Comparison

3D Hourglass Timer vs Nisala

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

Head to head
About

3D Hourglass Timer

Experience a moment of luxury and tranquility with a beautifully designed app featuring 3D hourglasses. Enhance meditation, relaxation, and focus with customizable timers, soothing sounds, and calming music.

Highlights
  • Beautifully designed 3D hourglasses
  • 360° sand flow visualization
  • Timer from 1 to 180 minutes
  • Soothing sand and background sounds
  • Focus-boosting study timer
  • Elegant and luxurious design
Features
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Escape the hustle and bustle of daily life and enjoy a blissful reset for your mind and body. 3D Hourglass HD is a beautifully designed app featuring six stunning hourglasses, rendered with sophisticated 3D graphics. Enjoy the mesmerizing flow of sand from any angle in 360°, creating a perfect atmosphere for meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness practice. With a timer function ranging from 1 to 180 minutes, soothing sand sounds, and calming background music (or rain sounds), this app enhances your precious moments of tranquility. It also serves as a focus-boosting study timer, supporting productivity and relaxation. Designed with luxury and elegance in mind, 3D Hourglass HD brings a touch of refinement to your daily routine. Recommended for: - Those who practice meditation and mindfulness to find inner balance - Those seeking moments of relaxation and reset in their busy lives - Students and professionals looking for a stylish timer to improve focus during study or work - Those who appreciate elegant design and wish to create a premium relaxation space - Those who want to relieve stress and refresh their mind and body Enhance your daily life with a touch of ultimate relaxation and improved focus. Terms of Use: https://hosono-note15.web.app/policy/terms_en.html Privacy Policy: https://hosono-note15.web.app/policy/privacy_en.html

About

Nisala

This app visualizes your body's response during meditation using heart rate and movement data. It then uses AI to analyze your practice history and reflections, offering personalized insights to refine your technique. Journal your experiences and track your progress over time.

Highlights
  • Track heart rate and movement during meditation
  • Visualize body response stages
  • AI-powered practice review
  • Personalized insights and observations
  • Journal meditation experiences and insights
  • Practice calendar without streak pressure
Features
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Nisala helps you see how the body settled during meditation, and turns your growing practice history into meaningful, personalized insight. The Apple Watch companion reads heart rate through Apple Health and movement from the watch during an active meditation. Nisala transforms these signals into a carefully estimated Body Response timeline, with stages such as Arriving, Settling, Still, and Deeply Settled. After each sit, record what you experienced and any insight that became clearer. Over time, your reflections, practice details, and body-response data become an invaluable input for Nisala’s on-device AI, helping it identify patterns and offer thoughtful observations on how you might refine your meditation practice. SEE HOW THE BODY SETTLED • Track heart rate and movement throughout an active meditation on Apple Watch • See when the body appeared to move through Arriving, Settling, Still, and Deeply Settled stages • Review the heart-rate and movement information behind each estimate • Compare the body’s response with your own experience and insights • Notice how your body-response patterns change over time TURN YOUR PRACTICE HISTORY INTO AI INSIGHT Nisala’s AI Practice Review brings together your complete practice record: Body Response stages, heart-rate information, session duration, practice type, reflections, insights, and optional Practice Profile. On supported devices, Apple’s on-device language model can use this record to: • Identify recurring patterns across your meditation sessions • Connect changes in the body with your recorded experiences • Explore how session length and practice type may affect the way you settle • Surface useful observations and questions to help you refine your practice • Create a thoughtful longitudinal review of how your meditation is developing The richer your journal becomes, the more context Nisala has for understanding the longer arc of your practice. When the on-device model is unavailable, Nisala provides a transparent statistical summary instead. JOURNAL THE COMPLETE PRACTICE • Record your experience and insights after each meditation • Add reflections by typing or iPhone dictation • Choose practice types such as Breath and Insight and Four Foundations of Mindfulness, or create your own • Add past or unrecorded sessions manually with their date, duration, optional start time, practice type, and notes • Return to any session to revisit its Body Response, reflection, and insights A GENTLE VIEW OF CONSISTENCY The practice calendar quietly shows the days you meditated, without streak pressure or judgment. Select a date to see its sessions and return to the complete journal entry. PRACTICE WITHOUT FRICTION • Begin an open-ended meditation with one tap • Start from either iPhone or Apple Watch • Continue recording on iPhone when an Apple Watch is unavailable • Keep timing-only sessions and reflections even when body measurements are not collected • Support longer sits for practitioners whose sessions extend beyond one hour PRIVATE AND PORTABLE Nisala requires no account. Your journal and optional Practice Profile remain in local app storage. Nisala does not send your practice record to Picmate or to a cloud AI service. Export your complete practice history whenever you want to keep a separate copy or analyze it using a service of your choice. Body Response stages and AI-generated observations are estimates intended for personal reflection. They are not medical measurements, proof of mental calm, a measure of meditation depth, professional guidance, or a declaration of attainment.

Screenshots

3D Hourglass Timer4 screens
Nisala4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nisala at none against 3D Hourglass Timer's 2. Nisala also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 3D Hourglass Timer's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 3D Hourglass Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Nisala asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nisala holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3D Hourglass Timer has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
3D Hourglass Timer versus Nisala: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3D Hourglass TimerNisala
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (30 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKyohei HosonoPicmate LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

3D Hourglass Timer

One-time2
  • Moon Timer$1.99
  • Jellyfish Hourglass$1.99
None

Nisala

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 3D Hourglass Timer free?
3D Hourglass Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nisala free?
Nisala is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 3D Hourglass Timer or Nisala?
Nisala is rated higher. 3D Hourglass Timer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Nisala averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do 3D Hourglass Timer or Nisala have ads?
Neither 3D Hourglass Timer nor Nisala shows ads.

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