How It Works
Open the app · pick a duration · sit. Zen is a minimalist meditation timer first. The things you need and nothing more: beautiful bells · soundscapes · intervals · warmup and cooldown.
If you want to look around: the first week teaches the form and the mindset of meditation — how sitting works, then silence. Guidance is optional. Learning The Basics Is Free.
Sitting is free. The path is optional. The timer stays free. After the first week, Your Way is a daily companion — a subscription. Yearly includes a week free to try the path.
Origin Story
Hi, I'm Francis, a longtime iOS developer. I discovered regular meditation about 15 years ago. You see, I suffer from PTSD and meditation has helped me survive, more than once, when things fall apart.
But meditation only clicked for me with a Zen just sit practice — other practices, sampling, trial and error, years of showing up to sit. I needed those 10,000 minutes on apps before I could stop searching.
In the end, just sit. Zen : Your Way is my way of giving back. A quiet Apple-native timer. Optional guidance to nudge you toward just sitting. Nothing in the way of the sit itself.