Zen Timer
Meditation timer for iOS and Android
Get Zen TimerWhat it is
Spin the logo to set your time, a singing bowl sound when your session starts and again when it ends.
Why I built it
I meditate daily and got tired of apps that keep adding things. I just wanted an app that follows traditional zen meditation with 3 gongs at the beginning and 1 gong at the end of the meditation, without any ads or extra features.
Features
Latest updates 11
Zen Timer Posted my 200-day meditation streak to r/Healthygamergg with a screenshot of the Zen Timer habit grid, never naming the app in the post itself. The first top-level comment was "What is this habit tracker??" — answered with "It's called zen timer on android!"
The post hit #1 on the sub today: 18K views, 164 upvotes, 98% ratio, 17 comments. The reply naming Zen Timer has 700+ views — that's the surface where new users would discover the app.
Last attempt at promoting Zen Timer on Reddit (March 2025) was rejected from every subreddit for self-promo. Sharing experiential content with the app incidentally visible bypassed that.
Zen Timer Got a donation today!
Zen Timer Zen timer is officially released on the play store!
Zen Timer Just finished a 14-day testing period with a service I bought on fiverr, I now have production access! I'm releasing it Mar 31.
Zen Timer I still enjoy using this app, it does the one thing it's supposed to do really well. Just ship it.
Made a website for it:
Zen Timer Tried promoting it on Reddit, got rejected from every subreddit I tried due to self-promotion. This is very discouraging.\n\n My main value for this app is that it is simple and minimalistic. All the other apps are so feature-bloated. I feel that since the app isn’t hard to make, it would be embarrassing to release it.
Zen Timer Apparently I need 12 beta testers to release it on Android. That sucks. I have been putting this off because of the beta testers thing for 2 weeks now. Also been very busy with Strimo. I made a Reddit account, and am gonna start posting on every relevant subreddit about the app and try to get beta testers.
Zen Timer Polished, built a very minimal app. Now I just need to release it on Android.
Zen Timer Rebuilt a full working version in Flutter. Now I just need to make Firebase security more strict, fix some UI bugs, create app showcase images in Figma and release it on the Play Store.
Zen Timer I have been using this prototype for 5 months and I still love using it. The singing bowl sound works very well as the start and end of my meditation session. I want to build this so it automatically tracks my meditation time. So the easiest thing to do would be to remake this in SvelteKit, so I can easily make the API and database. Then I just have to find out how to make this into a Capacitor app.
Zen Timer I’m kinda sick of all the shit meditation timers that are either completely feature-bloated or full of ads. I just want a simple timer that follows traditional Zen meditation style. I’m just gonna build a basic prototype and start using it myself.