Comparison

Quit vs Mindful Timer

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

Head to head
About

Quit

Features
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Quit smoking on your terms with Quit-It, a simple yet powerful app designed to help you taper down and quit for good. Quit-It turns every cigarette into a mindful decision: each time you smoke, just tap Smoke and watch one cigarette disappear from the on-screen pack, giving you a clear, visual sense of control and progress. Combined with motivating messages that keep you focused and encouraged, Quit-It helps reduce smoking gradually and realistically—making quitting feel manageable, motivating, and achievable.

About

Mindful Timer

This app provides a simple, unguided interval timer for self-guided meditation, breathwork, and yoga practices. It features customizable timers, gentle bells, and a distraction-free interface. Save your favorite routines and track your weekly sessions without any ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Multiple automatic timers
  • Customizable interval bells
  • Save preset routines
  • Weekly session tracking
  • Gentle bell sounds
  • Distraction-free design
  • Offline functionality
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A simple meditation timer for your self-guided meditation, restorative/yin yoga, Vipassana or other mindfulness practice. No ads. No subscriptions. No distractions. Just gentle bells to keep time while you practice. Set your session, put your phone down, and let the bells guide you. Set multiple timers for a session — say, 2 minutes to settle, 20 minutes of silent sitting, 5 minutes of metta — and Mindful Timer moves from one to the next with a bell at each transition, plus optional interval bells along the way. No courses, no sleep sounds, no content library. Just timers to structure your session, soothing sounds, and you. NEW + 20+ curated sounds: singing bowls, bells, and simple voice cues + Choose how many times the bells ring – once, twice, or three times + Practice insights and heat maps to help you build consistency + Sync sessions to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes CORE FEATURES + Simple, minimal and intuitive UX + Sequential timers that flow automatically from one to the next, so you never check the clock + Interval bells at your chosen frequency (e.g. every 5 minutes) + Fully custom timer durations + Save your routines as presets and start them in one tap + Track streaks, weekly and monthly sessions, and lifetime minutes + Play your own music (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) + Runs in the background and while your phone is locked + Large countdown display DESIGNED FOR CALM FROM DAY ONE + No ads, ever + No subscriptions, ever + No guided meditations, courses, or content to wade through + No social feeds or comparison + Dark mode so it's easy on the eyes + Works fully offline + Gentle sounds to guide you through transitions PERFECT FOR + Any self-guided or silent meditation + Zen, zazen, vipassana, and insight meditation + Yin yoga and restorative yoga + Breathwork and pranayama + Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya + Practicing at home before a vipassana or meditation retreat + Building a daily unguided meditation or yoga habit + Yoga teachers keeping time during class + Interval walking, Japanese interval walking, and Pomodoro focus blocks + Prayer or mantra meditation + Kundalini yoga + Timed stretches WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT + Intuitive design that easier to use than most other timer apps out there. + Keeps time in the background, so you never pick up your phone mid-practice. + Carefully curated, soothing sounds. No jarring alarms. + No clutter, no distractions, nothing you don't need.

Screenshots

Quit1 screens
Mindful Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Quit and Mindful Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Quit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mindful Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quit ships an update every 2 weeks, Mindful Timer weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Quit versus Mindful Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuitMindful Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB52 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperClaudio CugliariBurnt Cinnamon Labs

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quit

One-time1
  • Remove All Ads$3.99
2 purchases

Mindful Timer

One-time2
  • Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$2.99
  • Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$4.99

Questions

Is Quit free?
Quit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mindful Timer free?
Mindful Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quit or Mindful Timer have ads?
Neither Quit nor Mindful Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quit or Mindful Timer?
Quit ships an update every 2 weeks, and Mindful Timer weekly. Most recently, Quit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Mindful Timer on October 30, 2026.

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