No frills, but no nonsense.

This is a fully featured app, which takes some time to explore all the options. But once you get the hang of it works really well. Recommended!

Easy to set up and has a nice log to keep track.

Very simple in a great way. No fluff. Just the essentials. Nothing to distract you.

This app is the perfect partner to my meditation practice. Like the ability to program different meditation lengths and feature and to use my own pictures for my screen. Bravo well done 👍🏽

This app is a daily companion. I love the ease and the sounds.

I like the simplicity of this app. I have set up about 10 different meditation sessions. And I find the log to be a good reinforcement.

I continue to appreciate Meditation Timer.

No bells and whistles. Good sounds to choose from. After using this ap consistently for over three years I can state that it's the best there is.

This app does everything I need in a meditation timer.

I especially appreciate its customizability and have created several settings, each with its own time length, intervals, chimes, and name.

A simple timer, but I love the tracking you get with the paid version. It has been holding me accountable for nightly meditations. I also like all of the sound options and the reminder function. All of the options are definitely worth the $0.99.

UI ain't perfect but this def gets the job done. I like that my sessions are sent I HealthKit for record Kevin and trends.

This is a very simple app that does just what I need. Never presents any problems. Good flexible choices for adjusting it. Great app.

Excellent app!

I've used it for two years and enjoy its simplicity and ease of use. Brent

Still broken. Still nagging me to rate.

The latest update seems to have given the app a few annoying issues. First, when clicking any of the buttons there's nearly a full second delay on my iPhone CE before it registers. Also, they added an annoying rating nag. Well, here you go guys, I'm rating your app.

There's still no way to set a vibrating alarm on a per timer basis. I have to go into settings every time I want to switch between a quiet vibration and one of the sounds. As far as I can tell, there's no option for a solid background. All the backgrounds are very busy and often the text is hard to see because of that.

The most annoying new issue though, is that the app stops running occasionally in the background now. It's not very useful as a timer if I half-hour later I look down to see what's going on and my 15 minute timer has stopped at 12 minutes.

Exactly what was needed. Wonderful. A blessing.

Highly recommended. I can set specific meditation timeframes with choice of backgrounds (although not sure why, since eyes are typically going to be closed), bell tones (thin bells to heavy gongs), and the ability to set durations. It integrates well with Apple Health app (if that's your thing), and it's easy to use the Apple Watch app.

Simple, works, does what it says it will do

Love this app. It is easy to set different meditation times. It also has many different sounds and tones to begin and end meditations. I use it daily.

I use this app twice each day. The last update sets the volume internal to the app rather than using the level left over from playing music. Very nice improvement!

This app does mostly what I need. One problem is if you end the meditation early it won't last log your time in the Health app, so your records will be wrong.

I mostly use the Apple Watch app, and it seems to have issues. Recently it didn't start the meditation successfully after the countdown, instead it showed -1342. Obvious bug. The chiming only occurs on the phone so if I forget and leave it in the other room I won't hear when my meditation ends. I know custom sounds aren't supported on the watch but haptic feedback would be great.

This app allows me to set up meditations however long I need. Love doing silent meditations. Sometimes use the interval feature for "timed" journaling or mind exercises.

As of June 2017 still absolutely love this app. Use it every day!!!

Love this app! Has worked perfectly for me every time.

Simple and it works

This app is my go to meditation timer. I've tried many but this is the one I've stuck with.

The developers are responsive as well. As I got into Apple Health app I asked they add the ability to send meditation data to Health- it was in the next release.

I've never cared for the brown color scheme in the interface but that's a very minor complaint.

It's got enough functionality but not too much and that's what I like about it. It has the merit of simplicity.

For your meditation practice. I really recommend it.

No frills, easy to use. Serves the purpose I needed it for quite well.

Exactly what I was looking for!

