GongMeister vs Mindful Timer

GongMeister is a simple and beautiful timer for your silent meditation! With a clean and intuitive design, GongMeister supports your meditation practice. Set the duration of your meditation with a simple slider. Choose from different singing bowls for start, end, and interval gongs. The flexible interval gongs can be set as regular intervals or as individual gongs at freely chosen times – perfect for structuring your meditation. You can also choose from many background images to customize the meditation timer just the way you like. The adjustable delay gives you time to prepare for your practice before the gong sounds. Dimming the display reduces distractions and saves battery. GongMeister is accessible and easy to use – the ideal app for beginners and experienced meditators who prefer to meditate in silence, without all the fluff. Start your meditation with GongMeister today! Features at a glance: - Timer from 1 to 60 minutes via slider - Pause and resume at any time - 8 different singing bowls for start, end, and interval gongs - Each gong configurable with its own singing bowl and up to 3 strikes - Interval gongs: 4 modes – Off, Evenly spaced, Every x minutes, Custom times - Visual gong timeline shows all gong positions at a glance - Adjustable start delay (up to 30 seconds) - Automatic display dimming - 18 background images in 5 categories - Your meditation keeps running when you lock your device – control it from the Live Activity and Lock Screen - Apple Health: mindful minutes are saved automatically (optional) - Free and ad-free - No registration, no tracking, no data in the cloud, fully offline

A simple meditation timer for your self-guided meditation, restorative/yin yoga, Vipassana or other mindfulness practice. No ads. No subscriptions. No distractions. Just gentle bells to keep time while you practice. Set your session, put your phone down, and let the bells guide you. Set multiple timers for a session — say, 2 minutes to settle, 20 minutes of silent sitting, 5 minutes of metta — and Mindful Timer moves from one to the next with a bell at each transition, plus optional interval bells along the way. No courses, no sleep sounds, no content library. Just timers to structure your session, soothing sounds, and you. NEW + 20+ curated sounds: singing bowls, bells, and simple voice cues + Choose how many times the bells ring – once, twice, or three times + Practice insights and heat maps to help you build consistency + Sync sessions to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes CORE FEATURES + Simple, minimal and intuitive UX + Sequential timers that flow automatically from one to the next, so you never check the clock + Interval bells at your chosen frequency (e.g. every 5 minutes) + Fully custom timer durations + Save your routines as presets and start them in one tap + Track streaks, weekly and monthly sessions, and lifetime minutes + Play your own music (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) + Runs in the background and while your phone is locked + Large countdown display DESIGNED FOR CALM FROM DAY ONE + No ads, ever + No subscriptions, ever + No guided meditations, courses, or content to wade through + No social feeds or comparison + Dark mode so it's easy on the eyes + Works fully offline + Gentle sounds to guide you through transitions PERFECT FOR + Any self-guided or silent meditation + Zen, zazen, vipassana, and insight meditation + Yin yoga and restorative yoga + Breathwork and pranayama + Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya + Practicing at home before a vipassana or meditation retreat + Building a daily unguided meditation or yoga habit + Yoga teachers keeping time during class + Interval walking, Japanese interval walking, and Pomodoro focus blocks + Prayer or mantra meditation + Kundalini yoga + Timed stretches WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT + Intuitive design that easier to use than most other timer apps out there. + Keeps time in the background, so you never pick up your phone mid-practice. + Carefully curated, soothing sounds. No jarring alarms. + No clutter, no distractions, nothing you don't need.