ZenFriend - Meditate daily.
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health & Fitness | Free | Small-n-Tall GmbH | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This 5 star app helps you to build a meditation habit with guided meditations, a beautiful timer, a worldwide community and a way to keep a record of how much you meditate all in the one place.
ZenFriend is simple, beautiful and easy to use.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY
- "I've tried many meditation apps. This is the only one I've chosen to support with a donation."
- "The log is so wonderful. I love that I can track my sessions and that the app tells me how many days I've gone in a row. It's extra incentive to keep me practicing. Fantastic, simple, and great."
- "This app is simple. Nothing you don't need, no confusing settings and does exactly what it promises really well. Recommend it to all my meditating friends and use it all the time."
- "This is the best app I have found for meditation. One of the key elements in effectiveness of meditation is to do it regularly for a certain duration everyday. I meditate at home, while waking, and in the subway. This app helps me to keep record of my daily meditation time very easily. Great job. Thank you. :-)"
- "Calming design, easy to use. 5 stars!"
- "Easy to use, nothing flashy. The perfect meditating tool."
- "I am an ordained monk and quite frankly, your app rocks!" - Venerable Yao Ma
- "This is my favorite meditation app. The bells have very good sounds. Setting my own timers and intervals if needed is superb. The creators seem to really listen to the users of the users of the app & it shows. The daily reminders to meditate are a lifesaver for me on some days. I highly recommend this app to anyone wanting a nice customizable meditation timer."
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FEATURES
- Guided meditations for beginners and advanced meditators
- Easy, customizable meditation timer with ability to track sessions
- Keep a record of how much you meditate all in the one place
- Log your thoughts after each session
- Soft bells and chimes to start and end your meditation session
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 sounds for your beginning and ending bells
- See detailed stats around the number of sessions and avarage duration
- Add interval bells to customize your sessions
- Save your favourite configuration as Presets for easy access
- If you wish, set a daily or weekly reminder and be gently nudged
- A simple, easy to use app not overloaded with features
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MANIFESTO
- ZenFriend is a global meditation community, to make the world a better place
- Our vision is to build a useful meditation utility for practitioners
- We aspire to build a global community with possibly millions of users, to motivate and inspire one another
- While this app is inspired by Buddhist meditation, it is not a religious app. We support all forms of meditation.
- Our only purpose is to help people on their inner, spiritual path.
- We make our practice visible, and by doing so we inspire others.
- We don't evangelize. We do not aspire to convert anybody. Our practice is an offer, an inspiration. Everybody can decide to engage with this offer or not.
- An app can only be a tool. We are convinced that an app can be an excellent one. However it can never replace actually going the path, which everyone has to do by himself.
- May we learn a new way of living.
- May all beings find inner peace and fulfillment.
- May all beings be free from harm and suffering.
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We're always excited to hear from you!
If you have any feedback, questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected]
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Reviews
Good App, Needs Upgrades
E. Moore
I like the comment and “like” feature, but it’s pointless unless we can actually set up/visit profiles and dialogue. Might be helpful to people who struggle to be able to manually connect with/add to a meditation community they craft among other spiritualists with similar goals.
Pricing.
cardamonc
I really enjoy this app but I feel like its insanely overpriced. Its sort of ironic how Buddhism is all about finding inner peace without materialism and should be open to everyone yet putting a price like the one this app has defeats the purpose. Ill continue to use the app but sadly without all the cool features because I refuse to pay that amount of money for relaxation and tranquility.
Best of bunch
gabbym
I really like the settings and features. It's a pleasure to use. And THE ONE I use consistently.
Habit forming
Vanoodle568
I’m so happy to have found this app. In the past I’ve had a sporadic meditation practice at best. But since downloading ZenFriend about a month ago, I’ve actually been able to establish a daily habit of meditating that has also helped be to be more mindful even in my regular daily tasks. The app is easy to navigate and I like how it includes a timer and a variety of guided meditations. The challenges you can sign up for have also helped keep me motivated. All around great app!
Just beginning, liking it
bmwkite
This is a welcoming, unassuming little chunk of technology that's also quite helpful. I wanted to experiment with meditation at home, and looked at several apps. ZenFriend stood out for its simplicity and clear focus on personal meditation and mindfulness, not other lifestyle parameters (how to be more productive, less stressed, more loving etc etc). The timer is great, bells and all. I'm just a month into it, may move up to the subscription level, if I eventually want those features. I highly recommend ZenFriend.
*BEWARE* Requires a monthly subscription
DipDog3
Without paying for the monthly subscription, this app is no different than the free timer on your iPhone. Even the videos are just stuff they got off YouTube, no original content. Don’t download this app, it is not what it claims to be.
DONT WASTE YOUR TIME
XW425
I have had the premium subscription for a few months. All of a sudden one day the app reverted back to as if I wasn’t a premium member and I was locked out from those privileges. I have been emailing with the support team, but that’s proven to be no help at all. After I told them there must be some type of glitch in their system I have not heard anything back. This WAS my favorite meditation app, but now I am deleting it since no one is going to fix the problem.
Great app
bradleyjc22
I love this app as it keeps me on top of my mediation each day with the reminders. I love how you can set what kind of Bell to end the session without scaring the bejesus out of you with an alarm tone. The only issue I have is that I cannot log any sessions as an error message pops up. Can’t even read the whole thing since I can’t make it bigger. Beside that, great app!