Great little app. Been using it about two weeks for daily meditation; all the functions I hoped for. Quick response from developers. Next update should have health integration. Visuals could be more interesting, but for the price I am extremely pleased. :)

Update: been using four months for daily meditation. Health app integration works seamlessly. I especially like the detailed personalization options for individual meditations. Very pleased! Defly recommend.

This is the simplest and most effective meditation timer. It does what it should, set timers, sounds and tracks your meditation practice for review. Like meditation, it is just so.

What can I say? I set the timer and it doesn't do anything for a half hour then rings a bell. Works like it should. Enough bell sounds and interval settings to satisfy. One little quibble though, the rest timer goes off now before the end timer. But since I'm so full of equanimity from so much meditation I just shrug and reset the tones to what I want.

I appreciate how practical and supportive the app is to my meditation practice.

I love it. It allows you to set up any number of meditation timers that you want, adjusting the intervals and sounds and backgrounds. It also logs and connects with your apple fitness app.

Could have a few more options regarding sounds, but aside from that it has everything I need.

Please don't go ruining this app.

Too late. Now it's unreliable and stops chiming very quickly and when you open the app you'll find some absurdly long number in the countdown.

Sadly need to look for another app now

This app is very easy to use and now plugs into my health data app on my iPhone. The variety of chimes and tones is pleasant as well. Namaste🙏🏻

Perfect for tracking daily meditation sessions and letting you know when the time is up using a gentle, non-invasive tone.

This app has been timing my sits for several years. It's simple and unobtrusive. I couldn't ask for more from a meditation app. Thank you!

I love this app. I've been using it daily for more than a year for timing my TM practice. It's flexible, so I can make a practice that's right for me.

Last month I suggested they add logging with Apple Health and they added it!

I am very satisified and highly recommend this app!

I like the app for its diverse sounds and easy session set ups. However, this app is terrible at keep the averages correctly. For instance, right now, I have negative averages, and I don't know how that is possible! Another problem, for instance, is that if I change the session to my actual meditation time, the app doesn't change my averages correctly. For instance, I have different session time setups: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours. If I pick the session for 30 minutes, but actually sat for 50 minutes (because I didn't get up when the bell rang) and I go to adjust the log to actual time of 50 minutes, the app doesn't know to recalculate the averages correctly. And now, I have 100+ hours of meditation time, but my average daily sit per minute is -29. What does that mean? The technical department for this app is not good at all! Please hire some better people and get this fixed. I bought the paid version of this app. Anyway, that is my honest feedback. Sorry if it's not as compassionate and glowing as I would like for it to be but it's honest.

Functionality is good. Easy to use, lots of customization options, decent tones.

I'd like to see: cloud support, log export, ability to customize tones, ability to customize skin (not just background image)

But overall, a very satisfying experience. Glad I bought it.

... to stick to a daily schedule for sitting. Great tones!

Simply put, this app provides everything I need for my daily meditations!

Works very well with wonderful flexibility so I could tailor it to meet my needs.

I told the developer I'd buy it if he'd make it sync with Apple HealthKit. He said it'd be done in the next update so once that's done this will get five stars from me.

Worth the purchase.

***UPDATE***

The author added Apple HealthKit synching like he said he would. Updated to five stars!

It's a good app

My suggestion is to allow for a setting for multiple bell rings. For example, if I could set a bell to ring every 30 seconds

Update, I am downgrading my review to 3 stars. I am unable to set the time for adding a session after the fact. When you go to set the times, it changes what you put in, to some seemingly random time, and it WILL NOT let you choose the time you want. I consider this a major flaw.

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I have 3 criteria for giving an app a 5 star rating:

1. It must work as advertised

2. It must be intuitive (easy to use)

3. It must fulfill it's purpose without getting in the users way.

These three things are especially crucial for a meditation app. This app truly helps me in my meditations, and I really love the way it logs my progress. I definitely recommend this for anyone looking for a good meditation timer app.

An easy to use app that brings tremendous value to meditation practice.

Just enough features. I like being able to create my own presets.

