Mindfulness Apps
To help you find the perfect one, we’ve rounded up the best, whether you’re a beginner or an expert.
Following its launch in 2010, it has accrued more than 70M members worldwide, and is one of the first meditation apps. The app is a great choice if you want to learn the essentials of meditation and mindfulness, with hundreds of guided meditations on subjects including stress and focus. They also offer bite-sized “mini-meditations”, which are between two and three minutes, to help keep you in the present moment.
Open the calm app and you will immediately be greeted with the gentle sound of the outdoors. We particularly like its guided Daily Calm sessions, which helped us unwind and refocus our attention. The latest version of the app includes a new gratitude check-in feature, which can be used to remind ourselves of the things we are grateful for each day.
Portal is a mindfulness app with a difference. Instead of guided meditations, the app transports, helping you relax with some of nature’s most relaxing sounds. There is a sound to suit everyone – plus you can mix Portal’s audio with other apps to add a little extra ambience to your audiobooks or podcasts.
Voted by TIME magazine as one of the best meditation apps in 2018, Insight Timer shows you how many people are meditating at any one time and, it allows you to see who is nearby and to invite friends to join in with you. The customisable timer feature is perfect for short meditations when on the go and you can even choose whether you want ambient background sounds or ending bells. This is a great app with lots of content and its FREE