Headspace: Sleep & Meditation

It’s a really good app to clear up your mind and relax. Highly recommend

I had to cancel what was once my favorite meditation resource when the morning ‘Wake Up’ meditation feature went from salmon swimming and woodworkers carving to How Tos on fulfilling the needs of exhausted women of color. Look up the podcast episode ‘Embrace the Politics of Meditation Today’ by Dora Kamau to understand how weirdly committed Headspace is now to strident, jumbled omnicause advocacy, as well as a backhanded admission of how little its users want this. They have annual subscriptions with notoriously sneaky rebilling, so they are sinking slowly rather than imploding all at once, but Headspace has come to feel like a soothing attempt at actual mind control.

It may be me, but this isn’t for me. My doctor has been recommending meditation apps for so long. Finally through apple I decided to try one. I tried this app but I was close to punching my tablet, just to listen a person talking slow, with a color screen. What a torching! This review is not about the app it’s me, I couldn’t find a content that could help me.

Absolutely shocked to see that Headspace is now shilling an AI chatbot under the guise of mental healthcare. It’s hard to think of a context where AI is less helpful, and more potentially harmful. Shame on Headspace for pushing such a pollutive, wasteful, and antisocial feature. Deleting forever!

I paid for the subscription, none of the recordings are working it keeps saying something is wrong and won’t give me a troubleshoot or guidance on how to fix it

Love the meditation content of the app but not the quality of the app. The Activity history, Recents and Favorites have all been broken for me for some time where they all just show a blank page. Hope there is a fix for that soon.

I’ve been using Headspace for a while and really enjoy it, but recently the Mindful Moments feature stopped working correctly. When a Mindful Moment pops up as a notification and I tap on it, instead of opening in full screen like it used to, the notification just disappears and takes me to the Headspace app’s home screen. This completely breaks the experience, since I can’t actually use the feature anymore. I’ve tried updating the app and restarting my phone, but the issue hasn’t gone away. Mindful Moments was one of the most helpful parts of Headspace for me, so I really hope the developers fix this in an update soon.

I really dislike all the pop ups and what not. Makes it overly complicated and what not. Also, setting the meditation length to 15 minutes and it stops after three minutes. More than a bit annoying

This app has multiple resources that help me to focus better, meditate, and perform targeted exercises. The animated videos describing various meditation concepts are very helpful. The morning mindful moments are very insightful.

Why do you keep changing the meditations and sleepcasts? I was enjoying and PAYING for your service but I’m trying to go to sleep and the recordings I pay to listen to are different. Without warning. Exactly the opposite of the surety you are supposed to be. And whoever did the voice for the original Abbey, I bet he got screwed in royalties. I can tell his voice isn’t the same.