MEDITATION TIMER · IPHONE · IPAD · MAC · APPLE WATCH
Human Being: Meditation Bells
How to use
Pick how long you want to meditate, from one minute up to almost a full day, and tap Start. Three bells mark the beginning of your meditation and three bells mark the end, so you never need to look at a clock.
If your mind tends to wander, turn on focus reminders. A single soft bell then sounds at random moments during the session, about once a minute by default or as often as you like. Because you cannot predict when it rings, it simply brings you back to the present.
During the session you can choose between two screens:
- Slow Pulse hides the clock completely. The screen slowly fades between black and warm gold, like a calm breath, and stays awake until you finish.
- Timer shows the remaining time in large, quiet numbers and lets the screen turn off as usual. The bells keep ringing even when your phone is locked.
On Apple Watch
The Apple Watch version is a separate app, Human Being: Heart and Bells. It works on its own, without the iPhone app. The bells ring through the watch speaker. If you like, the watch measures your heart rate during the meditation and shows at the end how it changed. The readings stay on your watch and are not saved to Health.
Features
- Three bells to begin and three bells to end your session.
- Any length from 1 minute to 23 hours 59 minutes.
- Focus reminders: single bells at random moments, as many as you like.
- Slow Pulse mode with no clock and a gently breathing gold screen.
- Timer mode with large, easy-to-read remaining time.
- Pause, resume or end at any time.
- Start Meditation action for Shortcuts and Siri – add Set Focus before it to silence notifications.
- Respects Reduce Motion and supports VoiceOver, light and dark mode.
- Works fully offline. One app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Free. No ads. No tracking.
Human Being: Meditation Bells is free. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and it works without an internet connection. Nothing you do in the app ever leaves your device.
Made by an indie developer
Human Being: Meditation Bells is made by Erkko Skantz, an independent developer in Finland. No publisher, no investors, no ads — just a small app made with care, and your ideas help decide what comes next.
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