Improvements to Copy Friends Sit feature.

- You can now tap "Your friend just finished X min sit" notif to copy their sit to your History, if y'all sat together. - Now available for iPad

Simplified the post-sit message when Airplane mode is still on.  Now you just need to turn off Airplane mode, and don't need to press a second button to recheck that it's off. It now also shows a confirmation message when your Friend Notifications sends out. Be happy :-)

NEW, MUCH REQUESTED: More Goenka recordings! Fully integrated with the rest of the app, so you still get a simple Countdown timer, easy History tracking, and powerful Friend Notifications to stay connected with fellow meditators. Huge thanks to everyone who wrote in suggesting these. I've found them really great. Hope you do too.

Improved Daily Reminders! The Daily Reminder notifications will now only fire if you haven't sat in the day yet. Or twice-yet for the PM reminder, if you have both AM & PM turned on. These reminders will also now add a '1' badge to the homescreen app icon, so it's easier to see you still haven't met your goal for the day. Other improvements: ‧ Friend notifications now include "with chanting" or "with extended mettā" or both. ‧ Improvements to the look of History List and Calendar, and the post-sit Airplane Mode reminder. ‧ Added check to make sure your name isn't set to 'null' before sending out Friend Notifications.

New— You can now get reminders to turn on Airplane mode when sits begin. This can help block any incoming distractions. Turn on these Airplane Mode Reminders from the Settings page, which also received some visual improvements.

Much faster History screen loading times (eg. from 5 seconds to under 0.3 second, for 200 sits)

This update adds a new startup screen explaining Adding Friends and walks you through the quick setup to become Friendable. Other improvements: - Removed coughs from the intro chanting audio - 5 minute sits now use the shorter "Good, good" outro, like 1 & 3 min sits. - Improved text for the "Have you taken a course before?" question the first time the app is opened.

This update lets audio from other apps continue playing while GoenkaTimer is active. You can also change your display name: just press the "Logged in as" line at the top of the Settings Screen, choose "Reset Display Name", then set a new one.

Improvements to Check Contacts for Friends.

· If you Check Contacts but someone isn't on the app yet, you'll now get a notification when they later join, making it much easier to send them a Friend Request. · Daily Reminder notifications are now automatically cleared after you complete a sit. · Misc small UI improvements.

Improvements to Extended Metta audio

Improved audio clips: · Cleaned extended metta of background coughing. · Now uses shorter "Good, good, be happy" outro for sits under 4 minutes, instead of the time being dominated by the longer "Bhavatu Sabba Mangalam" outro clip. · Smoother transitions in & out of all audio clips. (Thx Shmoosh)

· Improved Check Contacts & Login UIs. · Smoothed out transition around extended metta. · Better error handling w/ db.

Easier to add Friends! Quickly see if any of your phone contacts are already using the app.

Welcome to a New Era: GoenkaTimer gets social All new FRIEND NOTIFICATIONS · You can now add fellow meditators, then automatically notify each other whenever one of you completes a sit.

· Add Bar View support when total elapsed time within a single half day is over 60 minutes. · Improve Auto-sync reliability.

Bar Graph View: a new way to visualize your sit history. · Easily see how *long* you've sat for, as you accumulate more over time. This version also adds a new Welcome message the very first time you open the app, based on whether you are an Old Student or not. This is meant to give a little more context for people who haven't sat a full 10-day course before. Be happy :)

You can now backup your sit history to the cloud (in case you lose your device, etc). You can also choose to automatically backup new sits as soon as you complete them. It's optional: turn it on from the Settings screen.

New in 1.7.2: - Calendar view! Access from the History screen. - Added links to More Info about Goenka & Vipassana meditation. Access from the Settings screen. - Fixed an issue where the app thought it didn't have Notification permissions, even after they were approved. - Various stability improvements. Be happy!

New in 1.6.5:   Set automatic reminder notifications to sit. - You can customize your preferred morning & night times. - Uses temple gong for powerful reminders (if sound on) Access via the new Settings page: gear icon in bottom left. For questions or support, please contact: hi@goenka.app

- Improved instructions before your first sit. - Pointer to History page after your first sit. - Remembers timing settings even if app restarts. For questions or support, please contact: hi@goenka.app