Bowl Timer vs Moss
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bowl Timer
This app helps you meditate without distractions using calming bowl gongs. You can customize session lengths and intervals, with all settings saved locally. It's completely free, offline, and ad-free.
- Guided meditation with bowl gongs
- Customizable session lengths up to 60 minutes
- Split sessions into 1-5 intervals
- Local settings saving
- Total meditation time tracking
- 100% free and offline
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• Meditate for up to 60 minutes, guided by calming bowl gongs. • Split sessions into 1 to 5 intervals for transitions or gentle reminders. • Locally saves your settings and displays total meditation time after 2 hours. • 100% free and offline—no ads, accounts, or tracking. Stay focused, mindful, and fully present during your meditation.
Moss
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There's a kind of meditation app that wants to be part of your life. Moss just wants to get out of the way. Pick a duration. Choose an ambient sound, or silence. Begin. Everything else (session log, streaks, mindful minutes) stays quietly on your device, private and unhurried. Now on Apple Watch, too. Start a session right from your wrist, pick your own duration, and it logs back to your phone automatically. After a session, if you want, leave a quick note on how you felt. Entirely optional, and easy to turn off if it's not for you. No guilt if you miss a day. No badge pressure. Just a still place to return to whenever you're ready to breathe. Moss is for people who already know why they want to meditate. It just makes it easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Moss at monthly against Bowl Timer's every 2 months. Bowl Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Bowl Timer ships an update every 2 months, Moss monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bowl Timer | Moss |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johannes Roth | Quiet Leaf LLC |
In-app purchases
Bowl Timer
No in-app purchases
Moss
No in-app purchases
