The Inspiration & Problem: I have been practising Transcendental Meditation daily for over 3,600 consecutive days. After three decades navigating corporate tech, I simply wanted a clean tool to support my daily practice. Instead, I found a wellness market saturated with bloated apps. The official options required intrusive personal background data, others pushed endless guided programmes, and almost all of them demanded a recurring monthly subscription just to sit in silence. Transcendence was born out of pure frustration. I wanted to build a beautiful, distraction-free timer that treats practitioners with respect—meaning zero data collection and zero notifications shouting for your attention. How the Product Evolved: Building a software studio at a slower, "human pace" while managing a chronic illness (ME) forces you to become hyper-intentional. Because of those creative constraints, our approach to this launch evolved in two massive ways: - Ditching the Subscription: We originally planned a standard annual subscription tier. But as the studio's anti-rental philosophy solidified, that felt hypocritical. We completely changed direction. The core app is entirely free, and advanced metrics for established practitioners are unlocked via a single, small one-off payment. Buy it once, own it forever. - Ditching "Moods": We initially designed a generic mood tracker. But meditators don't just experience basic emotional "moods" after a session; they experience shifts in physical restfulness and mental clarity. We scrapped the emojis and rebuilt the post-meditation log to track how you are genuinely feeling mentally and physically. Transcendence is live because I believe software running locally on your device should be an asset you own, not a utility you rent. I will be hanging out in the comments section and I would love to hear your feedback, your critiques, or your own stories about fighting subscription fatigue!

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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.

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Transcendence

A calm, subscription-free meditation timer.

A calm, subscription-free meditation timer.

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

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