Meditation Timer for iPad vs Unguided Meditation Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable meditation schedules
- Prepare, interval, and cool-down times
- Unique sound settings
- Background picture customization
- Unlimited reminders
- Password protection
- Today Widget support
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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.
Unguided Meditation Timer
This app provides a simple timer for unguided meditation sessions. Customize your meditation duration and choose from eight distinct gongs. Track your progress with a built-in meditation calendar.
- Customizable meditation time
- 8 different gongs
- Meditation calendar
- Vipassana meditation support
- Anapana meditation support
- Insight timer functionality
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With this simple Meditation Timer, you can start your unguided meditation. The Meditation Timer allows you to adjust the meditation time. Also, the Meditation Timer offers 8 different gongs. Every time you meditate, the Meditation Timer will update the meditation calendar. Meditation timer can do all the following: - Vipassana meditation - Anapana meditation - Insight timer How to meditate using this meditation Timer? - Configure the Meditation Timer and start the clock - Breathe in - Breathe out Enjoy this Meditation Timer. Also known as a meditation clock. https://vanniktech.de/MeditationTimer/privacy_policy.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditation Timer for iPad at none against Unguided Meditation Timer's 4. Meditation Timer for iPad also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 20) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Unguided Meditation Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Unguided Meditation Timer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Meditation Timer for iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Meditation Timer for iPad against 4.3 for Unguided Meditation Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer for iPad has 167 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Meditation Timer for iPad's written reviews are positive against 82% of Unguided Meditation Timer's.
Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, Unguided Meditation Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Timer for iPad | Unguided Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (167 ratings) — better | 4.3 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Niklas Baudy |
Customer experience
Meditation Timer for iPad
Unguided Meditation Timer
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
Unguided Meditation Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meditation Timer for iPad
No in-app purchases
Unguided Meditation Timer
- Unlimited audio files$1.99
- Unlimited colors$1.99
- Remove ads$2.99
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Questions
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