Comparison

YuanQi vs Zazen · Mindful Timer

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

Head to head
About

YuanQi

This app analyzes your health data from Apple Health to provide daily insights on sleep, recovery, and training readiness. It offers an AI coach for personalized advice, workout logging, and nutrition tracking.

Highlights
  • Daily vitality and recovery scores
  • AI-driven personalized coaching
  • Detailed workout logging and analysis
  • Nutrition tracking via photo, barcode, or voice
  • Apple Watch integration and widgets
  • Biological age estimation
Features
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YuanQi turns the sleep, heart rate, HRV, steps and workouts in Apple Health into a daily picture you can read at a glance: how you slept, how recovered you are, and how hard you can train today. TODAY • Daily vitality score, sleep performance, recovery, readiness and load • 7- and 30-day trends for sleep stages, resting heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, stress and steps • Biological age estimate with the factors behind it AI COACH • Answers with your own sleep, recovery, training and nutrition data • Reads set-by-set and split-by-split workout detail • Builds training plans; every change is previewed before it is saved • Cloud AI stays off until you turn it on TRAINING • Strength plans with cardio days, a video exercise library and progressive overload suggestions • Record board, training load, muscular load and a muscle recovery map • Outdoor runs, walks and rides with routes, pace, heart rate and elevation • Interval and tempo runs with voice and haptic cues on iPhone, Dynamic Island and Apple Watch NUTRITION • Log a meal by photo, barcode, nutrition label or voice • Diet plans and daily meal combinations with portions worked out • Intermittent fasting and caffeine tracking APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS • Modular Watch app, ready-made watch faces, complications and photo-based themes • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities PRIVACY You control every Health permission. Raw Health samples are not copied to our database or iCloud. Scores, trends, AI answers and suggestions are for general fitness and wellness reference only and are not professional health advice. YUANQI PRO Core logging is free. YuanQi Pro is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription that unlocks unlimited AI coach and meal recognition, full insights and more. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms: https://yuanqishike.top/terms/index.html Privacy: https://yuanqishike.top/privacy/index.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Zazen · Mindful Timer

Features
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Zazen is a calm, focused meditation timer for phone and smartwatch. Start, pause, resume, and finish a session from either device. Choose when the first reminder should occur and how often later reminders repeat. The smartwatch provides discreet haptic feedback while the phone plays a brief sound. Key features: • Control sessions from phone or smartwatch • Customize the first reminder and repeat interval • One haptic for the first reminder, two for the second, and so on • Pause without counting paused time • See the total duration when a session ends • Keep a private history of completed sessions • Review monthly, quarterly, half-year, and yearly statistics • Keep all meditation data on your devices Zazen requires no account, contains no ads, and does not track you.

Screenshots

YuanQi4 screens
Zazen · Mindful Timer1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zazen · Mindful Timer at none against YuanQi's 3. 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. YuanQi sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Zazen · Mindful Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
YuanQi versus Zazen · Mindful Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYuanQiZazen · Mindful Timer
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size300 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer枫 肖超才 姜

In-app purchases

3 purchases

YuanQi

Subscriptions3
  • 元气 Pro 月度$2.991 Month
  • 元气 Pro 年度$12.991 Year
  • 元气 Pro 年度(首年优惠)$12.991 Year
None

Zazen · Mindful Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YuanQi free?
YuanQi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zazen · Mindful Timer free?
Zazen · Mindful Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do YuanQi or Zazen · Mindful Timer have ads?
Neither YuanQi nor Zazen · Mindful Timer shows ads.

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