How to Use Stille for a Ten-Minute Meditation

Stille is a free iPhone meditation app built around a single action: open the app, tap Meditate, and a ten-minute session begins. There is no account, no session catalog, and no duration to choose. You listen to one of three bundled recordings until a soft gong marks the end, then tap Done. It suits anyone who already knows they want ten quiet minutes and doesn't want to browse, sign up, or be guided through spoken instruction.

What you need before starting

• An iPhone with Stille installed.
• No account, signup, or setup step — the app opens straight into the session screen.
• No internet connection required. All three ten-minute sound recordings are bundled in the app, so sessions work offline.

Step-by-step: one session from tap to gong

1. Open the app. There is no login screen and nothing to configure.
2. Tap Meditate. This starts a ten-minute session. You don't pick a length — ten minutes is the only option.
3. Choose how to listen. Pick one of the three bundled recordings. You can watch the water on screen, close your eyes, or lock your screen — playback continues either way.
4. Pause if you need to. Pausing is available at any point during the session.
5. Wait for the gong. A soft gong marks the end of the ten minutes.
6. Tap Done. There is no rating, no mood check-in, and no feeling to submit. The session simply ends and you carry on.

The expected result is a completed ten-minute session with no interaction beyond the initial tap and the final confirmation.

What Stille deliberately leaves out

Stille is an unguided meditation app. Everything needed for a session is inside the app, but that also means some things are absent by design:

If you want instruction or a large library of content, Stille is not built for that. If you want to press one button and begin, it is.

Checking your progress

Stille counts your completed sessions and the hours you've spent in quiet. After your third meditation, a monthly calendar marks each day you meditated, and every extra session on a given day adds a ripple — described as like a stone dropped in still water. A month-by-month list shows how your time adds up.

Two things to note about this history: there are no streaks to protect, and nothing is shared. Your history stays on your iPhone.

Common snags

• Looking for a duration setting. There isn't one. Ten minutes is fixed.
• Expecting guidance mid-session. The recordings are sound only — no voice walking you through the practice.
• Worried about locking your screen. Locking the screen is fine; the session continues.
• Assuming you need to be online. You don't. The recordings are stored in the app.

When this approach fits

Stille fits a specific situation: you already know what you need, and what you need is ten minutes of gentle sound with a clear beginning and end. The whole interaction is open, tap, listen, hear the gong, tap Done. If that matches how you want to meditate, there is nothing further to set up.