Comparison

Stillness Timer vs Still Waters

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 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.

About

Still Waters

This app offers calming visuals and sounds designed to help users cultivate a desired mindset. It's a tool for relaxation and mental preparation.

Highlights
  • Soothing visuals
  • Calming sounds
  • Mindset preparation
  • Relaxation tool
Features
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Enjoy soothing visuals and sounds to prepare your mindset for whatever it needs.

Screenshots

Stillness Timer4 screens
Still Waters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Still Waters at daily against Stillness Timer's every 2 months. 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

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

Stillness Timer ships an update every 2 months, Still Waters daily. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Stillness Timer versus Still Waters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStillness TimerStill Waters
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey PrudkovCurayt, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Stillness Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Still Waters

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stillness Timer free?
Stillness Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Still Waters free?
Still Waters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stillness Timer or Still Waters have ads?
Neither Stillness Timer nor Still Waters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stillness Timer or Still Waters?
Stillness Timer ships an update every 2 months, and Still Waters daily. Most recently, Stillness Timer was updated on September 23, 2026 and Still Waters on September 23, 2026.

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