Revisiting the meditation app
March 29, 2026
In 2014, I wrote a little HTML5 meditation app.
For various reasons, I felt this was a concept worth resurrecting. I gave it some small updates for this iteration:
- Light/dark mode
- Trimmed background hiss on the original sound
- Uses modern web standards: service workers and wake locks
- Remove jQuery/iCanHaz.js dependencies (just uses raw DOM APIs)
No JavaScript build system, no frameworks, no business model, no gamification, no courses. Just a timer. Less than 300k: virtually of that a pleasant bell sound. Free forever at meditation.wrla.ch (and should keep working even if it goes down if you have a copy on your phone).
The only simpler timer is a stick of incense and a book of matches.