# Shoshin Meditation — Lerne, in Stille zu sitzen > Lerne, in Stille zu sitzen (iPhone/iPad app by Nuancebit GmbH.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shoshin-meditation/id6786324717 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Nuancebit GmbH](https://appshunter.io/developer/1866555595) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.5 · 132 MB - Languages: American English, German (Germany) - Released: 2026-09-07 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is Shoshin Meditation? Shoshin (初心, "beginner's mind") teaches you to meditate in silence — and then gets out of the way. Most meditation apps want you back every day. Shoshin wants you to need it less. Every path grows quieter than the last, until you reach the Empty Room: just you, sitting. HONEST SIGNALS Lay your iPhone on your chest and it feels the slow rise and fall of your breath. Wear an Apple Watch and it listens to your heart while you sit. After each sit you get one true sentence about how you settled — never a score, never a streak, and nothing at all when the signal isn't good enough to say. THE GUIDE FADES Ren and Mei guide your first sits closely — breath by breath — then say less each time you return. Four paths, eight guided sits, one summit: Radical Silence. • The Threshold — where practice begins (free, forever) • Somatic Reset — breath-paced rest and non-sleep deep rest • Attention Anchor — single-point focus, open awareness • Digital Armor — urge surfing, defusion • The Deep Edge — self-inquiry, resilience YOURS ALONE No account. No cloud. No analytics. No notifications begging you back. Your sits, your vow, and every sensor reading stay on your iPhone, protected with full file encryption. Delete the app and everything is gone. ONE PURCHASE The first path, the Empty Room, and every report are free. The whole path is a single one-time purchase — not a subscription — and we will never lock you out of what you've paid for. Apple Watch is optional. Without it you still sit, breathe, and get your report from the iPhone's own sensing; without any sensing at all, you can always simply sit. Shoshin is a practice companion, not a medical device. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or monitor any health condition. Fully voiced in English and German. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | The Whole Path | $34.99 | one-time | ## Is Shoshin Meditation safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Shoshin Meditation. ## Is Shoshin Meditation legit? Shoshin Meditation appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shoshin Meditation is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-09 Fixed: removing a block while composing your own sit could close the app. It no longer does. When the guide asks you to tap, a tap anywhere on the screen now counts — not just on the circle. When you renew your vow, your sits now return the new words, not the first ones you wrote. More of Shoshin speaks German: the Stillness Trial's introduction, and what VoiceOver says about each place on the tree (completed, available, locked). German: one word for a sit — Session — throughout the app. Also: with VoiceOver, an empty sit you are composing now says so instead of reading an empty timeline, and smaller fixes. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-29 Your first sit keeps its rhythm now. Once the guide has matched your breath, every breath in and every breath out gets its cue, even when your screen dims with the phone resting on your chest. The Honest Mirror is more honest. If the phone couldn't feel your breath clearly, it now says so, rather than naming a number. It only says your breath slowed when it really did, and it speaks of your breath or your heart only when your iPhone or Watch actually read it. A phone call, Siri or an alarm now pauses your sit. When it's over, the sit picks up where it stopped and the guide repeats the line you missed. If you paused yourself, it stays paused until you continue. Grounding: the guide's words now arrive with the circle — "breathe out" begins as the circle begins to shrink. Also: your first sit names the pace it actually matched, the path overview after your first sit no longer hides behind the tree on smaller iPhones, and smaller fixes. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-24 The Empty Room is new. Choose 27, 54 or 108 breaths. Lie back and rest your iPhone flat on your chest: it quietly counts your own breaths and rings one bell at the end. The first time, the guide walks you in and then leaves — after that, the room is empty. To come back, rest a finger on the screen for a moment. Afterwards the Mirror shows how many breaths it was, and how settled your breath has been in silence across your last visits. The tree now shows your path properly: finish a branch and its line lights up all the way to the summit. Branch names sit on their lines, and the button at the bottom always names the next meditation on your path — or the Stillness Trial when it's due. The guide's voice now ends each line with a soft release instead of a clipped stop. In your first sit, the guide waits for your tap before it answers. Also: missing translations added, a way back out of the vow screen, and smaller fixes. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-15 A session's Lock-Screen card now reliably ends with the session — even when your iPhone is locked. Its End button now also works while the phone is locked. New: "Compose a sit." Build your own meditation from individual blocks — Arrive, Body scan, breath shapes (including box breathing), counted breaths, Noting, Sound, Open awareness, Loving-kindness, a kind word to yourself, Three things, Just sitting, Silence, and Reflection. Set each block's length and choose the ambient sound underneath. You can use the same block more than once, and reorder blocks at any time. Three finished presets are free for everyone; building and saving your own sits is part of the whole path. "Your progress" now shows your practice: minutes sat, how many sits, your longest, how far your breath and heart settled — and how far the guide has stepped back on the branches you've begun. Sits you built yourself count too. Also: every screen now uses your iPhone's full height, Graduation Receipts appear once your silence has grown, and several composer bugs are fixed. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-07 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Shoshin Meditation | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Lullaby, Womb Vacuum Sounds](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lullaby-womb-vacuum-sounds/id516915656) | 4.6 (208) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Fit Mom - Postnatal Workouts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fit-mom-postnatal-workouts/id1669049032) | — | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Aqua Pal: Water Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aqua-pal-water-tracker/id6451384924) | 4.5 (52) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Studio Bloom](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/studio-bloom/id1383552296) | 4.8 (988) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Jumpee – Free Jump Rope](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jumpee-free-jump-rope/id6474229880) | 4.7 (28) | Free | Health & Fitness | ## More apps by Nuancebit GmbH - [Repbound](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/repbound/id6774377643) - [Pacifier: Safe to Hand Over](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pacifier-safe-to-hand-over/id6779331807) - [AgeOfTowers: TD Rise of Eras](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ageoftowers-td-rise-of-eras/id6786640060) - [Softspoken: Voice Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/softspoken-voice-journal/id6792497841) - [AcuSight Acupressure](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/acusight-acupressure/id6795816543) All apps by Nuancebit GmbH: https://appshunter.io/developer/1866555595 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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