price, Insight Timer is your app. The
tradeoff here is that Insight Timer is an
open platform for seemingly anyone to
post a meditation. It is up to you to
choose wisely. The brilliance of the
open platform is that there are literally
thousands of meditations to choose
from and many of those are extremely
high-quality. A premium version of
Insight Timer allows you to download
your favorites for offline use and the
app also offers premium 10-day courses
ranging from "Learn to Mindfully
Manage Stress and Anxiety" to "Heal
Through the Power of Sound."
The Goodness: The best app around for
a large selection of guided meditations
without the premium design and
handholding.
The Goodness: For guided mediations,
they're beautifully effective for a
combination of ease-of-use and quality.
The Drawbacks: Pricey compared to
other options.
Perfect for you If: You are looking for a
meditation app which provides a
curated, high-quality guided
meditations for adults or children, and
you are not particularly price conscious.
Price for full version - $12.95/mo for
Calm, $12.99/mo For Headspace.
Insight Timer: (https://insighttimer.com/)
If you are a fan of guided mediations,
but don't enjoy paying the premium
The Drawbacks: Requires a bit more
investment of time to get what you are
looking for.
Perfect for you if: You are looking for
high quality guided meditations and
don't mind spending some time
searching for teachers or meditation
guides that suit your tastes and needs.
Insight Timer is entirely free for the
basic version. Premium -- $4.99/mo and
10-day courses are $4.99 each.
Vibe: (https://vibe.me/)
The Vibe app takes a different approach
to mindfully enabling your device. This
app focuses on providing daily
guidance in addition to meditation. The
company has recruited a fairly
impressive group of 'thought leaders' in
mindfulness and spirituality who guide
users with "light touch messaging"
throughout the day. The messaging
includes a daily post, short meditations
and periodic reminders of the daily post
called "Vibes," which pop up a few times
during the day. According to the app's
website, this method of integrating a
single mindfulness principle into your
life each day can have profound effects
on happiness, wellbeing, even quality of
sleep with minimal time commitment
from the user. The app also includes a
basic meditation timer for those who
already know the basics of meditation.
The Goodness: Perspective-changing
daily guidance from thought leaders in
mindfulness and spirituality.
The Drawbacks: It would be great to
see a solid library of guided meditations
with this app. I understand the guided
meditations will be coming soon. In the
meantime, perhaps combine with
Insight Timer for guided meditations.
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