GongMeister: Meditation Timer1.2.6 - App Store

GongMeister is a simple and beautiful timer for your silent meditation! With a clean and intuitive design, GongMeister supports your meditation practice.

Set the duration of your meditation with a simple slider. Choose from different singing bowls for start, end, and interval gongs.

The flexible interval gongs can be set as regular intervals or as individual gongs at freely chosen times - perfect for structuring your meditation.

You can also choose from many background images to customize the meditation timer just the way you like.

The adjustable delay gives you time to prepare for your practice before the gong sounds.

Dimming the display reduces distractions and saves battery.

GongMeister is accessible and easy to use - the ideal app for beginners and experienced meditators who prefer to meditate in silence, without all the fluff. Start your meditation with GongMeister today!
Features at a glance:

- Timer from 1 to 60 minutes via slider
- Pause and resume at any time
- 8 different singing bowls for start, end, and interval gongs
- Each gong configurable with its own singing bowl and up to 3 strikes
- Interval gongs: 4 modes - Off, Evenly spaced, Every x minutes, Custom times
- Visual gong timeline shows all gong positions at a glance
- Adjustable start delay (up to 30 seconds)
- Automatic display dimming
- 18 background images in 5 categories
- Your meditation keeps running when you lock your device - control it from the Live Activity and Lock Screen
- Apple Health: mindful minutes are saved automatically (optional)
- Free and ad-free
- No registration, no tracking, no data in the cloud, fully offline

Version History Improvements to Live Activities and more reliable background operation. If you experience an issue, you can now optionally send diagnostic data to the developer. 1.2.6 Sep 24 Adjustments for iOS 27: the settings panel on the start screen is darker and easier to read again. 1.2.5 Sep 17 This update fixes an issue where intermediate gongs in "every X min" mode sometimes didn't sound at the chosen interval. 1.2.4 Aug 30 Your timer now keeps running and the bells keep sounding, even when you lock your device. 1.2.3 Jun 4 - Music from other apps now keeps playing in the background while GongMeister is running. In Settings you can turn background audio off or adjust the gong volume relative to it.
- The app icon now has dedicated variants for iOS dark mode and tinted mode.
- Bug fixes and improvements. 1.2.2 May 26 Bug fixes and improvements.

Also new in this version:

Intermediate gongs completely redesigned:
- 4 modes: Off, Evenly spaced, Every x minutes, Custom times
- Selectable directly on the main screen
- Visual gong timeline shows all gong positions at a glance
- Second-precise timer triggering for accurate gong timing
- Overlapping gongs are now detected and displayed

Apple Health integration:
- Mindful minutes are automatically saved after each meditation (optional)

New design:
- Liquid Glass design for settings, buttons, and more
- Haptic feedback when adjusting meditation duration

Requires iOS 26 or later. 1.2.1 Apr 9 Intermediate gongs completely redesigned:
- 4 modes: Off, Evenly spaced, Every x minutes, Custom times
- Selectable directly on the main screen
- Visual gong timeline shows all gong positions at a glance
- Second-precise timer triggering for accurate gong timing
- Overlapping gongs are now detected and displayed

Apple Health integration:
- Mindful minutes are automatically saved after each meditation (optional)

New design:
- Liquid Glass design for settings, buttons, and more
- Haptic feedback when adjusting meditation duration

Many small improvements and bug fixes.

Requires iOS 26 or later. 1.2.0 Apr 8 Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a rare crash when the display dims automatically during meditation
- Fixed a rare crash when playing gong sounds

Other:
- Unified app name: now "GongMeister" in all languages 1.1.2 Mar 4 Small improvements:

- A loading indicator is now displayed while a thank-you purchase is being processed.
- Text on the Intermediate gong display is no longer cut off. (iPad)
- "Say Thanks" buttons make better use of the screen. (iPad)

Bug fixes:

- Fixed an issue where creating Intermediate gongs with identical settings could lead to unexpected behavior.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during motion detection in focus mode (display dimming). 1.1.1 Feb 20 - Custom interval gongs: In addition to regularly repeating interval gongs (e.g. every 5 minutes), you can now set custom interval gongs at any time. For example, one gong 5 minutes after the start and another one 3 minutes before the end of your meditation.
- Updated design: The app now uses the new iOS 26 design elements.
- Say thank you: You can now support the development of the app by saying thank you with a freely selectable amount.
- Multiple gong strikes: Interval gongs can now be configured with multiple consecutive strikes.
- New gong sound: A new singing bowl sound has been added. 1.1.0 Feb 11 - the interval duration options for multiple start and end gongs have been extended
- 3 new backgrounds on the theme of water have been added
- GongMeister is now called GongMaster 1.0.5 07/20/2023 Fixed minor bugs and added a new background image (grass). 1.0.4 05/09/2023 The app now also works on the Mac. 1.0.3 04/24/2023 1.0.2 04/22/2023