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Fact sheet
- Name
- Tapback
- What it is
- A meditation timer for the Apple Watch built around gentle haptic focus reminders
- Platform
- Apple Watch only — runs entirely on the watch, watchOS 26 or later
- Price
- Free, with an optional tip jar. No subscriptions, no accounts, no ads
- Privacy
- No data collected — no analytics, no tracking, no network requests
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish, French and Italian
- Released
- 4th July 2026
- Developer
- Hyper Inc Ltd., a one-person studio in London
- Links
- App Store · Product page · Release post · Privacy policy
In one sentence
Tapback is a free Apple Watch meditation timer that taps your wrist at a rhythm you choose, turning each tap into a quiet cue to notice your mind has wandered and come back to the breath.
In one paragraph
Any timer can tell you when a sit is over — Tapback helps while you’re in it. Gentle haptic taps on the wrist, anywhere from every ten seconds to once a minute (or at the halfway point, thirds or quarters of the sit), act as silent focus reminders: each one is a cue to notice where your attention went and return to the breath. There are no guided voices, no content library, no accounts and no subscriptions — the app is free, collects no data, and saves every session to Apple Health as mindful minutes. It runs entirely on the Apple Watch, made by Hyper Inc Ltd., a one-person studio in London.
Why it exists
Meditation apps have become content businesses — libraries of guided audio behind a subscription. Tapback goes the other way: it borrows the interval bell from traditional silent practice, where a periodic chime marks time and re-anchors attention, and moves it to the wrist as a haptic nobody else can hear. The timer stays out of the way; the taps do the teaching.
Key features
- Gentle haptic taps during the sit, each one a cue to notice the mind has wandered and return to the breath
- Taps on a fixed rhythm (every 10 seconds up to once a minute) or tied to the sit — halfway, thirds or quarters
- Three tap styles, so the reminder cuts through without jolting you
- Rollover mode keeps a session going past the target for open-ended sits
- Every session saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes
- No guided voices, no content library, no streaks — just the timer
Screenshots
Straight off the watch, 422 × 514. All of these are in the zip along with the 1024 px app icon.
Contact
hello@hyperinc.ltd — happy to answer questions or provide anything not covered here.