights
  • Nature image slideshow
  • Over 30 relaxing sounds
  • Adjustable brightness slider
  • Customizable sound playlist
  • Seamless image fading
  • Separate volume controls
Features
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Relax Utopia is a nature slideshow where images and sounds blend together. Everything happens by itself - no need to press anything. Just lay back, relax, doze off, or leave this on your table, to set the mood. Use the app for your yoga workout or meditation, relax after work, or as you are going to sleep. Will never have ads. I hate ads! Please tell your friends, and tell me what you think about the app: RelaxUtopiaApp@gmail.com Features: - Brightness slider allows you to reduce brightness and the blue color in images, to help you sleep easier. - Over 30 relaxing, high quality sounds. - Over 300 nature images faded into one seamless slideshow. - Classical piano songs and contemporary relaxation tracks (Courtesy of FesliyanStudios.com) - Auto mode by default, but you can toggle specific sound categories and tracks on the playlist. - All Sounds Mode - Plays 2 random sound effects at a time at random. - Collapse and fade out all controls, so only the nature remains. - Control music volume separately from sounds. - Landscape or Portrait modes. - Music Credit: Markus Staab for performing "Menuet in G major" https://musopen.org/music/3142/ignacy-jan-paderewski/6-humoresques-de-concert-op-14/ - Music Credit: FesliyanStudios.com for the contemporary tracks.

Screenshots

Relax Utopia3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditation Timer for iPad at none against Relax Utopia's 1. Meditation Timer for iPad also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 28 months). Relax Utopia's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). On price 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. Relax Utopia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meditation Timer for iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, Relax Utopia every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Meditation Timer for iPad versus Relax Utopia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer for iPadRelax Utopia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (167 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings167 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 28 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB222 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Alex Akimov

Customer experience

Meditation Timer for iPad

All ratings164 ratings
Positive85.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral4.4%
Negative8.8%

Relax Utopia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Meditation Timer for iPad

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Timer stopping prematurely
  • Inability to set intervals less than 1 minute

Requested features

4 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Meditation tracking and statistics
  • More sound options and customization
  • Ability to mute ads or chimes

Relax Utopia

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meditation Timer for iPad

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Relax Utopia

One-time1
  • Pro Version$2.99

Questions

Is Meditation Timer for iPad free?
Meditation Timer for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Relax Utopia free?
Relax Utopia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meditation Timer for iPad or Relax Utopia have ads?
Meditation Timer for iPad shows ads; Relax Utopia does not.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer for iPad or Relax Utopia?
Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, and Relax Utopia every 28 months. Most recently, Meditation Timer for iPad was updated on October 23, 2026 and Relax Utopia on October 24, 2026.

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