Top 3 Meditation Apps: Tips, Tricks & Fails to Avoid

We’ll review the following market leaders:

• Calm
• Headspace
• Insight Timer

So, if you want to get inspired by other meditation apps, take a look at how our meditation app development company can incorporate it into your development process — welcome.

😌 Calm

Calm is considered the #1 app for Sleep, Relaxation, and Mediation. Such a title was awarded to this app since they have the most downloads over the last several years.

The app offers hundreds of multi-day meditations targeted at various needs from improving self-esteem to dealing with anxiety. There are both voice-guided and unguided sessions lasting from 3 to 30 minutes.

It has customizable background sounds that are on while you’re scrolling an app. Additionally, the sounds change according to the background itself. For instance, a mountain lake background has running water sounds, while the flower field has the wind blowing in the background.

So, the main mistake to avoid is giving unclear instruction since it can worsen the user experience. If you need customers to do something, you should set out everything as clearly as possible, step-by-step, with the opportunity to go to the previous step or back to instructions.

🧘 Headspace

Headspace is the 2nd most downloaded app (according to Statista rating) for Meditation & Mindfulness, Sleep Improvement, and Stress Relief. In general, there are more than 370 meditation sessions, with 10 of the basic courses being free.

Headspace has a series of meditations, which can include from 10 to 30 sessions, as well as singular sessions. Additionally, users can choose the duration of a session. For example, sessions in the “Basics” courses last for 3, 5, and 10 minutes. Moreover, mediations are divided into 3 levels.

Additionally, there are no instructions on how to update your preferences, so if they change, users won’t be able to find where to mark it — at least, not intuitively.

Therefore, it’s really important to cover as many user needs as possible. And not only cover but use it to provide a more personalized experience, make targeted offers, and address the audience’s needs better.

⏱️ Insight Timer

Insight Timer is a meditation & mindfulness app, which many people like for their user-centric view on the product. The app offers more than 90,000 meditation sessions to its users, provided by 8,000 teachers from all over the world — and all of that for free.

Their meditations, classes, and talks include sessions on a variety of topics: Buddhism, Chakras, anxiety, grief, addiction, masculinity, femininity, tantra, attracting love, Ayurveda, and many others.

So, the problem here can be that the server capacity can’t properly handle the amount of content that’s based there. Because of that, lagging, glitching, and other sorts of technical issues can occur.

Or their app can be based on a server that hosts several digital products. The problem with such servers is that when one app crashes, it can cause breakdowns in other products.

We’d recommend taking some time to properly figure out what server suits your use case the best: define how much storage you’ll need, the type of the server, and so on.

The right server choice can save you a lot of money and ensure a smooth user experience.

💡 Best Meditation Apps: Takeaways

To sum up, we’d like to point out that each case is unique. The fact that it worked for one case in a certain way doesn’t mean that it’ll be the same for you.

However, researching other cases can teach you a lot, prevent mistakes, thus, reduce costs and save you time.

Let’s briefly recall what lessons we can take out from these top meditation apps cases:

• A user-oriented approach will likely be paid off.
• Customization is important to provide a great user experience.
• Gamification features can boost motivation & increase engagement.
• You should clearly set out everything you need your users to do and what they’ll get for it.
• Even though you should try to be unique, stand out, and bring something new to the market, there are certain aspects where habitual patterns might do a better job.
• Think about making free content easily accessible for potential & current users.
• Diversify & fresh up the content on a regular basis.
• Building up a community around your app will do much good to your business.
• Be consistent with your brand, all devices, and choose the suitable server.

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