Center Meditation Timer

Center Meditation Timer

By Tanner Christensen

  • Category: Health & Fitness
  • Release Date: 2018-01-18
  • Current Version: 1.2.6
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 3.18 MB
  • Developer: Tanner Christensen
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 9.0
Score: 4.67373
4.67373
From 613 Ratings

Description

No unnecessary voice over guide. No background music or ambient sounds. Just you and your mind, the way mindfulness meditation was meant to be. Center is an elegant meditation timer which tracks your sittings in a beautiful and simple way. With HealthKit integration so you can see your daily mindfulness practice stats right from the Health app. The app uses haptic feedback in addition to classic meditation chimes: one chime to start, one chime for intervals, and three consecutive chimes for ending a meditation session. Before you begin you can edit your sit time, set a delay to prepare, plan interval sounds to keep you focused, and get meditation insights. After each session the app tracks your meditation practice and provides custom insights to help you. This is what makes Center a valuable app: simplicity and a tailored experience to improve your practice the more you use the app. # Distraction-free meditation Many meditation apps like Calm and Headspace are filled with ambient music or voiceovers which distract from the purpose of the meditation. The goal of mindfulness meditation isn't to control your thoughts or breathing: it's simply for you to observe and be mindful of those things. # Discover meditation insights and tips It's easy to lose track of your meditation habit if you're not monitoring progress or getting feedback along the way. The more you use Center the more the app learns about your practice and can offer custom insights into how to get more from your meditation. # Customize your practice for you If your practice includes different stages within a single session, you can set interval chimes to ring (traditional singing bowl sound). You can sit for as short as 1 minute or as long as an hour (using repetitive timers for sitting even longer). Use interval chimes to help re-orient you during your session and a daily meditation reminder to keep your habit going. # Track your meditation habits Easy-to-read visuals show your meditation practice at-a-glance and the app tracks everything from the average time of your sittings, what days and times you typically sit, how long you've been practicing, your current and longest meditation streaks, and more. The app has been carefully designed for everyone from junior to seasoned meditation practitioners. For fans of the now defunct app Equanimity - Meditation Timer & Tracker by Robin Barooah, as featured on NPRs All Tech Considered. Features: • Daily meditation reminders • Custom-to-you insights and tips • Automatically track your meditation habit • Customize how long you sit • Set interval chimes to maintain mindfulness • Monitor and track continuous sessions • See the last several days of your practice in a simple chart • Traditional singing bowl sounds • No distractions such as guided voiceover or ambient sounds • Simple and inviting visual design

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Reviews

  • Perfect timer

    5
    By i think this is me
    Very simple and effective. I use it to time all kinds of activities—zazen, naps, guitar practice. Love the color swirl on opening and absence of options. I’ve used another excellent timer for years, but got weary of the upsell to even more bells and sound scapes…and content that I don’t need or want. One change, if you would—stop warning me that 30 mins may drain my battery. Thank you 🙂
  • Good concept but a couple of issues

    4
    By Use thisone
    There are a couple of issues preventing me from using the app. I think if this were open-sourced, those of us who would like to use this app could help resolve those issues
  • Thank you

    5
    By Mabartem
    I have been looking for an app like this for a long time now. To the developers: thank you very much!
  • Chime is not working

    4
    By antsyandchill
    I just downloaded this app because it is exactly what I’m looking for from a meditation timer. The only bummer is that there is a bug — the chimes are not working!
  • Great easy to use

    5
    By ryan1748682759
    So simple and easy to use. I didn’t want to hurt your rating with anything less than a five star, but there are some problems with the audio not working. Besides that perfect
  • Excellent minimal app

    5
    By finitestatemachine
    Does everything you could want it to and nothing more. I used headspace for a good while and found that I spent a lot of time searching for new content that I will enjoy. I prefer to spend that time differently. Thank you for this.
  • Can’t enable sleep in settings

    3
    By jundnjxncnekdjdn
    Really nice app but screen sleep is stuck in disabled! Wastes battery :(
  • Anti-mindfulness non-timer

    1
    By VeganGreg
    In theory, this app has everything that I want in a meditation timer. In practice, it is buggy to the point that it interferes with my meditation. Most significantly, as other reviews have noted, the end bell is unreliable and often never sounds. This makes meditation impossible since I am frequently wondering whether the session should be over and end up interrupting the session frequently to check the time so that I do not end up going to work late. This basically makes the app an anti-mindfulness timer. Also, the apple watch app (I’m using a series 8) does not really work at all. The timer freezes often and then even when you complete a session and “save” it, it saves it to nowhere—it does not get reflected in the log on the iphone app, nor does it get logged to mindfulness minutes. I would advise the creator to either start maintaining this app or remove it from the app store. A timer is not a particularly complicated application, so having your name associated with a timer that is so buggy as to be unusable cannot be a good thing.
  • There’s No Place Like Om

    5
    By doc violin
    Easy to use, nice tone. The couple of seconds lead time is nice.
  • Does not stay working in the background

    2
    By Firepoet
    I need to use 2 apps to meditate: one a timer and one a counter. When I switch back and forth from the counter to the timer, the timer stops. This doesn’t work for me.

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