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Guided meditation is the easiest way for maintaining a daily mindfulness routine. Research suggests that mindfulness includes many benefits, such as easing depression, decreasing anxiety, and reducing blood pressure. We struggle with battling our thoughts throughout the day. By putting in meditation sessions in our day, we can create a simple habit that helps reduce stress and sleep soundly.
Most people struggle to find the time and effort to commit to a regular meditation habit. In-person visits to a meditation studio might be great for some, it may not be the best approach for consistent daily meditation. We've compiled a list of our 10 favorite guided meditation apps to help you get started. Download one in the app store to reap the benefits of meditation.
9. FitMind
Price: $11.99 per month, $84.99 per year (in-app purchase)
FitMind helps you master meditation through daily mental health fitness challenge. It comes with charts and graphs to visualize your progress. It offers scientific explanations about why meditation works.
8. Breethe
Price: $12.95 per month, $89.95 per year, $149.95 for life (in-app purchase)
Breethe teaches how to get stress relief and sleep better in five minutes a day. Breethe is a mindfulness app that provides guided meditation series, inspirational talks, and classes to help you navigate life's challenges and deal with stress management. Breethe comes with relaxing sounds, sleep music playlists, nature sounds that help you get restful sleep.
7. Insight Timer
Price: $9.99 per month, $59.99 per year (in-app purchase)
Insight Timer has guided meditations led by mindfulness experts. App features include music tracks, stats for tracking progress, and ambient sounds to calm the mind, focus, and sleep. With their library of guided meditations and selection of mindfulness practices, you will enjoy meditation relaxation.
6. Unplug Meditation
Price: $19.99 for multi-use (in-app purchase)
Born from the Unplug Meditation Studio, the Unplug meditation app offers over hundreds of guided meditations. The mindfulness and meditation videos range from long to short meditations. Unplug has a unique dashboard to view your days, hours, and minutes spent in meditation practice.
5. Apollo Neuro
Price: Free app, Apollo wearable costs $349
The Apollo wearable looks at your body's response to touch to de-stress. It provides rhythmic waves to give you control over stress when you need it. It works with your body to have a clear focus and better sleep. It doesn't have music and sleep support.
4. Simple Habit
Price: $11.99 per month, $99.99 per year (in-app purchase)
Simple Habit offers wellness & sleep therapy session that helps in guided meditation, daily motivation, and sleep sessions. Commit 5 minutes a day to get less stress, improved focus, better sleep, and easier breathing. They provide guided meditations for specific situations to help your experience.
3. The Breathing App
Price: Free
The Breathing App focuses on the physiological benefits of slow breathes. It helps decrease stress and anxiety, low blood pressure, and improve emotional balance. The Breathing App was developed by Eddie Stern and Deepak Chopra. You can only modify the two settings: length of practice and breathe ratio.
2. Headspace
Price: $12.99/month, $19.99/month (family plan), or $69.99 for an annual plan (in-app purchase)
Headspace was developed by Andy Puddicombe, a Buddhist monk turned entrepreneur. He is an experienced meditator and acts as your meditation teacher when you start the app. Originally an events company, Headspace offers a ton of content around guided meditations to help beginners and experts to become one of the most popular meditation apps. Headspace offers 10 meditation sessions to get you started on your mindfulness journey. Sleep by headspace provides guided sessions to help you fall asleep on time every night.
1. Calm
Price: $14.99 per month, $69.99 per year, $399.99 lifetime subscription (in-app purchase)
Calm offers guided meditation of varying lengths, from 3 to 25-minute sessions. It is designed to help people calm down. It offers a 10-minute program called the Daily Calm, which helps you start or end your day. Calm offers breathing exercises, bedtime stories, and soothing background tracks to help you fall asleep. It's one of the most popular apps on the market. It won the Apple editor's choice award in 2017 and Google Play choice award in 2018.