Balance: Meditation & Sleep

Deserve a lot of sucess 🤍

I never write about apps, but the work on this… oh boy. Literally change my life the past year, I know this sounds typical, but is the very truth. I was talking about this yesterday with my girlfriend, is not just about the app, is about you doing something good for yourself, I learned that just meditating here in Balance. I swear I’m not getting paid for this comment, I’m just being completely grateful (as I learn meditating in the app) for the hard work you guys put to do this world a little more brighter. Thank you so much.

It’s pretty good. I only miss a bit of gamification (like duo lingo have for example). A widget that shows the number of days you hace been practicing, a reminder to practice and maybe something to freeze the days for a day or 2.

Esta app es maravillosa, te ayuda no sólo a aprender a meditar sino a hacerlo un hábito. A lo largo de los días te explica cada uno de los fundamentos y de acuerdo a tu feedback crea una meditación guiada para ti. Gracias por esta app 🙌🏼

Lo poco que la he utilizado me parece espectacular

Se siente realmente como si tuvieses un coach de meditacion, es muy relajante y te dan ganas de meditar todos los dias. Un 10

I’ve been using another meditation app for 6 years now, but since Balance gave a one year free trial I thought let’s give it a try. Here are my thoughts: Positive: • I really like the clean, minimalist interface. The app is easy to navigate. •You can choose ‘plans’ (a series of meditations that build up on each other) or individual sessions. • You can work on certain skills like breath control, visualisation, body scan and more. • I also like that you can choose from 2 different voices. Personally I find it pleasant to use one voice for morning or afternoon meditations where I try to be more alert and the other voice for the evening meditations when I try to relax. • It’s nice that meditations get personalised to a certain point. Things to improve: • The only reason that I won’t pay for this app, after the free trial year finishes, is that it isn’t possible to use the app offline. You can start a meditation and then go offline and after finishing a meditation you can go back to it. But in the plans you can’t start the next meditation without having finished the previous one. When I’m travelling by train the connection get’s lost a lot and when on a flight I have no connection at all. So, not being able to download content is really annoying and for me, the decisive reason to not pay for this app.

I’ve tried it during weeks thanks to the free year, but I’ve just canceled since I will not use it anymore. The app is nicely designed and all works fine, but the meditation audios are lousy, it’s the same story over and over, you don’t advance in a plan, you start the week with the same words you end it, it adds nothing to your spiritual education. It’s just boring, plus it doesn’t matter how many times you tell the machine that you don’t like something, like labelling, for example, it would repeat the method on and on, even though you always click on “it’s not helping me”. I’m sorry, it’s a nice intention, but to create as many programs as you intend, you have to work much harder. Keep on trying! Greetings.

You charge me when I chose a year free for trial. I need my money back

This app has taught me many things about meditation and it’s super complete. I bought a lifetime subscription with no hesitation and been using it for the past 2 years quite a lot. The only “con” is that I wish there were longer guided meditations (+20min). Also, it’d be cool to have a way to use it on desktop so you can use the Pomodoro and productivity timers while you work.