Wuji Incense

Every meditation app wants to optimize you, this one doesn't. A stick of incense on your phone, with optional soundscapes, that burns down as a timer.

Wuji Incense is a small visual timer in the shape of a real ritual. Pick how long you want it to last — anywhere from five minutes to a full hour — and a stick of incense burns down on your screen for that duration, with an optional ambient soundscape playing in the background. When the ember reaches the bottom, a bowl rings, and the session ends.

The app is free, with no subscription, paywall, in-app purchase, or account. There's no analytics, no third-party services, and no server it could send anything to — the app runs entirely on your phone. It isn't free as a marketing hook. It's free because the goal is to put it in front of anyone who could use a few minutes of quiet in their day.

FEATURES · Session lengths from 5 minutes to a full hour · Ten ambient soundscapes — rain, brook, forest, ocean, night, thunder, white noise, and more — or pick silence · Realistic, motion-responsive smoke that reacts to gentle device tilts · Soft start chime and a deeper ending bowl · Tap anywhere mid-session to pause; tap again to resume · Works on iPhone and iPad, portrait orientation · Mixes with audio you're already playing (Spotify, podcasts, Apple Music) instead of interrupting it

Read more at wuji-meditation.com.