Meditation timer · iPhone

A quiet place
to meditate.

Ocean Deep is a simple meditation timer. Set a length, settle in, and let a soft bell call you back. No accounts, no noise, nothing watching — just you and the time you keep.

Free · iPhone · Nothing to sign up for

Ocean Deep timer screen — Sit for, hours and minutes, and a Begin button
Why “Ocean Deep”

The mind is like the ocean.

Thoughts and feelings rise and fall like waves on the surface — always moving, never still. But underneath, the water is calm, and vast, and clear. That deep is always there. A sit is simply a way to rest in it.

“Just as waves on the ocean subside again into the ocean, so all thoughts, whatever may arise, dissolve.”
— Dudjom Rinpoche, on the natural liberation of thought · Dzogchen, Tibetan Buddhism

In the Dzogchen teachings, the sea has long been an image for awareness itself — unshaken in its depths, forever moving at the surface. That is the deep the app is named for.

A sit, start to finish

Everything it does,
and nothing it doesn’t.

Setting the meditation length with hours and minutes wheels
i.

Set the length

Two wheels — hours and minutes — and a Begin. It opens right where you left off, so most sits are a single tap.

A warm-up counting down in warm amber before the meditation begins
ii.

Ease in

An optional warm-up counts down in warm sand. When it reaches zero, your meditation quietly begins.

A single calm ring marking the meditation session time
iii.

Rest in the ring

One calm ring holds the time. Tap anywhere to dim the screen, set the phone down, and simply sit.

iv.

Well sat

A soft bell marks the end — then Save session or Discard, right there on the screen. No streaks, no scores — just a quiet “well sat.”

Private by design

Yours, and yours alone.

There are no accounts, no servers, and no analytics — nothing to sign up for and nothing watching. Every session lives on your iPhone. If you allow it, finished sits are written to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes; the app only ever writes, and never reads your health data.

  • No account
  • No servers
  • No analytics
  • No ads
  • On-device only
Read the privacy policy →
The app's About screen — a short hello, the ocean behind the name, and the privacy policy
Quiet by design

Small on purpose.

A handful of things, each done gently — so the app can get out of the way and let you sit.

A gentle bell

The end is marked by a soft chime in the app — or a Time-Sensitive notification if you’ve set the phone down and stepped away.

A warm-up

Ten seconds, thirty, or a minute of amber to settle in before the timer starts — so meditation begins from stillness, at zero.

Apple Health

With your permission, each finished sit is saved as Mindful Minutes. Write-only, never read — and easy to revoke any time.

Look back, gently

A calm record of your practice — this week at a glance, and every sit before it. No pressure to keep a streak going.

Home-screen widget

Put your usual sit on the home screen and begin in one tap — without even opening the app first.

Nothing extra

No courses, no streaks to protect, no library to scroll — not even a settings screen. Open it, sit, close it. That restraint is the point.

Your practice — a weekly overview and a list of past meditation sessions
Your practice

A record you can
let go of.

The Previous tab keeps a quiet history: how this week has gone, and each sit you’ve saved. It’s there if you want it — a gentle mirror, never a scoreboard. Delete any session, or all of them, whenever you like.

Ocean Deep icon

The quiet is
already there.

Ocean Deep is free on the App Store. Set a time, and begin.

Free · iPhone · iOS 17 and later