meditation.gripe

How it works

Timer. Pick a length, a bell and a background sound, then press Start. There's an optional countdown to get settled, a bell to start, interval bells if you want them, and a bell at the end. Pause whenever you need to. Space starts and pauses.

Breathe. The circle grows as you breathe in and shrinks as you breathe out. Box breathing is 4 seconds each for in, hold, out and hold. 4-7-8 is in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8. Coherent breathing is 5.5 seconds in and 5.5 out, about five and a half breaths a minute. If your system is set to reduce motion, the circle stays still and changes colour instead.

Guided. Eight short sessions with a line of text every minute or two and plenty of silence between. The words were written for this site. Spoken cues use your device's own voice (speechSynthesis), so nothing is downloaded or sent.

Locked screen. Phones stop live web audio when they lock. With "Keep playing when the screen locks" on, the whole session is rendered into one audio file first, bells included, and played like music, with play and pause on the lock screen. The bells stay on time because they're part of the file. Spoken cues can't play while locked. On a computer the sound is made live and this setting is off by default.

Privacy. No account. Your history and settings stay in this browser, with export, import and delete on the History tab. Nothing you do here is sent anywhere.

Sounds. The bells are synthesized on your device from a model of a struck bowl. Background sounds come from noise.gripe: brown and pink noise and wind are synthesized; rain, stream, ocean and fire are public-domain or CC0 field recordings served from this site (credits below).

This is a timer and a few exercises, nothing medical. It isn't a substitute for treatment; if you're struggling, talk to a doctor or someone you trust.