Zen Home - Japanese Meditation
Hiroyuki Sakurai Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Zen Home - Japanese Meditation is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Hiroyuki Sakurai. Rated 4.5/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1.
- Rating
- 4.5
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 48 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jul 20
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Zen Home - Japanese Meditation
Built in Japan by a Zen practitioner. No guiding voice. No program to follow. No goal to achieve. Zen Home is a meditation app rooted in Japanese Zen Buddhism — Soto and Rinzai traditions. While other apps pile on content and guided sessions, Zen Home strips everything away. What remains is what Zen has always been: silence, a bell, and you. THE PRACTICE - Zazen Timer — Set 3 to 60 minutes. A bell marks the beginning and end. Nothing else. - Susokukan — Count your breath from one to ten, then return to one. An ancient practice to anchor the mind. - Posture Guide — Five cards teach you the essentials: how to sit, where to place your hands, where to rest your eyes, how to breathe, and what "just sitting" truly means. DAILY ZEN - Zen Word — A new zen word every day. Each comes with its meaning and reflection. - Koan — A weekly koan from Zen masters. A question that logic cannot answer — holding it is the practice itself. Daily hints deepen your understanding over seven days. YOUR JOURNEY - Stone Garden Calendar — Each day you sit, a stone is placed in your karesansui garden. The empty days are not failures — they are space. - Statistics — Monthly and all-time sessions, total time, and days practiced. Your streak is shown quietly, without pressure. ATMOSPHERE - Three ambient soundscapes: temple morning, rain garden, bamboo grove. - Interval bells to mark the passage of time during longer sits. - Haptic feedback for breath counting. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Most meditation apps add. Zen Home subtracts. No guiding voice. No achievements to unlock. No content to consume. Zen asks for nothing — you sit, and that is all. The practice is the practice. Built in Japan, by someone who sits. ▼Privacy Policy https://zen-home.org/privacy-en ▼Terms of Use https://zen-home.org/terms-en
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated July 20, 2026
An ensō — a circle drawn in a single brushstroke — now quietly accompanies your sitting. Small refinements throughout.
App privacy
The developer, Hiroyuki Sakurai, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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