Meditation Oasis: Simply Being

I have always loved everything about this app. It’s easy to use, there are enough options to make almost anyone happy. But…I’m just coming back to it after a hiatus and in the 10 minute simply being meditation there’s an obvious edit that included a volume increase. Very distracting!

Change can be good. However, when I’ve previously spent money on the app to support them and remove the ads, it’s disappointing to have ads again and a push to buy more!

The completely destroyed the app formerly known as Simply Being in search of money. Have deleted the app. It no longer does me any good.

I can’t begin to tell you how often I used this app over the years when having panic and anxiety attacks (recommended by my therapist for its simplicity). It’s been my go to, and even the icon was relatively relaxing because when I was frantically looking to open the app the image of the calm person brought me back into focus. Now everything has changed, the icon, the name, the format. I almost deleted it because I thought someone had hacked my phone and installed something, hesitant to open it. For the developers to keep responding with “just ignore the other content if you don’t want to subscribe” is a little off-putting. If you don’t suffer from anxiety and panic disorder you can’t possibly appreciate the simplicity that the other app design brought and to change all of that and just say get over it is pretty insulting. It’s NOT the same no matter how many times they tell you it is and now I find myself just annoyed and distracted by all of the other money grab stuff that’s right in front of your face when you open the app. Any normal person is going to want to click and see what else is there. I’m disappointed in their change of direction but more disappointed that they keep responding to reviews with “get over it” and not considering what their users experience was and how it comforted many like myself, before the changes and now hiding any potential improvements behind a paywall. The other stuff that I can’t afford is now just a distraction which defeats the whole purpose!! Eh, I think they’ve lost me.

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they killed a wonderful app with the latest update. I’ve been using it for years. have to find something new thank you for changing it back close to what it was. As of now I am continuing to use it

Simply Being is the best guided meditation I have ever used, and I’m grateful that it is still accessible at no additional cost. This alone makes this a 5-star app. I’ve been using Meditation Oasis apps for several years, and I was concerned that they may not continue to receive updates (and that they may not be compatible with future versions of iOS). Therefore, I am glad to see Meditation Oasis adopt the subscription model (most users do not understand the ongoing costs involved for developers to update apps with new features and to keep them compatible with ongoing OS updates). That being said, I’d like to see some additional features added (especially given the steep $50 per year subscription price), such as: - When playing, content should show in the Now Playing section in the Control Center and on the Lock Screen - Airplay support - The user interface is functional, but the design feels a bit outdated by today’s standards

It was a good app before it turned into Meditation Oasis. Now it’s just another money grab.

This could be a stellar program yet for $49.00 a year the price alone is stressful enough that you will need to meditate. Unfortunately, unless you subscribe you only receive 3 short meditations! The sleep meditation is only 3 min long and I don’t know about you if I am having trouble sleeping I need more than 3 minutes to relax enough to get to sleep. I understand that developers want to make a profit so I can see giving some basis high quality offerings and then upselling for variety or in depth courses yet the model this team has currently implemented will backfire and they will end up losing money. Personally, in these financially difficult times paying $49.00 a year for a meditation program is a luxury I choose not to afford when there are so many therapeutic offerings like John Moyers and others on youtube for free so I will NOT be subscribing and ultimately will probably delete the entire program to free up hard drive space on my ipad.

All functionality in simply being is gone. There isn’t even an option to buy the old simply being as an upgrade. I’ve been using this app for years and LOVED it, the new version is so disappointing.