Comparison

Meditation Timer for iPad vs Mind Life Project

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

Mind Life Project

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Inside the Mind Life Project app, you can: Access all of your videos in one easy to use app Receive push notifications with the latest news and updates Access to all of your videos without having to remember your password Save your favorite posts so you can quickly find them later

Screenshots

Mind Life Project3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mind Life Project at none against Meditation Timer for iPad's shown. Mind Life Project also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Meditation Timer for iPad's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, Mind Life Project every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meditation Timer for iPad versus Mind Life Project: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer for iPadMind Life Project
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (167 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings167 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Emily Sudduth

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

Mind Life Project

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meditation Timer for iPad

No in-app purchases

None

Mind Life Project

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer for iPad free?
Meditation Timer for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mind Life Project free?
Mind Life Project is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Timer for iPad or Mind Life Project have ads?
Meditation Timer for iPad shows ads; Mind Life Project does not.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer for iPad or Mind Life Project?
Meditation Timer for iPad ships an update every 5 months, and Mind Life Project every 2 months. Most recently, Meditation Timer for iPad was updated on October 23, 2026 and Mind Life Project on October 25, 2026.

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