Comparison

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer vs Meditation Timer App

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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.

About

Meditation Timer App

Features
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This is a simple and attractive meditation timer Collections A timer help you to focus on meditation for a specific period every day. It helps to increase your will power that could benefit you more in life. Please do not hesitate to share your views/feedback with us to improve this app funtionality. Meditation Timer is easy to use and has bubbly feeling to lift you up. Practice meditation the way you like it. The Meditation Time App is a simple and clean timer for your meditation session. It lets you set the duration of your meditation and offers a mindfulness bell that rings in an adjustable interval.

Screenshots

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer4 screens
Meditation Timer App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditation Timer App at none against Lotus Bud Meditation Timer's 1. Meditation Timer App also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 27.0). On price, 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. Lotus Bud Meditation Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meditation Timer App asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer versus Meditation Timer App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLotus Bud Meditation TimerMeditation Timer App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS27.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChad SagerJosue Montano

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lotus Bud Meditation Timer

One-time1
  • Intention and Reflection (Goals and Journaling)$2.99
None

Meditation Timer App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lotus Bud Meditation Timer free?
Lotus Bud Meditation Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meditation Timer App free?
Meditation Timer App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lotus Bud Meditation Timer or Meditation Timer App have ads?
Neither Lotus Bud Meditation Timer nor Meditation Timer App shows ads.

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