Pocket Meditation Timer 4+

I appreciate whoever built this app for providing most of what I wanted - something elegant, simple, and pretty easy to use. I love the chime sound option, the ways it can be customized, and the lack of fluff. The only thing I can’t figure out is: How can I create more than one program, so I have different session lengths to choose from? I also don’t understand the “report” the app offers to send at the end of each session, so I just cancel it. The app might benefit from a little bit of explanation in that regard. But, thanks! I use it everyday. PS- I wish I didn’t have to close the app and reopen it every time I use it. That’s not helpful. It would also be nice if it displayed the length of meditation time it is set for in the main screen, because sometimes I want to adjust it. Overall though, it’s still simple and uncluttered, and I like that.

2017, August - the annoying loud video pop ups after sessions are gone -- THANK YOU! Changed my review back to 5-stars.

2017: The app developers have started using video pop-up advertisements after a meditation timer completes. It's disconcerting and incongruous to be jarred back to reality by the sound of bombs and machine guns from a video game after finishing a nice meditation sessio! I've changed my review from 5 stars to 4 stars. Like other reviewers, I would be happy to pay for a pro version to have the ads removed. So it goes. We've all gotta eat, and I get that. Hard work should be rewarded. But those War game videos... I'm almost tempted to look for another app that I can just buy to remove the ads.

2016: This app does exactly what I was looking for. It allows me to time my meditation, and has a wonderful interval feature where you can have it give you another alert during your meditation. I use it to meditate for 15 minutes, then it gives me a chime and I switch to prayer for another 15 minutes. After 30 minutes, it gives me a chime to let me know I'm done. You can adjust the timers to anything you like, so this is perfect for any kind of meditation. The chimes are soothing, unobtrusive, perfect for meditation. Thank you for this wonderful, free app!!

Two pointless dialog windows appear within the app that I have to click through every single time a session ends and then an ad appears that I have to wait for. Plus there’s always an ad at the top of the app and there’s no premium version, so there’s no way to get rid of them. You can get rid of them for two days if you watch an ad, which means I’d have to watch 183 ads a year to use a simple timer without ads. That’s completely insane!

I like the customizability of the timer but there’s no way to create more than one of them, so if I do different kinds of meditation sessions, I have to change the settings each time. This is ridiculous. And why require me to give the timer a name if it’s the only one I can create? With the reminders, there should be an easy way to pause or silence them all for a time. Finally, the background images are extremely old and low resolution. They need to be updated to use the full resolution of modern devices.