Alternatives to Balance

Guided meditation app that assembles personalized daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Balance

    Guided meditation app that assembles personalized daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Balance.

  • Headspace

    Mental health app with guided meditations, sleep content and mindfulness tools, plus online therapy.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Headspace offers a large library of guided meditations and sleep content, plus content for children and optional online therapy, but requires a paid subscription after the trial.

  • Calm

    A mobile app for guided meditation, sleep stories, soundscapes and relaxation exercises.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Calm provides guided meditations, sleep stories and soundscapes on Android and iOS, with much of the content behind a paid subscription instead of sessions built from daily answers.

  • Insight Timer

    Meditation app with a large free library of guided sessions and a meditation timer.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Insight Timer has a large library of free guided sessions and a built-in timer for unguided meditation, while some content is reserved for paying members.

  • Happier Meditation

    A meditation app, formerly Ten Percent Happier, with personalized guided sessions and courses from teachers.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroid

    Happier Meditation offers over 500 guided meditations and monthly check-ins that tailor recommendations, but is listed for Android only and does not show pricing on its homepage.

  • Waking Up

    A meditation app with guided practices, courses and conversations on mindfulness and awareness.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Waking Up is a web-listed paid membership with courses from several teachers and conversations on the ideas behind meditation, with a stronger focus on philosophy than daily personalization.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • BetterSleep

    A sleep and meditation app with mixable sleep sounds, sleep stories and sleep tracking.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

  • Glo

    An on-demand class service for yoga, Pilates, meditation and fitness at all levels.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

  • Down Dog

    A yoga and fitness app that generates a new customizable practice every session.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb