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Waking Up: Beyond Meditation

Waking Up: Beyond Meditation

Everyone
Rating
V2.25.3
Version
1M+
Installs
4.70
5.3k + Reviews
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Review By AppsWm

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Peace Points

This app fosters a sense of inner peace through guided meditations. The carefully curated content and instruction create a soothing experience.

Peace Value

The value lies in its ability to provide accessible mindfulness practices for daily life, contributing to reduced stress and enhanced well-being. 🍃

Calm Features
  • Guided meditation sessions with varying lengths
  • Mindfulness exercises for everyday activities
  • Sleep stories and soundscapes designed for relaxation

Sleep Soundscapes

The ambient soundscapes offer a tranquil auditory experience, aiding in restful sleep. Research suggests ambient sounds can reduce anxiety and promote relaxation.

Calm Factors

The calm factors stem from its focus on mindfulness and its collection of sounds of nature, creating a serene atmosphere.🍃

Tranquil Aspects

The app's tranquil aspects are found in the gentle voice of the instructors and the absence of jarring stimuli. The simplicity of the interface promotes a sense of calm.

Pros:
  • High-quality audio
  • Variety of meditation types
  • Offline access to downloaded content
Cons:
  • Subscription required for full access
  • Limited free content
Tranquil Elements

The thoughtfully organized content allows for mindful exploration and reflection, reducing feelings of overwhelm.🍃

Serene Elements

The app incorporates serene elements by offering a curated selection of content, minimizing distractions, and creating a focused environment for meditation.

Daily Meditations

A new, short meditation is available each day, promoting consistent practice.

Beginner's Course

A structured program for those new to meditation.

Serene Aspects

The app offers serene aspects that contribute to a holistic approach to mental wellness, fostering a sense of inner peace.🍃

Quiet Design

The user interface is clean, uncluttered, and intuitive, allowing users to easily navigate and access desired content. The color palette is soothing and visually calming.

Overall peaceful value

This app offers genuine value by making mindfulness practices more accessible and enjoyable for users, fostering a sense of inner peace.🍃

Quiet Moments

The quiet moments that it provides for the user is of great value, making the world a slightly calmer place.🍃

Description

Dont think of Waking Up as a conventional meditation appthink of it as a new operating system for your mind, and a guide to living a better life. We aim to offer a far deeper approach to mindfulness than youll find elsewhereone that fundamentally transforms how you see yourself, and the world around you. But youll also discover life-changing, secular wisdom from top scholars and experts, on everything from sleep and doing good in the world to time management and happiness. Waking Up is free for anyone who cant afford it. We never want money to be the reason why someone cant benefit from what weve built. Sam Harris, neuroscientist and best-selling author, built Waking Up to be the resource he wished hed had when he began exploring meditation over years ago. Sam only includes those practices and insights hes found to be utterly life-changing. The same is true for the many teachers, scholars, and experts youll meet throughout the app. Weve heard from thousands of members who say they never really understood meditation until they took our -part Introductory Course. Whether youre a beginner or advanced practitioner, youll dive straight into the deep end of real mindfulness, so you dont waste any time on the surface. Meditation is about more than just relieving stress, sleeping better, or improving your focus. While it can help you do all of that, our goal is ultimately to help you open the door to a deeper understanding of yourself. Here, you wont just uncover simple relaxation techniques and you wont find any New Age fluff or religious dogma. Explore some of lifes most important questions, on topics like neuroscience, psychedelics, enlightenment, ethics, and Stoicismfrom renowned authors and professors like Oliver Burkeman, Michael Pollan, Laurie Santos, Arthur C. Brooks, James Clear, and others. Waking Up explains both the theory and the practice of meditation so you dont just learn the how of mindfulness, but also the why. Youll be guided by prominent figures like Joseph Goldstein, Diana Winston, Adyashanti, Jayasāra, and Henry Shukman, who teach a wide range of contemplative practices, including Vipassana, Zen, Dzogchen, Advaita Vedanta, and more. Within Waking Up, youll find some of the most profound spiritual teachings from throughout historythose that have stood the test of time. And youll hear from historic voices like Alan Watts. But we also pressure-test ancient wisdom against modern science, so you wont find outlandish claims or anything we havent found to be empirically true. Waking Up supports your growth and development in a number of different ways. Youll find an abundance of useful features, like meditation timers, in-app support messages, an ever-growing audio library, and daily reminders to help bring your mindfulness practice into your life. Waking Up is, hands down, the most important meditation guide Ive ever used. If youve had trouble getting into meditation, this app is your answer! Waking Up is not an app, its a path. It is equal parts a meditation guide, a philosophy master-class and a highly-focused TED Conference. Subscriptions automatically renew, unless auto-renew is disabled at least hours before the current period ends. Manage your subscription from your Google Play account settings. Payment will be charged to your Google account. Satisfaction guarantee: If you dont find the app valuable, email us at [email protected] for a full refund.

All Versions

V2.25.3

Updated: 2024-3-7

53.8 MB

V2.25.0

Updated: 2024-1-8

54.81 MB

V2.21.0

Updated: 2023-10-11

50.36 MB

V2.19.0

Updated: 2023-8-22

48.93 MB

V2.18.2

Updated: 2023-7-31

47.31 MB

V2.17.0

Updated: 2023-7-3

47.58 MB

V2.15.3

Updated: 2023-5-25

46.3 MB

V2.9.0

Updated: 2022-11-23

24.34 MB

Summary Of User Reviews

Joshua Goodsell
Joshua Goodsell
December 3, 2025
I was totally new to meditation and mindfulness when I downloaded the app. Having completed the introductory course, I've noticed a significant decrease in my depressive symptoms and negative thought loops. The app has helped me, for the first time, take a step back from my conscious experience and just "be" without drowning in thought. Highly recommend!
A Google user
A Google user
March 9, 2019
If you want to build a discipline around meditation, this is a good place to start. Try to make it a regular habit, and give it enough time to take hold. Don't give up after a few sessions. There are 50 meditations that you should go through in order. The narrator is better to my ears than those of other apps (headspace for example), as he is not attempting to influence your mood simply by the tone of his voice, or over affected presentation. This is a high quality guided experience, exactly what you are looking for.
A Google user
A Google user
November 3, 2018
I really wanted to like this app but the guided meditations move way too quickly and I don't find them useful. There isn't enough time to ease into it for me. It would be nice if you could choose to lengthen the duration like you can with Headspace. The lessons, however, are quite interesting and digestible. Until there's an option to change the pace of the meditations I'll be sticking to Headspace.