Lotus Bud Meditation Timer3.1.0 - App Store

Built to support your practice

Lotus Bud is a meditation timer built for practitioners who want a focused tool that respects the work they do. No content library, social network, music player or other distractions standing between you and the cushion. Just you and the cushion.
FREE FEATURES
. Simple timed or untimed meditation
. Widgets and Live Activities: Start a session directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Track elapsed time throughout your sit with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
°Siri Shortcuts: Start, pause, or end sessions with your voice. Create automations using your meditation data to make regular practice easier to maintain.
. Apple Watch app
. Assistive Access: For those using Assistive Access Lotus Bud offers a dramatically simplified user experience.
PAID FEATURES (one time purchase)
. Custom Meditation Plans: Create structured sessions with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns. Build a sequence that matches your practice, whether you need a simple timer or a detailed progression. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, you can just describe the plan you want to create a new one.
. Insights: Understand how your practice develops over time with streaks, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heat maps. Review your consistency and identify patterns in your sessions.
. Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation time or session frequency. Progress updates help you stay connected to the intentions you set.
. Private logs: Write private notes about your sits, observations, and experiences. Keep your reflections alongside your practice without sharing them publicly. With Apple Intelligence you get tag suggestions that help you categorize your notes.
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I started building Lotus Bud more than fifteen years ago to support my own daily practice. My hope was to create a tool that could support others as they develop a deeper meditation practice.

Meditation has profoundly changed my life for the better, but that change required ongoing effort and focus. I had to do the work myself, and Lotus Bud has helped me stay on track.

Many meditation apps focus on relaxation and stress reduction. Meditation can certainly support both, but it can also become a deeper, long-term practice that fundamentally changes how you relate to the world, your loved ones and yourself. Lotus Bud is designed for people who want to build and understand that practice without unnecessary distractions or dependence on extra content.

I am the sole designer and developer of Lotus Bud. I built it, along with the related Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell app, because I use these tools in my own practice and hope they can benefit others. I aim to make Lotus Bud useful, simple, accessible and beautiful while giving you the space to practice on your own terms.

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Try Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell to support mindfulness throughout the day. It plays randomized bells that invite you to pause and return your attention to the present moment.

Version History Changes in this release
• Added support for iPhone Duo – Optimized layouts for iPhone Duo poses and better iPad layout as well
• Fixed widgets closing unexpectedly – Widgets are more reliable when your device is busy or locked
• Bug fixes – Lots of bug fixes to make everything smoother and more reliable 3.1.0 1d ago Changes in this release
• Refined playback widgets – Home Screen widgets have a updated layout with larger, easier to read text at every size. Start, pause, and resume your meditation right from the widget
• New App Intro – Added an intro to the app on first install, similar to the what's new when the app updates
• Toggle Apple Health – You can now toggle Apple Health access in the app settings and optionally delete all records
• Bug fixes – Lots of bug fixes to make everything smoother and more reliable 3.0.4 Sep 28 Changes in this release
• Large screen refinements – When space allows, your plans appear in a column beside the timer, so you can switch with a tap.
• Bug fixes – Lots of bug fixes to make everything smoother and more reliable.

Recently updated
• Complete redesign! – A beautiful new look with reorganized navigation and a smoother experience from start to finish.
• Widgets & Live Activities – Home screen and lock screen widgets let you start sessions instantly. Live Activity support tracks your session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Shortcuts – Automate your practice with Siri Shortcuts — start, pause, or end sessions with your voice or build powerful automations using your meditation data.

Included with Intention & Reflection purchase
• Insights – Visualize your practice with rich charts and statistics, including streak tracking, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heatmaps.
• Intentions – Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation duration or session frequency, and stay on track with progress updates.
• Custom meditation plans – Build personalized meditation sequences with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns tailored to your practice. 3.0.3 Sep 24 • Complete redesign!: A beautiful new look with reorganized navigation and a smoother experience from start to finish.
• Widgets & Live Activities: Home screen and lock screen widgets let you start sessions instantly. Live Activity support tracks your session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Shortcuts: Automate your practice with Siri Shortcuts — start, pause, or end sessions with your voice or build powerful automations using your meditation data.
• Refined starting bell: The bell start sound now has reduced hiss sound in the background.

Pro Features
• Insights: Visualize your practice with rich charts and statistics, including streak tracking, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heatmaps.
• Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation duration or session frequency, and stay on track with progress updates.
• Custom meditation plans: Build personalized meditation sequences with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns tailored to your practice.

Fixed in this build
• Fixed duplicate meditation plans: The built-in Simple and Infinite plans no longer duplicate when you use the app on more than one device.
• Fixed a case where the meditation didn’t get recorded: When tapping ‘Stop’ instead of ‘Finish in app’, the meditation record might not get saved.
• Clarified language in FAQ: Made the reason the app reads Mindful Minutes from Health clearer in the FAQ 3.0.2 Sep 18 Bugs fixed
• Refined starting bell: The bell start sound now has reduced hiss sound in the background.
• Fixed keyboard obscuring button: When describing a new plan the keyboard could obscure the creation button.

