Meditation Timer | Samsara vs Timer for Meditation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meditation Timer | Samsara
This minimalist app provides a customizable timer for various meditation and mindfulness practices. It features calming chimes, detailed statistics, and iCloud support for seamless data syncing across devices. Designed for simplicity, it helps users focus on their practice without distractions.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Support for various practices (mantra, mindfulness, zazen, yoga, reiki)
- Collection of calming chimes (Tibetan bells, singing bowls)
- Detailed practice statistics and progress tracking
- iCloud support for data syncing across devices
- Profile management for easy switching between practices
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For the past twelve years, Samsara has been the meditation timer of tens of thousands of people around the world. This meditation timer is designed for iPad and iPhone, and caters to a wide range of practices, including mantra meditation, transcendental meditation, tm for short, mindfulness, zazen, yoga, reiki, shiatsu, and more. This elegant mindfulness app brings a unique approach to incorporating mindfulness into your everyday life. It's a perfect choice for practitioners of various flavors of meditation and mindfulness. Samsara's clean and minimalist design keeps your focus steady. The app's interface is thoughtfully crafted with simplicity at its core, ensuring your yoga, meditation, or mindfulness session isn't interrupted by complex features or visually overwhelming elements. Profiles make it easy to switch between practices. Switching between profiles takes a second. Whether you are moving between a yoga session and a mindfulness timer, or shifting between personal and group sessions, your settings can be adjusted with just a few simple taps. This meditation timer includes a collection of calming chimes, such as Tibetan bells, singing bowls, and meditation bells. They allow you to personalize your sessions and create the ideal atmosphere for your practice. The bells and chimes are gentle reminders, guiding your yoga or meditation journey and helping you build a deeper connection with your practice. The app provides detailed, insightful statistics for those who want it. Stay motivated by tracking your progress and patterns over time. Monitor the duration, frequency, and type of your practices to get a deeper understanding of your journey and gain insights into your personal growth. Samsara optionally integrates with Apple's HealthKit. This meditation timer comes with iCloud support, one of the most requested features. Your profiles and sessions are stored in iCloud on Apple's servers. Communication with iCloud is encrypted end-to-end, which means it is safe and secure. What does that mean for you? You don't run the risk of losing your data when you lose your device. Switching to a new device is also a breeze. Another benefit is that you can use Samsara on multiple devices, sharing profiles and sessions. It works like magic. Download Samsara for free and let it be your meditation timer during your practice. Privacy Policy: https://www.adropofzen.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Timer for Meditation
This app offers customizable timers with flexible settings for various time periods and durations. Users can personalize alert and background sounds, with black and white illustrations to aid focus during meditation or other tasks.
- Flexible timer settings
- Customizable alert sounds
- Customizable background sounds
- Black and white illustrations
- Focus enhancement
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Features of Timer for Meditation: * Flexible settings designed for multiple time periods with different lengths for each timer; * Ability to set different alert and background sounds * Black and white illustrations help users to easily focus on meditation or other tasks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timer for Meditation at none against Meditation Timer | Samsara's 6. Timer for Meditation also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). Meditation Timer | Samsara's advantage is ratings volume (437 vs 24). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Meditation Timer | Samsara sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Timer for Meditation asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Meditation Timer | Samsara against 4.8 for Timer for Meditation. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer | Samsara has 437 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Meditation Timer | Samsara's written reviews are positive against 83% of Timer for Meditation's.
Meditation Timer | Samsara ships an update every 10 days, Timer for Meditation every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Timer | Samsara | Timer for Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (437 ratings) | 4.8 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.7% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 437 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bart Jacobs | Neptune Media International CO., LIMITED |
Customer experience
Meditation Timer | Samsara
Timer for Meditation
Bugs and requests
Meditation Timer | Samsara
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashing on launch for some users
- Chimes cutting off prematurely
Requested features
6 requests- Apple Watch support
- More color options for highlights
- Additional sound effects like other bells and instruments
- Ability to delete saved profiles
- Option to continue timer after initial duration
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- Ability to set multiple timers within a single session
Timer for Meditation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meditation Timer | Samsara
- Samsara Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Samsara Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Samsara Premium Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Samsara Premium Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Samsara Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
- Samsara Premium Lifetime$59.99
Timer for Meditation
No in-app purchases
Questions
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