ZenFriend - Breathe & Meditate App Reviews

Beautifully designed in every way. You can tell this came from the heart of the app developer and their own meditation practice.

Love it. It keeps me on track. Look forward to my daily meditation. The open and closing bells are so awesome. Totally recommend it. Thank you.

Terrible customer service. No response after 2 emails sent, as the premium package you pay for does not make a difference. The features dont work, and the guided meditations are very limited, usually with only on speaker, and all can be found for free on YouTube. I suggest getting the free ZenTimer. No extra costs. A huge list of guided meditations. And great features for free.

Motivates me to meditate every day! Love it!

All functions are very practical. It would be nice if the basic can include three woodknock sounds.

I enjoy the ability to customize my meditation sounds: the beginning ending and interval bells. Seeing all the other meditators around the world motivates me to keep going. The fact that the bells are exactly like the real gongs at my meditation retreat makes the experience more fulfilling and keeps me on track. I love the app.

... to maintain my daily meditation practice. A well thought out app thats rich enough to be useful but not bloated with useless features.

時間延長ができたり、それぞれの回にノートをメモできたり、twitterにシェアもできる。Evernoteにもシェアできたらさらにいい。

I was waiting for this app to go live, it is the most helpful, user friendly, sweet and spot on app for people who want to improve their meditation habbits and people who regularly meditate, but need a reminder, start-stop chime, note pad and calendar/list to make the most of their blissful practice. ZenFriend has all these futures and more like creating presets and choosing bells, ring times, etc.! As a lovely bonus, you can add your friends and become meditation friends, share your practices and inspire each other! This was the app I was looking for, Im sure its for you too! Highly recommended. ~Deniz

Best app. thank you!!!

Very nice app for meditation. Works perfectly, i use it as a meditation timer

Excellent tool for your mindfulness sessions.

Been using this app for over a year now. Best meditation timer Ive found so far. The one-time/lifetime sustainer cost is cheap and worth it.

I dont use all the available extras. Just want a simple timer with unobtrusive Bells and functions. Happy so far. Like that it reminds me to mediate.

This app is not just a simple timer. Of note although it is technically free, you only get a free trial with all the services I actually enjoy for 7 days and then you are asked to make a donation. The app impressed me enough in the trial period to pay the 4.99. There are numerous sounds to choose from and you can set so many timers in between (so you give yourself time to get into your breath before following your theme of the day, know the halfway point, and know when you only have 1 minute left so you can come back to the breath...at least that is how I side it). After your done it shows you a beautiful random quote from different gurus of different views (yoga, Buddhist, Zen) and it makes me smile. You can save a note about your meditation and experience and (if you chose to) post it to the private program feed (or not). You can also view other people who have meditated and see if they wrote anything. I kind of like that. I emphasize that you dont have to partake in that part though. Overall, clearly I like it even though I was skeptical at first.

Does exactly what it says it would do. Helps you track meditation sessions and write notes after words. Great app.

Thanks for developing this app - I love it - I cant believe it but it really does help to get me to the cushion!

This app meets the needs I downloaded it for without overloading me with features I wont use...

Updated 2-20-15. This app is wonderful and the makers are so supportive, helpful, and appreciative. Early on I talked about 2 issues I was having with the app suddenly starting to crash when I used it and it having the current string of day Ive meditated vs my best going out of sync. They corrected this :) This is one of those "can I 10-star?" Ive gotten ZenFriend Beta to test out features in advance. It has gotten quite the makeover. Some of the new features and changes, such as "jump to after meditation" I love, while others, such as moving the "Save session" from the bottom of the screen to the upper right, I couldnt hate more. Ive gone into detailed discussion about this with Remo, the apps maker, who, I might mention, is awesome in just about every way. Basically, hes waiting for others to chime in if they also dont like the change. If people are asking for changes willy nilly, the app becomes unusable. We came to a comparison of Chrome and Firefox: Chrome has become like Apple in this one way, having "official apps" that dont interact with anything else, while Firefox is open-source. Firefox, however, does not have the smooth and amazing tab functions that Chrome has. Since that discussion, Ive redownloaded Firefox and am now using both in tandem. Im going to stay with my current version of ZenFriend for now. Until I see the Group Meditation stuff that Remo talked about making at some point, I dont see how I can benefit from further updates. I like the app as it is. No need to change it.

I recently bought this app to track my meditation practice. Ive been meditating daily for about six months and its helped me bring my practice to another level. You can set specific time durations yourself (some apps have limited time increments like 5, 10, 15 min. etc.), reminders & interval bells. It accepts logs for sessions you didnt track--a unique and useful feature. Easy and thoughtful, this app has enabled me to map & manage my entire practice.