Singing bowl, temple bell and gong. Interval and halfway chimes, settle-in countdown, ambient sounds, guided breathing. Bells ring on time even in a background tab.
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Pick 5 minutes, leave everything else as it is, press Begin and follow your breath until the bell. That is the whole practice.
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Singing bowl, temple bell, gong, soft chime and wood block. Tap any of them to hear it before you sit, and set the volume separately from the ambient sounds.
A softer bell every 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes, an optional chime at the halfway point, and one or three closing strikes.
Five to thirty quiet seconds between pressing Begin and the opening bell, so you can put the phone down and close your eyes first.
Bells are scheduled on the browser's audio clock, not a JavaScript timer, so they land on the second even when the tab is in the background. The screen stays awake while you sit.
Rain, ocean, forest, stream, wind, crickets and three noise colours, plus an optional 4-7-8 or box-breathing guide inside the ring.
Nothing to download and no sign-up wall. Sounds are generated in your browser, so the timer works offline once loaded, and your settings and streak never leave your device.
There is no correct length. The right one is the one you will repeat tomorrow. Each button below sets the timer and starts it with your current bell settings.
A reset, not a practice: one minute is six to eight slow breaths, enough to drop your shoulders between meetings or before you open a difficult email. Turn the settle-in countdown off and let the closing bell be the whole session.
The habit-building length. Two minutes at the same moment every day — after the kettle goes on, before the first message — is short enough that you never talk yourself out of it. Once you have sat for two minutes thirty days running, add time.
The most common starting point. Five minutes is long enough to notice the mind wander and bring it back several times, which is the actual exercise. A halfway chime helps the first few weeks; drop it once you stop wondering how long is left.
The classic daily sit and the length most beginner courses are built around. Ten minutes gives you a few minutes to settle and a few minutes of real quiet. Try a bell every 5 minutes as a single mid-point anchor.
Enough for a full body scan from feet to crown, or a breath-counting practice that gets past the restless first five minutes. Many people find the second half of a 15-minute sit is where the session actually happens.
The length used by Transcendental Meditation (twice a day) and by a large share of mindfulness studies. Twenty minutes is long enough for the initial restlessness to burn off. A bell every 10 minutes splits it neatly in two.
A standard sitting period in many Zen and Insight groups falls between 25 and 40 minutes. At thirty minutes the gong suits the opening and three closing strikes give the traditional finish. Use the wood block every 10 minutes if you want an unobtrusive posture check.
The formal practice length in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Forty-five minutes is where a 15-minute interval bell earns its place: three quiet blocks, each one a chance to begin again without checking the time.
Retreat-style sitting. An hour benefits from a settle-in countdown, a bell every 20 minutes and a gong at the end. Need longer? Type any duration up to 120 minutes in the custom box.
Every bell is synthesised on your device with the Web Audio API — a handful of tuned partials, the way a real bell rings, rather than a recording. That is why the page has nothing to download, works offline once loaded, and never stutters on a slow connection.
An interval bell is a quieter strike that repeats every few minutes. It is not a stopwatch; it is an anchor. When you notice it, check where your attention is and, without any judgement, come back to the breath. Beginners usually do best with a single halfway chime. Ten-minute sits pair well with a bell at five minutes. For twenty minutes and up, a bell every ten or fifteen minutes divides the session into blocks, each of which is a fresh start. Interval bells go quiet in the final ten seconds so they never collide with the closing bell.
Pressing a button and immediately hearing a bell means the first ten seconds of every session are spent putting the phone down and finding your posture. The settle-in countdown moves that fiddling before the opening bell, so the bell marks the moment you are actually still. Ten seconds is plenty; thirty is nice for longer sits.
Turn on a breathing guide and the ring shows a pulsing dot with the current phase — breathe in, hold, breathe out — so you never have to count. It is most useful for the first few minutes of a session, or on days when the mind will not settle on its own. Switch back to Silent once the breath has slowed.
