Alternatives to Insight Timer
Meditation app with a large free library of guided sessions and a meditation timer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Insight Timer
Meditation app with a large free library of guided sessions and a meditation timer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Insight Timer.
Calm
A mobile app for guided meditation, sleep stories, soundscapes and relaxation exercises.
Calm offers guided meditations, sleep stories and soundscapes, but much of its content requires a paid subscription compared with Insight Timer's free library.
Headspace
Mental health app with guided meditations, sleep content and mindfulness tools, plus online therapy.
Headspace provides guided meditation, sleep content and optional online therapy, but requires a paid subscription after the trial.
Happier Meditation
A meditation app, formerly Ten Percent Happier, with personalized guided sessions and courses from teachers.
Happier Meditation provides over 500 guided meditations and courses with monthly check-ins, but it is listed only for Android and pricing is not shown.
Balance
Guided meditation app that assembles personalized daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood.
Balance assembles personalised daily sessions based on your answers about goals and mood, with pricing beyond the free trial not stated.
Waking Up
A meditation app with guided practices, courses and conversations on mindfulness and awareness.
Waking Up is a paid web-based service with courses and conversations on meditation, taking a more philosophical approach.
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 sleep tracking, and full content needs a subscription.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Glo
An on-demand class service for yoga, Pilates, meditation and fitness at all levels.
Down Dog
A yoga and fitness app that generates a new customizable practice every session.
Daylio
Micro-journal and mood tracker app where a daily entry takes two taps.
Loop Habit Tracker
Open-source Android app for creating and tracking long-term positive habits.
Pillow
A sleep tracker for Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad with sleep analysis and a smart alarm.
Rise
A sleep app that tracks sleep debt and predicts daily energy peaks from your circadian rhythm.
