Beautiful, glowing mandalas are at the heart of Apple Design Award finalist Meditate – a simple meditation timer and tracker that’s surprisingly effective at inspiring daily practice.

What we love: It’s all about the mandalas. The elegant designs will grow, bit by bit, every time you meet your meditation goal (such as seven minutes for seven days). The meditation timer is full of thoughtful customisations too: delay the start of each session to give yourself time to settle in, set interval chimes so you’re not tempted to peek and pick just the right timbre for your start and end tone (or opt for a haptic buzz).

Quick tip: To help you stick to your goals, you can make your mandala visible in different spots on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Add it as a Lock Screen or Home Screen widget, place it beside the clock in StandBy mode or set it as your watch face.

Meet the creator: Founder Mithil Jadhav created Meditate “to reflect the beauty of meditation while also enabling users to enjoy its profound benefits through consistent and regular practice”.