Zen : Your Way — Support
Zen : Your Way is a meditation timer and practice app for Apple platforms. It is available on the App Store.
Contact
Email: francis@dierick.co
I usually reply within 7 days.
Get The App
Download on the App Store, or try without installing via the App Clip.
TestFlight
I am releasing 1.0.25 (98) now. Guided audio refresh for the Just Sit Learn week and graduation sits. 1.0.24 opened App Clip variants and a one-launch guided sit in the installed app — try it from zenyourway.app/clip/.
Get access to early releases of the app and help me test.
Install Apple’s TestFlight app on iPhone or iPad, then open the invite link.
What’s New in 1.0.25
Improved guided audio — Just Sit Learn week and graduation sits. 1.0.24: App Clip open variants; one-launch guided sit in the installed app.
Platforms
- 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 Just Sit.
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 — Subscription
A daily companion after the first week: one theme, then you sit. App Store subscription with a 7-day trial. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime. More in the Your Way section.
The meditation timer will always remain free so you can always Just Sit.
Your Way : Curriculum
Zen is rooted in ancient Chinese Chan Buddhist tradition. From there, generally speaking, two schools emerged. Rinzai is the sudden way where a series of koans triggers awakening. Soto is the gradual way. As Dogen puts it, the way is already perfect. Just sitting is enough.
From the 70s on, in the West, these ancient traditional practices were translated into more clinical forms, e.g. MBSR, where benefits can be measured for stress and anxiety. Millions now practice some form of mindfulness. The focus shifted from awakening as a grand goal to practical benefits in daily life.
Zen : Your Way is for the curious meditator who wants more than immediate benefits in daily life. The curriculum is split into weeks of daily guided meditations, each around a theme or tradition. Every day one idea is introduced and then follows an invitation to just sit. As the weeks progress ideas return at a deeper level.
After every week you are offered to continue on a different theme or to spend some days just sitting. This lets you benefit at three levels. You get practical support for daily life. You learn where the practices came from. And with a nod to Soto Zen, “Just Sit” remains at the center of it all.
Language
English today. More languages are planned: FR, NL, DE coming first. But this may take a while — translating the full library of guided sessions properly takes a long time.
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. 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 / TestFlight 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 or TestFlight-related 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
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Improved guided audio — Just Sit Learn week and graduation sits.
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App Clip open variants; one-launch guided sit in the installed app.
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Prep for Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro App Store releases.
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App Clip: silent sits by length, plus guided Present Return.
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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.
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Apple Watch simplified — warmup, cooldown, and interval chimes removed; Watch now just sets sit length. Thinner ring stroke.
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Audio keeps playing when the screen locks; a guided track no longer overrides the sit length you picked.
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Guided meditation updated.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Audio and UI bugfixes. App Clip sits now open and close with a bell (default 10-second warmup).
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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.
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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.
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Sit screen fits iPad landscape, Stage Manager, and iPhone Mirroring; slimmer Settings during a sit.
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One-minute Skills in the app, fuller guided catalog, Welcome/Breath Loop audio refresh.
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Welcome first-launch sit and TestFlight polish.
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Guided downloads (ODR), Beta/Release channels, sits logged as mindful minutes only.
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Guided and breathwork gated for release; soundscape curation.
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Settings-only iCloud sync; chime loudness normalized.
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Live Activity polish, platform App Store parity, iOS 17 minimum.
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App Store title refresh; Apple TV release path; Mac/Watch companion polish.
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App Clip, play-ring UI, breath guidance, soundscapes, themes, chimes, guided tracks.
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First TestFlight builds; Watch complication and settings sync.
