Just finalising the last few features for Mantra Timer and looking to start my beta testing in public via Test flight. So far I have about a dozen people who have registered to be a tester.
If you practice meditation, and specifically Transcendental Meditation, I'd love you to be a beta tester. If interested you can sign up at
https://mantratimer.app/#beta-te...
Thanks in advance.
The Inspiration & Problem:
I have been practising Transcendental Meditation daily for over 3,700 consecutive days. After over a decade of practice I simply wanted a clean tool to support my daily practice. Instead, I found a wellness market saturated with bloated apps. The official options required intrusive personal background data, others pushed endless guided programmes, and almost all of them demanded a recurring monthly subscription just to sit in silence.
Mantra Timer was born out of pure frustration. I wanted to build a beautiful, distraction-free timer that treats practitioners with respect—meaning zero data collection and zero notifications shouting for your attention.
How the Product Evolved:
Building a software studio at a slower, "human pace" while managing a chronic illness (ME) forces you to become hyper-intentional.
Ditching the Subscription: I originally planned a standard annual subscription tier. But as the studio's anti-rental philosophy solidified, that felt hypocritical. So I completely changed direction. The core app is entirely free, and additional functionality for established practitioners is unlocked via a single, small one-off payment. Buy it once, own it forever.
I will be hanging out in the comments section and I would love to hear your feedback, your critiques, or your own stories about fighting subscription fatigue!
@codeandsea Really like the philosophy behind this. A simple, distraction-free tool with no unnecessary data collection, and a one-off payment instead of yet another subscription, feels genuinely refreshing.
@ir3ne Thanks I really appreciate your kind response. Like many people I have subscription fatigue and also I found many meditation apps to be so intrusive, and distracting from the key function, the practice of meditation.
PicWish
@codeandsea let's go 🚀
As part of the launch, if Product Hunt community members want to upgrade and unlock the Mantra+ premium features, the following discount code can be redeemed. This code discounts the one-time in app purchase from US$9.99 to US$5.99.
CODE: LAUNCH2026
LINK: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6781308416&code=LAUNCH2026
You can redeem the code using the 'Redeem' option within the 'More' tab in the app or by clicking the above URL from your iPhone.
Eventcal
Like the restraint! Tracking and complexity in wellness apps often just become another thing to manage. This feels much more aligned with the practice itself.
@simon_bengtsson1 Thanks, I totally agree, I believe I've tried most of the mediation timers out there and they just didn't work for me, and that's why I decided to create my own.