Zen : Your Way

Zen : Your Way : Support

Zen : Your Way is a meditation timer and practice app. It is available on the App Store for every Apple platform: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

Contact

Email: francis@dierick.co

I usually reply within 7 days.

Get The App

Download on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. On iPhone you can also try without installing via the App Clip.

What’s New in 1.1.3

Bug fixes.

Platforms

Available now on all of these (App Store):

  • iPhone and iPad (iOS / iPadOS 17.0 or later)
  • Apple Watch (watchOS 11.0 or later), independent Watch app and complications
  • Mac (macOS 14.0 or later)
  • Apple TV (tvOS 17.0 or later)
  • Apple Vision Pro (visionOS 2.0 or later)

On iPhone you can also use Live Activities, Lock Screen controls, and Home Screen / Lock Screen widgets where available.

What You Can Do

Just Sit · Meditation Timer

The core silent timer is included. Open the app, choose a duration, and tap the ring to start.

Optional timer extras include bells, intervals, and soundscapes. More in Learn.

Sit Tracking · Lightweight

I keep a simple count of your minutes and sits. It is not a streak counter. Short sits count. Be gentle with yourself. Meditation is already hard enough.

The First Week · Free

Seven days of form and mindset, then silence. A couple of minutes of instruction, then you sit. The daily sit is the whole practice. The full instructions are in the Learn section.

Your Way · Not Yet

After the first week, Your Way is meant to be a daily companion: one idea, then you sit. Not a library of sessions you scroll through.

You cannot subscribe yet. Right now the app is the free timer and the first week (Learn). The longer guided path is still being built. I will turn on paid plans when there is enough there to sell honestly.

The meditation timer will always remain free so you can always Just Sit.

Language

English today. French, Dutch, and German are next. That takes time. I am not going to dump a huge pile of sessions on the app just to look full.

How I Use AI

Spoken guidance in the app is generated with AI. I do not have a voice for radio, and a generated voice is core to being able to offer multi-language support later.

Every meditation script is researched, written & reviewed by me. I use AI like a spell-checker or auto-complete: a tool, nothing magic. The final word is always human.

Not A Medical Device

Zen : Your Way supports personal meditation practice. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or therapy. If you need clinical or mental-health support, please contact a qualified professional.

Privacy And Your Data

See the full Privacy Policy.

In short: you do not need an account to sit. Settings stay on your device. If you subscribe to Your Way, restore a purchase, or receive a scholarship, I store a small account record on my server: your Zen : Your Way ID, optional email, entitlement status, and where you are on the daily path (not silent timer history). Essentially just the bare minimum I need to make this app work.

Delete Your Data

  • Remove the app from your devices to delete on-device app data.
  • For anything held only by Apple (for example App Store account data), use Apple’s account and device controls.
  • To ask about Your Way account data, a scholarship application, or a support email thread, email francis@dierick.co.

Refunds And Purchases

Purchases and refunds for App Store billing are handled by Apple. Use Report a Problem or your Apple media subscriptions / purchase history settings.

Developer

Francis Dierick
Naamsesteenweg 400
3001 Heverlee
Belgium
francis@dierick.co

Version History

  • 1.1.3 (102)

    Bug fixes.

  • 1.1.0 (99)

    Resizable windows for iPhone Duo (iOS 27).

  • 1.0.25 (98)

    Improved guided audio — Just Sit Learn week and graduation sits.

  • 1.0.24 (97)

    App Clip open variants; one-launch guided sit in the installed app.

  • 1.0.23 (96)

    Prep for Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro App Store releases.

  • 1.0.22 (95)

    App Clip: silent sits by length, plus guided Present Return.

  • 1.0.21 (93)

    Mac: settings match iPad with grouped drill-down pickers; closing the window leaves the app in the Dock; menu bar and Dock stay visible; pause shows End beside play so the window can be small.

  • 1.0.20 (92)

    Apple Watch simplified — warmup, cooldown, and interval chimes removed; Watch now just sets sit length. Thinner ring stroke.

  • 1.0.19 (91)

    Audio keeps playing when the screen locks; a guided track no longer overrides the sit length you picked.

  • 1.0.18 (90)

    Guided meditation updated.

  • 1.0.17 (89)

    New guided audio — the Just Sit Learn week, fully re-recorded. Full-platform release prep; rolls in the Apple TV guidance fixes from 1.0.16.

  • 1.0.16 (88)

    Apple TV bugfixes: guided picks and Hide Distractions save reliably; sound and theme menus cleaned up — proper sections, no duplicate legacy sits; thin download, only the Just Sit Learn week audio ships. Distraction-free setting no longer gets overridden by the guided path.

  • 1.0.15 (87)

    Apple Watch: pause button stays visible during a sit, turning the crown reveals End, and the ring is vertically centered on the main and meditating screens. Plus audio and UI bugfixes.

  • 1.0.14 (81)

    Audio and UI bugfixes. App Clip sits now open and close with a bell (default 10-second warmup).

  • 1.0.13 (77)

    Single Forest ensō icon (Liquid Glass); thin download — Welcome bundled, the rest streams via On-Demand Resources; Apple Health logging removed; A.1 stats fixed (Welcome not counted); lifetime sits and time totals in Guidance.

  • 1.0.12 (73)

    Silent timer plus Your Way A.1 (Welcome and seven sits). Home Screen widget starts an unguided sit for the time you pick, or continues the week. Old guided library is not in this build.

  • 1.0.12 (72)

    Sit screen fits iPad landscape, Stage Manager, and iPhone Mirroring; slimmer Settings during a sit.

  • 1.0.11 (70)

    One-minute Skills in the app, fuller guided catalog, Welcome/Breath Loop audio refresh.

  • 1.0.9 (65)

    Welcome first-launch sit and TestFlight polish.

  • 1.0.8 (62)

    Guided downloads (ODR), Beta/Release channels, sits logged as mindful minutes only.

  • 1.0.7 (58)

    Guided and breathwork gated for release; soundscape curation.

  • 1.0.6 (55)

    Settings-only iCloud sync; chime loudness normalized.

  • 1.0.5 (54)

    Live Activity polish, platform App Store parity, iOS 17 minimum.

  • 1.0.4 (37)

    App Store title refresh; Apple TV release path; Mac/Watch companion polish.

  • 1.0.3 (26)

    App Clip, play-ring UI, breath guidance, soundscapes, themes, chimes, guided tracks.

  • 1.0.2 (8)

    First TestFlight builds; Watch complication and settings sync.

A giant Chan (禅) character carved into a forested cliff face near Liupanshui, China
The idea for this app truly clicked while hiking and climbing around Liupanshui, China, when I looked up and saw this giant Chan (禅) character carved into the rock.