Koan Meditation Timer vs Urge Surfin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Koan Meditation Timer
This app offers a distraction-free meditation experience with customizable bell sounds and flexible session scheduling. It allows users to create simple or complex meditation routines without requiring an account or saving data.
- Distraction-free meditation
- Customizable bell and bowl sounds
- Flexible session scheduler
- Simple and complex session creation
- No account required
- No data saving
- No push notifications
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The Koan Simple Meditation Timer is built so you can sit down and meditate without distraction. It features three real sounds of bells and bowls and a flexible scheduler. You can create a simple session with a bell to start and a bell to finish after 10 minutes. You can just as easily make a complicated bell setup like 30 minutes of sitting meditation followed by 10 minutes of walking mediation. The simplicity is purposeful here. There is no account to create, no data saved, no push notifications of premium subscriptions to shill. We both know you don't need that. Just meditate more and the world will be a better place for it.
Urge Surfin
This app helps you quit habits by tracking clean days and offering a "urge surfing" game to manage cravings. It also includes a guided breathing exercise to help you calm down quickly.
- Habit tracking
- Clean day counter
- Urge surfing game
- Guided box breathing
- Daily check-ins
- Pattern analysis
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Urge Surfin tracks one thing: how many days you've stayed clean. Choose the habit you need to quit. Start your count. When a craving hits, you have somewhere to go. Urge Surf — draf the surfer to stay balanced on a wave. Urge surfing is a real DBT technique: cravings peak and pass, usually within minutes. The game holds your attention while that happens. Box Breathing — a guided breathing exercise for when you need to come down fast. Four counts in, hold, out, hold. Clinically simple. Actually works. Track your clean days with honest timestamps. Log daily check-ins so you can see patterns, not just streaks. No grace days. No second chances built into the math. Just your real count.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Koan Meditation Timer at every 3 days against Urge Surfin's every 3 months. Koan Meditation Timer also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.4). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Koan Meditation Timer against 5.0 for Urge Surfin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Koan Meditation Timer ships an update every 3 days, Urge Surfin every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Koan Meditation Timer | Urge Surfin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lucas Moore | CTXA LLC |
Customer experience
Koan Meditation Timer
Urge Surfin
In-app purchases
Koan Meditation Timer
No in-app purchases
Urge Surfin
No in-app purchases
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