Your Most Complete Premium Meditation App: Calm
One new original meditation daily.
Music for focus, sleep, relaxation and more.
Sleep stories and classes guided by experts.
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Meditations and features are limited with free version.
Potential difficulty cancelling subscription before free trial is up.
Calm claims to be the number one app for meditation and sleep.
Price: Some guided meditations, unguided meditations, and tracking features are free.
Ability to filter content by what’s new and popular.
Access to in-depth stats, playlists, heart rate monitor and other extra features.
Not as much content available compared to other apps.
Content that was previously free was moved to premium.
Its content stems from ancient Vedic principles, with music also brought to you by Sanskrit experts.
Self-guided courses that run over a period of days.
Customizable meditation timer complete with background sounds/sound effects.
Community groups for every major religion/spiritual preference.
App must run in the background to work properly on some devices.
Overwhelming amount of meditations with limited ways of searching and filtering them.
It offers the most extensive library of meditations entirely for free.
Price: Free with an optional premium version for $9.99 monthly or $59.99 annually.
Extras like music, nature sounds, hypnotherapy, classes and more.
Alarm clock plus morning meditations.
Only one free piece of content per category.
Many reports of glitches (especially with Android devices).
It includes extras like visualizations, hypnotherapy, and a built-inalarm clock.
Learn How to Meditate and Live Mindfully: Headspace
Good quantity and quality of bite-sized meditations.
Learning guides for meditation and mindfulness.
Great interface with helpful animations.
Most of the app’s content is locked behind its premium version.
Buggy with some devices when you attempt to download meditations.
Option for unguided meditation with soothing background sounds.
Extra features like short stories, life coaching, melodic music and gratitude journaling.
Meditations are limited unless you upgrade to premium.
Inability to replay meditations with the free version.
A premium subscription is available for $11.99 monthly or $69.99 annually.
