Mindful Tracker vs Mindful Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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 unguided 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. Mindful Timer is built for people who just want the space to meditate—no courses, no sleep sounds, no content library. Just timers, soothing sounds, and you. Perfect for meditation, yin and restorative yoga, breathwork, zazen, or any self-guided practice. 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 + 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 — one simple purchase, yours forever + 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 (unlike most interval timers) PERFECT FOR + Any self-guided or silent meditation + Zen, zazen, vipassana, and insight meditation + Yin yoga and restorative yoga + Breathwork and pranayama + 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 WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT + Incredibly simple and intuitive design. + 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.
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Verdict
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 (10 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
Both are free to download. Mindful Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Mindful Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
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 10 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.
Mindful Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Mindful Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindful Tracker | Mindful Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BlockBooks Accounting Ltd | Burnt Cinnamon Labs |
Customer experience
Mindful Tracker
Mindful Timer
In-app purchases
Mindful Tracker
No in-app purchases
Mindful Timer
- Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$2.99
- Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$4.99
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