Best Zazen Apps

Plum Village: Mindfulness

Guided Mindfulness, Ad-Free

Free

This app offers guided mindfulness meditations and talks from a renowned Zen Buddhist Master to help reduce stress, anxiety, and cultivate inner peace. Explore a variety of practices for daily life, including meditations for children and offline listening options.

Simple Zazen Meditation Timer

Your Meditation Companion

Free

This app provides a minimalist and focused timer for various meditation practices, including Zen and Zazen. It offers multiple profiles, detailed statistics, customizable chimes, and reminders to support your mindfulness journey. Integration with Apple's Health app is also available.

Pop Up Zendo

Meditation Timer

Free

A minimalist meditation timer designed by a zen priest. It offers a simple, graceful interface to create meditative space with gentle bell sounds or silence. Build mindfulness into your daily routine with this straightforward tool.

Sitting Time

Simple Meditation Timer

Free

This app provides a straightforward timer for meditation sessions, allowing users to set durations and delays. It features a dimming screen option and continues to play gongs even when the device is locked, supporting both light and dark modes.

ZazenTracker

Track your zazen sessions.

Free

This app helps users track their meditation practice by setting session timers and logging completed sits. It builds a record of your practice and encourages consistency with a streak feature.

ZenOto

ZEN meditation, Relax & Sleep

Free

Begin your meditation journey with this Zazen app. It offers authentic Zen temple sounds, a guided introduction, and a customizable timer to help you build a consistent practice. Track your progress with a diary and illustrated learning materials.

Zen Home - Japanese Meditation

Simple Zazen & Breathing Timer

Free

This app offers a minimalist approach to meditation, focusing on silence, a bell, and breathing exercises rooted in Japanese Zen Buddhism. It provides tools for Zazen, breath counting, and posture guidance, alongside daily Zen words and weekly koans to deepen your practice.

Center Meditation Timer

Mindfulness meditation timer

Free

A silent meditation timer designed for serious practitioners. It offers a minimalist interface with customizable session lengths, intervals, and sounds. Track your progress without pressure or gamification.

Gospel of Luke in Zazaki-Dimli

by Forum Linguistik in Eurasien e.V.

Free

Access the text and audio of the Gospel of Luke and Psalm 23 in Zazaki (Dimli). Features synchronized scrolling text and audio, with introductory music for each chapter. Ideal for Zaza speakers in specific regions.