Calm - Meditate, Sleep, Relax

I'm absolutely impressed with the content and stability compared to BetterSleep. When Calm first came out, it was pretty bare bones with very few options. They've made great strides since then. The content covers so many options from constant sounds like white and brown noise, to stories by actors, to soundscapes with birds, baboons, and more. I currently have the student subscription and will happily continue with the standard subscription after I complete my education.

The only thing free is one breathing exercise. You have to sign up for a 7 day free trial to use the other features. 👎 "Calm is free to download and use. There are never any ads and some of the programs and features are free forever. Some content is only available through an optional paid subscription"

I love this app and it's been incredibly helpful on my journey, but I have a few pet peeves: I feel like it's not always well organized and it would be helpful if the check in better tracked when I did them so it doesn't ask me 2 do one before & after something, even if I only clicked on it to read what it was about. I'd also like to be able to do playlists cuz I could do something like fall asleep to a story, then meditation, & have it go on to play my favorite sounds cape throughout the night.

I just wanted to start by using the app to journal how I felt daily with the check-in option. But then after a few weeks I noted some specific emotions, like frustration didn't exist. The options are very limited. Journaling is about expression and intended to be something just for yourself, so the limitation and inability to freehand type one is unacceptable.

This app is terrible, for starters the "free" version has nothing, and I mean actually nothing. You can't access any of the sleep stories or meditations unless you pay, and it's $70?? That's a little too expensive for an app like this, especially when there are other apps that work much better for free or cheap. I will say however some of the sleep stories are nice but overall not impressed 😔

I like the segments themselves, but the technical quality is disappointing. The sessions do not transmit smoothly, and have lots of voids where there is no sound (for example the background sound drops out for a second then come back). This hinders the segments from having the desired effect of calming you, and instead makes it distracting. The developers of the app need to improve this.

The app has a lot of potential, there is a great variety of meditations and the daily calm meditations keep things fresh and interesting. Unfortunately, the experience is plagued with software bugs and this seems to be an ongoing issue with new software problems constantly arising. The app needs to be frequently restarted. When you are paying for the use of an app, there is really no excuse for the amount of issues this app has, the service has been paid for and needs to work!

Well first off I use to love this app. I used everytime I traveled to help me sleep better. I loved the free soundscapes to relax or to drift off to sleep. Now though there is no free content at all on the app they only offer a 7 day trial then want you to pay 69.99 a year to use the app... I get it you gotta make money but there plenty of ads already on the app to provide some free content. Just disappointed after years using it for free now it is pay or you have no access.

Just wasn't for me and not what I was looking for, the content is quite long and wasn't very flexible though I'm sure this app would be great for some other people. Those random chiming notifications are hell and give me a fright all the time though, even when i turned it to silent notifications they still come back, one just went off super loud and its 1am 😵‍💫.

Very, very little content for free. And the little bit that is available is only intros to multi-part selections. So although there seemed to be a lot of content, I didn't even bother looking at it because I had to sort through so many "lock" icons overlapping everything you can pick. If you have money to spend, but 1 star for me, horrible first impression.

Misleading!!! "Calm is free to download and use. There are never any ads and some of the programs and features are free forever. Some content is only available through an optional paid subscription" This is a lie! I downloaded and everything is locked. There is not a free item to use at all! If your items are only free to use during a trial period then just say so up front. Honestly is appreciated by people. This should have said try it free for 7 days then continue with a subscription.

First, I want to say I really like this app. But there are a few features that would be good to add to the app to improve the flow.The scenes themselves are great but it would be nice to be able to sort the ones you have downloaded and make some sort of filtering for the scenes like water, forest etc. In the profile area, being able to clear the recently played list would be nice also being able to make your own playlists with ones you have downloaded and one you haven't or something like that.

Great selection of soothing music, short courses on meditation & calming techniques. They have categories to choose from; 'fall asleep', 'anxiety', 'stress relief', 'focus', 'inspiration', 'breathing', etc. I like to play the music while working on creative project and it helps. I also instantly fell asleep while listening to one of the 'fall asleep' songs. One thing is, I couldn't find the videos they use for advertising.

What's not calm is how glitchy this app is. Almost nothing loads when you click it. Most of the content is "not available at this time". And man do they really really really want you to try the new sleep playlists. No matter what you do, it keeps popping up asking you try it. And guess what, when you click on it, nothing happens... Except more pop-ups. The app is a mess.

Nice content. Beautiful scenes. Please, rewrite the menu, it's very hard to browse. I never know what lessons i attended or what's left.....or where I am... I struggle with the menu every time ....and instead of relaxation, mindfulness.....i get the opposite . Just a suggestion, you do whatever suits your general Audience. Overall, it looks great. Thank you.

I loved this app! It helped me so much with meditation and controlling my anxiety. I just wish it wasn't so expensive 🥺 or that there was financing options. I've tried so many other meditation apps and none of them compare. I love the narrator, the interface, the customizable scenes and background noises. But the thing I love the most about this app that I haven't found with others is the daily guided meditation. I found myself looking forward to it each morning. Please make more affordable ❤.

I was using Headspace, but the app kept crashing, so my therapist suggested this app as a better solution. Wrong wrong wrong. Everything is locked unless you want to pay $70 to get any content. I don't mind monthly fees, but I don't like the idea of paying for a full year without being able to sample!

I paid for a yearly subscription about 2 months ago, yet I don't seem to have access to the entire content, which most of the time appears as not available for the moment. (I'd upload a print screen but apparently I can't do that.) This app is quite a disappointment and very frustrating. I will definitely not renew my subscription next year.

Uninstalled, too much data and no way to prevent it from billing at the end of the trial. I had to email customer service which took them a week to confirm I wouldn't be billed and delete my information. For an app that's supposed to help someone relax that's more work added to my day. I can't find my previous review in order to edit it, seems like they deleted it.

I've been using Calm for years for meditation, relaxing and sleep. The content is excellent, but its organization feels convoluted to me; with too many featured, recommended and highlights sections. The UI changes from time to time, probably to solve discoverability. Apart from that, I highly recommend Calm, it's well worth the subscription. I can see the love and care they keep it up with.

I thought I would get more for free. 90% of everything is "locked" unless you pay for annual subscription. If you gave more for free, I might be inclined to pay for a subscription after I sampled the free stuff. On such a "calm" app, it's very stressful that I'm pushed from all direction to pay!! Shame, shame, shame. Obviously it's all about the $$$.

I'm REALLY missing an option to sort/filter out meditations of certain voice-overs. There is one voice that I find really annoying, and it's in the most of the good meditation series. It's been 4 years and the alternative voice-overs for the most of the meditations have still not been recorded. Well, then at least let me filter out that cheesy exaggerated tone of voice without having to look through all of the meditations every time.

I was feeling stressed so I decided I'd try this app out. Upon downloading, the only way I could access the App is if I agreed to an $80 yearly subscription starting after the 7 day free trial. I figured I could just accept and cancel so I could at least try the app. I found out very quickly their marketing team are quite nifty in making it impossible to cancel my subscription through their app or their website. I had to go to my google emails, access subscriptions in the email prompt and cancel

There is no one ambient sound, relaxation music, anything at all that is not for a 7-day trial period and then a charge. It is deceitful that the app will be free and then one has to pay for everything it provides. Do not download of you're hoping to find any help to your problem for free. Every app like this should have a sentence key: "per subscription" right under its name, so people not interested in it will not waste time downloading and deleting the app.