Mindful Timer vs Intervall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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 unguided 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. Mindful Timer is built for people who just want the space to meditate—no courses, no sleep sounds, no content library. Just timers, soothing sounds, and you. Perfect for meditation, yin and restorative yoga, breathwork, zazen, or any self-guided practice. 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 + 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 — one simple purchase, yours forever + 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 (unlike most interval timers) PERFECT FOR + Any self-guided or silent meditation + Zen, zazen, vipassana, and insight meditation + Yin yoga and restorative yoga + Breathwork and pranayama + 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 WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT + Incredibly simple and intuitive design. + 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.
Intervall
Create and run custom interval training routines with a clear, legible timer. This app syncs with Apple Watch to display heart rate and control workouts, and can save data to Apple Health.
- Custom interval workouts
- Save and reuse workouts
- Large, readable timer
- Apple Watch mirroring
- Watch controls
- Live heart rate display
- Apple Health integration
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Intervall is a precise interval timer for training sessions on iPhone and Apple Watch. Build custom workouts from intervals, repeats, and rests, then run them with a clear timer designed to stay legible during movement. Features: • Build custom interval workouts with sets, repeats, and rest periods • Save workouts and return to them anytime • Run workouts on iPhone with large, readable timer controls • Mirror the session on Apple Watch • Control play, pause, and skipping from your watch • View live heart rate when a fresh reading is available from Apple Watch Intervall is suited to HIIT, circuits, mobility work, cardio intervals, strength blocks, and other structured workouts. Health and Apple Watch: The Watch companion can supply live heart rate during a workout. Without a Watch reading, the heart rate display stays hidden. When you run a workout on iPhone without the Watch, Intervall can save it to Apple Health.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervall at none against Mindful Timer's 2. Mindful Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Mindful Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Intervall asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mindful Timer against 5.0 for Intervall. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindful Timer has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mindful Timer ships an update weekly, Intervall every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindful Timer | Intervall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Burnt Cinnamon Labs | Ruben Musca |
Customer experience
Mindful Timer
Intervall
In-app purchases
Mindful Timer
- Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$2.99
- Premium: Bell Sounds, Insights$4.99
Intervall
No in-app purchases
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