Comparison

stilltime vs Singing Bowl Studio

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

Head to head
About

stilltime

This app provides a realistic singing bowl experience with haptic feedback for meditation, focus, or quiet moments. It includes a customizable timer with interval bells and tracks your mindful minutes in Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Realistic singing bowl sounds with haptic feedback
  • Customizable timer with interval bells
  • Tracks mindful minutes in Apple Health
  • Focus mode to quiet distracting apps
  • Session history and streaks
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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stilltime is a singing bowl and a timer. Not only for meditation — for focus, for breathing, for any few quiet minutes. Tap the bowl and it rings. Drag your finger around the rim to keep it singing; press and hold to quiet it. It sounds like a real bowl and, on your phone, feels like one — every strike and every turn of the rim has its own haptic. Set a length and the timer runs. Add a moment to settle in first, and interval bells along the way if you want them. When the time is up, the bowl sounds again. Every session is kept — in a calm record inside the app, and in Apple Health as mindful minutes. You'll see your streak and the time you've sat, laid out plainly. No badges, nothing that nags you to come back. Free, always. The timer, the house bowl, and the whole record cost nothing. THE RESONANCE COLLECTION A one-time unlock: four more bowls, each a real recorded instrument with its own voice, their matching app icons, and a mood layer on your record. DEEP FOCUS Quiet the apps that pull at you for the length of a session. Open one out of habit and the bowl rings to bring you back. Optional; requires iOS 26.5 or later — everything else works on iOS 17 and up. No account. No ads. No tracking. Your sessions sync privately through your own iCloud — nothing reaches us.

About

Singing Bowl Studio

Create a calming atmosphere with ambient singing bowl sounds. This app helps users relax, focus, or enhance their environment through beautiful, easy-to-use audio.

Highlights
  • Implement singing bowl sounds
  • Promotes relaxation
  • Aids focus
  • Enhances environment vibe
  • Easy to use
Features
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A singing bowl, always in your pocket. Pick a bowl, add a layer of nature underneath it, set the level of each, and let it play. No account, no ads, no internet. Built to get out of the way — for meditation, yoga, focus, sound baths, breathwork, or sleep. TWO BOWLS • Tibetan Bowls — warm, metallic, grounding • Crystal Bowls — bright, clear, long-sustaining FOUR AMBIENT LAYERS Blend one underneath the bowls, or listen to the bowls alone: • Storm — distant thunder and rain • River — moving water • Ocean — slow waves • Forest — wind and leaves MIX IT YOURSELF Separate volume sliders for the bowls and the ambience. Set the storm to a whisper under the bowls, or bring it forward and let the bowls ring underneath. Switching layers crossfades instead of cutting. Your levels are remembered. SLEEP TIMER 5 minutes, 15, 30, 1 hour, or 2 hours. The sound fades away gently at the end rather than stopping dead, so the silence doesn't wake you. Pause the audio and the timer pauses too. BUILT FOR LONG SESSIONS • Seamless loops — long recordings with the loop point hidden inside, not a short clip cycling every few seconds. • Completely offline. Nothing streams, so it works anywhere. • Plays in the background and from the lock screen, with the bowl and layer named in Now Playing. • Take a call or pull out your headphones and the session picks back up properly. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no data collected. Everything it plays is already on your device.

Screenshots

stilltime4 screens
Singing Bowl Studio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Singing Bowl Studio at monthly against stilltime's every 20 months. Singing Bowl Studio also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). stilltime's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

stilltime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Singing Bowl Studio has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

stilltime ships an update every 20 months, Singing Bowl Studio monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
stilltime versus Singing Bowl Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterstilltimeSinging Bowl Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings115 — better
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHongru WangConner Tate

Customer experience

stilltime

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Singing Bowl Studio

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

stilltime

No in-app purchases

None

Singing Bowl Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is stilltime free?
stilltime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Singing Bowl Studio free?
Singing Bowl Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, stilltime or Singing Bowl Studio?
stilltime is rated higher. stilltime averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Singing Bowl Studio averages 4.7 from 15 ratings.
Do stilltime or Singing Bowl Studio have ads?
Neither stilltime nor Singing Bowl Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, stilltime or Singing Bowl Studio?
stilltime ships an update every 20 months, and Singing Bowl Studio monthly. Most recently, stilltime was updated on October 9, 2026 and Singing Bowl Studio on October 24, 2026.

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