Expand: Beyond Meditation

The sounds are great. The meditations OK. But, you have to have an account with the Monroe Institute and you have to be connected to the Internet in order to listen to any of it. When I meditate I like to be disconnected from everything. This could potentially be a good app, but it’s difficult to relax knowing you’re still connected to the net.

You’re expected to pay $101 per year to listen to meditation music that you could find similar for free on YouTube. I would happily pay a one time fee of $10 because it’s a pleasant app that provides meditation music in digital format. But for all that money per year and you can’t even download those songs? No thanks. For $101 per year I would have at least expected songs that I can own and download. You can buy their music on their website for around $30 each digital song. Obviously they’re not marketing to help the poor, lol. Only the hippy rich.

Paid for the subscription - still can’t access anything but the free stuff - zero customer service and support

After update, I was logged out. I emailed the address listed on the contact us page on the Monroe Institute website. I received a response within a few hours with easy to follow directions for reinstating my subscription.

Have been using this without issue since it first came out until last week. The update has locked me out and a call to the Institute got me a referral to support but I haven’t heard from them. I will make another attempt but am quite irritated that they haven’t fixed this by now.

Every time I open this app it says I don’t have premium even though I’ve had a subscription for months. Have to reopen it to get it to work.

It seems that the app now requires creating a cloud account to use. I’ve been disappointed with the quality but requiring contact info seems a bit much.

I’m locked out. They did some kind of update and canceled my prepaid account. I called their offices and was referred to a website that doesn’t work. Not at all happy. Before updating, I loved this app.

Bought a sub, worked for 20 days, logged me out and when you log back on it doesnt recognize your subscription. There is not even a way to log out unless you delete app. Never got it to work again. So cancelled

Excellent technology however most of the voices used for the guided meditations are not relaxing for meditation . Just because they are officers of n the organization does not justly using their voices . I would highly recommend this to my patients if you used professional meditative voices that are calming and use hypnotic inductions . Also eliminate negative words from the grammar. The voices and words should be soft , melodic , and calming vs harsh , sharp and abrupt . This has been mentioned by many others in the comments.