Meditation Time 2.0 vs Gong Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meditation Time 2.0
This app provides a beautiful and mindful meditation timer with various instruments and nature sounds. It offers guided meditations, teaching modules, and customizable chimes to enhance your practice. It's suitable for beginners and experienced meditators alike, with special modes for advanced users.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Singing bowls and instrument sounds
- Mindfulness chimes at intervals
- Switchable nature background sounds
- Guided meditations
- Meditation teaching modules
- Master and Zen modes
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The ‘Meditation Time App’ provides you with a very useful tool to make your meditation even more mindful: Set the timer and let one of the many singing bowls and instruments remind you of the end of your meditation after the desired time. If you wish, you can also set a mindfulness chime at any interval to gently bring you back to meditation if your thoughts do wander. Pleasant nature sounds as switchable background sounds help you meditate when your mind (or your environment) is particularly restless. Our guided meditations by professional speakers provide you with additional guidance and motivation for your daily meditation practice. The ‘teaching’ provides a brief and undogmatic overview of the most important aspects of meditation practice and offers you inspiration and motivation for your regular meditation. Conclusion: This app is perfect for you if you want to bring more mindfulness into your life with meditation. It doesn't matter whether you've never meditated before or are an old hand at meditation. By the way: since version 4.0, we have even built in special modes for the masters of meditation: the Master Mode for up to 4 hours of meditation at a time and the Zen Mode, which sounds the end chime three times. With this in mind, I wish you: a peaceful mind and a calm disposition. Why use a meditation app at all? A meditation app offers a simple and accessible way to regularly integrate mindfulness and inner peace into your everyday life. It helps to reduce stress, promote concentration and increase general well-being. Especially in a hectic world where we are often overwhelmed by obligations and distractions, a meditation app helps to create moments of calm and to arrive in the here and now. There is an important connection between meditation apps and the concept of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), a scientifically based method for reducing stress. MBSR uses mindfulness exercises such as meditation, breathing techniques and body scans to manage stress and chronic strain. Many meditation apps are based on similar principles and offer guided exercises that integrate the central elements of MBSR. This allows users to benefit from the proven techniques and integrate mindfulness into their everyday lives - whether to manage stress, improve sleep or promote serenity. This app can write your completed meditation sessions to Apple Health (HealthKit), allowing you to track your mindfulness practice in the Health app. Data is only shared with your explicit permission and can be disabled at any time.
Gong Timer
This app provides structured sound cues for time-based practices like meditation and mindfulness. Create custom timers with milestones and waymarks to guide your sessions without interruption. Track your progress on the Lock Screen with Live Activity.
- Custom timers with milestones
- Optional waymarks for guidance
- Curated sound cues
- Lock Screen Live Activity
- Preserves attention during practice
- Supports multiple practice types
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Gong Timer supports time-based practices like mindfulness, tai chi, and meditation through structured, non-intrusive sound cues. Sessions are built around milestones, which divide time into meaningful phases, and optional waymarks, which provide gentle reference points along the way. Sound cues are quiet and non-intrusive, guiding without interrupting the flow. Core Features: - Create timers using milestones and optional waymarks - Choose from a curated set of sound cues - Session progress shown on the Lock Screen with Live Activity - Designed to preserve your attention throughout practice Begin with up to three timers. Add more capabilities later if your practice expands. Mindfulness is within. Created for Mindfulness Practitioners, Gong Timer is part of a broader approach that sees mindfulness as something woven into daily life, not separate from it. It helps you hold a mental space, transition with intention, and remain grounded during the passing moments of your day. Also, you can read our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy here: https://intenvix.com/gong-terms https://intenvix.com/gong-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Meditation Time 2.0 at free against Gong Timer's free with in-app purchases. Meditation Time 2.0 also leads on ratings volume (4K vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). Gong Timer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Meditation Time 2.0 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Gong Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gong Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditation Time 2.0 has 4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Meditation Time 2.0 ships an update every 2 months, Gong Timer every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meditation Time 2.0 | Gong Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Wuerstl | Intenvix, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Meditation Time 2.0
- Donate 5$3.99
- Donate 10$9.99
- Donate 20$19.99
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- Donate 40$39.99
Gong Timer
- Practitioner (monthly)$3.991 Month
- Practitioner (annual)$39.991 Year
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