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Meditation elevated

Serenescape

A meditation timer with nothing else in it — on iPhone, and on Apple Vision Pro, where it becomes a breathing orb in the room.

Platforms
iOS 17.6 · visionOS 26.2
Price
Free
Status
On the App Store

Most meditation apps want a relationship with you. They want an account, a subscription, a streak, a daily reminder, a library of guided programs you feel behind on. Serenescape wants three minutes. You set a length, you press begin, and the screen gives you something soft to look at until the time is up.

It’s one app on both platforms. On iPhone that means a full screen of slow color in your hand. On Apple Vision Pro it means the timer stops being a screen at all.

The Serenescape home screen: the app name, a large begin button, and a three-minute duration set at the bottom.

What it does

  • One button, one decision

    Pick a duration and press begin. There is no onboarding, no streak to protect, and no course to enroll in — the whole app is the length of your session and the word begin.

  • A screen worth resting on

    While the timer runs, concentric rings breathe slowly outward in soft color. It gives your eyes somewhere to sit without giving them anything to read.

  • Four moods, no menus

    Relax, energize, refresh, and moonglow — each one repaints the session in its own palette. Pick one on the way in and forget the settings exist.

  • A breathing orb in the room

    On Apple Vision Pro the timer leaves the window: a 3D orb floats in your space and expands and contracts with the breath you're meant to take, labeled inhale and exhale.

  • Ambient sound, optional

    Quiet background audio if the room isn't quiet enough on its own — and silence if it is.

  • A line to sit with

    Sessions end on a short quote about stillness rather than a chime and a summary screen.

  • Widgets on the Home Screen

    Start a session without opening the app, and change the duration from the widget itself.

  • Nothing to sign up for

    No account, no ads, no data collected. Open it, meditate, close it.

On Apple Vision Pro

Version 2.0 added a 3D breathing orb. It sits in your room rather than on a display, swelling and settling at the pace you’re meant to breathe, with a single word — inhale, exhale — underneath it. Look away from the orb and the room is still your room.

A translucent blue orb floating in the middle of a living room, seen through Apple Vision Pro, with the word exhale beneath it.
The breathing orb, mid-exhale

Before a session it’s an ordinary window you can put anywhere, with the four moods listed alongside the begin button.

  • The Serenescape window floating in a living room through Apple Vision Pro, with a cream begin button and a theme list beside it.
    Relax
  • The same floating window with the refresh theme selected, the begin button now blue ringed in pale yellow.
    Refresh

On iPhone

  • A session in progress, with concentric pink rings around a green center and the remaining time below.
    A session, running
  • The same session in a green and pale yellow color theme, rings expanding from the center.
    Another mood
  • A dark screen with a quote: Meditation is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge. — James Allen.
    How a session ends

Privacy, in one line

No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Serenescape runs entirely on your device and collects nothing.

Apple Vision Pro screenshots are captured in the visionOS Simulator. Serenescape is not affiliated with Apple. Apple, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro are trademarks of Apple Inc.