Best Meditation App review | Calm, Headspace & more 

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I really like the fact you are so critical about the major apps. A critical eye is needed here and you have it. Subscribed!

I absolutely love the way you approach this review.

watching this video felt like meditation. this entire video is so calm haha!

This was a great overview. Thanks!

I found the introductory course on Calm was fantastic. It was a 30 day course and was a good start.but otherwise I found the same that it was very mainstream. Went with Waking up last year and have loved it. Didn't like the initial price but as you mentioned they reached out to me and gave me a subscription for $49.99 CND. So worth it in the end I think. Love the video btw, excellent work

thank you so much for this

Thanks for your info

Thank you for one of the most honest reviews of Calm! Calm I tried it and it’s definitely overrated. I practice meditation since 1970s before any smartphones or pass were invented. Thank you for the other options but they will not offer anything that I have not practiced yet!

Nice. I started with "The Art of Meditation" by Daniel Goleman. Sam's course does a good job of continuing his work. Because of Insight, I've discovered Jennifer Piercy, Andy Hobson and The Yin Way.

Dude you are awesome. Im becoming more of a fan, every time I hear you talk. great reviews

Waking Up genuinely changed my life, I don't think I would be who I am today without it

Tough issue to tackle because everyone is different and some apps may help this person but not that one. Still, you did an excellent job of objectively covering each one. I did subscribe to Headspace but I swapped it for Waking Up. I enjoy the wide array of series and talks that they offer and the daily is great. I also use the free Insight timer. Thanks again!

Thank you so much for the honest opinion. Kinda meets my thoughts and you're right. These apps focus more on snatching people's money rather than meditation itself. btw you just earned a subscriber!!

I used Calm for a few months and found it very helpful to get started with meditation. Once I got the habit going and started to feel more curious I downloaded Waking Up. I am learning so much from it. I love it!

It was so comfortable to listen! At first I thought it’s just another “millioner-youtuber”, because of the good quality of the sound an the picture and video structure. I was surprised with the amount of subscribers that you actually have, i believe your channel deserves not less than a million subs!! Have a good luck with it🍀🍀🍀 Your videos are really cool and personal, thanks

I’ve been using Headspace for years, but it became overkill for me. Great video, homie. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Great video brother!

Thank you Im gonna trying insight timer for now

Liked to support your channel growth.

Very nice video. Thank you.

I LOVE headspace, it feels friendly and relaxing, I love it. It may not be “proper meditation” but it’s really helped my mental health

I personally like the apps let's meditate RU-vid and insight timer to get my meditations fresh

Great video. I've had the Waking Up app for a while now, but I find myself getting confused too often as to what to do at times, which makes the practice less sustainable for me, and that's for someone who is already understanding and on board with the concepts themselves. I still have a few videos to watch on this channel to understand some things better with that lol. When I meditate by myself (with interval bongs. As in the sound.....), I can just slip into a mode where I'm just noticing things and that replaces all my thinking. With Sam, I'm deep in philosophical thought and riddle-solving lol (I know that's not the intention, but that's what happens, unless I just ignore a lot of things). When I do it solo, my attention isn't on the nature of Self as much, but I think I could intentionally adjust that, and in a more seamless manner. I think I'll primarily go solo, but then I also want the app because there's so much "theory" and "conversations", and there's also a bunch of other teachers who explain things differently, so it's not just Sam (even though I like a lot of his instructions and his voice is fine). It's such a nice and easy resource for learning more. I got the app pretty early when it was like 65 AUD p/year, but I like the lifetime option because I hate subscriptions especially on a service I don't want to use all the time. I'm gonna email them and see if they can do lifetime for like, 200 AUD or something. I know it's free for a year if you email them, but just having lifetime would be nice and I don't mind putting some money towards it. Oh, the free timer on the Insight Timer app actually looks really awesome... I'm going to check that out. The bell on Waking Up is very lacking.

Waking Up changed my life, so glad I discovered it and read Sam's book of the same name.

Thank you

I started with Headspace about 6 years ago and I absolutely liked it, but now it feels rather noisy and overloaded with content. I ended up building my own app Kantan, that is free and tailored to unguided / semi-guided meditation that I practice most often.

great video dude

What about 10% Happier? I have the book but haven't read it yet, have had a quick look at the app, but this was a great video for a beginner like me, so thank you so much and have subbed so I can learn more from you

Dude you are awesome. Im becoming more of a fan, every time I hear you talk. 👍🏻great reviews

Thanks sir

That's the problem I face with Walking Up. Harris can't seem to separate his philosophy from the practice, & as there are too many errors in his philosophy, it feels I'm being forced to think a certain way while I just wanna be left alone to practice meditation. This same problem was the downfall of Headspace, but still most of the sessions in Headspace are just very valuable meditation practices & there's a guided/partial guided timer as well. Anyway, I'm trying Petit BamBou for now.

indeed insight timer can take you to practice and you don't have to pay

At a point in my life where if I can’t finally calm my mind down I’ll lose everything. This year is my last chance to achieve my dream that I’ve been fighting all my life for but for this final step, I need to calm down my high anxiety disorder, the depression and bpd. If I can’t do this I’ll have to kill my lifelong and only dream that I thrive for. I hate throwing these words around but it is what it is. Doing a lot better than I was back in 2017 but yeah I hope meditation helps.

