Comparison

Meditation Timer | Samsara vs Focus Factor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

Focus Factor

This app offers a holistic approach to brain health with a variety of engaging games and guided meditation sessions. Train your focus, memory, and problem-solving skills, or find relaxation and manage stress with expert-led meditations. Track your progress and mood to build healthy brain habits.

Highlights
  • 20+ brain training games
  • Focus, memory, problem-solving, language, math training
  • Guided meditation sessions
  • Anxiety, stress, pain, sleep management
  • Personalized daily content
  • Progress tracking
  • Mood tracker
Features
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At Focus Factor, we believe that brain health is the most important thing in your life and has the greatest effect on your present and future. Caring for your brain means finding a healthy balance of stimulation and relaxation. Access brain games and meditation, all in one app, for a holistic, rounded approach to brain health. Train your brain with games that focus on categories such as focus, memory, problem solving, language, and math. Brain training games are suitable for all ages - from children to seniors - and each brain game is under 5 minutes long. The full brain training games library is accessible on demand for app members. Treat your mind with meditation. All meditations sessions have been custom created for Brain Hub members by mindfulness experts Autumn Grant and Jonathan Dododza. The full array of guided meditations are available to members on demand, from sessions for beginners on how to meditate, to advanced sessions on deep concentration, anxiety management and soothing pain. Download Focus Factor and invest in your brain health today - we believe the good things you do for your brain today will last you a lifetime. FOCUS FACTOR FEATURES: Brain Training Games - 20+ brain training games specifically designed to improve focus, memory, problem solving, language and math - Focus games test ability to maintain attention in shifting environments and avoid distractions - Memory games improve information retention and visual recall - Problem solving games improve process of elimination skills - Language games expand active vocabulary and test creative word generation - Math games boost quick calculation skills Guided Meditation Sessions - A library of over 10 different meditation topics, broken down into individual meditation sessions - Included are sessions on Anxiety, Managing Stress, Pain, Good Sleep, Concentration, Breath and more - Sessions range from beginner to advanced Variety and Daily Commitment - Personalized daily brain training games and meditation content selected to give structure and encourage daily usage - Short-form audio books on topics including anthropology, human behaviour, sleep science and biographies from respected visionaries - In-depth performance, progress and usage tracking - Mood tracker with note functionality and calendar view - Breathing exercises module - Supplement log tracker Download today and start engaging in healthy brain habits now! Read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://app.focusfactor.com/pages/terms-conditions Privacy policy: https://app.focusfactor.com/pages/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Meditation Timer | Samsara4 screens
Focus Factor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meditation Timer | Samsara at 91% against Focus Factor's 38%. Meditation Timer | Samsara also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Focus Factor's advantage is iOS requirement (12.3 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Meditation Timer | Samsara sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Focus Factor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meditation Timer | Samsara holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer | Samsara has 431 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Meditation Timer | Samsara's written reviews are positive against 38% of Focus Factor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer | Samsara ships an update every 10 days, Focus Factor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Meditation Timer | Samsara versus Focus Factor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer | SamsaraFocus Factor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (431 ratings) — better4.1 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings431 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.612.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB152 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBart JacobsSynergy CHC Corp

Customer experience

Meditation Timer | Samsara

All ratings431 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral2.6%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews475 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.3%

Focus Factor

All ratings35 ratings
Positive68.6%
Neutral17.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative50.0%

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

Focus Factor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Meditation Timer | Samsara

Subscriptions5
  • 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
One-time1
  • Samsara Premium Lifetime$59.99
3 purchases

Focus Factor

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan7 Days trial$0.291 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$0.291 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime PlanFree

Questions

Is Meditation Timer | Samsara free?
Meditation Timer | Samsara is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Factor free?
Focus Factor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meditation Timer | Samsara or Focus Factor?
Meditation Timer | Samsara is rated higher. Meditation Timer | Samsara averages 4.7 out of 5 from 431 ratings, while Focus Factor averages 4.1 from 35 ratings.
Do Meditation Timer | Samsara or Focus Factor have ads?
Focus Factor shows ads; Meditation Timer | Samsara does not.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer | Samsara or Focus Factor?
Meditation Timer | Samsara ships an update every 10 days, and Focus Factor every 2 weeks. Most recently, Meditation Timer | Samsara was updated on September 20, 2026 and Focus Factor on July 5, 2026.

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