Alternatives to Calm
A mobile app for guided meditation, sleep stories, soundscapes and relaxation exercises. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Calm
A mobile app for guided meditation, sleep stories, soundscapes and relaxation exercises.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Calm.
Headspace
Mental health app with guided meditations, sleep content and mindfulness tools, plus online therapy.
Headspace offers guided meditation and sleep content plus content for children and optional online therapy, but requires a paid subscription after the trial.
Insight Timer
Meditation app with a large free library of guided sessions and a meditation timer.
Insight Timer has a large free library of guided sessions and a timer for unguided meditation, with only some content reserved for paying members.
BetterSleep
A sleep and meditation app with mixable sleep sounds, sleep stories and sleep tracking.
BetterSleep focuses on mixable sleep sounds, sleep stories and meditations with added sleep tracking, and full content requires a subscription.
Balance
Guided meditation app that assembles personalized daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood.
Balance assembles personalised daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood based on your answers, with pricing beyond the trial not stated.
Happier Meditation
A meditation app, formerly Ten Percent Happier, with personalized guided sessions and courses from teachers.
Happier Meditation offers over 500 guided meditations and courses with monthly check-ins, and is listed for Android only.
Waking Up
A meditation app with guided practices, courses and conversations on mindfulness and awareness.
Waking Up is a paid, web-listed meditation service built around courses and conversations on mindfulness, with sleep meditations included.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sleep Cycle
A sleep tracking app that uses sound analysis to score sleep and wake you gently.
Rise
A sleep app that tracks sleep debt and predicts daily energy peaks from your circadian rhythm.
Down Dog
A yoga and fitness app that generates a new customizable practice every session.
Glo
An on-demand class service for yoga, Pilates, meditation and fitness at all levels.
Daylio
Micro-journal and mood tracker app where a daily entry takes two taps.
Pillow
A sleep tracker for Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad with sleep analysis and a smart alarm.
