Comparison

Mindful Tracker vs Mindful Timer

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

Head to head
About

Mindful Tracker

This app provides a simple timer for guided or unguided meditation sessions. It syncs your mindful minutes directly to Apple Health and offers Apple Watch integration for seamless tracking. Build a consistent practice with customizable durations and progress monitoring.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation timer
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Syncs mindful minutes to Apple Health
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island support
  • Meditation history and progress tracking
  • Soothing end-of-session chime
Features
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A simple meditation timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. Meditate your own way, save mindful minutes to Apple Health and build a regular practice—with no subscriptions or guided audio. YOUR MEDITATION, YOUR PACE Choose a preset duration from 1–60 minutes, set a custom timer or use the open-ended “Time Me” stopwatch. Pause, resume or restart your session. Your timer keeps running when you lock your phone or switch apps. MEDITATE WITH APPLE WATCH Start, pause and complete meditations from your wrist. Set custom durations and save sessions to Apple Health, even without your iPhone nearby. SAVE MINDFUL MINUTES TO APPLE HEALTH Connect Apple Health to automatically record completed meditations as mindful minutes. Keep a record of your practice without entering sessions manually. SEE YOUR TIMER AT A GLANCE Follow your session from your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island on supported iPhones. See the time remaining during timed meditations or elapsed time in open-ended sessions. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Review your meditation history, including session dates, durations and cumulative totals. See how your practice builds over time. A GENTLE END TO EACH SESSION A soothing bowl chime marks the end of your meditation, with gentle haptics on Apple Watch. Whether you’re starting with a few quiet minutes or developing an established practice, Mindful Tracker gives you space to sit, breathe and meditate.

About

Mindful Timer

This app provides a simple, unguided interval timer for self-guided meditation, breathwork, and yoga practices. It features customizable timers, gentle bells, and a distraction-free interface. Save your favorite routines and track your weekly sessions without any ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Multiple automatic timers
  • Customizable interval bells
  • Save preset routines
  • Weekly session tracking
  • Gentle bell sounds
  • Distraction-free design
  • Offline functionality
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A simple meditation timer for your self-guided meditation, restorative/yin yoga, Vipassana or other mindfulness practice. No ads. No subscriptions. No distractions. Just gentle bells to keep time while you practice. Set your session, put your phone down, and let the bells guide you. Set multiple timers for a session — say, 2 minutes to settle, 20 minutes of silent sitting, 5 minutes of metta — and Mindful Timer moves from one to the next with a bell at each transition, plus optional interval bells along the way. No courses, no sleep sounds, no content library. Just timers to structure your session, soothing sounds, and you. NEW + 20+ curated sounds: singing bowls, bells, and simple voice cues + Choose how many times the bells ring – once, twice, or three times + Practice insights and heat maps to help you build consistency + Sync sessions to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes CORE FEATURES + Simple, minimal and intuitive UX + Sequential timers that flow automatically from one to the next, so you never check the clock + Interval bells at your chosen frequency (e.g. every 5 minutes) + Fully custom timer durations + Save your routines as presets and start them in one tap + Track streaks, weekly and monthly sessions, and lifetime minutes + Play your own music (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) + Runs in the background and while your phone is locked + Large countdown display DESIGNED FOR CALM FROM DAY ONE + No ads, ever + No subscriptions, ever + No guided meditations, courses, or content to wade through + No social feeds or comparison + Dark mode so it's easy on the eyes + Works fully offline + Gentle sounds to guide you through transitions PERFECT FOR + Any self-guided or silent meditation + Zen, zazen, vipassana, and insight meditation + Yin yoga and restorative yoga + Breathwork and pranayama + Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya + Practicing at home before a vipassana or meditation retreat + Building a daily unguided meditation or yoga habit + Yoga teachers keeping time during class + Interval walking, Japanese interval walking, and Pomodoro focus blocks + Prayer or mantra meditation + Kundalini yoga + Timed stretches WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT + Intuitive design that easier to use than most other timer apps out there. + Keeps time in the background, so you never pick up your phone mid-practice. + Carefully curated, soothing sounds. No jarring alarms. + No clutter, no distractions, nothing you don't need.

Screenshots

Mindful Tracker4 screens
Mindful Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mindful Tracker at none against Mindful Timer's 2. Mindful Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Mindful Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Mindful Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mindful Tracker against 5.0 for Mindful Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindful Timer has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindful Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Mindful Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mindful Tracker versus Mindful Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful TrackerMindful Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.2 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlockBooks Accounting LtdBurnt Cinnamon Labs

Customer experience

Mindful Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mindful Timer

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mindful Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Mindful Timer

One-time2
  • Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$2.99
  • Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$4.99

Questions

Is Mindful Tracker free?
Mindful Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindful Timer free?
Mindful Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mindful Tracker or Mindful Timer?
Mindful Tracker and Mindful Timer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do Mindful Tracker or Mindful Timer have ads?
Neither Mindful Tracker nor Mindful Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful Tracker or Mindful Timer?
Mindful Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mindful Timer weekly. Most recently, Mindful Tracker was updated on November 4, 2026 and Mindful Timer on October 30, 2026.

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