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Zen Timer · Grow with Orbilla

Focus, and watch something grow.

Zen Timer is a calm focus timer for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Every session you finish helps Orbilla grow, and plants your garden.

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  • Free to start
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  • iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac
  • 12 languages

A day with Orbilla

From the first focus in the morning to a quiet evening, Orbilla keeps time and your garden keeps growing.

How Zen Timer does Pomodoro
  1. Your calm focus buddy. A focus timer that grows a garden. Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn, Orbilla beside it saying hello: Hi, I’m Orbilla. I’ll keep time while you focus.

    Your calm focus buddy A focus timer that grows a garden

  2. Settle into deep focus. Study, read, write or simply breathe. A Deep Focus session counting down over an aurora. Orbilla: Deep focus. I’ll guard the quiet.

    Settle into deep focus Study, read, write or simply breathe

  3. Every session counts. Finish a session and a plant grows. The end of a session: minutes focused, rested, a new plant. Orbilla: We did it. Session complete.

    Every session counts Finish a session and a plant grows

  4. Your garden grows. Your focus, planted on a floating island. The floating garden island, full of plants from finished sessions.

    Your garden grows Your focus, planted on a floating island

  5. Orbilla grows with you. Earn outfits and ranks as you focus. Orbilla’s profile with outfits and its rank. Orbilla: I just became Spark. We grew together.

    Orbilla grows with you Earn outfits and ranks as you focus

  6. Plan a gentle day. Place sessions where your day has room. The Planner: the day with focus sessions placed in free time. Orbilla: Ready when you are. I’ve got the clock.

    Zen PlusPlan a gentle day Place sessions where your day has room

  7. Find your rhythm. See when you focus best. Progress: today’s focus ring and focus by day.

    Find your rhythm See when you focus best

  8. Focus with friends. See who’s focusing, no calls needed. Focus Circles: friends’ focus time this week.

    Zen PlusFocus with friends See who’s focusing, no calls needed

  9. Your focus stays yours. No account · No ads · No tracking. About, its Privacy section: Data Not Collected.

    Your focus stays yours No account · No ads · No tracking

  10. Wind down together. Gentle evening sessions to close the day. Today in the evening with an Evening wind-down session. Orbilla: Settle in. I’ll keep time, you just breathe.

    Wind down together Gentle evening sessions to close the day

Start your day with Orbilla

Made for what you came to do.

Six modes, each with its own scene, timing and colour. Study is free.

A Study session, Chapter four notes: Orbilla above a 24:51 countdown, focus 1 of 4.

Free

Studying

Calm 25-minute rounds and a real break.

Study timer
A Deep Focus session, Write the product brief: a 49:51 countdown under an aurora.

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Deep work

50 minutes of quiet, or Flow, and a planner that finds the hours.

Pomodoro timer
A Workout interval at 00:31, focus 1 of 8: Orbilla on a mountain top at sunset.

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Workouts

Intervals, coached out loud by Orbilla: Chill, Coach or Beast. Personal records, and Apple Health if you want it.

HIIT timer

Zen Plus

Meditation

A quiet place to sit, and a breath to follow.

Meditation timer
A Study session started with Just 5 minutes: Orbilla above 04:52 and the label Just 5 minutes.

Free

Hard to start today?

Tap Just 5 min. It counts on your Lock Screen, Apple Watch and Mac too. Every return to focus counts.

Rank 1 of 8Star CadetWhere Orbilla starts

Orbilla as the app draws it in a Deep Focus session: a rose Orbit Lieutenant with its two rings, over the aurora.
The same Orbilla in the app, in a session. Rose is an Orbit Lieutenant’s colour.

Meet Orbilla. It grows with you.

With you on Today, in every session and in the garden. It speaks every cue, offline, and climbs eight ranks as you finish sessions. Free for everyone.

Sessions finished to reach each rank. Orbilla also grows through five stages as your focus hours add up: Little orb, Spark at 10 hours, Halo at 50, Moonlit at 100 and Radiant at 500.

Everything about Orbilla

A ceremony at every rank

And a card to share, if you like.

Outfits you earn

Leaves grow as you focus: one for every 10 minutes, five for a finished routine, two for a Just 5 and ten for a goal reached. They buy outfits and garden décor. Nothing is bought with money, and nothing is ever lost.

Challenges: Challenges never fail. Miss a day and your progress simply waits. The 7-day starter, then under Workout, 30-day HIIT and 100 rounds in a month, each with its reward.

7-day starter: Free

Challenges never fail

Miss a day and your progress simply waits. Each one brings a reward for Orbilla. The workout challenges come with Zen Plus.

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Your month, growing.

