Tranquil Oasis in the Digital AgeKaisermonay666on2024-03-12 Calm, as its name suggests, is an app that truly lives up to its promises. In an increasingly fast-paced and stressful world, finding moments of peace and tranquility can feel like a luxury. Fortunately, Calm provides a remarkable solution by bringing mindfulness and relaxation right to your fingertips.
From the moment you open the app, you'll be greeted by a visually stunning and serene interface that instantly sets the tone for your mindfulness journey. Calm offers a rich variety of features designed to guide you towards achieving a greater sense of calm, clarity, and overall well-being.
One of the standout features of Calm is its extensive library of guided meditations. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, you'll find meditations tailored to your needs. From short, five-minute sessions to longer, immersive experiences, there's something for everyone. The soothing voices of experienced meditation teachers gently lead you through each practice, helping you cultivate mindfulness and inner peace.
Beyond meditation, Calm offers a diverse range of programs and content to address different aspects of mental health. Sleep Stories, for example, are beautifully narrated tales that help you unwind and drift off into a peaceful sleep. The app also includes a collection of music tracks and soundscapes specifically designed to promote relaxation and deep rest.
One of the most refreshing aspects of Calm is its commitment to user customization. You can tailor your experience by selecting from a variety of serene backgrounds, ambient sounds, and guided meditations. The app also provides daily reminders to carve out time for self-care, ensuring that you stay on track with your mindfulness practice.
Calm's user-friendly interface and intuitive design make navigation a breeze. Whether you're a tech-savvy individual or someone who's less familiar with mobile apps, you'll find the experience seamless and enjoyable.
Furthermore, Calm's commitment to accessibility deserves applause. The app offers a range of features for individuals with different needs, including closed captions for guided meditations and support for VoiceOver, making it inclusive and accommodating for all users.
In terms of performance, Calm is exceptionally stable and responsive. The app runs smoothly, ensuring a seamless experience without any frustrating glitches or crashes.
It's worth noting that while Calm offers a substantial amount of content for free, some of the premium features require a subscription. However, considering the immense value and transformative impact that Calm can have on your overall well-being, the subscription is well worth the investment.
In conclusion, Calm is an exceptional app that has rightfully earned its place as a digital sanctuary for millions of users seeking inner peace and tranquility. With its vast array of features, soothing content, and user-friendly interface, Calm provides an invaluable resource for anyone looking to incorporate mindfulness into their daily lives. If you're ready to embark on a journey towards greater relaxation and mental well-being, Calm is the perfect companion.
Remember to take a deep breath, download Calm, and let the serenity unfold.
Reviewed by Assistant, a calm and appreciative user.
This app is great. It helps me sleep it helps a lot of other people sleep as well. A lot of people are saying “I think the app is a scam” but their WRONG. They say that but they never say they actually don’t like the app. I mean they say it’s bad but they never say they really used the app at all. Like if your going to download an app use it! Don’t just download it then not care. but the subscription is 70$ that’s EXPENSIVE. Sure it does give you a lot of stuff but that’s expensive. It is per year though and not month. The reason I don’t give it four stars is because this app is fantastic. It helps you sleep and it lets you think and talk about your day, family, what you thankful for, and much much more. And they need the money. This part is to the people who don’t care how good it is just about how much it costs. THEY NEED THE MONEY. First of all they need it to get people to voice the sleep stories and other things. Second of all it’s expensive to make an app especially one that is as amazing as calm. Third of all they need the money to advertise the app so more people get it. And if more people use it and buy the subscription the price might go down because more people are paying it. And last but definitely not least (all of the reasons are important) they need the money to expand the app and add more to this amazing sleep experience. AND that’s all about the subscription if your not subscribed it’s still great for sleeping. So that’s why I rated it five stars this app is great I would recommend it if your having trouble sleeping. It also helps you make a sleep schedule. And that’s just talking about sleep because that’s what I use it for but it could be use for day time. For example you can use it to meditate and much more helpful activities. Five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ would recommend.
Great content hidden in a frustrating app As a lifetime subscriber and longtime evangelist, I hate giving Calm a low rating. To say it has changed my life would be an understatement. But as its content library has grown, the app layout has made it harder and harder to use.
