Meditation Timer

Telesense

About this app

This is a simple and attractive meditation timer which can completely silence your device while you meditate.

Core Features:
- One click to start, one click to finish
- Block all distractions with 100% reliability
- Meditate using your own technique
- Optional gong sound
- Currently all features are free
- No ads

The timer can be used for Vipassana, Transcendental Meditation (TM), mindfulness, Zen, Zazen or any other meditation technique. It does not include guided meditations or meditation instructions.

Vipassana refers to the Vipassana meditation technique popularized and taught by S.N.Goenka.

Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a trademark of the Maharishi Foundation and refers to the technique popularized by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Ratings and reviews

I really want to be able to say I simply love this app. I do love how simple it is, how it doesn't add extra distractions when I sit down to meditate. It's just a timer. However, it has a bug that really compromises its usefulness. Every so often, the timer doesn't go off. I eventually open my eyes to find a message saying that the app was unable to set the gong volume. This only happens occasionally, but it's often enough that I can't trust the app as a reliable timer.

Basically perfect, it's minimal (ideal for trance states), functional, and allows turning on do not disturb automatically. My only gripe is that I can't use my own audio file. I often get so lost in my chanting (which is fairly low pitched) that I cannot hear the built-in gong over the mantra permeating my being. I prefer higher pitched singing bowls/bells to cut through the trance. If I could set my own sound file for the gong, this would a a no-brainer 5 start app.

Simple and effective. I love the black background and orange text, which is very unassuming in a dark meditation room. You can set any length of time, pause, restart. You can set the volume you want for the gong sound when the time is off, and it only sounds once (vs an alarm clock), so you don't have to turn the sound off - you can keep meditating if you want without noise disturbance.

What’s new

You now have more control over when to update the app. This version will not require you to update for the foreseeable future, so you can upgrade at your convenience.

For our existing users, this means the mandatory update prompts you've seen in the past have now been removed.