BuddhaMind vs Meditation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BuddhaMind
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BuddhaMind is a meditation app from the London Buddhist Centre, designed to help you develop greater awareness, wisdom and compassion. Whether you’re new to meditation or have been practising for years, BuddhaMind offers high-quality guided meditations, structured courses, and teachings for modern life — all rooted in the Buddhist tradition. This isn’t just another meditation app. It’s a doorway into a living spiritual community. All content is created by experienced Buddhist teachers, grounded in their own practice of the Buddha’s teachings. What you’ll find inside • Guided meditations, including mindfulness, loving-kindness (mettā), compassion, body awareness, and practices for working with difficult emotions • Structured, multi-week courses that support depth and continuity in practice • A simple meditation timer for daily practice • Teachings from experienced Buddhist teachers connected with the London Buddhist Centre • A sense of connection to a living Buddhist community
Meditation
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Meditation: Segment Timer is a simple, distraction-free timer for structured meditation sessions. Set an overall duration, choose a short warm-up, and divide your practice into clear segments. Gentle bell sounds mark the start, transitions, and end of your session so you can stay focused without watching the clock. Features • Set a total meditation duration • Optional warm-up period • Divide sessions into equal segments • Clear visual progress ring • Simple controls to start, pause, and reset • Designed to be calm, minimal, and easy to use Whether you prefer a lightly structured practice or simply want subtle time awareness, Meditation: Segment Timer helps you meditate with clarity and consistency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BuddhaMind at 14.0.0 against Meditation's 18.5. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BuddhaMind ships an update every 10 days, Meditation every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BuddhaMind | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | London Buddhist Centre | Harry Mackinnon-Coleman |
In-app purchases
BuddhaMind
No in-app purchases
Meditation
No in-app purchases









