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The simple minimalist app for Watch

Deeply thankful for this, keeping it without subscription. Zero frills.

Logs mindfulness minutes, just what I needed.

The icon is also cute, just looking at it on my watch gets me in the zone :-)

All I need

It’s surprisingly hard to find an app that will just let me start a timer from my watch and log it with Health Kit. This app is just that, nothing more, and for that it is perfect.

Perfect

Perfect app

Close to Perfect

This is an excellent app, I really respect and am deeply grateful for the work that went into releasing this entirely free. It’s meditatively basic, distraction-free, just a timer and heart rate + mindfulness minutes tracking, which is everything I want, plus the icons are good-looking too. The one thing that would make this perfect for me is if I were able to set an open goal instead of being forced to pick a time limit, so I could utilize the tracking without limiting or planning how my meditation sessions will go.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the kind words! The newest update v1.1.4 includes the option to have an open ended meditation session. So you can start it without selecting a duration and stop it whenever you feel 🥳

Perfect and Free?!

I had to leave a review because I’m so grateful for this app, and I feel blessed because it was free.

After I figured out that I needed to download the app directly from my Apple Watch, I was able to immediately start using it. The times are in increments of five, so I just set the time for a little longer than my planned session, and end it manually when I finish.

I love that it monitors & reports my heart rate and meditation time to both the Apple Heath & Fitness apps.

Thank you, thank you! 🙏🏾
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Simple and clean

I appreciate it app. It just runs a timer and sounds the bell (or gives haptic feedback if the bell is silenced) at the end of the meditation. The meditation is then saved to the health app/data, along with a heart rate reading. Having this on my watch as a complication encourages me to do some meditation when time allows.

Apart from 1 minute, the meditation periods are in increments of 5 minutes. For the most part that works for me. Occasionally I would appreciate being able to set custom times.
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The simplicity makes it useful

Fast and easy to get into and start a session. The technology does not get in the way. Its a simple timer that records your efforts to the health app, nothing more.

Suggestion for the dev: The always on display support is nice, but currently it updates every second meaning it won’t be very battery efficient over a longer session. The default timer apps have a nice way of handling this, where the seconds are only displayed when you wake the screen.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the review and for the feedback. In the latest version v1.1.4 I have optimized the seconds so they only update every minute and paused animations when the screen isn’t active to save battery.

Good basic timer

Current version works ok… has room for improvement: the mindfulness minutes saved don’t include an icon so that shows up blank in fitness. Picking a time for the mindfulness is currently 1 min, or increments of 5 min. That’s simple and easy, might be nicer to be able to sun a dial for custom times.

Latest version is a big improvement!
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Response from developer

Sorry about that. I fixed the bug in the latest update. 1.1.3 I hope you’ll give it another chance. 😀