Smiling Mind vs Loop Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smiling Mind
This app offers a comprehensive mental fitness toolkit designed by experts to help users build resilience and manage daily challenges. It provides personalized content, tools, and resources for all ages, focusing on mindfulness, meditation, and developing core well-being skills.
- 700+ lessons, practices, and meditations
- 50+ curated collections
- Programs for kids, families, and adults
- Offline content download
- Personalized routines and habit building
- Mood tracking and progress monitoring
- Meditations in Indigenous Australian languages
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Smiling Mind gives you a head-start to managing the ups and downs of everyday life. Welcome to your versatile and practical mental fitness toolkit. The Smiling Mind App helps you learn the skills that underpin wellbeing and create the habits to thrive. Develop your own, unique approach to building your mental fitness, navigating challenges and meeting your goals. It’s your daily workout for life, in your pocket. Our app is underpinned by the Smiling Mind Mental Fitness Model, designed by psychologists and mental health experts to help you develop the foundation for your mind to thrive. Smiling Mind supports you to practise mental fitness through five core skill sets, empowering you to: live mindfully, embrace flexible thinking, grow connections, act purposefully and recharge your body. The Smiling Mind App provides you with personalised content, tools and resources to support your specific wellbeing needs and goals. There’s a range of content for minds of all ages and stages, with children’s collections suitable for ages 5 to 12, and adult collections that take you from beginner practice to everyday habits! The Smiling Mind App has: * 700+ lessons, practices and meditations * 50+ curated collections With a range of special features, the app helps you build mental fitness and resilience; support good sleep, study and sports training; reduce stress; improve relationships; and promote the development of new social and emotional skills. SMILING MIND FEATURES MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS * Beginner meditations through to programs for experienced practitioners * Meditations in Indigenous Australian languages (Kriol, Ngaanyatjarra & Pitjantjatjara) * Content and programs covering sleep, calm, relationships, stress, mindful eating, and much more * Programs for kids and families including sleep, emotional skills development, back to school, and much more MENTAL FITNESS Develop mental fitness skills to: * Increase your sense of calm * Manage your technology use * Enhance the important relationships in your life * Reduce stress and anxiety * Improve mental health and wellbeing OTHER FEATURES * Download content to use offline * Build a mental fitness habits with personalised routines * Track your mood with wellbeing check-ins * See your skill development progress with the mental fitness tracker * Dark mode to help you relax before sleep We have a history of creating positive impact, and a vision to create generational change, empowering everyone with the tools for lifelong mental fitness. Smiling Mind has been at the forefront of mental health innovation for over 12 years, helping minds thrive with evidence-based tools and resources. We’re proud to have impacted the lives of millions of people globally. Over the last decade we have followed a vision to help every mind thrive, and are proud to have impacted so many lives in that time. Now, amidst a mental health crisis, we’re looking to the future at how Smiling Mind can create long-term change in mental health and wellbeing that will ripple into future generations. Smiling Mind’s new mission, Lifelong Mental Fitness, is built on the evidence that shows positive mental wellbeing can be proactively developed. And it’s our intention to empower everyone with the skills they need to do this. “The best thing about Smiling Mind is that it relaxes you and helps you think straight.” - Luke, 10 “We listen to it most nights for my son and I’m not sure what I would do without it truthfully. Thank you for helping our children and family feel better inside and out.” - Year 3 and 5 Parent
Loop Timer
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Make time for your stretch. Loop Timer is a simple repeating timer for stretching and everyday routines. Choose when you want a cue and how long each loop should last, then press Start. The timer repeats automatically so you can focus on what you're doing. YOUR TIMING Set a cue interval and repeat duration from 5 seconds to 60 minutes, in 5-second steps. For example, hear a cue every 15 seconds and begin a new loop every 30 seconds. A cue also marks the end of a loop when it doesn't fall on a regular interval. VOICE OR BEEPS Choose spoken elapsed-time announcements or clear beep cues. Two bright tones mark an interval; three lower tones mark a completed loop. In Beeps mode, a separate chime marks the end of the optional three-second preparation countdown. CLEAR AT A GLANCE A large timer, smooth progress ring, and simple Start, Pause, Resume, and Reset controls keep everything easy to follow. Choose Light, Dark, or System appearance and one of four color themes. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Enjoy a clean layout that adapts to your device. Glass styling is available on supported iOS versions, with an adaptive material design on earlier versions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ads, or tracking. Your preferences stay on your device. Loop Timer does not collect your personal data or record your sessions. The timer keeps the screen awake while active and pauses when you leave the app or open settings. Audio uses your device's output volume. Loop Timer is a timing tool and does not provide exercise or medical advice.
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Verdict
Smiling Mind and Loop Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Smiling Mind | Loop Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smiling Mind | MINURA S LEKAMGE |
Bugs and requests
Smiling Mind
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashing on launch
- Login and account issues
- Meditations not loading or stopping mid-session
- Incorrect tracking of meditation streaks and progress
Requested features
5 requests- Add more long-form meditations
- Integrate with health/fitness tracking apps
- Provide more customization options
- Improve offline functionality
- Add a dark mode
Loop Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Smiling Mind
No in-app purchases
Loop Timer
No in-app purchases









