Transcend Timer
Meditation and mindfulness
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Transcend Timer is a timer for Transcendental Meditation. It does one thing: it holds the length of your practice so you do not have to.
Three phases. Warm Up to settle in, Meditation, then Rest. Set each one once and press play — the home screen shows the plan, so starting is never a decision.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
No guided voices. No courses, no narrators, no daily episode, no library to look through. Nothing plays unless you turn it on: the start and end sounds and the haptics are all off by default, because in TM the mantra is the technique and a bell is an interruption.
THE SCREEN TELLS YOU WHERE YOU ARE
Each phase has its own background, ordered by brightness rather than colour. Warm Up steps down toward meditation, meditation is nearly black, and rest lifts sharply. That lift is the largest change in light in the whole session and it happens the moment meditation ends — perceptible through a closed eyelid, so you can stay where you are until it comes.
If you do open your eyes to check the time, the timer is large, centred, and set in figures that do not shift as they count down.
PROGRESS
Two counters: days you meditated, and days you meditated twice. A monthly calendar shows the shape of your practice — missed, once, twice — and pages back through every month you have kept. Completed sessions are written to Apple Health as Mindful Sessions.
APPLE WATCH
Run a full session from your wrist and leave the phone in another room. The Digital Crown sets the durations. The Smart Stack shows which phase you are in and how long is left.
IF YOU WANT IT
Curated sounds for the start and end of meditation, with their own volume so a cue can carry through twenty minutes of closed eyes. Ambiance: one looping sound that fades in as the session begins and out across the rest phase, at a volume set deliberately lower. Eight themes, each changing all four phases together and keeping the same order of light. Night dimming for sessions in the dark. Pause and resume, counting active time only. A daily reminder, if you set one.
PRIVACY
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no network requests. Your preferences stay on your device. Health data is read only to calculate your streaks and never leaves the phone.
Transcend Timer is an independent app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Transcendental Meditation organisation, and it does not teach the technique.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
The developer, Martin Di Giglio, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Size
- 12 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.4 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Provider
Martin Di Giglio
- Martin Di Giglio has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Copyright
- © 2026 lemergent