Comparison

Focal vs Stillness Timer

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

Head to head
About

Focal

This app offers a simple and intuitive meditation timer with customizable sound and color options. Track your progress with detailed statistics and a habit calendar to visualize your journey. Its clean design promotes focus during your meditation sessions.

Highlights
  • Customizable sounds
  • Customizable colors
  • Statistics tracking
  • Habit calendar
  • Clean design
Features
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Welcome to Focal! An innovative and easy to use meditation timer. The app features customizable sounds and colors, stats tracking, and a habit calendar that visualizes your progress. The clean and seamless design makes it easier than ever to stay focused on your practice. Happy meditating with Focal!

About

Stillness Timer

Features
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Stillness is a quiet meditation timer for unguided practice. It gives you structure without noise: no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and no account required. Build the session you actually practice. Create simple or multi-phase meditation sessions with custom intervals, chimes, sounds, and haptics. Give each interval its own chime — a soft bell to change posture, a gong to close the practice — or keep one sound throughout. Use Stillness for mindfulness meditation, autogenic training, breathwork, body scans, silent contemplation, or any practice that benefits from timed silence. Practice with your screen locked. Start a session, lock your phone, and set it down. The timer keeps running and your interval chimes sound on time, with minimal battery use. If a phone call arrives, your session pauses and resumes on its own, and the call time is not counted toward your practice. Prefer to watch the timer? Keep the screen awake instead — the choice is yours. Return to presence during the day. Scheduled reminders help you keep a daily rhythm. Spontaneous reminders arrive at unexpected moments during your active hours, gently interrupting autopilot and inviting you back to awareness. You can also keep spontaneous reminders away from scheduled sessions with a 10, 20, or 30 minute buffer. Keep your rhythm across time zones. Stillness supports reminders tied to local time or to a specific time zone. This is useful when traveling, following a fixed practice schedule, or keeping a home-time routine while away. Track progress privately. See your completed sessions, streaks, milestones, total minutes, and favorite practices. Your data stays on your device. Optional Apple Health integration can write completed sessions as Mindful Minutes when you choose to enable it. Move to a new device privately. Device Migration lets you back up sessions, statistics, reminders, and settings to your private iCloud container, restore them on a new device, and clear the transfer data when you are done. No accounts. No external servers. Stillness is for people who want meditation to stay simple: a timer, gentle cues, useful reminders, private progress, and space to practice.

Screenshots

Focal4 screens
Stillness Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stillness Timer at every 2 months against Focal's every 30 months. Focal's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focal ships an update every 30 months, Stillness Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focal versus Stillness Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocalStillness Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 30 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin MajkutAlexey Prudkov

In-app purchases

None

Focal

No in-app purchases

None

Stillness Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focal free?
Focal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stillness Timer free?
Stillness Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focal or Stillness Timer have ads?
Neither Focal nor Stillness Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focal or Stillness Timer?
Focal ships an update every 30 months, and Stillness Timer every 2 months. Most recently, Focal was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stillness Timer on October 25, 2026.

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