After four years of daily mindfulness meditation, my favorite meditation app stopped working. The developer had retired the app years earlier and finally iOS updates had killed its ability to function.

That app was effective because it was so simple: it consisted of a timer, a few simple statistics about the user’s meditation practice, and the ability to customize things like sit time, delay time, reminders, and notes.

Needing a new app to pair with my meditation practice, I set out to see what was on the market.