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Meditation apps.

Installs
139.5M

Across 13 of 14 apps we could match.

Calm has 50% of them.

  • 14 apps
  • 5,796 reviews held
  • 1,915 negative
  • Median $10.9912 of 13 charge. 1 more has no price data.

4 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,915 negative reviews.

Limits & capselevated

3.4% vs 1.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 66
  • Headspace: Sleep & Meditation1star· Aug 26, 2026

    huge sigh — why do i have to pay for everything like even 3 min videos.. like yeah let me get pass this paywall rq while im actively having an anxiety attack…. Why do u hate poor ppl

  • Mesmerize - Visual Meditation1star· Aug 21, 2026

    Another Paywall — You want a review so bad? Here it is. Can’t even get into the app without starting a subscription. And they want a review right off the rip. I can tell you it helped my anxiety go away tho! Now I’m just mad.

  • Calm1star· Aug 16, 2026

    No free options — This might as well be a paid app. Don’t even bother making an account, the entire app is paywalled - front to back. Deleted my account and the app

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall10 of 66

Billingelevated

51.7% vs 30.6% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 990
  • Calm1star· Sep 20, 2026

    Not worth it — The fact there are only a few good sound to help sleep it’s not worth the price. And the ones I like you can’t get with the free version. Just another way to get ripped off and these app company’s scam you out of your money

  • Calm1star· Sep 19, 2026

    No support — Good product , terrible customer service support. Paid for premium could not access no help from the bots .

  • Calm1star· Sep 19, 2026

    No Support — About a week ago I lost access to the Premium content. It said I have no active subscription even though it is paid until April 27. I have reached out to support multiple times. They keep responding that they are too busy to respond. Used to be my favorite app, now I am looking for a good replacement. I have sent several emails to support and have only received an automatic response.

Named problems · 4
  • Trial converted without clear consent125 of 990
  • Price judged too high for the value69 of 990
  • Cancellation blocked or broken30 of 990
  • Charge the user never authorised21 of 990

Supportelevated

10.2% vs 7.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 196
  • Calm1star· Sep 19, 2026

    No support — Good product , terrible customer service support. Paid for premium could not access no help from the bots .

  • Calm1star· Sep 19, 2026

    No Support — About a week ago I lost access to the Premium content. It said I have no active subscription even though it is paid until April 27. I have reached out to support multiple times. They keep responding that they are too busy to respond. Used to be my favorite app, now I am looking for a good replacement. I have sent several emails to support and have only received an automatic response.

  • Calm2star· Sep 18, 2026

    Slowly getting worse — I’m less and less impressed with this app I paid money for. It feels cluttered and used to have a repeat option, now it’s a timer that does not work, so I cannot listen to what I want unless I go back and find the song. I’d like to just contact the company but instead I have to rate them. There is no need to ai this app and we don’t need to be advertised to

UXelevated

6.4% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 122
  • Calm2star· Sep 18, 2026

    Slowly getting worse — I’m less and less impressed with this app I paid money for. It feels cluttered and used to have a repeat option, now it’s a timer that does not work, so I cannot listen to what I want unless I go back and find the song. I’d like to just contact the company but instead I have to rate them. There is no need to ai this app and we don’t need to be advertised to

  • Headspace: Sleep & Meditation2star· Sep 17, 2026

    Good app, too compilciated not intuitive — Very hard to find specific meditations. Can’t go back to find older meditations. Get stuck in the multiple days

  • Calm1star· Sep 15, 2026

    The new update made it hard to use. — Everything is so damn slow now. It’s like when your phone massively overheats and everything is so extremely delayed. It doesn’t show when I swipe out of the app and lock my phone like it used to even though I have the correct settings. This makes me mad because I used to love this app… now it’s a nuisance. Very disappointing.

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,915 negatives
  • Performance219 · 11.4% · 13 apps
  • Login & auth109 · 5.7% · 12 apps
  • Ads94 · 4.9% · 10 apps
  • Sync & data19 · 1.0% · 8 apps
  • Accuracy4 · 0.2% · 2 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

What Apple surfaces for “meditation”

Position in Apple’s suggestions
1510
app free
timer
bell & log
zen bell
time
timer app pro
méditation & respiration
méditation simple
heartcalm
faimi
minimal meditation…
sit
still
walden
010203041
Countries

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after meditation apps, in their order.

