Brightmind - Meditation for Stress & Anxiety

EDIT: I believe my previous review was a little too critical. When I take Brightmind and Shinzen's approach to meditation in totality, it is excellent to mindfulness practice and it has helped me immensely. However, I still believe the app interface could be improved along with a greater variety of narrators. The unified mindfulness approach, taught here, is IMO superior to other mindfulness based apps and the team does well to compete with heavily monotised competitors.

I really liked studying through the course with Shinzen. I've been enjoying these meditations for quite a while now. I find these to be the best mental 'workouts' when I really want to put some time into getting better at mindfulness through practicing meditation and developing awareness 'techniques'. I'd also like to say thanks to Toby. I reached out to him recently and got a great response. All the best.

Loving the app. Toby is my favorite teacher. Really like his decision making meditation, and I'm delighted by the edition of pratyahara and pranayama practices in the latest pack.

I've used many meditation apps over the years, but I must admit, this one is really special! Every session is a brand new experience. Sometimes with meditation it's easy to feel stuck in the same routine but I found that with Brightmind each practice is helping me feel less stressed and more motivated in my every day life. 100% recommended!!

I can't say enough good things about this app. I have been meditating for a few years and come to it as an atheist.I started out with headspace and then used ten percent happier. Both helped. But brightmind stands out because it offers very clear guidances and techniques that have a level of specificity i had not experienced before. Centered around concentration, clarity and equanimity, and often focused on visual, auditory and body space, the instructions have been easier to carry into life.

The meditation guidance is the best I've experienced, but the sessions do not always load correctly and the support is very slow. I've been waiting 4 days for a response to my progress being fully wiped out. These are fixable issues and the underlying teaching is great.

If you want to deepen your mindfulness practice Brightmind is the app for you. The Core instruction is clear and accessible. Since using the app I have increased the consistency of my practice and learned helpful communication tips. Over all the UI is well developed. I look forward to the increasing refinement over the successive releases. Keep up the good work.

The app is great, the content is great — I like the approach, one feels there's a progression. I had a problem with my subscription and their Costumer Service took a while to reply. But in the end they did and sorted everything out. Thanks!

I have the trial and the app is looking good. However, in order to explore all the content, I'm required to buy an annual subscription. It's too much to ask. If I could buy a month, I would. Then I would have a much better idea of what the app has to offer. So, either all the content should be unlocked for a few days, or a monthly subscription should be available. It also worries me a bit that the app hasn't been updated in 6 months.

So far so good. This is a very useful app. I am only on day 8 so will update this but I really like it. There are lots of options for customising the length of each setting which you choose daily before each one starts. There are lots of meditation apps but this one was recommended. You can try free for a week and then it's an annual fee. expensive and maybe for some but apparently they are refunding the first year during covid 19 pandemic. I'm paying for mine. Worth it

I am really really impressed with this company. They offered a free year prescription for covid when quarantine started and I forgot to ask for a refund for a month. They easily refunded me and cancelled the auto renew which some companies wouldn't do to be sneaky and get your money. The app is great, very impressed with all the options. You guys rock.

The app is amazing. I love the methods used in the app. It would be even better if there was a dedicated platform where the users could clear the doubts while learning the techniques. I also saw that the app is getting a major upgrade soon in a review. Eagerly waiting for it.

This is a new app so this is just a preliminary review, but I've been using it for four days now and I'm enjoying it. I've read Shinzen Young's The Science of Enlightenment so I was pretty sure I would like the style of instruction. I accidentally ended up doing the second day's meditation twice, not sure if that was my oops or a bug.

I am loving the guided meditations, and the ability to change their length! I'll definitely keep working through them, very helpful and powerful stuff, explained very clearly. Thank you!

I dislike some things about V3. The least important one is its design. The ones that annoy me most are: (1) the change of "equanimity" to "balance", which seems like a way to dumb down a very precise term, but I can kinda live with that, however (2) there seems to have been an erasure of Shinzen Young, and the fact that the app's approach to mindfulness started with the framework developed by years of Shinzen's work. V3 gave me the vibe of being a Toby ego-trip more than anything else. Very sad.

*sep. 14: current app version as of today says V1.0. (28)? What Android versions are supported with Brightmind? I love the meditations and idea of this, but was disappointed after buying the lifetime membership... Can't tell if new meditations are being added - it's starting to feel like I'm almost finished them, concerning for less than a year in with "lifetime" access. Needs update to be able to see clearly what you've done and haven't without tapping through programs. Hope updates are coming, I've been waiting...!

I loved the first few sessions but by the time I got to around day 15 (SHF IN) I found the instructions too complicated, difficult and cerebral. Not sure I'll finish out my 3-month trial. My intuition tells me that meditation doesn't need to be this complicated..

I've tried a variety of meditation apps, and Brightmind is the first I've clicked with. I like the down-to-earth approach: -- I'm not looking for a lot of gimmicks, just trying to learn to meditate. And unlike other apps, I feel like I'm actually learning how to meditate, not just learning how to follow along with an app.

Seems like a great app, but due to a bug I cannot move past meditation 2. Will update review once bug is fixed. Update: fixed bug that prevents meditation completion by clearing app data.

I used Headspace for a while, which I loved. But after switching to Brightmind I feel like I’ve been making a lot more progress with meditation. Can’t recommend this app enough.

Poor, not user friendly at all heard one session and that was it. one day ....Then to pay to unlock before seven days just, not living up to the book name etc

I loved the free trial even if I wasn't able to do it every day but I can't afford the subscription. Please waive the 1st year subscription for me if possible. I found it helped me face my day better as a stay at home mom with two VERY energetic kids who say apparently can't get enough of me. 😬

Amazing mediation app. Easy to use and has several types of mediation for you. Teaches you how to mediate and use several various techniques! Would recommend to anyone!

Very good meditations. Outrageously expensive. For $100 each year, the price of this program, you can watch Netflix 7/24. $ 0,99 a month or $ 10 a your would be a reasonable price. Excessive profit is not Buddhist.

I'm new to meditation and this app has been a huge help. I usually can't concentrate for more than 5 seconds at a time, but these guidances helped me stay focused

This app walks you through meditation with a clarity that no other app does. I have spent years meditating without having clarity on the skills that I was developing, in the way this app presents it.

Great content! Feels like the teachers are using more medical than religious and philosophical background. Hoping that the app authors will add turning on don't disturb mode during the session.

I frequently have people ask me to teach them how to meditate. It’s a lot easier for me to just refer them to Brightmind now… so glad there is a resource I feel comfortable recommending now