Nothing. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases — every feature is open to everyone. A paid tier doesn't exist and isn't coming: Ding was made for a Buddhist Discord community, not to make money.
No. Nothing pops up after the final bell: the completion screen shows your session and stays quiet. Ding never asks for ratings, never sends “come back to your practice”, never celebrates streaks. A notification arrives in exactly one case: if the system unloaded the app mid-session — that's how the final bell gets through.
No, and a content library isn't coming — Ding stays a timer. The only sound is the bells plus, if you want, three background sounds: breathing, noise and shruti (the steady drone of an Indian instrument). Background sounds are enabled per preset and off by default.
The timer keeps time by the clock, not by an app counter: screen off, app in the background — the session runs and the bells ring. They don't interrupt music or a podcast; they sound on top. If the system unloads the app from memory, the final bell arrives as a notification. On iPhone the bells ring even with the silent switch on — their volume follows the music volume, not the ringer; the current level is shown under the ring on the ready screen. On Android a foreground service keeps the session running, with an exact alarm as a backup — no need to adjust battery settings by hand.
No — your streak continues. Insight Timer exports your session log as a file, and Ding reads it: the history becomes real entries, and your streak and total time carry on from where you left off. A step-by-step guide with screenshots — “Import your practice from Insight Timer”.
If the day isn't over yet — no: the streak doesn't die at midnight, it waits all of today for you to sit. It only breaks once a day has ended with no practice at all — then the count starts over. No scolding: Ding sends no pushes about streaks, and after a long break it only says “What matters is that you keep coming back.”
You can always save your history to a file: the Practice menu (three dots) → “Export practice”. It's a plain table (CSV) — it stays yours and stays readable even without Ding itself, and “Import practice” brings it back. When changing phones: on iPhone, statistics and presets arrive by themselves through your personal iCloud; on Android there's no automatic copy — move your history with that same file.
Yes, as long as you're not expecting lessons: Ding doesn't teach meditation — it gives you a timer, bells and silence. There's a built-in two-minute practice to start with; you can try it right on the front page — the ring there is a live timer. And questions about practice itself are welcome on the Discord community.
It's a Discord server around the app itself — for user support, meditation and conversation. It has a daily board of who meditated today and a channel for notes on how a sit went. The server is bilingual — Russian and English halves — and many channels are translated between them automatically: a conversation works even with no shared language. Joining is optional: the timer works without the community, and connecting Discord is only needed for the Together screen.
Discord is a free messenger, like Telegram or WhatsApp, except instead of chats it has community servers. An account takes a couple of minutes: an email and a name. We recommend installing the Discord mobile app on the same phone as Ding — that's where you'll join the community, through an invite link. Hooking it up to Ding is the “Connect Discord” button in Ding itself (the sign-in happens in Discord; Ding never sees your password).
Without Discord — nobody: Ding doesn't know who you are. With Discord connected there's one rule: you see each other only if you share a community and both have checked it in your profiles. Uncheck yours and you're incognito: nobody sees you, and you don't see others. It's a single action in the profile — no need to leave the community.
Without Discord, your statistics and presets live on the device (on iPhone — also in your personal iCloud); the server only receives an anonymous contribution to the shared counter — a “+1” and the session length, with no identifiers of any kind. With Discord connected, the server knows your Discord profile, your community list and your session facts — that's what the Together screen is built from. The “Delete my data” button in the profile erases the server record entirely. The full breakdown is in the privacy policy.
The watch version comes with the iPhone one: after installing on iPhone, open the Watch app — Ding appears among the available apps. On the wrist it's a standalone timer: presets and the theme mirror from the phone, haptics arrive even with the screen off, and sessions land in your shared statistics. No need to bring the phone.
The Android version already works — it's in Google Play closed testing right now, and you can join. After the test the app opens in the store for everyone.