Comparison

Meditation Timer for iPad vs Timefully

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

Timefully

This app provides a distraction-free meditation timer designed to help users build consistent habits. It offers customizable timers, rewarding progress tracking with virtual tree growth, and detailed statistics to motivate your practice.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer with unlimited presets
  • Virtual tree growth for practice motivation
  • Comprehensive session statistics and charts
  • Emotion and note tracking
  • Multiple user profiles
  • Apple Watch integration with heart rate tracking
Features
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Timefully helps meditators build a practice that lasts. A beautifully simple meditation timer with deep tracking, tree-growth motivation, and comprehensive statistics — trusted by 40,000+ meditators worldwide and rated 4.8 stars. WHY TIMEFULLY? Timefully is designed for meditators who know what they want — a distraction-free timer that stays out of your way, tracks your progress, and keeps you motivated. No guided content, no social feed, no ads. Just a powerful, beautiful tool for the practice you already have — Vipassana, Zen, mindfulness, mantra, yoga, or breathwork. YOUR TIMER, YOUR WAY • Unlimited presets per profile — create as many as you need • Unlimited segments: warm-up, main, intervals, cool-down, and more • Tap any segment to adjust its duration during setup • Open session mode for indefinite meditation • Count up or count down — your choice • Simple Mode hides the clock for deeper focus • Beautiful curated backgrounds, or use your own photos • Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your session in view BEAUTIFUL BELLS & SOUNDS • 40 bell sounds: Tibetan bells, singing bowls, gongs, wind chimes, flutes, and more • Starting and ending bells (1–3 rings each) • Interval bells at set times or repeating • 6 ambient sounds: Rain, Forest, Ocean, Wind, Fireplace, Birds • Add your own custom sounds • Fade-in option and volume control • Silent mode with haptics TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Automatic session tracking from the timer • Manual entry — including backfilling past sessions • Post-session mood and emotion tracking • Notes and reflections, with a word cloud built from your notes • 6 statistics reports with weekly, monthly, and yearly views • Monthly calendar glance view • AI insights with Apple Intelligence STAY MOTIVATED • Set daily and weekly practice goals • Grow virtual trees through consistent practice • 6 tree species: Oak, Cherry Blossom, Mangrove, Maple, Olive, Wisteria • Earn milestones and achievements, and keep your streak • Inspiring quotes after each session — or turn all in-app text off for quiet, focused sessions BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH • Standalone timer on your wrist • Real-time heart rate and HRV during sessions • Haptic guidance and Always-On Display support • Complications, and sessions saved as workouts • Fully 1:1 with iPhone — including intervals MULTIPLE PROFILES & PRESETS • Profiles for different practices: Meditation, Yoga, and more • Unlimited presets per profile, each with its own background • Quick switching between configurations PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required — your data stays in your own iCloud • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Export and import your data anytime (Open Sit, CSV and JSON) SEAMLESS INTEGRATION • Apple Health — sessions saved as Mindful Minutes • Siri & Shortcuts, with a ready-made Timefully Shortcut and Action Button support • Do Not Disturb automation • 6 Home Screen widgets and 4 Lock Screen widgets ON YOUR MAC • Native macOS app, ideal for desk meditation during work breaks • Large screen for comprehensive statistics • iCloud sync keeps your practice in step with iPhone and iPad PRICING AND TERMS The timer is always free — no account, no ads, no trial limits. Timefully Pro unlocks iCloud sync, Apple Watch heart rate & HRV, statistics & AI insights, tree growth, achievements & streaks, mood tracking, unlimited profiles, premium bells, and widgets. Timefully Pro offers two auto-renewing subscription options: Monthly: $2.99 per month Annual: $11.99 per year You can also purchase Lifetime access for a one-time payment of $24.99. These prices are for United States users. Pricing in other countries may vary. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: https://www.timefully.co/terms PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.timefully.co/privacy

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditation Timer for iPad at none against Timefully's 7. Meditation Timer for iPad also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Timefully's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On price and review sentiment 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. Timefully sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Meditation Timer for iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timefully holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timefully has 1.1K ratings behind it against 164, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Meditation Timer for iPad's written reviews are positive against 85% of Timefully's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, Timefully weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Meditation Timer for iPad versus Timefully: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer for iPadTimefully
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (164 ratings)4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews — better85.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1641.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB391 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Lalune Creative AB

Customer experience

Meditation Timer for iPad

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

Timefully

All ratings1,085 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative8.1%

User reviews

Meditation Timer for iPad

From 164 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable settings
  • 👍 Variety of sounds and chimes
  • 👍 Reliable and dependable
  • 👍 Helpful for meditation practice

Room to improve

  • 🔊 Disruptive ads and sound
  • 🐛 Occasional timer issues
  • 🔋 Battery drain when left running
  • 🔇 Limited sound customization

Timefully

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and efficient
  • 🚀 Streamlined interface
  • 💡 Helpful tracking features
  • 🌳 Enjoyable tree growth metaphor
  • 👍 Customizable timer settings

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional timer issues
  • 🔋 Inconsistent Apple Watch integration
  • 💰 Subscription model concerns
  • 🔍 Limited emotion/mood tracking options

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

Timefully

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Timer not always completing sessions
  • Apple Watch integration problems
  • Incorrect activity log data

Requested features

5 requests
  • More bell/chime sound options
  • Ability to adjust timer from Apple Watch
  • Option to disable tree growth feature
  • Expanded emotion/mood tracking
  • Sync progress across devices

In-app purchases

None

Meditation Timer for iPad

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Timefully

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly$5.993 Months
  • Annual2 variants$11.991 Year
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  • Timefully Annual, 14-day Trial14 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Meditation Timer for iPad free?
Meditation Timer for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timefully free?
Timefully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer for iPad or Timefully?
Timefully is rated higher. Meditation Timer for iPad averages 4.4 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Timefully averages 4.8 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Meditation Timer for iPad or Timefully have ads?
Meditation Timer for iPad shows ads; Timefully does not.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer for iPad or Timefully?
Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, and Timefully weekly. Most recently, Meditation Timer for iPad was updated on September 27, 2026 and Timefully on October 1, 2026.

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