# Samatha

> A companion for TMI practice

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6779424479](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6779424479)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6779424479`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alexis Girard
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-16
- **First published:** 2026-06-16
- **Size:** 7.54 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/samatha/id6779424479)
- **Website:** [https://alexisgirard-it.github.io/samatha-app/](https://alexisgirard-it.github.io/samatha-app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://alexisgirard-it.github.io/samatha-app/privacy.html](https://alexisgirard-it.github.io/samatha-app/privacy.html)

## Description

The only living companion app for The Mind Illuminated. A quiet instrument: sit, check in honestly, see where you are on the path. Free, no ads, no account.

Samatha is a quiet instrument for practitioners of The Mind Illuminated (TMI), the meditation manual by Culadasa (John Yates, PhD).

It is not a content library. It is the tool you reach for twice a day: a sit timer with a hand-tuned singing bowl, an honest check-in, and the traditional ten-stage painting — alive, interactive, and centered on where YOU are.

THE SIT
• Wall-clock timer (survives locks and calls), gentle start and end bowls
• Mindfulness bells: halfway, every 5 minutes, or random — the honest startle test for subtle dullness
• Six-point preparation and four-step transition, straight from the practice
• Your last note to yourself, shown exactly when it helps: before you sit
• Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
• A sit can never be lost — killed app, reboot: everything is restored

THE HONEST STAGE LOGIC
• After each sit, check what you actually experienced — each observation votes
• A sit's lived stage is the median of its votes; in doubt, the lower one
• The app NEVER promotes you. After three consecutive diagnosed sits above your stage, it points you to the book's mastery criteria — you confirm, honestly
• Going back a stage after a pause is one tap. That's not failure, that's practice

THE PATH
• The traditional ten-stage elephant painting, fully interactive
• Every stage: what to practice, what to avoid, the signs you're there, obstacles and graduated antidotes, mastery criteria
• A safety card for destabilizing experiences — because a serious tool carries the book's guardrails, not just its techniques

YOUR JOURNAL
• Every sit, monthly sections, full CSV export anytime
• Automatic, private iCloud backup — your data never touches our servers (there are none)

Free. No ads. No account. No tracking. Independent app, not affiliated with Dharma Treasure or the authors. Original text throughout.

## Rankings

- #2,279,151 — Overall

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