Comparison

Mindful Timer vs Mantra Meditation Timer

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

Head to head
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 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.

About

Mantra Meditation Timer

Features
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A meditation timer that gets out of your way. Mantra Meditation Timer is a minimalist, privacy-first timer built for practitioners of mantra-based meditation techniques — who just want a clean, distraction-free tool for their daily sits. No sign-up. No account. No teacher details required. No guided content, community feed, or upsell prompts interrupting your practice. Just a timer that respects your time and your privacy. Built for a daily practice - Two ready-to-use meditation timers, plus one custom timer you can configure yourself - Calming start and end chimes that respect Silent Mode - Continues running in the background, even when your device is locked Reflect, gently - Optional mood check-in after each session - Simple text notes to capture how a sit went - 12 months of session history, stored entirely on your device Stay consistent - Current and longest streak tracking - Total sessions completed - One daily reminder to help keep your practice steady Genuinely private Mantra Meditation Timer collects nothing. No analytics, no crash-reporting SDKs, no data leaves your device on the free tier. There's nothing to sign into and nothing to opt out of — because there's nothing being collected in the first place. Mantra+ (optional upgrade, one time lifetime access) For practitioners who want more: - Unlimited custom timers - Rich-text session notes - iCloud sync across your devices — private to your own iCloud account, never visible to us - Works with Apple Health - Sync Mindful minutes - A curated chime library - Alternate app icons and premium themes - Multiple reminders - Deeper statistics: average session length, sessions per day - Milestone badges for 7, 30, 100, 365, and 1000-day streaks Mantra Meditation Timer was built by a long-time Transcendental Meditation meditator, for meditators — a tool designed to disappear into the background of a practice that's already over 3,700 days strong.

Screenshots

Mindful Timer4 screens
Mantra Meditation Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mindful Timer at 18.6 against Mantra Meditation Timer's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Mindful Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Mantra Meditation Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindful Timer ships an update weekly, Mantra Meditation Timer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mindful Timer versus Mantra Meditation Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful TimerMantra Meditation Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBurnt Cinnamon LabsBrent Vardy

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mindful Timer

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

Mantra Meditation Timer

One-time1
  • Mantra+$9.99

Questions

Is Mindful Timer free?
Mindful Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mantra Meditation Timer free?
Mantra Meditation Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mindful Timer or Mantra Meditation Timer have ads?
Neither Mindful Timer nor Mantra Meditation Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful Timer or Mantra Meditation Timer?
Mindful Timer ships an update weekly, and Mantra Meditation Timer every 10 days. Most recently, Mindful Timer was updated on October 12, 2026 and Mantra Meditation Timer on October 3, 2026.

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