Comparison

Serenity vs MeditateTime

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

Head to head
About

Serenity

This app provides a customizable timer for guided meditation sessions. It features a collection of high-definition soundscapes and allows users to set specific durations for preparation, meditation, intervals, and cool-down periods. The app also offers reminders and tracks progress.

Highlights
  • Customizable session timers
  • 16 HD meditation tones
  • Vibrational alerts
  • Daily/weekly meditation reminders
  • Meditation progress statistics
  • Apple Health compatibility
  • Apple Music integration
Features
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Serenity is a beautifully crafted Meditation Timer, perfect for quiet contemplation, stillness and defined focus. • Featured on the App Store Homepage. • Top 10 Meditation & Mindfulness App, US and Canada. Take a deep breath, relax, and allow Serenity to guide you through your daily meditation. Chiming gently throughout your session at times chosen by you. Tibetan Chimes, Singing Bowls, Gongs, Bells and even Didgeridoos form part of your 16-tone collection. Recorded in an HD studio with the utmost of care, these tones sound just incredible. Tempting you into a deeper state of relaxation with every chime. * FEATURES * • Define your Preparation, Meditation, Interval and Cool down times. • Automatically save your selection in one of six customisable presets. • Choose from a collection of 16 HD meditation tones • Assign the tone to chime once, twice or thrice on command. • Adjust your Interval tone, allowing it to repeat or chime at a chosen time. • Enjoy a silent meditation with *vibrational alerts. • Set a daily, weekly or weekend reminder to meditate. • A statistics page, keeping a silent record of your meditation progress. • Apple Health compatible. Sync your meditation data. • Apple Music compatible. Add your own music and have it play behind your selected tones. Although minimal and elegant by design, Serenity really has all you need to create the perfect environment for the ultimate mindful meditation. Allowing you to concentrate on your inner self, rather than the passing time. Its the only meditation timer you'll ever need! *Vibration not available on iPad

About

MeditateTime

A meditation timer designed to conserve battery by putting your device to sleep during sessions. It fosters motivation by showing the number of people meditating simultaneously and integrates with health apps to automatically save mindfulness data.

Highlights
  • Battery-saving sleep mode
  • Real-time meditator count
  • Health app integration
  • Customizable sounds
  • Community sharing
  • Map view of meditators (subscription)
Features
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MeditateTime is a simple meditation timer that works with health app. When you start meditating, the app puts your device to sleep so it doesn't drain your battery. "MeditateTime" always displays the number of people meditating at the same time on the top screen to increase the motivation of your meditation. You can also see each person's total meditation time and approximate position. You can start the session by just setting time and tap the START. Also, you can choose Meditation time to limitless. MeditateTime integrates Health App to use mindfulness datas. When you finish the meditation, MeditateTime saves your session data to your iPhone's mindfulness in the health app automatically. MeditateTime has many awesome sounds for starting, ending and preliminary notification of ending 3 minutes before. (To enable sound during device sleeping, it is needed to turn on notifications for MeditateTime in setting app.) Furthermore, the following functions can be added by registering a subscription. - Hide all ads. - Display the location of the person meditating on the map. MeditateTime supports a community of people who meditate. Enrich your meditation experience by sharing information. Terms of Use http://zekoo2017.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html

Screenshots

Serenity4 screens
MeditateTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MeditateTime at Free against Serenity's $2.99. MeditateTime also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 66%). Serenity's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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

MeditateTime is free to download; Serenity costs $2.99 up front. MeditateTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Serenity asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Serenity ships an update monthly, MeditateTime every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Serenity versus MeditateTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSerenityMeditateTime
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (210 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings210 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZenoki LtdMUTSUAKI KIKUCHI

Customer experience

Serenity

All ratings210 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive66.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative20.3%

MeditateTime

Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Serenity

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App quits during meditation
  • Statistics are inaccurate or not recorded
  • Interval bells only ring for sessions under 9 minutes
  • App does not work in the background
  • Soundtrack feature not working
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  • Statistics become negative after 600 hours
  • Playlist restarts on new meditation
  • Settings are not saved
  • Horrible truck horn sound interrupts
  • Deep ringing bell tone ends abruptly
  • Tuner not functioning

Requested features

24 requests
  • Ability to set more than one reminder
  • Apple Watch version
  • Sync between iPhone and iPad
  • More presets
  • Save settings
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  • Ability to continue meditation after timer ends and count extra time
  • Stopwatch feature that counts time and sounds at set intervals
  • Connect with Spotify
  • Add default meditation sound tracks
  • Incorporate music into the app itself
  • HealthKit integration to record throughout the session, not just at the end
  • Random playback from playlist
  • Play or pause through Apple Watch
  • Allow background meditation soundtrack purchase directly in app
  • Fix abrupt ending of deep ringing bell tone
  • More control over interval sounds and timing
  • Ability to manage number of repetitive chimes and time between intervals
  • Fix bug where interval bells only ring for sessions under 9 mins
  • Fix bug where app doesn't work in background
  • Fix bug where statistics become negative after 600h
  • Fix bug where app quits during meditation
  • Fix bug where playlist restarts on new meditation
  • Add more sound options
  • Improve sound quality of chimes and bells

MeditateTime

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Serenity

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

MeditateTime

Subscriptions2
  • General full-featured(1month)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • General full-featured(3month)$7.993 Months

Questions

Is Serenity free?
Serenity costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MeditateTime free?
MeditateTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Serenity or MeditateTime have ads?
MeditateTime shows ads; Serenity does not.
Which is updated more often, Serenity or MeditateTime?
Serenity ships an update monthly, and MeditateTime every 3 weeks. Most recently, Serenity was updated on October 23, 2026 and MeditateTime on October 7, 2026.

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