I've practised Transcendental Meditation for nearly 10 years. Every app I tried got in the way.

I've been practising Transcendental Meditation every morning for over 3,600 days. This is not me boasting,  it is simply context for this post.

TM isn't mindfulness. It's not breath-awareness or body scanning or visualisation. It's a specific, silent practice that requires one thing above everything else: a timer and absolutely nothing else getting involved.

For years I tried to make the popular apps work. Headspace was where I started, before I found TM and realised I'd been doing something fundamentally different. After that, I tried Calm, Insight Timer, and a handful of others. They're all well-made products, but for a different type of practice. For TM, they're full of things you have to ignore: guided sessions you don't need, streak notifications that interrupt your transition back, upgrade prompts that surface at exactly the wrong moment.

So I'm building Transcendence, a dedicated TM timer for iOS. It opens straight to the timer. No menus, no choices, no social layer. Your data stays on your device. It's the app I've wanted for a decade and couldn't find.

I'm curious whether there are other TM practitioners here who've felt the same friction, or whether you've found something that actually works for you. And more broadly has anyone found that trying to use a general-purpose tool for a specific practice just simply doesn't fit, no matter how good the tool is?

Looking forward to discussing further.