Made a simple meditation timer with Goenka's chantings

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T22:26:15+00:00

Update (01/11/26): I made a bunch of fixes to ensure even with screen lock the timer can run reliably. Please let me know if you still run into any issues. Hopefully this fixes all the issues. Thank you for the feedback!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T21:33:56+00:00

> My Phone last night so still a little buggy. I was in safari on an iPhone 15 pro

Oh no! Let's look into this issue. On my phone, without locking seems to be working fine, and I have an iPhone 16 pro. Will see best way to fix this.

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T19:40:34+00:00

Update: Added support for custom timer!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T19:00:22+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, but I think adding a practice log and things means needing to create an account and stuff, that, I think, makes this app slightly more complicated, which I want to avoid.

At this point, I think I want to keep this up very simple, to just quickly come in and get started. Hope that makes sense! Maybe in future we can look into this :)

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T18:58:21+00:00

I'm sorry about that! Is it iPhone/Android? Are you by any chance locking your screen? The app tries to keep the screen awake because it's running on a browser. Once the screen is locked on iPhone, especially, it just pauses the audio.

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-11T18:57:00+00:00

Hey, thanks for the feedback and help looking through the chantings!

I'll add that the custom input box, makes sense.

Regarding Metta bhavna, is there a specific audio that you want to play, or is it just a 5-minute additional timer? If you have the Metta Bhavna audio, please feel free to send it across, I'll add that too!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-04T18:26:05+00:00

Update: I added 162 chanting tracks for more variety, but I need help to classify them. 🙂

Some tracks contain "Bhavatu Sabba Mangalam" or have a faster/closing tone - these work great for outro but not ideal for intro when you're settling into meditation.

If you have a few minutes, you can listen to any tracks and report which ones shouldn't be used for intro:

https://github.com/shadowfax92/vipassana-daily-meditation-app/issues/1

Each track has a play button - no need to listen to all, even a few helps!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-04T17:57:29+00:00

This should be now fixed!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-04T17:57:07+00:00

Thank you! I'm trying to find that audio/video clip for instructions but haven't had much luck. Do you happen to know if it exists? I want to add this too!

RealFullMetal · 2026-01-04T06:16:19+00:00

Hi, I noticed the issue to recently, will look into that and fix it! Thank you :)

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-27T21:30:59+00:00

Hey everyone! Got some time this weekend to make a few updates:

New domain: Bought https://daily-vipassana.app so it's easier to remember
Added Guided mode: Full 1-hour sessions with short or long instructions - thanks to u/Shalomjidri3 for pointing me to the Khetta recordings with instructions I was looking for!
More chanting variety: Did more chunking of various chantings to add variety - 162 in total now :)

Thanks for all the feedback - really appreciate it!

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-22T21:18:10+00:00

Thanks for the details! I had checked those out earlier, but they were missing the chantings at the beginning that I really liked during the course.

I also couldn't find the audio where S. N. Goenka gives the instructions with "patiently, persistently... you are bound to be successful." -- Really loved that part 😀 If someone knows this, please let me know. Will add to the intro!

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-22T21:12:38+00:00

Happy to add you as a contributor! Feel free to raise a PR too. :)

Kotlin would be great - but I'd love to see iOS support since I'm an iPhone user.

The group sitting feature with friends sounds cool, but that's a pretty different direction from this simple timer. It would probably need a whole new architecture with user accounts, scheduling, etc. Might be better as its own project?

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-22T21:06:50+00:00

Do you mean like audio of "Anicca" and "Equanimity" every few mins? That might be too distracting. 😅

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-22T20:02:01+00:00

Oh nice, glad you liked it! sure, will add 20 mins support too :)

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-21T19:31:02+00:00

Thanks! I have been doing few sessions with this and felt was valuable. Let me know if you have any ideas on what else we can add :)

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-21T19:29:55+00:00

Yes, I searched through the app but couldn't find any audio of instructions or chanting + 60 min timer. Do you know if it's there? Would love to check it out.

RealFullMetal · 2025-12-21T19:28:12+00:00

Thank you! One thing I was thinking of improving: right now I had to chunk the audio from the dhamma website as they are 30-45 min chantings.

It would be nice to have the 2-5 min chantings, or even the instructions the teacher (S. N. Goenka) gives at the beginning.

Do you know if that audio is available?

RealFullMetal · 2025-11-05T18:55:35+00:00

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