Comparison

Meditation Time 2.0 vs LotusTimer Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

LotusTimer Pro

Features
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"I use it daily for my own yoga workout as well as to teach my yoga classes. It is the perfect companion for any practice." ~ G. NYC, Kundalini Yoga Teacher Beautifully crafted timer app with a minimalist design, intuitive gesture based navigation and wonderful relaxing sounds. Use it to keep up with your zen practice, meditation, yoga or any other training. Set daily reminders and affirmations quickly and easily. - Setup your practice in hours, minutes and seconds with or without a relaxing sound at the end - Intuitive gesture based app - Now with repeat option, to repeat a sequence as many times you want - Option to set up a warm-up time - Option to set up a cool-off time - Option to set up an interval reminder, while running your practice - Enjoy the growing library of relaxing, enriching sounds that work while you listen to your own music - Setup your personal affirmation and get a daily reminder - Setup your meditation reminder and keep track of it in the today widget for Lotus timer. - Now compatible with iOS9 Meditate, be aware and realize!

Screenshots

Meditation Time 2.04 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Meditation Time 2.0 at Free against LotusTimer Pro's $5.99. Meditation Time 2.0 also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 24 months) and device support (3 vs 1). LotusTimer Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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

Meditation Time 2.0 is free to download; LotusTimer Pro costs $5.99 up front. Meditation Time 2.0 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. LotusTimer Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Time 2.0 ships an update every 2 months, LotusTimer Pro every 24 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meditation Time 2.0 versus LotusTimer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Time 2.0LotusTimer Pro
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.8 (4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size259 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel WuerstlGary Saggu

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Meditation Time 2.0

One-time4
  • Donate 5$3.99
  • Donate 10$9.99
  • Donate 20$19.99
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  • Donate 40$39.99
None

LotusTimer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Time 2.0 free?
Meditation Time 2.0 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LotusTimer Pro free?
LotusTimer Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Time 2.0 or LotusTimer Pro have ads?
Neither Meditation Time 2.0 nor LotusTimer Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Time 2.0 or LotusTimer Pro?
Meditation Time 2.0 ships an update every 2 months, and LotusTimer Pro every 24 months. Most recently, Meditation Time 2.0 was updated on October 29, 2026 and LotusTimer Pro on October 29, 2026.

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