Lotus Bud Meditation Timer vs Meditation Timer + Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer
This app helps you establish a regular meditation practice with a beautiful, intuitive interface. It offers customizable timers, gentle sound cues, and interactive reminders to support your well-being. Enhance your experience with optional features for tracking history and setting intentions.
- Customizable meditation duration
- Gentle singing bowl sound alerts
- Interactive reminders
- Today widget for quick access
- Apple Watch integration
- Meditation history and notes (in-app purchase)
- Intention setting for gradual duration increase (in-app purchase)
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Built to support your practice Lotus Bud is a meditation timer built for practitioners who want a focused tool that respects the work they do. No content library, social network, music player or other distractions standing between you and the cushion. Just you and the cushion. FREE FEATURES • Simple timed or untimed meditation • Widgets and Live Activities: Start a session directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Track elapsed time throughout your sit with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. °Siri Shortcuts: Start, pause, or end sessions with your voice. Create automations using your meditation data to make regular practice easier to maintain. • Apple Watch app • Assistive Access: For those using Assistive Access Lotus Bud offers a dramatically simplified user experience. PAID FEATURES (one time purchase) • Custom Meditation Plans: Create structured sessions with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns. Build a sequence that matches your practice, whether you need a simple timer or a detailed progression. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, you can just describe the plan you want to create a new one. • Insights: Understand how your practice develops over time with streaks, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heat maps. Review your consistency and identify patterns in your sessions. • Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation time or session frequency. Progress updates help you stay connected to the intentions you set. • Private logs: Write private notes about your sits, observations, and experiences. Keep your reflections alongside your practice without sharing them publicly. With Apple Intelligence you get tag suggestions that help you categorize your notes. ----- I started building Lotus Bud more than fifteen years ago to support my own daily practice. My hope was to create a tool that could support others as they develop a deeper meditation practice. Meditation has profoundly changed my life for the better, but that change required ongoing effort and focus. I had to do the work myself, and Lotus Bud has helped me stay on track. Many meditation apps focus on relaxation and stress reduction. Meditation can certainly support both, but it can also become a deeper, long-term practice that fundamentally changes how you relate to the world, your loved ones and yourself. Lotus Bud is designed for people who want to build and understand that practice without unnecessary distractions or dependence on extra content. I am the sole designer and developer of Lotus Bud. I built it, along with the related Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell app, because I use these tools in my own practice and hope they can benefit others. I aim to make Lotus Bud useful, simple, accessible and beautiful while giving you the space to practice on your own terms. ----- Try Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell to support mindfulness throughout the day. It plays randomized bells that invite you to pause and return your attention to the present moment.
Meditation Timer + Log
This app helps you personalize and track your meditation sessions. It offers a customizable timer with various sounds and provides statistics to monitor your progress. Earn badges and integrate with Apple Health for a comprehensive mindfulness practice.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Variety of bells and background sounds
- Achievements and badges
- Meditation history and statistics
- Save and load custom presets
- Apple Health integration
- iCloud synchronization
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Meditation Timer & Log is easy to use and has bubbly feeling to lift you up. Practice meditation the way you like it, and we will help you to personalize and keep track of your meditation activities. Core Features: - Highly Customizable Meditation Timer, yet super simple to use - A variety of bells and background sounds to choose from - Achievements and Badges to friendly boost your motivation to meditate - Meditation History Information and Statistics, Meditation Activity Graph - Option to Save and Load Custom Meditation Presets - Apple Health Integration and iCloud Synchronization: your meditation history can be sent to Apple Health, if you choose so in app settings. This app does not provide guided meditations. We are here to help you grow, so if having any ideas how the app could benefit you more - don't hesitate and let us know at timer-app@telesoftas.com What people say about Meditation Timer & Log: "Perfect! This app is amazing! It's so flexible and you can set it up just the way you want it. I love it!" "Very simple and easy to use. Excellent for the beginner or a seasoned meditator!" "No advertisements, possibility to set meditation time and an interval bell, and a clear meditation log with a graph… I love this app and want to thank the author for sharing it freely." "Great app! Simple and easy to use. Nice customizations and meditation history. Get this one!" Subscription terms: - The subscription auto-renews at the end of each term. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. - You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy and Terms of Use: https://applorium.com/privacy-meditation
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Verdict
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer and Meditation Timer + Log both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of Meditation Timer + Log's written reviews are positive against 41% of Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's. Meditation Timer + Log also leads on ratings volume (175 vs 5) and iOS requirement (16 vs 27.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Lotus Bud Meditation Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Meditation Timer + Log sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Lotus Bud Meditation Timer against 4.5 for Meditation Timer + Log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Timer + Log has 175 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's written reviews are positive against 79% of Meditation Timer + Log's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Lotus Bud Meditation Timer | Meditation Timer + Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.5 (175 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 78.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 175 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 16 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chad Sager | Applorium Ltd |
Customer experience
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer
Meditation Timer + Log
Bugs and requests
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Meditation Timer + Log
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on startup for some devices
- Timer doesn't work with screen locked
- Background app mode not functioning consistently
- Meditation history not recording all sessions
- Premium features inaccessible after purchase
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- Purchase restoration failing
- Audio gaps and abrupt cuts in background music
- iCloud sync duplicating presets
- Static/noise in certain background tracks
- YouTube Music conflicts when app runs in background
- Preset music feature not working properly
Requested features
12 requests- App widget for quick access
- Apple Watch compatibility
- Dark mode option
- Journal/notes function for sessions
- Ability to reorder presets
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- Timer continuation after final bell
- Custom music/chant uploads
- Session quality/mindfulness rating system
- Reminder notifications
- Cross-device account sync
- Better interval bell sounds (singing bowls)
- Smooth audio transitions/overlays
In-app purchases
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer
- Intention and Reflection (Goals and Journaling)$2.99
Meditation Timer + Log
- Meditation Timer Unlimited$3.991 Month
- Meditation Timer Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime upgrade$7.99
- Meditation Timer Lifetime$19.99
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