Insight Timer Meditation Timer
Add to favorites Rating: 4.8 (2,384) Cost: $1.99 Downloads: 10,000 - 50,000
Insight Timer gives you this and much more. It's simple enough to get started with just a few taps, yet powerful enough to handle the most sophisticated mediation routines with advanced features such as interval bells, presets and a meditation journal.
With the Insight Connect feature, you can become part of a global meditation community - seeing at a glance people around the world who are meditating with you. Link your Facebook or Twitter account and you and your friends can follow and support one another's practice. You can also make new friends who share your love of meditation.
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- You'll love our bells! Recorded with high quality digital audio equipment at a famous meditation center, these new bell samples are amazing. Crystal clear with extra long fade outs. They sound great with the built-in speaker, but to get the full effect, try using headphones or external speakers.
- Choose from seven different bells of varying size and metal compositions - from bright and clean to deep and complex with lovely overtones. A wood block sound is also included.
- Bells can be configured to ring at the start, the end, and at specified times during your session. Each bell can be set to ring once, twice or three times. The delay between strikes is configurable from 1 to 20 seconds.
- Powerful logging and statistics features allow you to track your progress over time. Multiple charts, a complete session log and helpful statistics give you a complete picture of how your practice is evolving.
- Presets allow you to save an unlimited number of configurations and assign names to them. If you have multiple meditation routines (such as Morning and Evening), this makes it easy to switch between them without any configuration changes.
- You may set a background image from your own photo album. While the timer is running, your image is shown full screen. Optionally, the time display and controls can be hidden so that they are shown only when the image is tapped.
- Meditation Journal: You may enter notes about each session when the timer ends - a practice that many people find to be helpful and therapeutic. Your journal entries can be exported via an email attachment. Journal access may be password protected to ensure privacy.
- Insight Timer is geared toward meditation, but it also works great for yoga, Reiki, exercise or any other activity that you wish to time.
- Pause and resume your timer session.
- Bells will ring even when the device is locked so you can turn off the screen to save power and eliminate ambient light.
- Optionally vibrate with or instead of bells.
Geoff - 2011-08-28
Excellent application. Insight connect should be a separate download to reduce size. Consecutive days counter is a great motivation. Thank you.
Alex - 2011-08-17
I love the sounds, and love that this app can also be used as an alarm for waking up, by setting it to go off after a number of hours.
Helen - 2011-08-07
Love this app, the stats and badges help to keep me motivated and seeing others gives a wonderful sense of community and strengthens connectedness.
Carlos - 2011-09-14
Nice application with wonderful bells. Two problems, at least for me. 1) Delay time at start it is too short (max 145 sec) I usually spend 4 or 5 minutes in preparing myself. 2) If there is no network connection, the app does not start. Bad for retreats in remote locations.
Danny - 2011-08-26
Feels real. Respectful to the process of meditation. Nice surprise in the virtual world. Seems to be a community of sincere meditators here.
andie - 2011-09-04
This has really made a big difference to my meditation and is by far the best app. I love the fact you feel like part of a community. Thanks!
CD - 2011-08-03
Extremely satisfied with this little app. Gives you a sense of community and sitting with a worldwide sangha. Functionality is great, too.
India - 2011-07-10
Great sound quality. Enhances my practice. Love that i can journal, see stats on my practice,and seeing how many other people are meditating too!
mharr - 2011-08-22
I'm moving from ipad to Tab - I was so happy to see this app available for Android. Perfect for meditation.
Hank - 2011-08-28
I use it for meditation and as a class timer when there was no school-wide bell. Meets my needs well; thank you!
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doesn’t work when screen is off otherwise good