a gentle meditation timer
a little quiet,
every day.
Every day you sit five minutes, the day fills in. The streak grows a minute a week, so today’s sit is only ever a breath longer than the last.
A timer can tell you that you sat. quiettime can also tell you how you breathed. Prop the phone up, close your eyes, and the front camera reads your breathing while you sit. Nothing worn, nothing recorded. Three camera sits are free, then it’s Pro.
- GENTLESet a length and sit. A day counts at five minutes, and the app never asks for more than that.
- BOWLSSeven singing bowls tuned to the chakra tones open and close the sit. Strike them any time, in or out of a sit.
- GUIDEDChakras, Arc or Drift: three fixed-length sits, each paced by its own bowls. Drift holds a binaural drone under the whole sit.
- HISTORYThe calendar above, trends over the weeks, and every sit you’ve logged with its note.
- HEALTHSits count toward your mindful minutes in Apple Health.
- MIXERSwell the bowl chord, drift it binaurally between your ears (headphones), sway it side to side, and set your own pace on the bells.
- PRIVATENo account, no ads, no tracking. Your sits stay on your phone.
PRO · $9.99 ONCE
- BREATHProp the phone up and sit. The front camera reads your breaths per minute and how long each inhale and exhale ran, and says one line at the halfway mark if your exhale could be longer. Nothing recorded, nothing uploaded. Patent pending.
- BREATHEThe live breath trace on its own, outside a sit.
- PULSELive heart rate from AirPods or Apple Watch, read on your phone, so you can watch it settle as you sit.
Everything in the first list is free and stays free. Pro is the senses: the camera breath read and the pulse. The camera gives you three sits before it asks. Pro is one purchase: no subscription, no ads. It’s the only money in these apps, and it’s what keeps them ad-free and pays for the next one.
A note from the maker: I sat nearly every day for three years and did not know what I was doing →