The meditation app
that makes it stick.

Otto holds the apps that pull you in until you've meditated, and glows brighter every day you do.

Download on the App Store
Otto the sloth sitting in the meadow, glowing
808's home screen: Otto sitting in a valley, his glow at 60%, a streak, and time meditated

Everyone knows meditation works. The hard part is doing it again tomorrow.

So 808 is built around tomorrow. You pick the apps you open without thinking, and Otto keeps them closed until you've meditated. Each day you do, he gets a little brighter.

Based on researchon habits and attention
Meditate how you likein silence, with sounds, or your own audio

The most powerful tool you have is your mind. It shapes your reality. Taking care of your body is mainstream. Taking care of your mind is not. The way you take care of your mind is through meditation. So we built 808 to make meditation measurable, habitual, and universal.

He glows brighter
every day you meditate.

Miss a few days and he starts to fade. Drag the bar to see how he changes.

Stirring
This is where everyone starts.
Days offEvery day

What keeps you
coming back.

Each part of 808 is there to help you meditate again tomorrow.

Block

Otto holds your apps until you've meditated.

Pick the apps that pull you in and the hours to hold them. When you open one, Otto asks for five minutes first. Once you've meditated, they open again.

Otto's screen when a held app is opened: one breath with me, then decide
Otto's glow

Otto gets brighter as you keep going.

Each day you meditate, he gets a little brighter. Skip a few days and he starts to droop.

Home screen with Otto glowing in the valley
Meditate your way

Meditate the way you already like to.

Set a timer or keep it open. Play rain, a campfire, a tone, or our 25-minute guided journey. If you already have a meditation you like on YouTube or Spotify, start it and begin a session.

The Ready screen with a timer, sound and Do Not Disturb
Rewards

See what each session added up to.

When a session ends you see your minutes, your streak and the points you earned. Points buy hats for Otto.

Session complete: 18 minutes, a 5 day streak and 18 points
Progress

Track your streak and every session.

Your streak, every session you've done and the awards you've earned. One rest day a week won't break a streak.

Profile with streak, sessions, time practiced and a chart of minutes
Apple Watch

With an Apple Watch, see what your body did.

808 draws your heart rate, how still you were and your breathing, and gives the session a score out of 100. Without a Watch, everything else works the same.

A measured session: score 81, heart settled 13 beats, heart rate curve

808 is a wellness tool, not a medical device. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and your measurements never leave your own devices.

Some well-known
people who meditate.

Athletes, investors and entertainers who have talked about it publicly.

“It's like having an anchor. If I don't do it, it feels like I'm constantly chasing the day.”

Kobe Bryant

“Transcendental Meditation has probably been the single most important reason for whatever success I've had.”

Ray Dalio

“Meditation reorders the natural flow of life… Decisions come easily, things fall into place, and there's no conflict.”

Oprah Winfrey

“It helps slow things down so that I can act calmly, even in the face of chaos, like a ninja in a street fight.”

Ray Dalio

Ran mindfulness training through Michael Jordan's and Kobe Bryant's championship years.

Phil Jackson's Bulls and Lakers

Have practiced mindfulness as a team since 2011.

The Seattle Seahawks

All credit a meditation practice.

LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Derek Jeter

Has practiced Transcendental Meditation for roughly forty years.

Jerry Seinfeld

Quoted lines are verbatim and on the record. None of these people endorse 808.

What the
research says.

These are other researchers' studies, not ours. Here is what regular meditation has been shown to do.

Reading and focus+16 points

Two weeks of meditation training moved students 16 percentile points on GRE reading comprehension, in a randomized trial.2

Anxiety and depression3,515 people

Across 47 randomized trials, meditation produced real reductions in anxiety and depression.3

Regular practice280,000

Meditation sessions analyzed. People who meditated regularly improved more, and the length of each session didn't predict it.4

Where these numbers come from
  1. Killingsworth, M. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330(6006), 932. doi:10.1126/science.1192439.
  2. Mrazek, M. D., Franklin, M. S., Phillips, D. T., Baird, B., & Schooler, J. W. (2013). Mindfulness training improves working memory capacity and GRE performance while reducing mind wandering. Psychological Science, 24(5), 776–781. doi:10.1177/0956797612459659.
  3. Goyal, M., et al. (2014). Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(3), 357–368. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018. 47 trials with active controls, 3,515 participants. Moderate evidence, effect sizes around 0.3.
  4. Cearns, M., & Clark, S. R. (2023). The effects of dose, practice habits, and objects of focus on digital meditation effectiveness and adherence. Scientific Reports.

The research above shows that meditation practice helps. It does not show that 808 specifically will do any of this for you, and nothing here is medical advice. No one has studied 808 itself yet.

Meditate
with Otto.

Download on the App Store
Otto at his brightest, floating above the meadow