Comparison

Stillness Timer vs Zen Mind Timer

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

Head to head
About

Stillness Timer

Features
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Stillness Timer 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 sound so you always know which phase just ended. Use Stillness for mindfulness meditation, autogenic training, breathwork, body scans, silent contemplation, or any practice that benefits from timed silence. 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. Scheduled reminders can follow local time or stay tied to a specific time zone. The active hours for spontaneous reminders work the same way: keep them on local time, or keep them anchored to your home time zone while you settle into a new place. 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.

About

Zen Mind Timer

Start a mindful break with a simple, one-tap timer for breathing, meditation, and focus. Offers customizable session lengths, gentle sound endings, and progress tracking without any ads or sign-ups.

Highlights
  • One-tap meditation sessions
  • Customizable session lengths
  • Gentle sound or vibration endings
  • Meditation session tracking
  • Minimalist interface
  • Offline functionality
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Start a mindful break in one tap. Zen Minute Timer is the fastest way to breathe, meditate and refocus, no clutter, no sign-ups, no ads. Why you’ll love it: Instant sessions – 1, 5, 10-minute presets or any custom length. Gentle endings – choose bell, gong, chime or silent vibration. Calendar - Keep track of you meditation session daily, weekly, monthly. Minimal interface – a single circle countdown keeps you centred. Screen-awake option – prevent dimming for night-stand or mat use. Works offline – perfect for airplane mode or remote retreats. Privacy first – no accounts, tracking or background data. No Ads, No Microtransactions, 100% free. How it helps: Whether you need a 60-second breathing pause between meetings, a quick mindfulness break before bed, or a calm focus timer for study, Zen Minute Timer keeps the ritual simple so you can keep showing up. Tap. Breathe. Focus. Repeat.

Screenshots

Stillness Timer4 screens
Zen Mind Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Zen Mind Timer at 3 against Stillness Timer's 1. Zen Mind Timer also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stillness Timer versus Zen Mind Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStillness TimerZen Mind Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey PrudkovMT Solutions, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Stillness Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Zen Mind Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stillness Timer free?
Stillness Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Zen Mind Timer free?
Zen Mind Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stillness Timer or Zen Mind Timer have ads?
Neither Stillness Timer nor Zen Mind Timer shows ads.

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