Best meditation is to focus on breathing just as Buddha prescribed ("“Breathing in a long breath, one understands, ‘I am breathing in a long breath.’). It's something that you can do at any time, even while walking or eating. But app creators and modern consumer culture can't capitalize on this simple yet powerful practice, where you don't need any app to meditate at any time. So they make you dependent on an app and earbuds.

an excellent review in approach execution 🙏☺️ thank you!

Insight Timer is Pro !! Truly marvellous !! Nothin like it !! Calm is aesthetically very pleasing...something that one would like to have on Apple devices...Content is great... Headspace is good for hard core meditators with a lotta courses ..but the UI is a turn off ...n tends to bore one a bit ..

It amazes me that more than one of these apps starts with a question: What do you want to focus on today? Of course I'm there to meditate, since it's a meditation app, so I look for "meditation" as a choice. Guess what -- it's not there! There are 5 choices, and none of them are "meditation". AND the screen doesn't allow any other choices, so if you want to use the app for meditation you're FORCED to say that you're interested in something you're NOT interested in! WTF?

It’s really funny how these companies have commercialised meditation with celebrities and in app purchases Meditation has nothing to with voice or calmness It’s a way of controlling your mind(which is almost impossible) but it’s not dead end. No one can control there thought(unless you are guru) but certainly you can divert your thoughts to one one direction for longer period of time

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I would say that the one app that he didn't mention in the video is the best: medito. It was the first app I used for meditation and I really enjoy using it. There is quite a lot of content on it and it's completey free (in the UK at least), and with no ads.

Subbed! I appreciate the honest review. I might give the good ones a try. Could you do one for Balance app or just have a look at it to see how it compares to the good ones? I got the free 1 yr subscription to it and so far it has helped me sleep better and with mindfulness, but I'm not sure if the hefty price is worth to get after the free subscription.

As an Indian I just suggest vipasanna is the way forward for anyone.

I've been having issues worrying about the Free Will lectures on the Waking Up app. I do have OCD so I have a tendency to overthink things. I think I might just be misunderstanding the definition of free will though. Has anybody worried about this and is there any tips to help understand it better. I guess, I feel like I make choices in my life, and have the option between different paths and is he saying that we don't make choices? I feel like we definitely do make choices and I don't think everything is pre determined, but I'm not sure if that is what he is trying to say. Any tips on understanding Sam Harris's free will ideas better?

When I sit down to meditate, the thing I DON'T NEED is a hundred choices and prompts and questions -- and worst of all, one more thing encouraging me to shlump down into pointless "socializing" with strangers. Insight Timer seems like it has become a TikTok imitator, with "teachers" pushing and shoving to get eyeballs and tips. SERIOUSLY?

Which one would be good for helping Focus

would love for you to add reviews of Aura and Breethe as well. also, would love for you to add a review of which one does a better job with sound therapy as a tool for mediation/relaxation/therapy. e.g, i'd love a simple well done guided mediation that slowly dissolves into biaural or theta music to aid in a transformative experience. which of these apps does the best for this? thanks :)

What about the Balance app? I've heard good things about it

Hi brother. I bought the €69 subscription for Calm before I realize what a peace of crap it is. I uninstalled the Crappy Calm App with the subscription from my iphone. I was totally blown up by the Insight Timer. It yields dozens of results from search and makes searching for content a paradise !!!

I started a free trial of waking up. Tried a meditation where the man let out an overly loud cough in the middle of the audio track. He was speaking softly and then the cough nearly blew my ear drums. The orators vary so wildly in skill, but this was by far the worst. Couldn't believe the price tag they were asking with this kind of quality control.

Wish you had reviewed the Balance app.

Meditation don’t need app to do, just sit and close your eyes and watch your breath.

No offense but u mixed up some of the information in this video. U put a picture of the main screen of headspace on screen while reviewing the “waking up app” that u reviewed

Can we use waking up without subscription?

Had anybody try Mindfulness for Apple Watch?

Is there an free app like those ?

headsup you showed headspace GUI and courses when reviewing Waking up. kinda misleading to everyone thats seen this and never used either

As someone who uses Headspace and Waking Up app, I’ve recently discovered something disturbing. While doing a search for Breathwork in the Headspace app, I got this under my results, “how to overcome racism in police brutality. “ How is that type of divisive language even justifiable if your promoting peace? Then you have Sam Harris, who has lost his marbles too now. Always going on social media ranting about politics. I really wish these people would stop with divisive social justice garbage and actually promote a peaceful existence.

I get what you're saying about having too many ads and too much marketing stuff and too many endorsements, but I don't agree with your opinion that these apps should be free and meditation should be free for everyone etc, they are just businesses, and have costs and have gathered resources etc, why would spending time, staff, resources, development and ongoing maintenance and all this and make these apps free for u to use, that's an odd way of looking at it

Dont try 7-Mind, it is Desaster

Mindbreath is an app I’d recommend, been using it for since covid. I can quickly get into a mindful state anywhere. Plus the Hrv nervous system tools are mind-blowing. I have been meditating since years so a app that can help me in between my daily routine to be more mindful rather than teach me meditation is welcome. I’d say give Mindbreath app a try, most functions are free though I have life subscription.

How about Medito... Heard a lot of positive reviews and its completely free with no premium membership either

CE5 contact is funny enough a really good meditation app even though it was primarily made for ET contact

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Mindbreath is an app I’d recommend, been using it for since covid. I can quickly get into a mindful state anywhere. Plus the Hrv nervous system tools are mind-blowing. I have been meditating since years so a app that can help me in between my daily routine to be more mindful rather than teach me meditation is welcome. I’d say give Mindbreath app a try, most functions are free though I have life subscription.