Great app - simple yet complete. Exactly what I wanted. I like the feature of being able to create and store custom meditations, with different interval lengths. Used it for about a year now and love it!

I would rate this 4.5 if I could. I like every thing about this App. The only addition I would like to see is an option in the log for a calendar. I have a second App I use only because of the calendar view. It is not as good as this App. Hopefully the developers will read this and add the calendar view.

I've been using this app for a while and it's so helpful to my Transcendental meditation practice. For the developers: If I could add features to this app they would be the ability to turn on brown/white noise. Also the ability to use a digital or analog clock that shows the second hand. This is currently a great app though. I use it at least 20 min 2x per day.

Just what I was looking for in a meditation timer app. Simple and functional. It's helped me create and maintain a regular meditation practice for which I'm very grateful. The programmable meditation timer is great. Took me a little while to figure out what all the seetings did exactly but with a little tinkering I have a timer that works perfectly for my purposes. I love the bell (the only one I use or need) and that it slowly fades, resulting in a natural bell sound. The reminder function is great as is the logging to track your practice. It's superfluous but I really love the background pics. Very happy with the app. Thank you!

The flexibility in configuring your own meditation is amazing. All the features that are needed such as reminders and various tones are very helpful. Ability to add your own music would make this app perfect for any meditation. The collected history provides you a gauge of your progress in your practice. Sincere gratitude to the developers.

I bought the paid version and it does everything I need. So I'm a happy user. Love the history and cumulative meditation time tracking.

It definitely helps me remember that you don't have to spend more than 5 minutes a day. I have many different times set up from 5-120 minutes and do as much as I can each day.

I had been using the Equanimity App for years to time and log my meditation. The company behind that App hasn't been able to update it and the bugs were getting numerous. I looked at a few timers for meditation and settled on this one. It is programmable, includes a variety of bells, chimes and sounds that you can choose from. It also allows you to type up notes after a sit ...a feature that I LOVED about Equanimity. That this Timer is a pretty much perfect replacement for my old one ... is a great thing! Nicely designed and has all of the features you need for a steady practice!

This app lets you set up multiple durations for your meditations and you can have intervals in them with sounds or just vibrations (or no intervals at all). It also tracks your average meditation time over all the sessions and keeps track of your sessions (very helpful if you're working your way up to longer meditation sessions). It also has the option to set a reminder that will pop up on your phone and watch to, of course, help remind you to take the time to meditate. Various backgrounds and sounds give it everything you need to get out there and zen, transcend, or be mindful!

I think I first began using this app 3 years ago and I have found it to be a very helpful tool in my daily meditation practice. The log feature is particularly great. With it I know just how many hours I've spent on the cushion for the last 3 years!

I do recommend importing your own photos ;-)

Gets the job done, I use it daily.

One improvement: needs to be a way to lock the home screen. The colors on some of the screens make the white lettering and numbers of the iPhone washout.

Seems like any random movement of the phone will change the screen.

Add to the home screen lock and I'll give it five stars!

I just figured out that this app was the culprit for draining the battery rapidly on my iPhone. It seems that it isn't releasing the audio circuitry, and that drains the battery about three times as fast as it normally would!! Other than that I like the app, but I have to advise everyone to stay away from it until this bug is fixed. If you must use it, make sure to manually quit the app by swiping up on it in the task manager after each use, this will force it to stop draining the battery.

I love this app. It is extremely useful to me for many timed activities. As others have mentioned, the quality of the sounds is lower than I'd like. I'd also like the flexibly to choose one background photo rather than rotate thru several. That said... Love this app!

Updated review: The recent updates in the pro version make me very happy! It's perfect

This app works beautifully, and gives lots of options for customization and ways to create pre-sets that are a perfect match for my needs.

However the chime and tone options are not as good as the previous version, and there's a poor range of options for the tone. Some are rather jarring which is not a great way to end my meditation.

