Comparison

Meditation Timer Stillness vs Ding

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

Head to head
About

Meditation Timer Stillness

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Meditation Timer Stillness is a distraction-free meditation timer and tracker with gentle bells, session history, and practice insight for beginner or advanced practices. It is built for people who do not need guided meditations, voice instructions, social features, streak pressure, or unnecessary clutter. Just set your time, choose gentle bells, begin your session, and return to silence. The basic meditation timer remains free. Use Stillness for: • Silent meditation • Mindfulness practice • Vipassana-style sitting • Zen practice • Breath awareness • Focus sessions • Quiet reflection • Daily sitting practice Core features: • Simple meditation timer • Gentle start, interval, and end bells • Bell sounds can be silenced • Adjustable session duration • Optional interval bells • Calm, minimal interface • Designed for silent practice • No ads • No social features • No guided content Premium unlocks: • Saved meditation sessions • Session history with edit and delete • Session notes — personal reflections attached to every session • Reflection tags — one-tap mood log (Deep · Calm · Neutral · Restless · Difficult) • Closing and background ambience sounds (Rain · Birdsong · Forest · Ocean · Wind · Bell only) • Meditation insights • Saved app settings Stillness is designed to feel like a quiet tool, not a noisy platform. Open the app, set your timer, and sit. Whether you meditate for 5 minutes or 60 minutes, Stillness helps you keep the structure of your practice while leaving the practice itself undisturbed. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://meditationtracker.replit.app/privacy

About

Ding

A simple meditation timer that offers accurate timing, customizable presets, and background sounds. It integrates with Apple Watch, Health app, and Calendar, with optional Discord community features for shared practice.

Highlights
  • Accurate timing with background/lock screen support
  • Apple Watch integration for wrist-based timing
  • Customizable presets with bells and background sounds
  • Optional Discord community for shared practice
  • Health app integration for mindful minutes
  • iCloud sync for presets and history
Features
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A timer that stays a timer. Free, no paywalls. Two taps to the sit — open a preset and start the timer. The timer needs no account and no internet, and nothing pops up before or after the sit. Less app, more practice. You sit on the cushion by yourself — but you're not alone. If you want company, connect Discord, and the “Together” feed will show which of the people you know sat today. New to Discord? Come to our open Ding community. Visibility is up to you, and you can turn it off at any time. What's inside: — Accurate timing: the timer holds even if you background the app or lock the screen. If the system closes the app, the app will notify you instead. — Apple Watch: the timer on your wrist, works even without the phone. Same presets, vibration instead of bells, sessions count toward your practice and streak. — Presets: each practice keeps its own name, duration, start and end bell, interval bells, and a short note to yourself. — Background sound: breathing (5.5-second inhale and exhale), noise, or shruti — chosen per preset, it ducks under the bells, with an optional fade-out. — A pause before you begin: time to settle on the cushion. — Preset sharing: send a link — they open it and add it to their presets. — Coming from Insight Timer? Your practice imports along with your streak. — Your practice is saved locally on your phone, to Health (mindful minutes) and to Calendar. — Widgets: the streak on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, a tap opens the app. — Presets and practice history sync through iCloud. — Four color themes: the background is always black, the color is up to you. — Protection from accidental touches: a cat or a sleeve won't end your sit. — Screen dimming: the screen dims a little during a session to save battery. — Interrupted sessions are restored. Questions? Write to us — the Ding community (link in Settings) or support.ding@gmail.com. (( dinnng ))

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Stillness4 screens
Ding4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ding at none against Meditation Timer Stillness's 1. Meditation Timer Stillness's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meditation Timer Stillness sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Ding asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Stillness ships an update every 3 weeks, Ding fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meditation Timer Stillness versus Ding: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer StillnessDing
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJANOS KEREKESDenis Kutuzov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meditation Timer Stillness

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$1.991 Month
None

Ding

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Stillness free?
Meditation Timer Stillness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ding free?
Ding is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Timer Stillness or Ding have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Stillness nor Ding shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Stillness or Ding?
Meditation Timer Stillness ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ding fortnightly. Most recently, Meditation Timer Stillness was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ding on October 31, 2026.

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