Meditation Apps reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 175 Reddit reviews across 23 subreddits and 42 posts to rank the best Meditation Apps brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/Meditation, r/androidapps, r/OculusQuest, r/aspergirls, r/pregnant. Top-rated brands include Insight Timer (4.7/5), Headspace (3.9/5), Waking Up (4.4/5).
Stats
Reviews175
Subreddits23
Posts42
Brands68
Products4
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#1
Insight Timer
4.7
(38)
"It's definitely not boring! There are thousands of free guided meditations."
"Insite timer."
"Insight Timer has been a huge help for me."
"I use Insight Timer and I’m glad that I do!"
"Insight timer is the only good one, in my opinion."
"Insight Timer and Calm."
"I always recommend insight Timer."
"Downloading Insight Timer now! This sounds like the perfect app :)"
"Thirding Insight Timer!"
"I love Insight Timer ❤️"
#2
Headspace
3.9
(20)
"Headspace is the best among all I've tried."
"And I definitely agree with Headspace."
"Easy to use and they usually run promotions to get people to join."
"I use Headspace and I'm very happy with it."
"Headspace is a good starting point."
"Deep Meditate:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deeprelax.deepmeditation"
"I use Headspace and it works great for me."
"Excellent app and great for beginners."
"No love for Headspace?"
"Headspace is good."
#3
Waking Up
4.4
(15)
"Waking Up. Free if you can’t afford it."
"I use WakingUp strictly for meditation."
"I would second others recommendation for Waking Up."
"Waking Up intro course is great."
"The app has come a long way with a ton of other features, lessons, and guided meditations."
"Waking up changed my life completely."
"Waking Up is quite advanced. Definitely not for beginners."
"So is Waking Up."
"I use Waking Up by Sam Harris."
"It's a paid app, but they will refund you if you don't like it."
#4
Calm
4.5
(14)
"Best Overall: Calm"
"Calm has an amazing 30 day course called How to Meditate by Jeff Warren."
"I love Calm (Tamara Levitt has the best voice of all the guided meditations)."
"My favourite is the Calm app."
"I love Calm. The voice is lovely in the guided meditations."
"The best I've found is calm.com."
"Calm."
"I use calm as it is free through employer . I think it is good."
"Calm app is very good meditation app."
"Calm"
#5
Medito
5.0
(10)
"Medito."
"Medito is good and free."
"Medito seems to be the best for me, simple and straightforward options with no frills."
"Medito this app is ad free and music(calming) if you want and they teach about meditation in sessions."
"Medito"
"Medito"
"Medito"
"Medito is a free one."
"Completely free forever!!! Great content."
"I like Medativo. It lets me write notes about my meditations."
#6
Tripp
4.0
(4)
"I like Tripp and FloatVR. Tripp has a lot of breathing and mindfulness exercises."
"Tripp for a relaxing experience."
"Tripp is pretty good too but that requires a subscription."
"Tripp, Maloka, and guided meditation are my favorites."
#7
Sattva
5.0
(2)
"Sattva app is the best one that I found."
"Love the Sattva app."
#8
Mindfulness Coach
5.0
(2)
"The best one I've tried (completely free btw), is Mindfulness Coach."
"Which was developed by the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs."
#9
BreathIn
5.0
(2)
"They have a super personalized approach, and you can even meditate in your native language."
"It really helped me when my grandma passed away."
#10
10% Happier
5.0
(2)
"I got hooked on meditation from Joseph Goldstein’s courses on 10 Percent."
"10% Happier has an amazing selection of teachers, great teaching videos."
#11
Human Cosmos
5.0
(2)
"I love it so much! Every day it helps me to get rid of stress and anxiety."
"I love it so much!"
#12
Color Breathing VR
5.0
(2)
"Color breathing VR is fire."
"I have been trying color breathing VR though on app lab which has been very good."
#13
Pillow
4.5
(2)
"Paid app, but worth every penny."
"Pillow is really nice."
#14
buddhify
4.5
(2)
"My favourite is buddhify."
"I bought the buddhify app."
#15
Guided Meditation VR
4.0
(2)
"For meditation environments, with or without guided sessions."
"I use guided meditation VR nightly. Nature treks is also nice."
#16
Simple Habit
4.0
(2)
"Simple Habit is a pretty decent one."
"There is a free version so you can test it out."
#17
Balance
4.0
(2)
"Balance is good."
"I use ‘Balance’ - I really like it tbh."
#18
Stop, Breathe, Think
4.0
(2)
"For free, I recommend Stop, Breathe, and Think."
"I've been using Stop, Breathe, Think."
#19
Insight Meditation Center
5.0
(1)
"Their meditations are wonderful and they do a variety of different meditations."
#20
Atom
5.0
(1)
"A free app called Atom: Meditation for Beginners."