The visuals could also be greatly improved. Plain brown background is boring and "blah." Not an uplifting and inspiring way to start my day. I also imported my own background pictures into the previous version because the choices they give are limited and not very appealing. But they didn't transfer over from the free version so I have to find and enter them all again.

Functionally, it's a wonderful app and I use it every day, but it would be great if you could get a good graphic designer to give it a facelift and also fix the sound options.

I like that I can create multiple presets with flexible properties. The logging feature is good, especially that I can manually create entries when I forget to start the timer. There is at least one good bell sound.

On the other hand, the statistics are inadequate; averages are not useful if the data are not normally distributed. If I could export the logs, I could compute other statistics, but there is no export function.

My biggest gripes with this app are aesthetic. The color theme consists of shades of brown, which is maximally ugly. Also, the timer page sports one of a set of tedious background images—waterfalls and sunsets—which add no value and are discordant with the brown theme.

The programmer did a good job with the app's function. Unfortunately an app also needs the attention of someone who understands visual design.

I used the Salubrion Enso meditation timer before this app, and it replaces it adequately. I would like it better if the following features were added: Possibility to use ringtones of my choice as sounds (including the notification sound); and, possibility to create multiple intervals of arbitrary duration.

Update (5/5/16): There is a bug. I can't remove the rest chime. My meditations and with an abrupt bell sound.

love this app: just wish they fix the fact that even though you have already reviewed it, it still insists upon asking you if you want to review it again after every single meditation if they'd fix this I'd bump it up to a another problem: some of the sounds don't finish to their entirety but that doesn't bother me too much as I only use the bell and that happens to work well. On the positive, you can save multiple customized meditations, said backgrounds and Setting up your first meditation session, you will quickly realize it's quite extensive, allowing you to not only set diration & sound; but to set preparation times, intervals times, good for yoga position timing & chakra balancing,) & rest times. Works well wit music or nature sounds accompanying it - which is easy to do.

:D I am very happy with this ap! It will save the programming for the variety of several different meditations. I really love the interval chimes so that I can change postures with out having to mess with the timer. The preparation and rest chimes have been just as useful! Thanks for this wonderful ap!! 💜🌀🌍🌎🌏

Love the ability to load your own background, the preparation time, the calendar which tracks your meditations. A few notes for the developers - the pop up at the end of every meditation asking whether you want to Facebook or Twitter is truly awful - you just completed a good meditation and it asks you to dive into the chaos of social media to post about this app?! This is unnerving when I specifically bought the Pro version to avoid ads (including yours). I would also suggest removing the vibration from the midway point so that you're just hearing the audio tone that you set. Other than those two things, I'm very pleased with this app!

Look no further! I use this timer for all of my meditation needs. The interval timer is great and I can customize based on the practices I am doing. I love the sound options over any other app I tried. Excellent for Yoga sets and other timed needs, especially for Yoga and Meditation teachers. Well worth going PRO over the basic with this one!

i bought the "pro" version, having read that the non-pro version displays ads (I hate being seen as a walking wallet). no ads in this version, but only one sound i'd use; I prefer the sound of a bell ringing as a delimiter to my meditation sessions, rather than the sound of a horse or a train going by or a dog barking, and only one of the bell sounds is not artificially attenuated – all the others are cut short, not allowed to ring to their full sustain, which, for me, wrecks their value as a smooth transitioner into or out of meditation and makes them sound recorded, rather than like real bells. and unlike with Insight Timer, you can't set up more complex bell patterns, such as one bell 15 minutes into your meditation, two bells 30 minutes in, and three bells at 45 minutes. heck, i don't think you can set up multiple interval bells at all! just one per session.

i also found the settings a touch confusing (how to set up presets; you can't choose global bell sounds, but can choose them only while setting up a meditation session), but to be fair, i did with Insight Timer too.

i guess if you want to keep things simple and you're not as picky about your sounds as I am, this would be a perfectly adequate app. it's just not my meditation timer of choice.

