Meditation Time 2.0

I love this app! It’s so simple, yet is so helpful. Having a timer for meditation makes such a difference… you can set it to whatever you want and not have to keep an eye or keep the back of your mind on the clock. The music and sound options are beautiful and I love the gong at the beginning and end of the meditation timer, plus the ability to adjust the volume of gong and music separately. Also wonderful there is the option for a silent meditation with just the gong (or other chosen sound) to start/end it. I love that it’s free with the option to donate and support. I think the world would be a better place if everyone meditated 🪷 and it’s so nice that the creators of this app don’t withhold any features for a cost. They simply offer it all to everyone and trust enough people will support financially if they can, which is quite rare and special. Thank you so much for sharing the love of meditation! 💗 The only suggestion I have is one of the sounds the beautiful music with forest sounds, flute, gentle singing (others may do this I’m not sure) has a half second pause when it restarts - I.e., if I set a timer for 20 min, I hear it skip a beat to restart at maybe 10? It’s not a huge deal, but my mind does start to almost look for the pause of guess how long I’ve been going / how much is left especially on days where my mind is a little busier. So it would be nice if the transition were more fluid

I really like this app. The sound is perfect for a calming and gentle lead into meditation which I think really helps get body and mind settled especially after a long and hectic da. Sound both before after and within facilitates meditation practice. I used to sit at a well known Zen Center in Rochester. There we had a large bell calling us to the Zendo about 15 or 20 minutes before the formal meditation started. Also a hand held bell was struck by one of the senior students in the Zendo right before we started each round of zazen, and also signaling us to start a round of kin hin or walkimg meditation and again when we were to return to sitting. At any rate, bells are a traditional part of zen practice and have been used for a couple thousand years. I have heard a lot of them and the sound created by this app is definitely one of the most pleasing.

For a simple, uncluttered, functional, FREE (*and* ad-free!) meditation timer app without any unnecessary distractions (a.k.a. "features"), you can't beat Meditation Time. With no social nonsense going on (meditation is a personal pursuit, not a social one) and no session tracking beyond a simple stats screen accessible through the menu, this is a meditation timer for the purist. It does have thoughtful features that alleviate, rather than introduce, distractions, such as the option to set interval bells and adjustable screen dimming while the timer's running, without making a big deal of things like meditation "streaks"(which only serve to pull one out of the present and get the mind concerned with the past and the future, which is counterproductive since concerns with the past and the future are two of the biggest obstacles to meditation that one can face). In Meditation Time, you can see your track record, but you have to go looking for it, and its presentation is simple and not a cause for the addition of features; it's not a primary focus of the app, which is as it should be. Eh...I could go on, but there's no reason to. I'd just recommend that if a simple, straightforward and non-distractive meditation timer is what you're looking for, you try this app. and if, like myself, you find that it's exactly what you're looking for, please make a donation to the developers to help keep it going! Because it *is* offered for free, and without ads. And how many apps of any kind can you say that about today?