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About Headspace
Headspace offers a library of expert-led meditations and tools for stress, sleep, anxiety and processing thoughts, with personalised recommendations from a guide called Ebb. There are also collections for families and children, and a Headspace XR experience.
Beyond the app content, Headspace offers online therapy that accepts insurance in some cases, and plans for employers and health plans. New users can start with a free trial. The site states that Sword is acquiring Headspace.
Strengths
- Large library of guided meditations and sleep content
- Content for children and families
- Optional online therapy
Limitations
- Requires a paid subscription after the trial
- Ownership is changing with the Sword acquisition
Details
- Pricing
- PaidSubscription service with a free trial.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Headspace
- Platforms
- Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- People who want guided meditation and sleep routines on their phone
- Categories
- Health & fitness
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Headspace
Compare allSoftware that can replace Headspace for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Calm
A mobile app for guided meditation, sleep stories, soundscapes and relaxation exercises.
Calm offers guided meditations, sleep stories and soundscapes on Android and iOS on a freemium model, without Headspace's online therapy option.
Insight Timer
Meditation app with a large free library of guided sessions and a meditation timer.
Insight Timer has a large library of free guided sessions and a timer for unguided meditation, with some content reserved for members.
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, but it is listed only for Android.
Balance
Guided meditation app that assembles personalized daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood.
Balance builds personalised daily sessions for sleep, stress, focus and mood from your answers, on a freemium model for Android and iOS.
Waking Up
A meditation app with guided practices, courses and conversations on mindfulness and awareness.
Waking Up is a paid web-based meditation service with courses from several teachers and a stronger focus on philosophy than quick relaxation.
BetterSleep
A sleep and meditation app with mixable sleep sounds, sleep stories and sleep tracking.
BetterSleep combines mixable sleep sounds, stories and meditations with sleep tracking, focused more on bedtime than on daily mindfulness.
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