Alternatives to Waking Up

A meditation app with guided practices, courses and conversations on mindfulness and awareness. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Waking Up

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

    PaidProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Waking Up.

  • Headspace

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

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Headspace runs as an Android and iOS app with guided meditation, sleep content, family content and optional online therapy, and also needs a paid subscription.

  • Calm

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Calm moves to Android and iOS apps with sleep stories and soundscapes alongside meditation, with a freemium model where much content is paid.

  • Insight Timer

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Insight Timer offers a large free library of guided sessions and a timer for unguided practice on Android and iOS, with some content for paying members.

  • Happier Meditation

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroid

    Happier Meditation provides over 500 guided meditations and courses with monthly check-ins, on Android with a freemium model instead of a paid membership.

  • Balance

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Balance assembles personalized daily sessions from your answers about goals and mood, runs on Android and iOS, and has a freemium model.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • BetterSleep

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

  • Down Dog

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

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

  • Glo

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

    PaidProprietaryWeb

  • Rise

    A sleep app that tracks sleep debt and predicts daily energy peaks from your circadian rhythm.

    PaidProprietaryiOS