The threshold is around complexity of your practice, and you don't need a complex practice to get very far. It just helps if you have specific goals for your pr

The threshold is around complexity of your practice, and you don't need a complex practice to get very far. It just helps if you have specific goals for your practice. What you're doing is totally fine. Insight timer gives you some useful additions like repeating timers or sub-timers with different bells, e.g. if your practice requires changing the style of meditation 20 minutes in, etc. Also, the sounds on Insight timer are Tibetan bells typically used for coming out of meditations, which have a long but diminishing sound so as to bring you back gently.