I like the choice of sounds and the ability to program just what I want for a layered meditation practice. I've tried other apps but this one is my favorite. I recently discovered that I can change the background photo which is also a nice touch. Thanks!

Works fine for timing a meditation session and allows you to have more than one preset session time, which is convenient. Also logs sessions. Be aware the advertising is very distracting in a meditation app, so you're probably going to want the paid version. Also an FYI, when you turn off the display on your phone, it glitches to display a different image than the one you chose when you view the screen again. All in all, perfectly functional timer but nothing that sets it apart as a great app.

The app works well enough as a meditation timer though there’s only one sound I really like among the options. Sometimes the default background screen doesn’t stay on the one I chose. My main gripe is that something in this app is using up quite a bit of battery power, even when I haven’t opened/used the app for a while. When I check battery usage on my iPhone, this app ranks right up there just for background activity. Not sure what it’s doing in the background that’s taking up so much battery power.

I like the multiple time presets, the auto logging, and the bell sound. I use this every morning and evening. It's great.

The only issue, which I recently discovered when I upgraded to iOS 9, is that it drains your battery when it's not in use. I've notified the app makers and they have this bug on their radar. The workaround in the meantime is to close the app from the multitasking screen when you're done using it.

I tried most of the free meditation apps and a few of the paid ones. There are others that are simpler and more elegant, but this is the most feature rich. I've defined multiple sessions: a long and short one for me, and a very short one for me and the kids.

I bought the pro app because I like the log. The only thing that would improve the app would be a calendar as opposed to a list log. Also graphs in the stats area would be nice, too, to see changes over time. Not necessary, but would be more visually appealing than just lists.

I have the pro version and once I figured out the kinks it does well. When I was customizing my meditations I learned I had to set the chimes and save the customization before I could customize my background, otherwise it all went back to default. I would like there to be more options for sounds and backgrounds. But it's not a big deal. Some guided meditations would be nice too. Overall though, I have found what I'm looking for.

I got the free version, and wrote to ask about how to use it. They answered quickly, and their advice worked. Then I bought the pro version, and am having some problems. I wrote again to them and haven't received an answer. Here are my issues:

1. My settings don't hold. I choose one sound, and hear another. I choose a background picture asy "default," and see another picture the next time I open the app. So each time I go to meditate, it's like starting over.

2. I am very disappointed in the variety and quality of sounds. Most of them are jarring, and therefore useless. The bell - instead of fading away - actually gets louder before it abruptly cuts off. Unnatural, especially during meditation.

3. More on the sounds: The start and stop abruptly, and last too long. How about some sounds that enhance the experience, and a few that are 1-2 seconds rather than 4-5 seconds.

I love this meditation timer app. I can preset different meditation time periods for when I have more or not quite so much time to meditate: I just tap a pre-set time I created and start. I can set preparation times when my chosen bell chimes ring, and I can choose from many existing beautiful photos for background as I tap the meditation timer to set my time...or choose a photo from my existing photos, or take a new photo to use as background. This app keeps a 'journal' of my meditation history, and much more. I love this Meditation Timer' app, and will use it forever.

This does everything I want it to with elegance. The only negative is the limited number of sounds available. Many other apps offer a variety of more appropriate items like singing bowls and chimes, where here there are only a few, and not nice, ringing sounds that fade off gradually. The "bell" sound is the best of them, but is too quiet, and can (inexplicably) only be used as an interval chime, not for start, end, or rest. If that alone were rectified I'd be happy, but if some higher-quality sounds such as those in competing apps were added, this would be 5 stars.

Love the app but sometimes it malfunctions and sounds do not go off at the set time. I might set it for an hour sit and find an hour and 10 minutes later that the timer bell did not ring. At that time (when I press the home screen button on my phone) all of the bells go off (ie the meditation finish bell and the rest time finish bell)-- which shows the app malfunctioned. This has happened twice in 15 or so sits so far.

