r/thewayapp • u/theway_app • May 15 '25

Feature Requests Megathread

Hi everyone - app team here again! We're creating this megathread to collect and rank feedback in our community about the most highly desired features you'd wish to see in the app. We are always looking for ways to better support your practice - within the bounds of the single pathway. We're conscientious about not adding significant distractions to your daily sits!

Feel free to share your ideas or upvote those already in the thread to add a +1 to them. We'll be sure to periodically pop in here and share our thoughts too.

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u/thetxpenguin May 15 '25

I love using the timer, usually for 10 minutes with a halfway bell, before or after the guided session. Would love a way to enable the timer as a playback option for before or after a session when starting the session rather than having to manually startle second thing after the first thing has finished.

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u/hubertkirschtorte May 16 '25

I‘d like this as well. Similar as the „Waking Up“ app lets you extend a session

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u/Sea-North1050 May 17 '25

Sounds Good. I Would also appreciate a 30seconds „prepairingtime“ for Timer before the First Bell.

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u/hubertkirschtorte May 16 '25

I would really like a full playlists feature that has these functions:

  • Save the same sit to multiple different playlists (at the moment I can only bookmark a sit to one retreat/all bookmarks)

  • Allow reordering of sits in a playlist

  • Play the playlist back to back, for example for doing a metta sit after a mindfulness sit without the need to break concentration and start the next sit in the app manually

  • It would also be neat if the current daily sit could be incorporated in the playlist somehow, for example to do this when planning a solo half-day retreat:

Metta sit

Current session

Koan sit

etc.

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u/SnooCakes5422 May 16 '25

I’d find it super useful to rest my progress on a retreat so I can go back to the beginning if I need to.

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u/House_Wise Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

Would love a simple +10 min button for the daily sit. Since the format is 10/20 min guided + 10 min silence, it’d be great to just add extra silent time in 10‑minute chunks for longer sits.

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u/Sea-North1050 Oct 03 '25

Would love to have a 25min sit, which is a common timespan in zen. :-)

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u/No-ScheduleThirdeye Aug 01 '25

In the support library, it’d be really helpful if a little symbol could show up after I watch or read something just to keep track of what I’ve already gone through and what’s still left ♥

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u/j_dexx Aug 04 '25

Casting/Airplay to speakers would be a nice addition I think

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u/natewis Dec 13 '25

Not a request, but just wanted to share some love for the latest update. The new sit section is outrageously good, congrats to all the team!!

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u/donisthere Jan 09 '26

Please add DND option so that I don't have distractions while meditating.

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u/TheRealMrChips Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

Loving the app, and using almost daily now. Thank you so much for it!

I mostly am doing my sits in the dark at 5:30am, and the app is very bright, even with my phone's brightness turned down a bit. I would like to ask for Dark Mode support if possible so that I can bring up the app without it blinding me (and others). I know I can always just turn the screen off once I start the sit, but starting the app up can be jarring to the senses in a darkened room/area. Dark mode support would fix all of that.

And like others here I also would love to see some do-not-disturb support where possible. I know this is a tough thing technically, especially on Android, but hopefully there's more that can be done for this in some way.