- Insight Timer Apple Store and Google Play.
The number 1 free meditation app. Guided meditations and talks led by the world’s top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness.
With 10+ new free guided meditations added daily, more meditation is practiced on Insight Timer than anywhere else. Great for both beginners and experienced practitioners.
- 10% Happier: Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics Apple Store and Google Play
APPLE “BEST OF 2018” AWARD-WINNER — Want to sleep better, be more mindful, improve your relationships, and become just about ten percent happier? This is the app for you. Our guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice, and stick with it.
WHAT’S INSIDE:
- – Video and meditation combos that make it fun and straightforward to learn to meditate.
- – A library of 500+ guided meditations on topics ranging from anxiety to parenting to focus, ensuring that you can find exactly the right meditation for the moment.
- – A sleep section filled with relaxing meditations that make it easy to fall (and stay) asleep.
- – Bite-size stories, wisdom, and inspiration that you can listen to while on the go – for those moments when you’re not feeling like meditation but what some mindfulness.
- – New content released weekly to keep meditation from becoming a chore.
- – Quick meditations that fit into your busy life—during your commute, lunch break, etc.
- Mind – Meditation Timer – Free
If you want to start meditating, you need a timer. And staring at a clock is challenging even for the strongest sitters. So, I recommend getting an app to time your sessions.
Of course, there are tons of meditation timers out there. But I love Mind because of its super minimal design.
You move the rainbow colored counter to whatever time you want. Then you tap the button. You hear a little gear cranking sound and small text appears that tells you to relax and focus on your breath.
The lines slowly move to the right giving you a sense of time passing without the mind numbing quality of digital numbers counting down. When the time has expired, a nice soft chime rings 3 times.
[App and write up suggested in Mind Fit Move]
2. Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell – Free
A mindfulness bell is a bell that rings periodically to remind you to be present. I have used them off an on for years. They serve as a great cue to stop and take a breath.
I’ve tried out a few apps with lots of complicated steps, but this app is super simple. You turn it on and set when you want the bells to stop. Then through out your day a bell will ring to remind you to stop and take a few breaths.
The only downside is you have to remember to start it every morning, but that itself can become a good mindfulness practice. Though I’m not in love with this app, I haven’t found anything better. And remembering to practice is one of the biggest challenges there are.
[App and write up suggested in Mind Fit Move]
3. The Mindfulness App–Learn more here
Do you want to find more balance in today’s increasingly stressful existence? Do you think that meditation seems difficult? Try the Mindfulness App. The Mindfulness App is a tool for increasing your awareness in life. It helps you with the most difficult aspect of Mindfulness practice – namely to remember to be mindful.
4. Headspace–Learn more here.
Here at Headspace we’re on a mission to get as many people in the world as possible to take 10 minutes out of their day, to practice a simple and easy-to-learn meditation technique. And if you like the way it makes you feel, then we’d love to show you how to make that a life-long skill.
This is meditation for modern life – simple, scientifically-proven techniques, that you can use every day to experience a healthier and happier mind.
5. Buddhify–learn more here
The urban meditation app for modern life. Featured in lifehacker, the Guardian, The Times (London) and named by the UK’s biggest selling newspaper The Sun as the #1 Health app for busy city workers!
Practical, playful and beautifully-designed, buddhify increases your wellbeing by teaching you mindfulness-based meditation on the go. So whether you’re walking, on the train, at the gym or at home, buddhify trains your mind in a way that works for you.
6. Smiling MInd— iPhone / Android
Free
Smiling Mind is modern meditation for young people. It’s a simple tool that gives a sense of calm, clarity and contentment.
Smiling Mind is a unique web and App-based program developed by a team of psychologists with expertise in youth and adolescent therapy, Mindfulness Meditation and web-based wellness programs. Smiling Mind is a free tool that will assist in improving the lives of young people, and is available online or as a smartphone App.
7. Walking Meditation— Iphone / Android
$1.99
Recommended by the HUFFINGTON POST. Enjoy the benefits of meditation as you walk with the Meditation Oasis® Walking Meditations app. Walking meditation can be just as profound as sitting meditation. It brings the meditative experience into daily activity.
Walking meditation is perfect for those who have trouble sitting still to meditate. For those who enjoy sitting meditations, walking meditation brings a new dimension, helping to bring meditation into every moment of the day.
8. Track Your Happiness – Free
Free
Track Your Happiness is a scientific research project that investigates what makes life worth living.
Using this app, you’ll be able to track your happiness and find out what factors — for you personally — are associated with greater happiness. You’ll also contribute to our scientific understanding of happiness.
9. Mind the Bump – iPhone /Android
Smiling Mind and beyondblue have teamed up to create a Mindfulness Meditation tool to help individuals and couples mentally and emotionally prepare for having a baby and becoming a new parent.
10. Breath to relax – IPhone — Android version
Free!
Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. Breathe2Relax can be used as a stand-alone stress reduction tool, or can be used in tandem with clinical care directed by a healthcare worker.
11. Breathful – Free
Breathful is the key to effective mindfulness training.
Determine whether your mindfulness practice is really paying off by actively tracking each session with Breathful!
Breathful is a useful tool that allows users to engage in ten-minute “sessions” of mindfulness practice. The user gets to actively monitor each session by attaching a number of “distractions” as the session progresses. After the session ends, it is then archived by date and time in the apps session log, along with the number of distractions encountered.
If the user sees their average number of distractions dropping, they will know that the method they’re using for practicing mindfulness is an effective one.
Follow Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World using our new app.
Originally developed for a research programme at Oxford University, the app is available for both Androidand iPhone. It contains all of the meditations from our bestselling book plus other useful features that make following the 8-week programme even easier and more convenient. It will help you to meditate absolutely anywhere, allow you to ‘daisy-chain’ meditations and help you to monitor your progress as you move through the programme. It’s free for the first ten days. If you like it, you can then pay a small fee (just the once). There are no subscriptions, ‘hidden’ on-going charges, or adverts.