# Stillness Timer — Customizable meditation timer

> Customizable meditation timer (iPhone/iPad app by Alexey Prudkov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stillness-timer/id6743715831 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alexey Prudkov](https://appshunter.io/developer/1804149888)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 19 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, European Spanish
- Released: 2025-07-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stillness-timer/id6743715831/reviews.md

## What is Stillness Timer?

Stillness is a quiet meditation timer for unguided practice. It gives you structure without noise: no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and no account required.

Build the session you actually practice.
Create simple or multi-phase meditation sessions with custom intervals, chimes, sounds, and haptics. Give each interval its own chime — a soft bell to change posture, a gong to close the practice — or keep one sound throughout. Use Stillness for mindfulness meditation, autogenic training, breathwork, body scans, silent contemplation, or any practice that benefits from timed silence.

Practice with your screen locked.
Start a session, lock your phone, and set it down. The timer keeps running and your interval chimes sound on time, with minimal battery use. If a phone call arrives, your session pauses and resumes on its own, and the call time is not counted toward your practice. Prefer to watch the timer? Keep the screen awake instead — the choice is yours.

Return to presence during the day.
Scheduled reminders help you keep a daily rhythm. Spontaneous reminders arrive at unexpected moments during your active hours, gently interrupting autopilot and inviting you back to awareness. You can also keep spontaneous reminders away from scheduled sessions with a 10, 20, or 30 minute buffer.

Keep your rhythm across time zones.
Stillness supports reminders tied to local time or to a specific time zone. This is useful when traveling, following a fixed practice schedule, or keeping a home-time routine while away.

Track progress privately.
See your completed sessions, streaks, milestones, total minutes, and favorite practices. Your data stays on your device. Optional Apple Health integration can write completed sessions as Mindful Minutes when you choose to enable it.

Move to a new device privately.
Device Migration lets you back up sessions, statistics, reminders, and settings to your private iCloud container, restore them on a new device, and clear the transfer data when you are done. No accounts. No external servers.

Stillness is for people who want meditation to stay simple: a timer, gentle cues, useful reminders, private progress, and space to practice.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-11

This update lets each part of your practice sound different.

Choose a chime for every interval

Each interval in a session can now have its own chime sound. Pick from all five sounds when editing an interval, and tap any sound to hear it before you choose. Let a soft bell mark a change of posture and a gong close the practice — or keep one sound throughout.

Your existing sessions are untouched: every interval follows your Settings sound until you choose otherwise, and intervals left on Default follow along whenever you change it.

Also included: the timer now shows the exact final time when a session completes, and refined translations.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-07-16

This update lets you practice with your screen locked, so you can put your phone down and simply sit.

Practice with the screen locked

Your session now continues when the screen locks. The timer keeps running and every interval chime sounds on time. Lock your phone, set it face down, and meditate. Battery use stays minimal.

Keep Screen Awake is now your choice: leave it on to watch the timer, or turn it off and let the screen rest.

Gentle handling of interruptions

If a phone call arrives during a session, your meditation pauses on its own and resumes when the call ends. Time spent on the call is not counted toward your practice.

More accurate timing

Sessions now track time against the clock itself, so elapsed and remaining time stay precise in every situation.

Also included: refined translations and further reduced background activity during sessions.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-01

This update lets you practice with your screen locked, so you can put your phone down and simply sit.

Practice with the screen locked

Your session now continues when the screen locks. The timer keeps running and every interval chime sounds on time. Lock your phone, set it face down, and meditate. Battery use stays minimal.

Keep Screen Awake is now your choice: leave it on to watch the timer, or turn it off and let the screen rest.

Gentle handling of interruptions

If a phone call arrives during a session, your meditation pauses on its own and resumes when the call ends. Time spent on the call is not counted toward your practice.

More accurate timing

Sessions now track time against the clock itself, so elapsed and remaining time stay precise in every situation.

Also included: refined translations and further reduced background activity during sessions.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-05-06

This update makes Stillness easier to move to a new device and smoother to use during everyday practice.

Device Migration

Added a Transfer Data screen for moving Stillness data through your private iCloud container. No accounts, no external servers.
Back Up to iCloud saves sessions, statistics, reminders, and settings.
Restore from Backup performs a full replacement with no merging, and warns if local data appears newer.
Clear iCloud Storage removes the transfer file once you are done.
Spontaneous Reminders

Added a 10, 20, or 30 minute buffer around scheduled sessions so spontaneous reminders do not arrive too close before or after meditation.
Added Set to current time zone when Use local time is off.
Fixed a daylight saving time edge case that could shift availability windows by one hour for time zone-based reminders.
Also included: refined translations throughout the app and improved battery efficiency during meditation sessions.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-02-25

Device Migration (iCloud Transfer)

• New Transfer Data screen to move Stillness data to a new device using your private iCloud container (no accounts, no external servers).
• Back Up to iCloud: saves sessions, statistics, reminders, and settings.
• Restore from Backup: full replace (no merging), with a warning when local data appears newer.
• Clear iCloud Storage: remove the transfer file after migration.

Spontaneous Reminders

• New buffer around scheduled sessions (10 / 20 / 30 min) to avoid spontaneous reminders too close to meditation time.
• New Set to current timezone action when Use local time is off.
• Fixed a daylight-saving edge case that could shift reminder windows by one hour.

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