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A calm focus timer for your iPad.

Zen Timer on iPad is a wider Today with a sidebar, and keyboard shortcuts. Every session you finish helps Orbilla grow, and plants your garden.

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Zen Timer on iPad: a Deep Focus session, Write the product brief, Orbilla above a 49:54 countdown under a painted aurora, with its line Let’s dive in. I’ll keep the world waiting.

Room for your whole day.

Today, the Planner, Insights and the Zen Garden, in a sidebar.

Today on iPad, with a sidebar, the next focus, tasks and the six modes.

A wider Today

Your next focus and one Start, with your tasks and the six modes beside it.

A Deep Focus session on iPad: Orbilla above a 49:54 countdown, focus 1 of 4, under a painted aurora.

A session

Orbilla’s ring over a painted or living scene, across the whole screen.

The Zen Garden on iPad: October’s island with eleven plants and Orbilla on its pond, 11 plants, 11 h 28 m grown, and a count for each kind of plant.

Your garden, large

This month’s island, and a count for each kind of plant.

With a keyboard

Start without lifting your hands.

Four shortcuts, for the things you do most.

Space
Start or pause.
⌘N
A new routine.
⌘P
Plan my day.
⌘1to6
The six modes.

Your garden, with room to look.

A plant for every routine you finish, on an island for each month, and Orbilla climbs its ranks as the sessions add up. The garden and the ranks are free.

Meet Orbilla
A full month in the Zen Garden: September’s island covered in plants, a path of pebbles, a lantern and a birdhouse, and Orbilla on its pond. A full month in the Zen Garden at dusk: September’s island covered in plants, a path of pebbles, a lantern and a birdhouse, and Orbilla on its pond.

Free to start.

Free

  • Study mode with Flow
  • Soft Rain
  • The Zen Garden
  • Orbilla’s ranks
  • Progress
  • One goal
  • The 7-day starter
  • SharePlay
  • Widgets
  • Shortcuts
  • Quick focus on Apple Watch

Zen Plus

  • All six focus modes
  • Every scene and sound
  • The planner and Plan my day
  • Your full history with the heatmap and medals
  • Sunday’s letter
  • The wardrobe and décor
  • iCloud sync
  • Your routines on Apple Watch

Zen Plus is monthly, yearly, or once for life. First-time subscribers can start with a 1-week free trial on Monthly and Yearly.

Plans and prices

About the iPad app.

Everything Zen Timer does is on the Zen Timer page. More answers on Support.

Is the iPad app a separate purchase?

No. One plan covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.

Does it work with a keyboard?

Yes. Space starts or pauses a session, Command-N makes a routine, Command-P opens Plan my day, and Command-1 to 6 choose the six modes.

Do alarms ring when my iPad is on silent?

On iPad with iOS 26 or later, the end of a rest and of a session can ring like an alarm, even on silent.

Can it keep other apps closed while I focus?

With Zen Plus, Focus protection keeps distracting apps closed while you focus. It is on iPhone and iPad.

Do my sessions sync with my iPhone?

With Zen Plus, iCloud sync keeps your devices in step through your own private iCloud. There is no account, and no server of ours.

Which iPads does it run on?

iPads with iPadOS 17 or later.

Your focus, on a bigger screen.

Free to start.

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