Time and journal your meditations with Equanimity

thanks for the tip...I'm going to check out the free version first.

I use Zen Timer. Has a journal and different bells with a countdown timer. Very useful.

Abercrombie outlet, the purpose of using a timer is so you don't find yourself thinking about time as a distraction. If a meditation is going well (on good days!), the experience becomes timeless so to say "You are finished when you are done" doesn't make sense, in my experience. Plus it gives me a set time to put aside the other stuff I need to get done for work - after the ecstasy, the laundry as Jack Kornfield says :-)

It never ceases to amaze me the way people attack iPhone apps they've never tried (or it seems even looked closely at) based on price alone. Every review I come across has the same kinds of comments.

There are numerous good reasons why not every app is $1.99, and why there are certain apps that seem to have a huge amount of development in them (mainly games) that seem cheap for what they are.

The biggest reasons are that a lot of games are produced by well funded studios, have advertising budgets, and can expect to have huge numbers of sales, and productivity apps - e.g. Notepads and Todo Lists are applicable to everyone.

If you look online, you'll find there are physical meditation timers costing more than $100. Why don't people just use a cheap kitchen timer? The answer is that they are well designed for the purpose - someone has taken the time and effort to get the details right. They aren't going to sell millions of them so they have to charge more to recoup their costs.

If you want well designed and developed apps in niche categories (like meditation), you should expect to pay a little more for the better ones, because clearly they aren't going to sell as many copies as the everyday apps and games.

Frankly if it's something you're going to use every day, what's a couple of dollars? It's only too expensive if you don't use it.

Indie developers are only going to make more interesting and specialist apps if they can get paid for them. I wish more folks would support them instead of complaining about price, otherwise we'll end up with an app store with only to-do lists, games and cameras, and the odd gimmick fart app.

I haven't used this app either, but it's pretty obvious that the reviewer has done and thinks it's well designed. We could use more apps like that.

It looks very nice, but $4.99 is not a realistic price when there are far more detailed and far more functional apps (eg. Hipstamatic @ $1.99; Scrabble @ $2.99, etc) selling for far less. There are serious business and productivity applications with dramatically more functionality selling for $1.00 more (eg. Pocket Informant @ $5.99) so how is a price of $4.99 justified for a combined timer and journal?

I think using a timer is defeating one of the precepts of meditation - you are finished when you are done.

I just got a free code from Robin. Now on to sitting I go. Thanks for the post because I found this app thru you guys.

There is a free version of Equanimity which is just the countdown timer and then a second version for $4.99 that includes the journal and stats.

As someone who actually has a copy, I think it's worth pointing out that it's a lot more than 'just a countdown timer'. The journal and tracking features are quite deep and very well designed and provide a lot of encouragement to keep going with your practice.

"Meditation" is an outstanding 99 cent app. Keeps a log of your sitting, has beautiful chimes and interval reminders.

I have never complained about pricing, but $4.99 for a countdown timer?! This is what I would expect to pay for a sophisticated game.

Must be a typo.