Mindful – Meditation Timer, Sounds & Breaks

Mindful is a calm space in your browser sidebar — a meditation timer, a library of ambient sounds, mood check-ins and short mindful breaks, for the moments in a workday when you need to step back.

Meditation that fits between things

Open the panel, pick a length, pick a sound, begin. Sessions run from five minutes to an hour, or unlimited if you'd rather sit until you're done rather than until a bell. A gently breathing orb and a running timer keep you company, and a mini player lets the session continue while you go back to browsing.

There's no course to complete, no streak shaming you, and no subscription screen after your third session. It's a timer and an atmosphere, which is what most meditation actually needs.

Sounds with cover art

Rain, ocean waves, white noise, brown noise, campfire, forest birds, singing bowls and lofi ambience — each with its own artwork so choosing one feels like picking a record rather than reading a list. Favourite the ones that work for you and they surface on the home screen for one-tap starting.

All audio is bundled inside the extension, so nothing streams, nothing buffers, and it works completely offline.

A light mood check-in

Five options — stressed, anxious, tired, happy, calm — and no follow-up questions. Tap one and it's logged.

The point isn't diagnosis or data collection; it's the two seconds of noticing. Over a week you get a simple view of how your days have actually felt, which is often quietly informative when you've been telling yourself you're "fine."

Mindful breaks

Sometimes you don't need to meditate — you need thirty seconds where you're not looking at a spreadsheet. Mindful includes short palate-cleansers for exactly that: Snake, Tic-Tac-Toe, Memory Match and Quick Math.

These are deliberately small and finite. The intent is a genuine micro-break, not an app that eats twenty minutes.

Progress, gently

• A daily streak for consistency
• Mindful minutes accumulated
• A progress journey showing how your practice has built up over time
• Weekly mood overview from your check-ins

Themes

Light, dark and an "Unleash" theme, with a serif typeface for headings that makes the whole thing feel less like a productivity dashboard and more like somewhere you'd want to spend five minutes.

Frequently asked questions

I've never meditated. Where do I start?

Five minutes, rain sound, eyes closed, and just notice your breathing. When your mind wanders — it will, constantly, that's not failure — bring attention back to the breath. That's the whole practice. Do that a few times a week and it gets easier.

Is meditation just sitting still doing nothing?

Functionally it's attention training: you practise noticing when your mind has wandered and returning it. The stillness is the setting, not the point. That's also why it transfers to work — noticing you've drifted onto a distraction is the same skill.

How long should sessions be?

Ten minutes is a good target for a regular practice. Five is genuinely enough to be worth doing. Consistency matters far more than length — five minutes daily beats an hour once a fortnight.

Do I have to use the mood tracker?

No, it's entirely optional and skippable. Some people find it useful, others find it intrusive; both are fine.

Why a browser extension rather than a phone app?

Because the stress usually happens at the computer. Reaching for your phone to calm down means picking up the device most engineered to keep you agitated. Staying in the browser and opening a quiet panel avoids that entirely.

Does it work offline?

Yes, completely. All audio is bundled and there are no network requests.

A meditation timer, or a whole mindfulness app?

Used simply, this is a meditation timer: choose a length, choose a sound, sit. No course, no narration, no subscription.

Used fully, it's a small mindfulness app — mood check-ins that build a weekly picture, mindful breaks for when you need thirty seconds away from a screen, a favourites list of sounds, and a streak that tracks the practice over time.

Neither mode requires the other. Plenty of people only ever press start on the timer.

Is guided meditation included?

No — there's no spoken narration. This is a timer with atmosphere, which suits people who already know what to do or prefer silence to someone talking. If you want guided sessions, use this alongside one rather than instead of it.

How long should I meditate as a beginner?

Five minutes. It's long enough to be worth doing and short enough that you'll do it again tomorrow, which matters far more than length.

What if I can't stop thinking?

That's not a failure — noticing that you've drifted and coming back is the actual exercise. Everyone's mind wanders constantly, including people who've practised for years.

Do I have to log my mood?

No, it's entirely optional and skippable. If it feels intrusive, ignore it.

Are the sounds streamed?

No, every sound is bundled in the extension, so it works offline and nothing is requested from any server.

Mindful is a meditation timer with ambient sounds, mood check-ins and short breaks — a quiet corner of a noisy browser.

Private by design

No account, no sign-in, no cloud, no analytics, no ads. Your sessions, mood check-ins, streaks and favourites live in your own browser's local storage and are never transmitted anywhere. Mood data in particular is sensitive, and the honest answer to "what do you do with it" is: nothing, ever, because it never leaves your device.

A note on wellbeing

Mindful is a general wellbeing tool, not therapy or medical treatment, and it makes no health claims. Meditation helps many people with everyday stress, but it isn't a substitute for professional care — if you're dealing with depression, an anxiety disorder, trauma or persistent low mood, please talk to a doctor or therapist. If you're in crisis, contact a local crisis line or emergency services.

Ways people use it during a workday

Before a difficult conversation — five minutes with rain sound and a slow breath does more for how a meeting goes than rehearsing the conversation again.

The 3pm reset — the point where attention has genuinely gone. A ten-minute session is often faster than pushing through for another unproductive hour.

Between context switches — moving from deep work to a completely different project is where a lot of mental residue carries over. A short session in between clears it.

Winding down at the end of the day — particularly if you work from home and there's no commute to mark the boundary between work and evening.

Instead of doomscrolling — the mindful breaks exist for exactly this moment. The urge is usually for a break, not for news; Snake or Memory Match satisfies it in ninety seconds without the emotional cost.

Building a first habit — five minutes, same time each day, favourite sound already set so there's no decision to make. The streak counter and mindful-minutes total are there to give the early weeks something to hold onto, since the benefits themselves take a while to become obvious.