In the Zen Garden, an island for every month and a plant for every routine you finish. Rare plants to discover, and décor to earn: a koi pond, a pagoda, lanterns.

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.
43 plants 27 h 12 m grown The app’s demo month, September, with every décor piece.

16 plants

A month in the app: twelve plants from finished routines, and four rare ones.

A replay of the app’s demo month, in the app’s own drawing. In the app, a plant arrives when a routine ends.

Eight rare plants to discover: Moon orchid, Sun sunflower, Star fern, Cloud bonsai, Aurora tulip, Crystal cactus, Golden lotus and Lantern flower. Orbilla stands on the island, and sleeps there at night.

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Settle into deep focus. Study, read, write or simply breathe. Zen Timer on Mac: a Deep Focus session at 49:51 over the aurora and a ringed planet, and Orbilla beside it: Deep focus. I’ll guard the quiet.
Deep Focus over the aurora, on Mac.

A calm place to do the work.

Painted and living scenes that move while you focus: rain over lavender, mist over mountains, an aurora.

Six soundscapes made for Zen Timer, which you can mix: tanpura, soft rain, ocean, forest, singing bowls and a warm hum. Or your own Apple Music.

Soft Rain and the Mode Scene and Spectrum atmospheres are free. Every other scene and sound comes with Zen Plus. Apple Music needs an Apple Music subscription as well.

The sound picker, Your sound: Tanpura, Soft Rain, Ocean, Forest, Singing Bowls and Warm Hum.

Say what’s ahead. Get a plan.

Plan my day turns a sentence into a day, on your device.

Plan my day: a plan of three parts, Write the brief, Read and Gym, each at a free time today.

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Plan my day

Say or type what is ahead, or ask Siri. Each part becomes a routine at a free time today, around your calendar.

Progress: a ring of the week’s focus, focus by day, and the line You focus best around 8:00 AM.

Free

Progress

Rings, your week, and the time of day you focus best. Rest days never break your rhythm, and shields cover a missed day. Zen Plus adds your history, the heatmap and medals, and Sunday’s letter.

Focus Circles: four friends round Orbilla, who is focusing or resting now, and each one’s focus time this week.

SharePlay: Free

Focus together

Share a session on FaceTime with SharePlay. Focus Circles, with Zen Plus, show who is focusing now and how the week is going.

Study timer

One goal with a finish line and a daily pace is free. More goals, the planner and Locked focus come with Zen Plus.

iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. One plan.

The whole app on each of them. With Zen Plus, your own iCloud keeps them in step.

Zen Timer on Mac: a Deep Focus session, Orbilla above a 49:50 countdown under a painted aurora.
Today on iPad, with a sidebar, the next focus, tasks and the six modes.
Today on iPhone in the Dusk theme: Good evening, with Evening wind-down ready to start.
A Study session on Apple Watch: a 24:52 countdown, round 1 of 4, with a Pause button.
Settle into deep focus. Zen Timer on an unfolded iPhone Duo: a Deep Focus session at 49:50 over the aurora, and Orbilla beside it: Deep focus. I’ll guard the quiet.
Designed for iPhone Duo. Unfolded, Zen Timer opens into two pages.
Zen Timer’s Live Activity on the Lock Screen: Write the product brief, Deep Focus, 48:05 left, with buttons to pause, add 5 minutes and end.
On the Lock Screen: pause, add five minutes or end a focus, without opening the app.
Zen Timer in the Dynamic Island, opened with a long press: Deep Focus, 49:27 left, Orbilla’s line, Focus 1 of 4, with buttons to pause, add 5 minutes and end.
In the Dynamic Island: touch and hold, and the same buttons are there.
Mac
The app in its own window, and a menu bar timer: a calm timer beside your work.
Apple Watch
Quick focus is free: set the minutes with the Digital Crown and feel the haptics.
iPhone
A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts.
iPad
A wider Today with a sidebar, and keyboard shortcuts.

Alarms on silent for the end of a rest and of a session, on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later.

In twelve languages.

The whole app, and Orbilla’s voice too. Slide through Today in each one.

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in English, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

English

Good afternoon

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in German, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Deutsch

Guten Tag

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Hindi, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

हिन्दी

नमस्ते

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Japanese, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

日本語

こんにちは

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Spanish, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Español

Buenas tardes

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Brazilian Portuguese, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Português (Brasil)

Boa tarde

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in French, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Français

Bon après-midi

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Korean, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

한국어

좋은 오후예요

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Simplified Chinese, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

简体中文

下午好

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Italian, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Italiano

Buon pomeriggio

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Dutch, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Nederlands

Goedemiddag

Zen Timer’s Today screen at dawn in Turkish, Orbilla beside it saying hello.

