This FREE meditation app features over 8,000 guided meditations from over 1,700 meditation practitioners. It also features thousands of groups discussing topics “from humor and compassion to spirituality and support”. If you’re looking for options and customization, whether it be timed meditations, guided/unguided mediations and different types of meditations (loving-kindness) — this is the app we’d recommend.
10% Happier – Developed by Dan Harris alongside the well-known teacher, Joseph Goldstein. Unique to this app is a library of video courses. A subscription is required to access the full library. Subscriptions are $11.99/mo on a monthly basis or $ 6.67/mo for the year. I was able to try it free for 30 days and then canceled, which highlighted a great customer experience detailed in this blog post.
Headspace offers a free 10-day Basics pack on the essentials of meditation and mindfulness. For more meditations, you can subscribe, starting at $7.99/month. The subscription offers 1- to 3-min mini sessions, 3- to 10-min single sessions, or 10-session packs (10 to 20-min each). On many of these sessions, you have the option of changing the duration.
Minis or singles range from body scan to at-work presentations, to eating. The packs include health, anxiety, stress, sleep, and work along with performance and productivity, creativity, focus, much more.
A recent update has added an “Animations” tab, offering a library of video animations. “They bring to life everything from essential meditation techniques, to FAQs like Am I Doing It Right?, as well some traditional stories like the DOWNLOAD PDF