Too many bugs. Very distracting. Why haven’t I given up yet?
I try to use this app regularly and it doesn’t work. Sometimes it won’t gong on the intervals. Sometimes it does. Today, it made popping noises during the interval gongs. It sounded like distortion or peaking in the audio recording of the gong. Very loud pops compared to the quiet gong. And then at the end of the meditation, the gong did not sound. I find this all very distracting and it makes it difficult to sink into my meditation. Especially not trusting it will go off when I set it. So I set a backup alarm now to go off when the app malfunctions. I’ve never used this app and had all features work as expected. My boyfriend introduced me to this app and it works beautifully on his phone and iPad. He has older versions of both. I have a very recent iPad and iPhone. Possibly why? I don’t know. But I wish it would work so I could create some consistency in my practice when we meditate together and when I meditate alone. I will change this review to more stars when it starts working better.
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Beautiful sounds and easy timer
This is a simple meditation timer. It has a range of white noise and other low key sounds if you need to drown out some external sounds around you while you meditate. I appreciate this app very much.
Wonderful, simple app
I meditated for years with one of the most famous meditation apps that tracks your progress, lets you amass “streaks,” has lots of bells and whistles. Those were great for getting me motivated. But once my practice had progressed, I no longer needed all those extras, and I wanted to stop paying for what I wasn’t using. I looked for something simple, yet calming. This app has a good library of sounds and an effective timer. I’m using it every day and I love it! Thanks to the developer for providing this essential, simple and lovely app.
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Love love love
As to can tell from the title of my review, I really like this app. ;)
It's simple and straightforward. The reason I love it so much is the bell or gong or whatever that takes you into and brings you out of meditation is the best. The gong sound is so true to life. It has a deep, rich sound and it keeps going for a good long time, just like a real life gong or ringing of a singing bowl or what have you.
Insight Timer also has a timer feature of you don't want the guided meditation but their bells/ gongs are so brief it's jarring.
This is now my favorite meditation app. Highly recommended!
It's simple and straightforward. The reason I love it so much is the bell or gong or whatever that takes you into and brings you out of meditation is the best. The gong sound is so true to life. It has a deep, rich sound and it keeps going for a good long time, just like a real life gong or ringing of a singing bowl or what have you.
Insight Timer also has a timer feature of you don't want the guided meditation but their bells/ gongs are so brief it's jarring.
This is now my favorite meditation app. Highly recommended!
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Doesn’t really work
I want to like this app for the simplicity. I just want a timer with a gong. However, half of the time it doesn’t work. The sound doesn’t come through. If I go to guided meditations I can hear them but I can’t hear the gong timer. I’ve tried everything I possibly can but it doesn’t work. I gave it 3 stars because I like the idea of it (I’m not looking for metrics or social media connections, just a simple timer).
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Great app been using for a few years now
The timer works pretty well, lately after a few sessions it goes silent (no gong) until I start his guided meditation, stop that and start the session then the gong sounds. It’s weird. I see now there is a note about using the focus setting in IOS-15. I’ll try that , otherwise it’s a good app.
Simple and elegant
I like the simple setting of the gong sound which can have a range of intensity. The display is elegant and I also use the interval sound which can be set at various intervals and alerts you accordingly. I m new to using this app so I haven’t checked all its features but up to now is working well
Works
I got this because some others didn’t work / the end sound didn’t play. The only thing missing is the option to add the data automatically to Apple Health.
UPDATE
I have given one star in the past, but the developer fixed the problem I had after I downloaded iOS 15.3. I haven’t tested to see whether it’s going to remember my settings, but it played my chosen background music and made a sound to begin and end meditation at my set number of minutes. Next we’ll see if it remembers my other sounds.
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No sound annoying
No sound amymore . I’ve tried everything, I used to love this app. How do you disable this “focus” mode. This is annoying. I want the sounds and it won’t exit silence.
