Lucent vs Meditation Stillness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucent
Organize and access your personal guided meditations. Upload your own audio files to create a structured daily practice, track your progress, and set reminders to stay mindful throughout the day.
- Play guided meditations
- Upload personal meditations
- Create playback queues
- Set daily practice commitments
- Track streaks and progress
- Personalized reminders
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Lucent is your personal space to access your guided meditations and help you keep a simple structure for your daily meditation practice. Upload the meditation you own and access them here to keep everything organized, maintain a consistent daily practice, integrate your insights and stay aligned throughout the day. Features: • Play your guided meditations • Upload your own meditations to your library • Create a seamless playback queue • Set daily commitments • Track streaks, insights, and progress • Stay coherent throughout your day with personalized reminders Important note: Lucent currently does not provide guided meditations. It a space to upload and access the meditations YOU ALREADY own.
Meditation Stillness
A minimalist meditation timer focused on silent, focused breathing sessions. It offers customizable session lengths, interval bells, and ambient sounds without distractions like social feeds or leaderboards. Basic features are free, with an optional one-time purchase for full access.
- Customizable session lengths
- Interval bells for presence
- Ambient and bell sound library
- Session and streak tracking
- Optional meditation reminders
- Device-based data storage
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Meditation Stillness is a calm, focused meditation timer for people who just want to sit and breathe — no social feed, no course library, no leaderboards. Just your practice, and a tool that quietly supports it. No account is required and no data is collected. Your sessions, streaks, and progress live on your device — or in your own iCloud account. If you decide not to upgrade, Basic mode has everything you need to continue your practice. TIMER Set your session length — from 1 minute to several hours — and let it run. Interval bells help you stay present without watching the clock. The timer keeps running and the bells still ring with the screen locked. Choose from a variety of ambient sounds, bell sounds, and interval bell sounds to accompany your meditation. PROGRESS The app tracks your sessions, streaks, and milestones. If you choose, a daily reminder gently nudges you to meditate — and stays quiet on days you already have. Achievements mark meaningful moments in your practice without demanding perfection. There is no competitive meditation here. REFLECTIONS — NEW IN 2.0 Quotes, Gratitude, and Affirmations live on the other side of your Home tab. A curated quote and affirmation arrive each day, or write your own. Keep a gratitude list, filed by day. Save the ones you love, and pin a quote and an affirmation to your Home tab. Everything syncs between your devices through your private iCloud. FREE TRIAL, THEN YOURS Your free 15-day trial gives you full access to everything — the complete sound library, custom quick-start durations, iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad, detailed stats and calendar history, writing your own quotes, gratitude, and affirmations, and the ability to export and import your full meditation history. After the trial, Basic mode stays free for as long as you want it. You keep the timer, your stats, your streaks, and your achievements. Basic mode includes two ambient sounds and four bell sounds — enough to build a real practice without spending a thing. Your daily quote and affirmation still arrive, and everything you've saved stays. The only thing that stops is adding new ones. When you're ready to go further, a single one-time payment unlocks everything permanently — no subscription, no recurring charges, ever. WHY IT STAYS SIMPLE Meditation apps have a habit of growing louder over time. What starts as a quiet timer slowly becomes something you have to dig through just to find the meditation button. I built Meditation Stillness for myself — an app that made it easy to just start meditating. It will grow, but keeping it simple is the goal. Every feature has to earn its place, and if a new feature creates noise, I won't ship it. Try everything free for 15 days. After that, Basic mode is yours to keep — no charge, no pressure. Upgrade when it feels right.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lucent at none against Meditation Stillness's 1. Lucent also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Meditation Stillness's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Meditation Stillness sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lucent asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lucent against 5.0 for Meditation Stillness. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Lucent ships an update every 5 months, Meditation Stillness every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lucent | Meditation Stillness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LumaNexus LLC | Scott Whitehead |
In-app purchases
Lucent
No in-app purchases
Meditation Stillness
- Meditation Stillness Premium$4.99
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