Meditation vs Meditation Rooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Meditation Rooms
This app offers a guided meditation experience with curated rooms and customizable timers. Create your own serene space with various instruments, ambient sounds, and durations to suit your practice.
- Curated meditation rooms
- Customizable room creation
- Multiple sacred instruments
- Ambient soundscapes
- Customizable session duration
- Progress tracking and achievements
- Daily Zen reminders
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Enter a meditation room, and let the space do the settling. A mindful meditation timer built around Meditation Rooms — complete spaces where the scene, the instrument, the ambient sound and the length are already in tune with each other. Open Zen Temple for stillness, Sea Meditation for the breath, Himalayan Shrine for contemplation, Bamboo Grove for the present moment, or Golden Om for mantra. Tap Begin and sit. Want it your way? Create your space: pick an instrument, a duration, how often it sounds, then layer a second instrument and an ambient track underneath. Your room is waiting the next time you open the app. Whether you have 5 minutes between meetings or an hour for a deep session, the ritual stays simple: Enter → Sit → Breathe. MEDITATION ROOMS • Five curated rooms — Zen Temple (stillness and awakening), Sea Meditation (impermanence, returning to the breath), Himalayan Shrine (compassion and contemplation), Bamboo Grove (dwelling in the present), Golden Om (one-pointedness, union) • Every room is a whole atmosphere — its own scene, bell, ambience, haptics, suggested length and reflections • Create Your Space — build a custom room and it saves itself for next time • Resume Last Session — pick your practice back up from the Home screen in one tap • Favorite the rooms you keep coming back to SOUNDS & AMBIENCE • Nine sacred instruments — a digital wooden fish (木魚), a Himalayan singing bowl, and seven Tibetan ceremonial bells (Basu, Dengze, Kangse, Ombu, Sakya, Shurong, Zhada), each with its own origin, craft and place in practice • Layer instruments — add a second instrument on top, with its own volume and interval • Eight ambient soundscapes — Bamboo Fountain, Ocean Waves, Enchanted Forest, Fireplace, Tibetan Sunrise, Sound Bath, Golden Om and Enchanting • Custom duration — 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes • Custom interval — set the gap between sounds from 5s to 60s to match your breath THE SESSION • Full-screen player — breathing animation, live countdown, progress ring, and pause / resume / end • 30 immersive backgrounds to sit inside — zen, nature and abstract scenes • Save or discard — leave early and decide whether the minutes count • A quiet completion screen closes every finished sit YOUR PROGRESS • Presence-first stats — minutes meditated, sessions and a daily goal ring, never raw tap counts • Presence Journey chart — see your practice over 7, 30 or 90 days • Six achievements — First Steps, Daily Practice, First Hour, 10 Hours, Devoted and Centurion • Daily Zen Reminder — a gentle nudge at the time you choose SHARE YOUR PRACTICE • Quote posters — pick a scene, shuffle the quote, post it to Instagram, Facebook or anywhere else • Session and achievement cards for the milestones worth marking MADE TO FEEL CALM • Day and Night themes — switch in one tap from the Home screen, or follow your system • Premium SNPro typography, gentle haptics, no clutter • 12 languages — English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese PERFECT FOR • Quick stress breaks during the workday • Morning and evening meditation routines • Building a daily mindfulness habit • Buddhist prayer, chanting and bell practice • Focus sessions while studying or working • ASMR, deep relaxation and sleep wind-down FREE & PLUS • Free: the Zen Temple room, Create Your Space, wooden fish, singing bowl, the Basu and Dengze bells, six ambient tracks, and your full stats and achievements • Plus: every meditation room, all nine instruments, every ambient track, and all 30 player and share backgrounds Plus is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no auto-renew. Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/nguyendangnam-privacy-policy/home Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Turn minutes into presence — one bell at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditation at none against Meditation Rooms's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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 Rooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meditation asks for nothing beyond the download.
Meditation ships an update every 8 days, Meditation Rooms every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation | Meditation Rooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harry Mackinnon-Coleman | Dang Nam Nguyen |
In-app purchases
Meditation
No in-app purchases
Meditation Rooms
- Lifetime$4.99









