Comparison

Meditation Interval Timer vs Open Habit

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

Head to head
About

Meditation Interval Timer

Features
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Carefully designed for practitioners who bring structure to their meditation. Meditimer rings a singing bowl at your chosen intervals — freeing your mind from tracking time and letting you move naturally through each phase of your practice. Set your preparation countdown, interval, and total duration. Start. Let go. Features · Singing bowl bells at custom intervals · Preparation countdown before each session · Three presets: Short · Medium · Long · Plays over music without interruption · Logs Mindful Minutes to Apple Health · Auto light/dark theme by sunrise and sunset

About

Open Habit

Build routines with daily targets and optional streak goals. Track progress from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Share habits with a small group while keeping your data private and offline.

Highlights
  • Build routines with daily targets
  • Optional streak goals
  • Track from iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Private by design, offline-first
  • Share habits with invited groups
  • Export and import data
  • Open source
Features
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Open Habit is a private, offline-first habit tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, built around small daily steps and ownership of your data. Build routines your way Create habits with daily targets and optional streak goals. Add Completions from the app, interactive Home Screen widgets, or Shortcuts. Review your history in a rolling grid and monthly calendar, and add a private Day Note when context matters. Track from your wrist Use the Apple Watch companion to view your habits and record Completions. Changes synchronize with your paired iPhone. Share with people you choose Turn a personal Habit into a Shared Habit for a small invited group. Everyone keeps their own Completions, and each person’s Day Notes and organization stay private. Private by design Tracking works offline. There is no Open Habit account, advertising, analytics, or hosted Open Habit data service. Your private data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud database when sync is available. Your data remains portable Export a complete JSON backup, restore it later, or import supported HabitKit version 2 exports. Open Habit also saves a local recovery backup before replacement, import, and deletion. Open Habit is free and open source, with no ads or in-app purchases. View the source, report issues, and contribute at https://github.com/zamai/open-habit.

Screenshots

Meditation Interval Timer4 screens
Open Habit1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Open Habit at every 2 weeks against Meditation Interval Timer's every 3 months. Open Habit also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Interval Timer ships an update every 3 months, Open Habit every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Meditation Interval Timer versus Open Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Interval TimerOpen Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVitaly OleinikovsOleksandr Zamai

In-app purchases

None

Meditation Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Open Habit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Interval Timer free?
Meditation Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Open Habit free?
Open Habit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Interval Timer or Open Habit have ads?
Neither Meditation Interval Timer nor Open Habit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Interval Timer or Open Habit?
Meditation Interval Timer ships an update every 3 months, and Open Habit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Meditation Interval Timer was updated on October 31, 2026 and Open Habit on October 31, 2026.

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