Bodhi Timer

A countdown timer for meditation practice with elegant animations and sounds.

About

Bodhi Timer is an elegant, minimalist countdown timer.

It is designed mainly for use as a meditation timer but can easily be used for any similar purpose.

This app is developed as open-source software.

It collects no data and uses the minimal permissions necessary.

How to use

🔷 Set the time via the clock icon in the top left. You may set presets by choosing a time then holding down on one of the three preset buttons.

🔷 Pause / resume via the button in the bottom left, and stop the timer via the button in the bottom right. The top right button is the preference button.

🔷 Animation may be toggled between an image and one of four circle animations, chosen from the preferences screen.

🔷 It uses Android's built-in notification system to trigger the alarm, which means it works even when your device is asleep.

Features

• minimalist full screen UI, no clutter

• displays two animation types: fade in static image (defaults to Bodhi leaf) and animated Zen Enso (brush circle)

• option to use custom image for fade in

• uses scroll and fling gestures to set the time

• set up to three presets on the time chooser

• option for timer auto-restarting

• option to set multiple consecutive timers via the "adv" button

• speech recognition via long-press on clock button (set multiple timers separated by the word "again")

• includes different meditation timer sounds (Burmese bell, Tibetan bell, Tibetan singing bowls, Zen gong, and bird song)

• option to use any ring tone as timer sound

• option to use custom sound file as timer sound

• licensed under the GPL 3+

Credits

• Some code is based on the free and open source TeaTimer by Ralph Gootee.

• The Enso image was drawn by Ryōnen Gensō (1646-1711). Next to the Enso she has written: "When you do understand yourself fully, there is not one thing."

• Singing Bowl Low sound Recorded by juskiddink Licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0