What's new
Ding 1.1.3 for iPhone and Android September 21, 2026
Sign-in
- Fixed a Discord sign-in crash on Android 8–12.
Practice
- Added an API for exporting your practice — learn more.
Additional bells
- A repeating bell can be set to ring a chosen number of times.
Together
- Your profile is easier to find — there is now an arrow next to your name.
- On Android, long community names in your profile wrap to a second line.
Ding 1.1.2 for iPhone and Android September 14, 2026
Practice
- Missed sessions can be added by hand, for one day or several at once, and your streak is restored.
- A wrong entry can be deleted with a swipe.
- On iPhone: a compact time picker and calendar, and long practice names wrap in the history.
After meditation
- Thanks you received show up right on the completion screen.
- You can page through all participants and thank each one.
- More room for long names. On iPhone participants are sorted alphabetically, on Android they get colored avatars with initials.
History and performance
- Exports keep the time zone each session happened in.
- On iPhone, imported history can be removed from the device and iCloud while your own entries stay; history sync between devices is fixed.
- Practice and Together open faster, and on iPhone so does Settings.
- The app no longer asks for microphone access.
- On Android, additional bells are deleted with a swipe, and bells set past the end of the session are fixed.
Ding 1.1.1 for iPhone September 1, 2026
- Saving your practice to a file now uses the standard Insight Timer format, so other apps and services can read it. Partners of shared sessions are written as @Name.
- A session finished on Apple Watch appears in “Together” right away.
- Fixed the “Also meditating at this time” list on the completion screen.
Ding 1.0.0 for Android August 22, 2026
- Accurate timing: the timer holds even if you background the app or lock the screen, and the bells ring even in silent mode.
- Presets: each practice keeps its own name, duration, start and end bell, interval bells, and a short note to yourself.
- Seven bells: woodblock, ding, tingsha, sakya, singing bowls, and gong — real recordings. The number of strikes is set in the preset.
- Background sound: breathing (5.5-second inhale and exhale), noise, or shruti — chosen per preset, it ducks under the bells, with an optional fade-out.
- A pause before you begin: time to settle on the cushion.
- Together: connect Discord and you can see who from your communities is meditating right now, and who sat earlier.
- Shared practice: link a preset with someone from your community — the session counts for both of you, and the invitation arrives on the Together screen.
- Preset sharing: send a link — they open it and add it to their presets.
- Coming from Insight Timer? Your practice imports along with your streak.
- Your practice is saved locally on your phone, and if you use Health Connect, sessions are written there as mindful minutes.
- Widget: your streak on the home screen, a tap opens the app.
- Backup: save your practice to a file and load it back — that's how it moves to a new phone. The file uses the standard Insight Timer format, so other apps and services can read it.
- Four color themes: the background is always black, the color is up to you.
- Interrupted sessions are restored.
The app is in Google Play — free, like the iPhone one.
Ding 1.1.0 for iPhone and Apple Watch August 15, 2026
Apple Watch
- The timer on your wrist, works even without the phone: same presets, vibration instead of bells, sessions count toward your practice and streak. Haptics arrive right on time even with the screen off.
- A “First preset” complication on the watch face starts the preset with one tap.
Sounds
- Three new bells: “Medium bowl”, “Large bowl” and “Gong” — real recordings. The existing bells were remastered and ring longer — the bowls sustain up to 45 seconds.
- Background sound: breathing (5.5-second inhale and exhale), noise, or shruti — chosen per preset, it ducks under the bells, with an optional fade-out.
- The pause between strikes within one bell is now 4 seconds: long rings no longer pile onto each other. The “Blip” sound is gone — presets that used it ring with the “Woodblock”.
- The app got about 6 MB lighter: sounds are stored compressed, with no loss of quality.
Swipe to change time
- The session time changes right on the ready screen: slide your finger up or down, one-minute steps. The preset itself doesn't change.
Bringing your practice over
- Coming from Insight Timer? Your practice imports along with your streak: the Practice menu → “Import practice” — learn more.
- Import and export your practice to a file — a backup and a way to move between phones.
- Sitting on: stayed after the final bell — a counter ticks on the completion screen, and a tap adds it to the session.
- The Practice list shows your whole history; days from past years show the year.
Presets and Together
- Preset sharing: send a link — they open it and add it to their presets.
- Co-practice shows in “Now” from the moment it starts, not after it ends.
- An avatar changed in Discord updates for everyone within a day.
- Before Discord is connected, the Together screen shows a live number: how many times people meditated with Ding over the last seven days.
Misc
- The Amber color theme is now golden yellow; built-in presets pick up a change of the app language.
- Settings → About now has “Rate in the App Store” and “Acknowledgements” (the authors of the recordings the bells are made from). The app itself never asks for a rating.
- The app needs iOS 18 or newer.
- Fixes: the preset list scrolls again when there are more than six; the “breathing” background sound was redone — a calmer tone, with the inhale and exhale chimes exactly in place.
Ding 1.0.0 for iPhone July 30, 2026
- Accurate timing: the timer holds even if you background the app or lock the screen. If the system closes the app, the app will notify you instead.
- Presets: each practice keeps its own name, duration, start and end bell, interval bells, and a short note to yourself.
- A pause before you begin: time to settle on the cushion.
- Your practice is saved locally on your phone, to Health (mindful minutes) and to Calendar.
- Widgets: the streak on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, a tap opens the app.
- Presets and practice history sync through iCloud.
- Four color themes: the background is always black, the color is up to you.
- Protection from accidental touches: a cat or a sleeve won't end your sit.
- Screen dimming: the screen dims a little during a session to save battery.
- Interrupted sessions are restored.