Meditation apps count your streak and tell you nothing about whether it worked. Two numbers fix that: how you felt going in, and how you felt coming out, on the same scale. Log the minutes and the kind of practice alongside them and after a month you have something no guided session gives you — which practice moves that gap furthest, and whether the twenty-minute sit is really better than the ten.
Opens Log App and adds this log with example entries. You can clear the examples anytime.
On a computer? Scan this with your phone’s camera to set it up there.
How long, which practice, and how you felt before and after.
Also called a meditation tracker, mindfulness journal, sitting practice log or meditation diary.
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‹Meditation⚙
mindhealth
139min
Sum Minutes · 8 entries
Today
Breath
22 min Minutes · 2/5 Calm before · 4/5 Calm after · 2 Calm gained
Yesterday
Breath
20 min Minutes · 3/5 Calm before · 5/5 Calm after · 2 Calm gained
Sat 24 Oct
Breath
24 min Minutes · 1/5 Calm before · 4/5 Calm after · 3 Calm gained
“Woke up wired about the review. Twenty minutes and it stopped being an emergency.”
Body scan
10 min Minutes · 2/5 Calm before · 5/5 Calm after · 3 Calm gained
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What you’ll track
The Meditation log, out of the box
One entry per session, with the timer and location always available. Add or rename variables any time in log settings.
Variable
Type
Stats shown
Practice
Choice · tracked individually
Own stats per value
Minutes · min
Number
Sum, Avg per week
Calm before
Rating 1–5
Average
Calm after
Rating 1–5
Average
Calm gained
Formula · Calm after − Calm before
Average
Timer
Built in
Total time, per entry duration
Location
Built in
Pin or place, shown on the log map
Notes, photos, sketches, voice memos
Built in
Attached to any entry
139min
Sum Minutes
122min
Avg per week Minutes
2.3
Average Calm before
4.1
Average Calm after
How it works
From install to first entry in a minute
1
Pick “Meditation” during setup
The log is created with the variables above and a few example entries so you can see how it works. Clear them with one tap.
2
Log as you go
Tap plus, fill in what you have, save. Timer, location, notes and photos are there when you want them, hidden when you don’t.
3
Let the stats accumulate
Sum minutes sits on the log card, with the rest one tap away. Set a goal if you want a nudge.
Why this log
Built for the way you actually do it
Before and after on the same scale
Two ratings, five seconds, and the log works out the gap itself as “Calm gained”. Its average is the closest thing to evidence a practice log can give you. It is also what gets you back on the cushion on the mornings you would rather not.
Minutes a week, not days in a row
Set the goal on the sum of minutes rather than the number of sits. A ninety-second sit and a half-hour one stop counting as the same thing, which is the failure mode of every streak-shaped meditation app.
Each practice with its own numbers
Mark "Practice" as tracked individually and breath work, body scan and loving-kindness each get their own average. Most people find one of them does the heavy lifting and two are habits they picked up from a course.
Everything else in the app
Not just a form. A logbook that thinks with you.
The Meditation log is one log among many you can keep. Every one of them gets the same tools.
💡AI analysis
AI reads the pattern for you
Tap the bulb on Meditation and get a plain-language read of your trends, what changed recently, and a suggested next goal, built only from your own entries.
🎯Goals
Goals, streaks and reminders
Set a target like three times a week, watch the rolling progress bar, keep a streak, and get a reminder at the time you actually log. The app learns that time from you.
📅Calendar
A calendar heatmap per log
Every log has its own month view showing which days you logged. Gaps are obvious, consistency is visible, and one tap opens that day's entries.
🔁Rounds
Several practices in one entry
One entry can hold a round per practice, each with its own values, and the stats break them out separately.
📷Attachments
Photos, sketches, voice memos
Attach a photo, draw a quick sketch, or record a voice note on any entry. They stay with that entry and come back on every device you sign in on.
🗺️Map
Every entry on a map
Drop a pin or search for the place. Each log has a map view of everywhere you logged, and saved places open directly in Google Maps.
🔍Search
Search across everything
Find an entry by title, note or value across every log, filter by date or location, and jump straight to it.
🔒Privacy
Yours, offline first
Entries save on your phone first and sync when you sign in. No account needed to start, no feed, no one else sees your data.
Who keeps a meditation log
People a few months past an eight-week course, who have kept the habit and lost the structure that came with it. People who sit because a doctor or a therapist suggested it and want to be able to say something more specific than "it helps, I think". And people who have tried four apps and quit each one when the streak broke, who want a record that does not punish a missed Tuesday.
It suits anyone whose practice is varied. If every sit is the same ten minutes of the same recording, a log tells you little. If some mornings are breath work and some are a body scan at eleven at night because the day went badly, the differences are where the useful information lives.
What a month of sits shows
The before-and-after gap is widest on the worst mornings. In the sample, the sits that started at a one ended at a four; the ones that started at a three moved a single point. That pattern is almost universal and it is worth knowing about yourself, because it reframes the practice from something you do when you are feeling good to something that is most useful when you are not.
Minutes per week is the other number, and it tends to grow on its own once it is visible. Ten minutes becomes fifteen becomes twenty without anybody deciding to, which is a far more reliable way to lengthen a practice than resolving to sit for half an hour and quitting in week two. This is your own record of a habit, nothing more — it is not treatment, and it does not replace talking to someone if things are hard.
Questions
Frequently asked
Is this a guided meditation app?
No. There is no audio and no course. It is a record you keep alongside whatever practice you already do, whether that is an app, a class, or a timer and a cushion.
Does it matter if I miss days?
Not to the log. The goal is minutes a day, so a missed morning is one day short and the next sit starts fresh. There is no run of days on the card, which is deliberate: the streak is the thing people quit over, and it is the least interesting number here.
What do the calm ratings mean?
Whatever you decide, as long as you are consistent. Most people settle on one as agitated and five as genuinely settled. This is your own record of how you felt, not a clinical measure and not a medical device.
Should I log an evening sit separately?
Yes, as its own entry. The before-and-after pair only means something per sit, and a short evening body scan on a bad day is exactly the entry worth being able to find again.
