This app helps you maintain a consistent meditation practice with a simple timer, customizable bells, and heart rate monitoring. It integrates with Apple Health to track Mindful Minutes and provides progress reports. Enjoy background sounds and the ability to record your own bell sounds.
3.3
October 15, 2025
Added a new watch screen to support always on display when the main timer is running (WatchOS 8.0 and later only).
Thanks for the feedback Zeek10. Yes, the watch app does record exercise minutes as well as mindful minutes as it uses the Apple workout feature, a design choice, to allow the watch app to run continuously in the background and to play custom interval bells directly from the watch. Hope this clarifies things.
MeditateAide is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The full functionality is provided on the Apple Watch, allowing operation without your iPhone nearby.
Yes, you can record custom bell sounds on your local device to use as interval or session bells within MeditateAide.
The app includes a progress tracker that displays your meditation time (Mindful Minutes) over 7 or 31-day periods, with daily targets and summarized graphs.
Yes, both the Watch and iPhone versions of MeditateAide can update and display Mindful Minutes data along with heart rate information for each meditation session in the Apple Health app.
During a meditation session on the Apple Watch, the app displays your current heart rate in real-time with an associated graph, as well as your highest, lowest, and average heart rate for that session.
Yes, the app offers a 7 or 28-day history showing a table of your Mindful Minutes sessions and individual heart rate graphs, including highest, lowest, and average heart rate values for each session (not available on iPad).
MeditateAide is ad-free, allowing for an uninterrupted meditation experience.
The latest version of MeditateAide is 3.3, and it was last updated on October 15, 2025, indicating active development and support.