#21
Soothing Pod
5.0
(1)
"I've been using Soothing Pod for over a year now. Very user friendly with categories and even sleep sounds."
#22
Black Lotus
5.0
(1)
"Yes, please try the Black Lotus app. This app has a range of highly effective guided meditations."
#23
Mindfulness Meditation
5.0
(1)
"An app with mindfulness meditation audio guides, free, no ads."
#24
Let's Meditate
5.0
(1)
"Let's Meditate is a free app with guided meditations."
#25
Enso
5.0
(1)
"I’ve got over 255 hours in on Enso and I have no plans to switch to anything else."
#26
Ease Guided Meditation
5.0
(1)
"Check out our own 'Ease Guided Meditation' app."
#27
Michael Sealey
5.0
(1)
"I really like to use youtube to find guided meditations."
#28
Mindroid
5.0
(1)
"I have this thing on 20% of my waking day."
#29
Healthy Minds Program
5.0
(1)
"It's 100% free and has basically everything you'd need."
#30
Plum Village
5.0
(1)
"I would recommend either Plum Village which uses Zen."
#31
Dharma Seed
5.0
(1)
"Has about 30K talks and guided meditations."
#32
Brightmind
5.0
(1)
"Brightmind is great and giving away free memberships"
#33
Breethe
5.0
(1)
"Only Breethe has worked for me."
#34
YouTube
5.0
(1)
"This a recent review of my top recommendations"
#35
Tend VR
5.0
(1)
"Tend is especially well done, in my opinion, and makes great use of VR tools in a well-designed and calming virtual environment."
#36
Open
5.0
(1)
"'Open' app is great. Best thing that’s out there."
#37
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
5.0
(1)
"I recommend the esoteric Yoga path. Maybe try *Yoga Sutras of Patanjali*. Yoga will take you where vipassana never touches."
#38
Within
4.0
(1)
"But if you insist, there's one in the 'Within' app."
#39
Altspace
4.0
(1)
"If you sideload altspace, they have scheduled group guided meditation."
#40
ADF
4.0
(1)
"The two powers meditation from ADF."
#41
Guided Tai Chi
4.0
(1)
"There's the *Guided Tai Chi* app, *Nature Treks VR*."
#42
Nature Treks VR
4.0
(1)
"*Nature Treks VR*."
#43
Breathe
4.0
(1)
"There's one called "Breathe" with visual cues."
#44
#selflove
4.0
(1)
"I love one called #selflove. Name is... not great but super cute."
#45
Fit On
4.0
(1)
"I have been using one called fit on. I like it."
#46
Tide
4.0
(1)
"I used Tide for a while and it was quite great."
#47
Yuu
4.0
(1)
"There’s this app called Yuu."
#48
Nature Treks
4.0
(1)
"Nature Treks is definitely calming."
#49
Stop, Breathe & Think
4.0
(1)
"I've found Stop, Breathe & Think to be quite good."
#50
Slumber
4.0
(1)
"They have stories, meditations, and sounds."
#51
Mitness
4.0
(1)
"Mitness works for me"
#52
MyLife
4.0
(1)
"MyLife and Let's Meditate are two of my favorite free guided meditation apps."
#53
Aware
4.0
(1)
"Aware is a great one."
#54
Pause
4.0
(1)
"I really like Pause."
#55
Liminal
4.0
(1)
"Most good ones cost a little money like liminal."
#56
Mindfulness Apps
4.0
(1)
"I recommend using those mindfulness apps!"
#57
Guided Meditation
4.0
(1)
"I would appreciate some guided meditation videos, apps or transcripts."
#58
Expand
4.0
(1)
"I've been enjoying Expand, it's guided and unguided meditations using biurinal"
#59
Hallow
4.0
(1)
"I've heard good things about the Hallow app. It's an explicitly Christian meditation app."
#60
The Way
4.0
(1)
"I quite like 'The Way' app."
#61
Healthy Minds
4.0
(1)
"Healthy Minds program app."
#62
Apple Fitness Plus
4.0
(1)
"I’m really loving the meditations on Apple Fitness + right now."
#63
Nature Trek
4.0
(1)
"Nature Trek"
#64
Built-in App
4.0
(1)
"I really love the built-in app. I'm able to focus a lot better and not have my mind wander with the way the app tunes out the outside world."
#65
YouTube VR
4.0
(1)
"Idk about apps, but I do know YouTube VR has tons of nature videos, maybe you could find one that's long enough and use it for meditation."
#66
Kaleidorium
4.0
(1)
"Kaleidorium is good to zone out to with your own music."
#67
Muse
4.0
(1)
"Check-out the Muse meditation headband as potential alternative or supplement to VR."
#68
Just Relax
3.0
(1)
"I got Just Relax to work on the Quest."
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