Comparison

Unguided vs MindTime

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

Head to head
About

Unguided

Features
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Guided meditations that open your world, then get out of the way. Unguided is a meditation app built around one idea: the best instruction makes itself unnecessary. Every session points you toward direct experience, not dependency on a teacher or a technique. WHAT YOU GET Beautiful silent timer with singing bowl strikes to begin and end. Choose your bowl sound, set interval bells, and sit in silence. Open-ended guided meditations that teach presence through direct experience. Each session gives you just enough guidance, then lets you sit with what you've found. FEATURES - Silent timer with real singing bowl sounds (Deep, Warm, Bright) - Interval bells for longer sits - Guided meditations from 7 to 20 minutes - Clean, distraction-free interface - No streaks, no gamification, no social features - No ads, no upsells ABOUT Built by Ben Haun, a meditation teacher with twenty years of practice. Teaching at unguided.org.

About

MindTime

This app offers a customizable meditation timer with various bell sounds and session types. Track your progress, build daily streaks, and reflect with an optional journal. Enjoy a distraction-free experience designed to support your mindfulness practice.

Highlights
  • Customizable timer durations
  • Choice of 8 meditation bells
  • Interval bells with adjustable volume
  • Four session types (Meditation, Sleep, Focus, Relaxation)
  • Daily streaks and practice tracking
  • Optional journaling feature
  • Cloud sync across devices
Features
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A silent meditation timer that gets out of the way. No guided voices, no feed, no ads — just a bell, your breath, and the time you choose. Most meditation apps want your attention. MindTime gives it back. Set a duration, pick a bell, and sit. When you finish, your streak, your stats and your journal are waiting — and nothing else is. Built for a real practice MindTime is the timer, not a content library. It is made for people who already sit: vipassana and insight meditation, zen and zazen, mindfulness and MBSR, samatha and anapanasati, metta, breathwork, yoga nidra — or simply sitting quietly for ten minutes a day. Silent by design • No voices, ever: nothing talks over your session. No guided tracks, no teacher, no feed to scroll. • Vibration-only mode: feel your interval bells instead of hearing them — made for retreats, shared rooms, offices, dorms and late nights beside a sleeping partner. • Fully silent mode: or switch every sound off and let the session simply end. • No ads, no interruptions: nothing appears while you are sitting. Your timer, your way • Any duration: from seconds to hours — or endless mode with no time limit at all. • Warm-up phase: settle in before the session really begins. • Presets: save your usual sit and start it with a single tap. • Four session types: Meditation, Sleep, Focus and Relaxation, each with its own statistics. Six interval bells that bring you back • Six recorded bells: three Tibetan singing bowls (Manipuri, Jambati, Thadobati), a crystal bowl, a Hanchi gong and Koshi chimes. • Start, interval and end bells: set each one separately — ring every 5 minutes, every 10, or at any interval you like. • Independent volumes: every bell has its own level, so nothing ever jolts you out of a sit. • Or no bell at all: vibration only, or complete silence. 31 soundscapes — entirely optional • Noise: brown noise, light brown and intense brown noise, white noise, pink noise, green noise and blue noise. • Rain and nature: gentle rain, heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, rain on a van, ocean waves, a mountain river, forest birds and crackling fire. • Ambient and frequency: zen garden stream, choir pad, cosmic space, 174 Hz, 285 Hz and 528 Hz. • Silence is the default: mix a soundscape under your session only when you want one. Build the habit • Daily streaks: see your consistency at a glance. • Real statistics: total sessions, total minutes and average session length, broken down by type. • Weekly view: the days you actually practiced. • Gentle reminders: stay on track without being nagged. Reflect with a journal • Session notes: capture what came up while it is still fresh. • History: browse back through weeks and months to notice patterns. • Optional: turn journaling off in Settings and never see it again. Distraction-free by design • Hide the clock: show or hide the countdown and the progress circle — some people focus better without a number. • Screen stays on: your phone never interrupts a sit. • Gentle fade-out: eases you out of the session instead of cutting it off. • Cloud sync: presets, history and streaks stay in step across your devices. • No sign-up needed: open the app and start. The timer and all six bells work offline. Available in 38 languages. Website: https://mindtime.app Terms: https://mindtime.app/terms Privacy: https://mindtime.app/privacy

Screenshots

Unguided4 screens
MindTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Unguided at none against MindTime's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. MindTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Unguided asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Unguided versus MindTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnguidedMindTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.3
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB150 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBen HaunChristian Krueger

In-app purchases

None

Unguided

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

MindTime

Subscriptions1
  • MindTime Premium Subscription$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • MindTime Premium$19.99

Questions

Is Unguided free?
Unguided is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MindTime free?
MindTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Unguided or MindTime have ads?
Neither Unguided nor MindTime shows ads.

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