A minimalist meditation timer that saves your mindful minutes to Apple Health, automatically.
Sit down. Breathe. Let everything else fade. Whether you love silent, unguided sessions or gentle guided narration, Monk Mode meets you where you are. Pick a focus, set your timer, and begin. When you finish, your mindful minutes are saved to Apple Health on their own, so your mindfulness practice always counts.
Wear an Apple Watch? Your heart rate is tracked live, so you can watch your body settle into stillness. Start a session from your iPhone, your watch, or straight from a home screen widget. Every session brings you closer to the version of yourself that shows up calmer, clearer, and more present.
Free to use, with one optional purchase. Sessions up to 5 minutes are always free, and longer sessions include 4 free sessions each month. Deep Practice is a one-time in-app purchase that removes the monthly limit. Existing customers keep full access at no extra cost.
What you get:
• Mindful minutes saved to Apple Health after every session, with workouts logged too
• A guided and unguided meditation timer (1-60 min + unlimited)
• 5 focus types: Breath, Body Scan, Loving-Kindness, Open Awareness, and Sleep
• On-device narration in 6 languages that adapts to your session
• Live heart rate tracking with Apple Watch
• Daily goals, a weekly streak, and progress at a glance
• Configurable widgets that can start a session with a tap
• Haptic breathing cues, custom bell tones, and adjustable guidance
• A dedicated sleep meditation mode
• Seamless sync between iPhone and Apple Watch
Your meditation practice. No subscriptions. No accounts. One optional one-time purchase.
Privacy Policy
https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-privacy-policy
Terms & Conditions
https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-terms-conditions
Love this app! It’s simple and easy to use. It automatically logs and saves your mindful minutes on your Apple Watch or iPhone. And when your watch is connected it tracks your heart rate which is a cool feature. It allows for silent or guided meditations for whatever I’m feeling in the moment. The dashboard could use a little updating to be a more effective tracker of my past sessions but for now the last 7 days are great, it keeps me focused on the here and now. Oh I almost forgot, the widgets on the phone and Watch are so cute and keep me motivated. Highly recommend!
Close to Perfect
chel-c.fox
This is an excellent app, I really respect and am deeply grateful for the work that went into releasing this entirely free. It’s meditatively basic, distraction-free, just a timer and heart rate + mindfulness minutes tracking, which is everything I want, plus the icons are good-looking too. The one thing that would make this perfect for me is if I were able to set an open goal instead of being forced to pick a time limit, so I could utilize the tracking without limiting or planning how my meditation sessions will go.
Developer Response
Thanks for the kind words! The newest update v1.1.4 includes the option to have an open ended meditation session. So you can start it without selecting a duration and stop it whenever you feel 🥳
Simple and clean
welshport
I appreciate it app. It just runs a timer and sounds the bell (or gives haptic feedback if the bell is silenced) at the end of the meditation. The meditation is then saved to the health app/data, along with a heart rate reading. Having this on my watch as a complication encourages me to do some meditation when time allows. Apart from 1 minute, the meditation periods are in increments of 5 minutes. For the most part that works for me. Occasionally I would appreciate being able to set custom times.
Perfect and Free?!
Ashley - from Tejas
I had to leave a review because I’m so grateful for this app, and I feel blessed because it was free.After I figured out that I needed to download the app directly from my Apple Watch, I was able to immediately start using it. The times are in increments of five, so I just set the time for a little longer than my planned session, and end it manually when I finish.I love that it monitors & reports my heart rate and meditation time to both the Apple Heath & Fitness apps.Thank you, thank you! 🙏🏾
Gentle reminders are here.
Choose the days and the time you want a nudge to sit, or set a different time for each day. Reminders arrive on iPhone and Apple Watch, and the wording stays fresh instead of repeating.
On Apple Watch:
• A new, smoother dial for choosing your duration, with the Digital Crown
• A redesigned Guided setup that starts faster
Also new:
• Your default session lengths stay put until you change them in Settings
• A cleaner heart rate screen on Apple Watch
• A refreshed monk icon
• Simple usage counts help me improve the app. They never include health data, and you can turn them off in Settings
Thank you for sitting with me.
Version 2.2
The developer, Kevin David Tanner, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Accessibility
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