From the previous 3.0.0 Release
• Complete redesign!: A beautiful new look with reorganized navigation and a smoother experience from start to finish.
• Widgets & Live Activities: Home screen and lock screen widgets let you start sessions instantly. Live Activity support tracks your session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Shortcuts: Automate your practice with Siri Shortcuts — start, pause, or end sessions with your voice or build powerful automations using your meditation data.

Pro Features
• Insights: Visualize your practice with rich charts and statistics, including streak tracking, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heatmaps.
• Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation duration or session frequency, and stay on track with progress updates.
• Custom meditation plans: Build personalized meditation sequences with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns tailored to your practice. 3.0.1 Sep 14 Complete redesign! – A beautiful new look with reorganized navigation and a smoother experience from start to finish. Rethought, redesigned and rebuilt from scratch. Not only is Lotus Bud better looking, it works better too. This is the foundation to keep adding values for the next ten years.

FOR EVERYONE
• Widgets & Live Activities – Home screen and lock screen widgets let you start sessions instantly. Live Activity support tracks your session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Shortcuts – Automate your practice with Siri Shortcuts — start, pause, or end sessions with your voice or build powerful automations using your meditation data.
• Assistive Access – For those using Assistive Access offers a dramatically simplified experience.

NEW AND IMPROVED FEATURES
• Insights – Visualize your practice with rich charts and statistics, including streak tracking, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heat maps.
• Intentions – Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation duration or session frequency, and stay on track with progress updates.
• Custom meditation plans – Build personalized meditation sequences with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns tailored to your practice. 3.0.0 Sep 14 This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.

New:
• Dark and tint mode icons

Fixed:
• a crash loading database records 2.12.2 10/29/2024 Added initial support for latest versions of iOS and watchOS

Fixed: an infrequent crash
Updated: some image assets
Fixed: a bug with goals 2.12.1 09/18/2023 New
• Added initial support for iOS 16 and watchOS 9
This is likely the last version of Lotus Bud to support iOS 12 2.12.0 09/10/2022 New
• Added initial support for iOS / iPad OS 15 and watchOS 8

Fixed
• Fixed a crash that could happen while editing meditation history
• Other minor visual bugs

This is likely the last version of Lotus Bud to support iOS 12 2.11.0 09/21/2021 Fixed:
• more state restoration bugs 2.10.3 11/02/2020 Fixed:
• State restoration bug 2.10.2 10/25/2020 Fixed:
• Importing records would set all records creation date to the import date, not the meditation date
• Exporting older records without an identifier would not have a new identifier assigned
• The follow up questions asked after meditation would no be saved because associated records had not been created 2.10.1 09/22/2020 • Initial iOS 14 support 2.10.0 09/16/2020 Fixed:
• The watch app could try to update the UI after entering the background, causing a crash 2.9.14 08/08/2020 Fixed:
• When using the phone to drive mediations on your watch the watch app would crash.
This will likely be the last version to support iOS 12 and watchOS 5 2.9.13 06/09/2020 Fixed:
• An issue where the creation date for a meditation was performed on watch would be set to the date the phone received the session

This will likely be the last version to support iOS 12 and watchOS 5 2.9.12 05/22/2020 Fixed
• When pausing meditation from watch, the duration would be saved as 0 even when you complete the meditation.
• On the watch when the phone is not available, there would be no indication of this on the screen that lets you pick your phone or watch to meditate from. 2.9.11 03/27/2020 Fixed a few bugs:
• The watch would preemptively dismiss the meditation UI even though the meditation was still occurring
• Exporting from the mediation history list would export the old format 2.9.10 02/29/2020 Restored previous accessibility improvements
Fixed:
• When editing meditation sessions some changes would revert
• Various bug fixes 2.9.9 02/24/2020 Bug fixes undoing bug that could prevent you from seeing your meditation history. 2.9.8 02/20/2020 Improved:
• Accessibility improvements
Fixed:
• Launching from complication and canceling countdown can create a negative countdown 2.9.7 02/19/2020 Fixed:
• Meditations performed on watch recorded date it was delivered to the phone instead of the meditation completion date.
• After completing one meditation on watch the until time on the meditation settings page didn't update
• Long meditation durations would not show full time.
• Spiral around meditation didn't adapt it's inner size to different meditation durations.
• In landscape the duration label could go off the top of the screen. 2.9.6 02/14/2020 Fixed a bug that prevented any of the buttons on the settings page from performing their action 2.9.5 02/03/2020 Fixed:
• Notifications from Apple Watch were not producing sound or haptics
• On Apple Watch finishing meditation from notification would sometimes not dismiss meditation view when done
• Mediations created from Apple Watch would not have the correct creation date
• Dark mode was not correctly applied when presenting the post-meditation questionnaire
• Done button sometimes would appear on iPad when viewing meditation session detail

Enhancements:
• When editing a meditation session, changed the "Time" editing tab to "Duration" for clarity
• When editing a meditation session, both date and time are editable for creation date, not just date
• Added confirmation UI for pause/resume 2.9.4 02/01/2020