Intervl vs Now Meditation Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intervl
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various activities like workouts, cooking, and focus sessions. It features large, readable displays, voice cues, and the ability to create and chain multiple routines. Track your progress and stay on schedule with ease.
- Customizable phase names
- Large, readable display
- Voice and beep cues
- Lock screen and Live Activity support
- Routine chaining
- Activity tracking
- Timer import/export
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Intervl is an interval timer you can read from across the room. Build any routine of repeating phases, start it with one tap, and let the cues carry you, even with your phone locked. Use it for anything that repeats • Workouts: Tabata, HIIT, EMOM, circuits and boxing rounds • Running: run and walk repeats • Stretching and breathwork • Focus and study: Pomodoro sessions • Cooking: sourdough folds, steak flips, anything on a schedule Name your own phases Work and Rest can become Stir and Simmer, Focus and Break, or Breathe in and Breathe out. Your names show on the timer, in the voice cues, on the lock screen and in the Live Activity. Read it from across the room The phase color fills the screen and the countdown is huge. "Next" tells you what's coming, and the big pause button sits right under your thumb. Cues that keep going Beeps and an optional voice keep playing when your phone is locked, alongside your music. Choose Voice, Beeps or Silent for each timer. Every timer at a glance Each timer is drawn as a strip of its phases, to scale, so you can tell a Tabata from a boxing session before reading a word. Set work, rest, rounds and sets with steppers and watch the total update as you go. Routines Play timers back to back: a warm-up, three rounds of intervals, a cool down. Put them in any order and repeat a timer as often as you like. Your week Activity shows your minutes per day, your streak and every finished session. Also • Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island • Open-ended timers that repeat until you stop, with your best set count • Export and import your timers • iPhone and iPad, light and dark mode, large text Free, with no ads, no account and no tracking.
Now Meditation Timer
This app offers a simple, distraction-free meditation timer with customizable durations and calming visual themes. It helps build a daily practice without pressure, optionally syncing with Apple Health and featuring an Apple Watch companion app.
- Customizable meditation timer (8-60 minutes)
- Daily habit tracking (week strip, month calendar)
- Three distinct visual themes
- Optional Apple Health integration
- Apple Watch companion app
- Focus-designed interface with accessibility features
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Now is a minimal meditation timer. No accounts, no subscriptions, no tracking — just you and the present moment. Set a timer. Press Begin. Breathe. • A SIMPLE TIMER Choose any duration from 8 to 60 minutes, with one-tap presets at 8, 10, 15, 20, and 30. Adjust by single minutes with a familiar stepper. The timer fades into a calm, immersive screen with a soft breathing glow. • A DAILY HABIT, NOT A STREAK YOU'LL LOSE Set a daily goal — eight minutes is a good place to start. A week strip on the home screen and a month calendar in History show every day you practiced. Build the habit at your own pace. • THREE LOOKS, ONE APP Pick the theme that fits your mood: Clay (warm paper, terracotta), Deep (restful ink, glowing aqua — made for night practice), or Mist (cool, precise, near-monochrome). Switch any time in Settings → Appearance. • APPLE HEALTH, IF YOU WANT IT Sessions save as Mindful Minutes in Apple Health, and mindfulness logged in other apps counts toward your daily goal here. You can skip this entirely — the app works the same. • APPLE WATCH A companion app on your wrist starts, runs, and saves sessions, with a complication for one-tap access. • DESIGNED FOR FOCUS • Newsreader serif for the parts that matter • A breathing glow that respects Reduce Motion • Full Dynamic Type support • VoiceOver labels on every control • YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Your sessions live on your device (and Apple Health if you opt in). No analytics. No advertising SDKs. No accounts to make. No subscription to remember to cancel. — Built with care by an indie developer. If something feels off, tell me, and I'll fix it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Now Meditation Timer at every 2 months against Intervl's every 12 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Intervl against 5.0 for Now Meditation Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Intervl ships an update every 12 months, Now Meditation Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intervl | Now Meditation Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jinnius Labs Inc. | Brian Kemler |
Customer experience
Intervl
Now Meditation Timer
In-app purchases
Intervl
No in-app purchases
Now Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
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