Türkçe

İyi günler

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No account. No ads. No tracking.

Zen Timer has no servers. Your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Privacy policy
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  • ads
  • tracking
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Free to start. Plus when you’re ready.

Free is a whole timer, with the companion and the garden. One plan covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.

  • Free

    $0

    Study mode with Flow, Soft Rain, the Zen Garden, Orbilla’s ranks, Progress, one goal, the 7-day starter, SharePlay, widgets, Shortcuts and Quick focus on Apple Watch.

  • Zen Plus Monthly

    $4.99 /mo

    Billed monthly. First-time subscribers can start with a 1-week free trial.

  • Zen Plus Yearly Best value

    $39.99 /yr

    Billed yearly. First-time subscribers can start with a 1-week free trial.

  • Zen Plus Lifetime

    $99.99 once

    Pay once, yours forever. Not a subscription.

What Zen Plus adds

Today on iPhone in the Dawn theme: Good morning, Write the product brief ready to start, and the six modes.

All six focus modes

Study is free. Zen Plus adds Reading, Journal, Meditation, Deep Focus and Workout.

A Meditation session over Mountain Mist: Orbilla with its eyes closed above the countdown, and the cue Breathe in.

Every scene and sound

Every painted and living scene, and all six soundscapes to mix.

The Planner, Your day: a timeline with routines, free stretches and a Focus here button.

Planner and Plan my day

A timeline of your day beside your Calendar, and Plan my day to fill it from one sentence.

Orbilla’s weekly letter: Hello, friend, a few kind lines about the week, and under it, Written on this device. Nothing leaves it.

History and Sunday’s letter

Your whole history, the heatmap and medals, the view per mode, and a letter from Orbilla each Sunday.

Orbilla’s profile: Orbilla in a flower crown, glasses and a scarf, Orbit Lieutenant, Level 17, with 431 leaves and the Outfits tab.

Wardrobe and décor

Outfits for Orbilla, and décor for your garden: a koi pond, a pagoda, lanterns.

Zen Timer on Apple Watch: Today, 75 of 60 min, and Quick focus, 25 min focus.

iCloud sync and Watch

Your own routines on Apple Watch, and your own iCloud keeps every device in step.

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US prices; the App Store shows your local price. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in your Apple Account settings.
If Zen Plus ends, your routines and history are kept.

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Is Zen Timer free?

Yes. Study mode with Flow, Orbilla’s ranks, Soft Rain, the Zen Garden, Progress, one goal, the 7-day starter challenge, SharePlay on FaceTime, widgets, Shortcuts and Quick focus on Apple Watch are free. Your first session is five minutes in any mode. That is a whole timer with the companion and the garden, not a trial.

What does Zen Plus add?

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, Focus Circles, Locked focus, the other challenges, the wardrobe and décor, iCloud sync and your routines on Apple Watch. In the wardrobe and the garden’s décor, three starter pieces can be bought with leaves by everyone. Nothing in it is ever bought with money. Apple Music in a session needs an Apple Music subscription as well.

Is Zen Timer a Pomodoro timer?

Yes. Pomodoro rounds: focus, then rest, then the next round. Or Flow, which counts up while you keep going; your break is one fifth of your focus.

What if I stop paying?

Your routines and history are kept.

Do I need an account?

No. There is none to make.

What leaves my device?

Nothing goes to us: we run no server. With Zen Plus, iCloud sync keeps your data in your own private iCloud (it is on unless you turn it off). Focus Circles share the name you give yourself, your mode, whether you are focusing or resting, when your session ends and your focus minutes this week with the friends you invite; task names and your schedule are never shared. Plans and letters are written on your device. Apple Health is used only if you turn it on. The privacy policy has the whole list.

Does it work without a connection?

Yes. The timer, Orbilla’s voice, the garden, your history, Plan my day and the weekly letter all run on the device. These need a connection: Apple Music, iCloud sync, Focus Circles and SharePlay, buying or restoring Zen Plus, and the help pages on orbilla.com.

Which devices does it run on?

iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later, and Mac with macOS 15 or later. One plan covers all of them. Alarms that ring on silent need iOS 26, on iPhone and iPad. Focus protection, which keeps other apps closed with Zen Plus, is on iPhone and iPad. On the Mac the app has no Focus protection, Apple Health or alarms on silent.

Is it in my language?

Zen Timer is in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Hindi, Dutch and Turkish.

Does it nag?

No. One tap to begin. No clutter, no nagging, rest built in.

Start with five minutes.

In any mode, ready as soon as you meet Orbilla.

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