MindTime vs Minimalistic Tabata

A silent meditation timer that gets out of the way. No guided voices, no feed, no ads — just a bell, your breath, and the time you choose. Most meditation apps want your attention. MindTime gives it back. Set a duration, pick a bell, and sit. When you finish, your streak, your stats and your journal are waiting — and nothing else is. Built for a real practice MindTime is the timer, not a content library. It is made for people who already sit: vipassana and insight meditation, zen and zazen, mindfulness and MBSR, samatha and anapanasati, metta, breathwork, yoga nidra — or simply sitting quietly for ten minutes a day. Silent by design • No voices, ever: nothing talks over your session. No guided tracks, no teacher, no feed to scroll. • Vibration-only mode: feel your interval bells instead of hearing them — made for retreats, shared rooms, offices, dorms and late nights beside a sleeping partner. • Fully silent mode: or switch every sound off and let the session simply end. • No ads, no interruptions: nothing appears while you are sitting. Your timer, your way • Any duration: from seconds to hours — or endless mode with no time limit at all. • Warm-up phase: settle in before the session really begins. • Presets: save your usual sit and start it with a single tap. • Four session types: Meditation, Sleep, Focus and Relaxation, each with its own statistics. Six interval bells that bring you back • Six recorded bells: three Tibetan singing bowls (Manipuri, Jambati, Thadobati), a crystal bowl, a Hanchi gong and Koshi chimes. • Start, interval and end bells: set each one separately — ring every 5 minutes, every 10, or at any interval you like. • Independent volumes: every bell has its own level, so nothing ever jolts you out of a sit. • Or no bell at all: vibration only, or complete silence. 31 soundscapes — entirely optional • Noise: brown noise, light brown and intense brown noise, white noise, pink noise, green noise and blue noise. • Rain and nature: gentle rain, heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, rain on a van, ocean waves, a mountain river, forest birds and crackling fire. • Ambient and frequency: zen garden stream, choir pad, cosmic space, 174 Hz, 285 Hz and 528 Hz. • Silence is the default: mix a soundscape under your session only when you want one. Build the habit • Daily streaks: see your consistency at a glance. • Real statistics: total sessions, total minutes and average session length, broken down by type. • Weekly view: the days you actually practiced. • Gentle reminders: stay on track without being nagged. Reflect with a journal • Session notes: capture what came up while it is still fresh. • History: browse back through weeks and months to notice patterns. • Optional: turn journaling off in Settings and never see it again. Distraction-free by design • Hide the clock: show or hide the countdown and the progress circle — some people focus better without a number. • Screen stays on: your phone never interrupts a sit. • Gentle fade-out: eases you out of the session instead of cutting it off. • Cloud sync: presets, history and streaks stay in step across your devices. • No sign-up needed: open the app and start. The timer and all six bells work offline. Available in 38 languages. Website: https://mindtime.app Terms: https://mindtime.app/terms Privacy: https://mindtime.app/privacy

Minimalistic Tabata is an interval timer that does one thing properly: it counts, and it gets out of your way. No account. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. No data ever leaves your phone. BUILT AROUND ONE IDEA Most timers drift. They count ticks, so the moment you lock your phone or switch apps, the numbers quietly go wrong. This one reads the actual clock instead. Lock the screen mid-round, take a call, put the phone in your pocket — come back and the timer is exactly where it should be. Every gong still lands on time. WHAT YOU GET • Full Tabata and HIIT structure — warm-up, work, rest, rounds, sets with a longer break between them, and a cool-down. Any phase you set to zero simply disappears. • Two presets to start from: Classic Tabata (20 seconds on, 10 off, 8 rounds) and HIIT 40/20. Build and save as many of your own as you like. • A colour-coded countdown ring that empties as the phase runs down, so you know where you are without reading anything. • Warm singing-bowl gongs at every phase change, a soft tick for the last three seconds, and a distinct gong when you're done. • Your music keeps playing. The gongs mix over Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts and audiobooks rather than taking over playback. If you want, they briefly duck the volume; if you don't, turn it off. • Lock Screen Live Activity — the countdown continues on your Lock Screen, so the phone can lie face up on the mat while you work. • Subtle haptics on phase changes, in case you're training with headphones in a noisy gym. • A training history heatmap, the way a contribution graph works: one square per day, a year at a glance. • Five ring themes, and proper light and dark modes. • iPhone and iPad. PRIVACY, PLAINLY The app has no servers, because we don't run any. It contains no analytics, no advertising frameworks, no crash reporters and no third-party code of any kind. Your routines, settings and history are stored on your device and nowhere else. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to opt out of. Built by someone who just wanted a timer that doesn't nag.