Meditate

Build a meditation practice that feels truly yours.

Shape each session with a timer that bends to you, watch your Mandala bloom as you practise, and capture how every meditation felt.

Apple Watch Ultra part-way through a Meditate session, its mandala inside a closing progress arc

Apple Design Awards 2024 Finalist · Visuals and Graphics

App of the Day · Editor’s Choice

Featured by Apple in

Mentioned in Great Apps, Updated for watchOS 27

Meditation

Surrender to the Present Moment

Surrendering to the present moment with awareness is meditation.

DoingHappening
EffortEffortlessness
ConcentrationLetting go of focus
TimeTimelessness
ExperiencesExperiencer

“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To reap the real benefits of meditation, the secret ingredient is consistency.

Returning to the practice, daily.

From the App Store

Beautiful, glowing mandalas are at the heart of this Apple Design Award finalist—a simple meditation timer and tracker that’s surprisingly effective at inspiring a daily practice.

Apple · Editors’ Choice

This encouraged me to increase my daily meditation to 30 minutes a day and I’m very glad I did.
Tiny.bird · United States, 2025
Meditating daily was difficult for me, I tried a bunch of other apps, and with this one I’ve managed to have a streak of 118 days in a row so far.
Fungi008 · United States, 2018
This app has become a cornerstone to my practice as it flows harmoniously with my analogue aesthetics.
Dillbanger · Australia, 2023

Timer

Meditate Your Way

Keep it simple, or shape every stage of the session.

Fixed or open. A set duration, or an open goal you end when you are ready.
Alerts along the way. A sound or a gentle tap, at moments you choose or at a steady interval.
Your own music. Sit with the ambient sounds built in, or meditate to anything in your Apple Music library.
Timer Presets. Save a complete session so it is ready next time.
Describe your timer. On supported devices, say what you want and Meditate sets it up.
Overtime. Carry on past the completion alert and it keeps counting.

Describe the session you want — length, sounds, music, interval alerts — and Meditate sets it up.

The Presets tab on iPhone: saved timers called Flute Calm, Quiet Flow, veena calm and gentle pause, each with its own artwork, length, sound and alerts — Saved presets, each with its own sound and alerts.

Sound, Silence and Space

Five curated experiences, composed rather than narrated. Nobody talks you through them — sound, silence and spatial audio carry the arc instead. Each one in 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes.

Step Into Silence. A river stream gently fades away as you settle into silence, then returns for a soft landing. A great place to start.
Held by the Tide. Gentle ocean waves flow continuously throughout, a steady and calming space.
Into Stillness. Veena music gradually dissolves into silence. A single gong marks the final passage.
Circle of Awareness. Twelve spatial bells travel clockwise around you, then return to the centre. Headphones recommended.
The Still Point. With supported AirPods, music and light answer your movement and fade as your head becomes still. A gong marks your arrival at stillness. On iPhone.

The Experiences tab on iPhone, listing Step Into Silence, Held by the Tide, Into Stillness and Circle of Awareness, each five minutes with its own sounds

Mandala

Watch Your Mandala Grow

Every session adds to a pattern that is yours alone. Come back tomorrow and it grows again.

Symbol of inner transformation · Wholeness & completion · Harmony & balance

Reflections

Reflect on Every Session

Notice how your practice feels, not only how long it lasts.

Before and after. Record how you felt on each side of a session.
A reflection for each day. Capture your thoughts, and edit any day later.
Free, all of it. Every reflection and journaling feature, at no cost.
How you felt. Note your mood with a reflection and it is saved to Apple Health too, as State of Mind.
Meditated away from the app? Add it by hand and your history, goals and streak stay right.

Insights

Understand Your Practice

Today, this week, this month, and the years behind you.

Patterns you would miss. Meditation Insights reads your whole practice and tells you what it notices.
Just ask. Put a question to Ask Meditate and the answer comes only from your own sessions. Built on Apple Intelligence, on devices that support it.
Nothing is lost. Meditate in another app and those sessions come across through Apple Health, so your history and your streak stay whole. With Premium.
Your body, alongside. See your heart rate through a session, and how your sleep and your mood line up with the days you practise.

Ask Siri about your practice and the answer comes from your own sessions.

Made for Apple Watch

Meditate runs on Apple Watch on its own, with your iPhone nowhere near. Start a session, follow your heart rate, write a reflection, check your progress — and keep the Mandala on your watch face, there the moment you raise your wrist.

Start and finish without touching the screen — tap your finger and thumb together twice. The Mandala draws itself while you sit.

The Smart Stack on an Apple Watch, with Meditate showing day 9 and fifteen minutes towards the day’s goal — In the Smart Stack, with the day’s progress.

An analog Apple Watch face with the Mandala set into it as a complication — As a complication on your watch face.

The summary after a session: nine minutes 31 against a seven minute goal, and heart rate of 77 at the start, 78 at the end, 78 average, over the trace for the session — Your heart rate through the session.

Made for iPad

The same practice on a larger canvas. Run a session, watch the Mandala fill the screen, and see today, the month and the long run side by side.

A session running on iPad, a large amber Mandala filling the screen

Session in progress on iPad, a minimal dark screen

Stats on iPad: today, streak, the previous seven days and a monthly calendar

Calendar and chart on iPad, minutes per day with a monthly summary

Always Within Reach

Your practice, wherever you are in the day.

On the nightstand in StandBy, the Mandala keeps the day’s practice in view — and dims to Night Mode after dark.

An iPhone Lock Screen with the Mandala as the wallpaper and a small Meditate widget above it — The Mandala as your Lock Screen.

An iPhone Lock Screen with a running session shown as a Live Activity at seven seconds, and a widget below reading day 8, 20 minutes — A session running, as a Live Activity.

An iPhone Home Screen with Meditate widgets: the Mandala ring showing 20 of 30 minutes today, a list of Timer Presets, and today with the previous seven days — Widgets on the Home Screen: the Mandala, your presets, today.

An extra large iPhone widget showing the Mandala, a timeline of the day and a list of Timer Presets — Or one large one, with the day laid out.

Widgets and the Lock Screen. Start a session or check your progress without opening the app.
Control Center, Shortcuts and Siri. Reach the timer from wherever you already are.
Your history, anywhere. Ask Siri about your practice, or find past sessions with Spotlight, on supported devices.
While it runs. A session in progress stays on your Lock Screen as a Live Activity, so a glance is enough.
iCloud. Timer Presets, meditation history, reflections, goals and streaks stay in sync across every device you use.

Made for Apple Vision Pro

On Apple Vision Pro the practice is not on a screen in front of you. It is the room you are sitting in.

You Are the Centre Waves expand in space as you meditate.
Stillness Tracking The environment darkens as you remain still.
Hand Tracking Energy particles gather over your hands, and a Namaste pose starts and ends the meditation.

Download Meditate

Free to begin, and the reflections stay that way. Premium adds Timer Presets, Insights, Ask Meditate and Apple Health.