Popularised by Dr. Andrew Weil and drawn from yogic pranayama: inhale through the nose for 4 counts, hold for 7, exhale slowly through the mouth for 8. The long exhale is what does the work — it nudges the nervous system toward its rest-and-digest state, which is why the pattern is often recommended before sleep or when anxiety spikes. Four rounds is a typical starting dose.
Inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold empty for 4. Also called square or tactical breathing, it is taught to military personnel, first responders and athletes as a way to steady themselves under pressure. The equal sides make it easy to keep going for several minutes, and the pauses give the mind something to do besides race.
One honest limitation: browsers only run while the page is open. On a desktop the bells keep time in a background tab; on a phone, keep this page in the foreground. iPhones in particular pause background web pages, so on iOS leave the tab open with the screen on.
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Pick a length: tap a preset (1 to 60 minutes) or type any duration up to 120 minutes
Choose your bell — singing bowl, temple bell, gong, soft chime or wood block — and tap it to hear it
Optionally add an interval bell (every 1–15 minutes), a halfway chime, and one or three closing strikes
Set a settle-in countdown (5–30 seconds) so you can close your eyes before the opening bell
Add an ambient sound or a guided breathing pattern if you like — or keep it silent
Press Begin (or Space). Press F for fullscreen; the screen stays awake while you sit
When the closing bell rings, jot a one-line reflection if you want — your sessions and streak are saved in this browser
If you are new, start with 5 minutes a day and add a minute or two each week as it starts to feel natural. Ten minutes is the most common daily length; twenty minutes is what many traditions and research studies use; formal mindfulness programs such as MBSR ask for 45 minutes. Sitting every day matters far more than sitting for long, so pick a length you will actually repeat tomorrow.
Five: a Tibetan-style singing bowl, a bright temple bell, a deep gong, a soft chime and a wood block. Each is synthesised in your browser with the Web Audio API, so there is nothing to download and the timer works offline once the page has loaded. Tap any bell to preview it before you begin.
An interval bell is a softer chime that rings every 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes during the session. It is a gentle anchor: when you notice the bell you check whether your attention has drifted and come back to the breath. Beginners often like a single halfway chime; longer sits benefit from a bell every 10 or 15 minutes. You can also finish with one closing strike or the traditional three.
On desktop, yes. Bells are scheduled on the browser's audio clock rather than a JavaScript timer, so they ring on the second even when the tab is in the background or the window is minimised. On phones, keep the page open: the timer requests a wake lock so the screen stays on while you sit. iPhones pause background web pages, so on iOS leave the tab in the foreground.
Yes. The timer runs in any modern mobile browser with no app to install. Turn the volume up, tap Begin, and set the phone face-down. Fullscreen mode hides everything except the countdown and the breathing guide.
It is completely free and there are no ads, no sign-up wall and no time limit on sessions. Your settings, session count and streak are stored in your browser only. loggd.life is a habit tracker; the timer is one of our free tools, and you only need an account if you want to log meditation as a daily habit alongside everything else.
Yes. Leave ambient sounds off and the breathing guide on "Silent", turn the interval bell to None, and you get a quiet countdown with a single bell at the start and one at the end. You can also turn the starting bell off for a completely silent open.
Tap the preset chip for 20, 30 or 60 minutes, or type any number of minutes up to 120 in the custom box. You can also link straight to a length: add ?minutes=20 to the page address and the timer opens preset to 20 minutes.
The settle-in countdown gives you 5 to 30 quiet seconds between pressing Begin and the opening bell. It is enough time to put the phone down, close your eyes and find your posture, so the bell marks the real start of the session rather than the moment you tapped a button.
It keeps a running count of sessions, total minutes and your current daily streak in this browser, and lets you save a one-line reflection after each sit. For streaks that sync across devices, reminders at your sitting time and a full habit history, log meditation as a habit in loggd.life.
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