Comparison

Stillness Timer vs Meditation Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” 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 β€” a soft bell to change posture, a gong to close the practice β€” 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 β€” 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.

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Meditation Timer

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Close your eyes. The bell comes and gets you. No ads, no account, and it rings with no internet. One dial does everything. Turn it to set the length, and the interval bells appear as marks around the ring. While you sit, those marks go by one at a time. You see the shape of the session before it starts. Then the app gets out of the way. With the screen dark the opening, interval, and closing bells still ring on time, and the same dial waits on your Lock Screen. ● Bell marks on the dial β€” how many will ring, and when, before you begin ● Lock Screen widgets (circular, rectangular, inline), Live Activity, Dynamic Island ● Bells ring with the screen off and with the silent switch flipped ● Bells are synthesized on the device as they ring β€” the app ships no audio files ● No streaks, no grid, no badges. Empty days stay empty ● No notifications. Nothing here nudges you to sit ● No ads, no account, no server β€” it works with no internet Free - Any length from 1 to 180 minutes - All four sounds: singing bowl, chime, wood block, silent - The five-minute interval bell - Every Lock Screen widget and the Live Activity - The last 30 days of history, backed up to your own iCloud Premium (subscription) - Set the opening and closing bells separately - Choose your own interval spacing - Warm-up and fade, to the second - Full history beyond 30 days, and CSV export - Shadowless background Subscription terms: Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aside.ai.kr/en/apps/meditation/privacy

Screenshots

Stillness Timer4 screens
Meditation Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stillness Timer at none against Meditation Timer's 2. Meditation Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Meditation Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Stillness Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Stillness Timer versus Meditation Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStillness TimerMeditation Timer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS18.014.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size19 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey PrudkovYunseong Jung

In-app purchases

None

Stillness Timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Meditation Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

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

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