Simpleness
The silence was always there.
Now you have a timer for it.
iOS App — Available on the App Store
The problem
They promised calm and delivered complexity. Streak counters. Push notifications. Social feeds. Guided content libraries five levels deep. Gamification loops designed to maximise screen time — the precise opposite of stillness.
The practitioner simply needs a timer, a bell, and silence.
“The goal of meditation is not to achieve anything. It is simply to be present.”
The solution
Simpleness is built around one principle: the app should disappear. Set a duration, choose a bell, begin. Rest the phone face-down. The session runs in silence — and when it is time, a Tibetan bowl rings even through a locked screen.
Core features
Any duration from one minute to hours. Open-ended sessions run until you stop. A rotary dial — no number keyboards.
Recurring interval reminders throughout the session. Start, interval, and end bells are each configurable independently.
Three hand-synthesised bowl tones — Low (264 Hz), Medium (396 Hz), High (528 Hz). Soft-mallet 20 ms attack, inharmonic partials.
Bells fire even when the screen is locked. A silent background audio session keeps iOS from suspending playback mid-sit.
Sessions save to the device even without a connection. Everything syncs quietly to your history the next time you are online — nothing is lost.
Premium
Save favourite session configurations and reload in one tap.
Every completed session recorded. Swipe to edit the date, note, or reflection tag on any past entry.
Practice statistics — total minutes, session counts, streaks, and consistency trends over time.
Write a short reflection right after each sit. Notes are saved with the session and editable from History at any time.
Describe how a session felt with a single tap — Deep, Calm, Neutral, Restless, or Difficult. A quiet way to notice patterns.
Choose a sound to play after the final bell — soft rain, birdsong, forest, ocean, or mountain wind. Or keep it silent.
Design language
Every detail is calibrated for stillness. Warm cream backgrounds dissolve the boundary between screen and room. Dusty sage green carries all interactive energy without demanding attention. A single Playfair Display typeface for large text; Outfit for everything else.
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Typography — Playfair Display (display) · Outfit (body)
Business model
Free
Free
Forever
Unlimited timer
All three bell sounds
Interval bells
Locked-screen audio
Open-ended sessions
Premium
Subscription
Monthly — Apple IAP — free trial
Everything in Free
Saved session presets
Full session history & editing
Practice insights & streaks
Session notes
Reflection tags
Closing ambience sounds
Saved app settings