Comparison

Mindful Tracker vs Loops

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

Loops

Features
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Loops turns your daily activity into something you'll actually want to keep going. Built on Apple Health, Loops shows your Move, Exercise, and Stand rings the moment you open it - then turns every closed ring into a streak worth protecting. Miss a day and you start again. Stack them up and watch how far you can go. CLOSE YOUR RINGS, BUILD YOUR STREAKS See today's rings and daily totals at a glance, then track active streaks for closing all three rings, hitting 10,000 steps, and logging workouts. Loops shows your current run alongside your all-time best, so you always know what you're chasing. BEAT YOUR PERSONAL RECORDS Loops digs through your history to surface your real bests; most steps in a day, week, month, and year, longest workout, highest VO₂ max, lowest resting heart rate, and more. Every record is something to aim at next. STATS THAT MAKE SENSE Switch between week, month, and year on real calendar periods - Monday to Sunday, the 1st to the last of the month, January onward - with clean charts that show exactly where you stand right now. LOOPS INTELLIGENCE Get a short, sharp daily recap and insight written for you - like having a coach in your pocket. Loops Intelligence runs entirely on your device using Apple's on-device models, so your health data never leaves your iPhone and never touches a server. SHARE YOUR WINS Turn your streaks and records into a clean, shareable card for Messages, Instagram, or anywhere else. PRIVACY FIRST Loops reads your data straight from Apple Health and keeps it on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no health data sent anywhere. LOOPS PRO Upgrade to Loops Pro to: • Remove all ads • Unlock Loops Intelligence daily recaps and insights • See your full activity history • Get daily and weekly recap notifications • Share your stat cards Whether you're protecting a 200-day streak or starting your first, Loops makes every day count. Loops requires Apple Health and works best with an Apple Watch. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.heyloops.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Mindful Tracker4 screens
Loops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mindful Tracker at none against Loops's 2. Mindful Tracker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). Loops's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price and iOS requirement 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. Loops sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Mindful Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindful Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Loops every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mindful Tracker versus Loops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful TrackerLoops
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.2 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlockBooks Accounting LtdPaul Fraser

In-app purchases

None

Mindful Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Loops

Subscriptions2
  • Loops Pro$2.991 Month
  • Loops Pro$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Mindful Tracker free?
Mindful Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loops free?
Loops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mindful Tracker or Loops have ads?
Loops shows ads; Mindful Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Mindful Tracker or Loops?
Mindful Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Loops every 5 days. Most recently, Mindful Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Loops on October 31, 2026.

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