Who they're for
sleepkidsanxietypanic attackskids sleepbusy peoplechildrenbeginners
Google
meditation appsmeditation apps freemeditation apps that are actually freemeditation apps redditmeditation apps for sleepmeditation apps ukmeditation apps for kidsmeditation apps india
App Store
free guided meditation app for wellnessmeditationmeditation app freemeditation for sleepthe mindfulness meditation appmeditation for anxietymeditation for kidsmeditation for panic attacks

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “meditation for” and “meditation apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 38 · just a basic one 20 · it used to be simpler 1347
  • Wants it to plug inApple Watch 23

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 14 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-21.

Breethe: Sleep & Meditation is the biggest app here that has stopped shipping. Last update 6 months ago, at 1,269,049 installs.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-21. 13 of 14 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play. Amber marks an app that has not shipped in over 90 days, the 90th percentile across every market we hold.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Aura: Meditation & Sleep, CBT$4.99–$69.99 · 7 tiers35.7% of 115
Balance: Meditation & Sleep$11.99–$69.99 · 6 tiers19% of 58
Mesmerize - Visual Meditation$4.99–$59.99 · 4 tiers15.9% of 291
Breethe: Sleep & Meditation$3.99–$89.99 · 3 tiers15.3% of 104
Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom$19.99–$229.99 · 7 tiers12.1% of 66
Calm$14.99–$79.99 · 6 tiers12% of 266
Happier Meditation$9.99–$99.99 · 6 tiers10.4% of 106
Headspace: Sleep & Meditation$12.99–$94.99 · 6 tiers9.3% of 378
Abide: Bible Prayer Meditation$4.99–$44.99 · 8 tiers9% of 88
InnerNow: Meditation & Joy$14.99–$69.99 · 10 tiers4.2% of 167
Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep$1.99–$99.99 · 8 tiers1.9% of 214
Unplug: Meditation$12.99–$69.99 · 3 tiers0% of 32

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Headspace: Sleep & Meditation

Owns. Massive reach (973,887 ratings), brand name, wide content library

Exposed. 73% negative share — highest anger in category; deceptive trial charges reported repeatedly

Calm

Owns. Largest reach (1,972,169 ratings), ambient audio strength, celebrity narrators

Exposed. Charges $79.99 then denies access; zero in-app support path; ads inside paid tier

Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep

Owns. Free-tier depth, 444,337 ratings, huge teacher library

Exposed. Feature bloat driving longtime users to quit; saved content wiped by updates

Balance: Meditation & Sleep

Owns. Lowest anger (14% negative), personalization angle, 120,145 ratings

Exposed. Lifetime membership delivers no more than free tier; instant-refund rejections

InnerNow: Meditation & Joy

Owns. Described as 'life changing' content, 10 IAP tiers up to $69.99

Exposed. 46% negative; rebrand caused lockouts; purchased meditations disappear; support silent

Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom

Owns. Lowest anger (15% negative), intellectual depth, premium ceiling $229.99

Exposed. Content perceived overpriced post-intro; founder controversy accelerates churn

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new meditation app?

14 apps compete here. They hold 139,483,216 installs on Google Play, counted across the 13 we could match. We hold 5,796 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do meditation apps charge?

12 of the 13 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $10.99 or less. 1 more app has no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a meditation app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing meditation completes to “meditation timer app pro” in 36 of them. Then “méditation & respiration: yuki” in 34, “méditation simple | ronron” in 34. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in meditation apps?

1. Limits & caps: in 10 of 14 apps, 3.4% of negative reviews; 2. Billing: in 13 of 14 apps, 51.7% of negative reviews; 3. Support: in 12 of 14 apps, 10.2% of negative reviews; 4. UX: in 12 of 14 apps, 6.4% of negative reviews. Counted from 1,915 negative reviews on the 2026-09-21 snapshot, never estimated.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,514 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.