I love the simplicity of this app, no nonsense, does what it says etc. And I use it all the time. BUT, can you (the developer) please add the option to add more chimes during a meditation? When I do an hours sitting I like to have a bell every 15 min. Also the sound recordings could benefit from higher quality, no big deal, but it would make it better... And let the sound ring to the end, don't cut it off. :) Thank you from an avid and happy user.

Love to all.

Best I've tried - set all the relevant time intervals with choice of sounds, but the sounds are the issue. Poor quality sounds & those sounds added with pay version (like 'croak') are not what I would find useful. Other timers have much better sounds, but not the full list of parameters for the session. App perfection is hard to find. With better quality sounds I would give it 5*…

This a clean and easy to use app allowing independently customizable start, end, and interval sounds and saved meditation profiles of different lengths, etc. My wishes: 1) allow users to chose a background image from the ones supplied so that it stays in place (rather than images rotating randomly), and 2) allow users to change the order that their saved mediation profiles appear in the list. Nice work!

I use it every day.

Most of the time it works fine. One out of maybe 30 days, it will sort f freeze and not sound the tones when the screen is locked.

All but three of the sounds are ridiculous in my opinion. I don't see why anyone with a meditation practice would want to hear a dog barking or crashing thunder. I would really like to see more bell tones available. Also a more complete bell tone. The ones they have are good but they cut out early, before the tone has stopped.

It would also be nice if there was a white noise feature included as sometimes you need to practice in noisy areas.

Overall it works for me on a daily basis, I would just like to see those changes made.

This app works well, and is a part of my daily meditation practice. If I knew where/how, I'd remove the prompt to "share" my meditation via social media at the end of each meditation - it's a totally unnecessary clutter of the UI, and should be an opt-in type feature. Only reason not a "5" rating - I wrote to customer support asking how to do something, and never received a reply. But that's typical of many app developers. Overall, works very well, and a useful tool.

The multi-timer functionality is a great idea for various meditations lengths with a single touch (after setup of course). Like others have mentioned, the sounds could use some work, but i found some that work fine. Manually put the phone in do not disturb mode, so it would be nice if it would do that during a session. I would recommend it for anybody needing a meditation timer with more features than the built in iOS timer.

This app has everything I currently need in my practice. I'm using it to train for a retreat and find the different preset times to be useful. The only thing I would change is the sound effects--maybe remove the harsh ones like trains and dog bark and replace them with more peaceful sounds! Overall an elegant and navigable app.

I like this application for my daily meditation, you know why am I giving 4 stars? First the timing, when I set the timer up and I leaved it, doesn't ring the bell, this issue happen since they did the last update. Second the alerts, some of the never use them because they scare me when I am doing my meditation and i almost finish it. That's ok for me

So my understanding of meditation is to focus on one thing, blocking out all of the 5 senses. The idea is to train yourself to hold that focus longer and longer until you reach the goal of concentration for a specific amount of time.

12 seconds is one unit of concentration.

12 of those units is one unit of meditation. (144 seconds)

12 of those units of meditation is when the really awesome stuff starts to happen! "Ayam Atma Brahma"

(28 mins 48 seconds)

Easier said than done when the mind naturally wants to stray. THIS app helps beautifully. You can set interval chimes at 12 seconds, then longer and longer as you progress, helping to achieve focus goals!

Thank you for this app!

Blessings on your practice,

Decio

This app has been a wonderful addition to my meditation practice. It reminds me to meditate at my prescribed times and I can set soothing alerts to let me know where I am in my time schedule, which helps me if I am starting with a pranayama practice or switching from one style to another half way. I also love being able to write notes about my practice when I'm done- sometimes a thought that becomes prevalent.

It's fun to see your progress in the tracker area as well.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I've tried most of the iOS meditation apps trying to find one that suits me and my life and this has been the best. I especially appreciate that the tingshas manage to sound natural over the inbuilt speakers.

My top request is to be able to email sessions to a meditation buddy or meditation instructor instead of writing them down manually or copying them from twitter. Accountability is a big help in creating and maintaining a daily practice!