Today I had a rough day at work. I had a few minutes between activities and thought it would be good to sit for 10-15 minutes meditation. Today’s Daily Calm topic didn’t fit the bill. So I went looking.
I tapped into the Anxiety tab and instantly felt anxious. The choices were overwhelming, not laid out in any pattern I could see, and some didn’t seem on topic (“Get Energized,” for example). It’s the same for all the other sections; a presentation that makes decisions difficult and puts barriers between Calm’s users and Calm’s amazing content. I closed the app and just went back to work.
It hit me then… the app was making it harder, not easier, for me to gain a sense of calm.
Which is a shame because I can see the care that went into this design. It’s clearly intended to surface sessions users might not have found on their own. Those design decisions themselves seem to acknowledge the app bloat, and are trying to help. Sadly, Calm needs more than care, good intentions and great content; it needs a ground-up redesign or it will just keep getting more and more difficult for users to find their calm.
Good… but lackingJoeyyyyyyy999111on2024-03-20 I love the app and the teachers on calm. Calm meditators have some of the most soothing and relatable voices out of all the meditation apps I used and I used almost all that’s out there.
However as a daily meditator, I quickly realized that the app’s library of meditations are very limited. The daily recommendations and series lasted for a few months before i breezed through all of the content and it seems like there aren’t much updates or new content being released often. Some of my favorite meditation series are winnie the pooh, 7 days series… but since i subscribed to the app almost a year ago i have not seen any new meditation series added, just sleep music here and there. As such I will not be renewing my subscription for another year and am glad i didn’t get the lifetime membership. Currently i have found other meditation apps which explains the techniques for meditation more and it’s helpful. Hopefully calm can step up their game more someday since its got a good baseline currently!
Worst Customer Service & INEPT Employees What a doozy Calm, Inc. pulled on me. So much for “meditation” or “calm.” Calm thought that a year’s subscription at no charge would placate the situation. Not with me, it won’t. One of their employees “accidentally” removed my 3-years long subscription and when they had me create another account, all of my saved data (playlists) vanished. Calm, Inc. apologized ad nauseam but at the end of the day, there went my @postmalone remix of Circles among numerous other go-to favorites. The antithesis of calming to me. It’s more inflammatory. And anticlimactic. And irresponsible. Never again. I’ve removed Calm from every device I own because I’m tired of gainfully employed messing things up for everyone else - with zero accountability. I don’t want $69. I want what I bought and paid for. A contract and agreements work both ways and serve both parties’ interests.
Nice app to have on phoneCollegeGurlFitnotFaton2024-03-25 I’ve had the calm app & subscription for almost 3 years.
2024: I appreciate the Calm app and its music / soundscapes features the most! I love using the calm app’s music / soundscapes after the work day, before I start cooking dinner, where I use the lofi or restorative music and brain waves at night while prepping for bed.
2023: Last year, I tried building the habit of medication using Calm, but couldn’t stick to it consistently. I like that calm would send me two reminders! One in the morning and the other in the afternoon, both times that I selected.
2022: checked out the sleep stories for bed . I was heaving a hard time sleeping during my wedding planning, so I would use calm onc or twice a week to put me to sleep or at the very least ease my stressed mind.
I like Calm, but I think you should add a little more options that are not locked behind a pay wall because I have trouble sleeping, but I’m low on money so I can’t afford to become premium and I think I’ll get a lot better sleep if I had a couple more options like more soundscapes and green noise there are both things behind a pay wall and I would sleep better with both of those things but once again I can’t afford them so I would rate it five stars if there weren’t so many things that weren’t walked behind a pool wall other than that it’s a really great app and it helps me get a little bit better sleep😴😴😴
Audio issues on iPad version, great app overall The iPad version has several audio issues, particularly when in use with AirPods. Audio sometimes begins playing at max volume upon initial connection (despite volume showing a lower level), pause/play function is inconsistent or becomes unavailable after long pauses, and app/audio is glitchy when audio switches back to iPad or Calm app when AirPods temporarily switch to another device or app. These issues detract from the tranquility otherwise offered by the app. Apart from these persistent issues, I can only echo other reviewers praising this app generally. Would love to see a fix for the iPad audio issues.
After the recent update the app stutters when you scroll. This is causing me to avoid using it. The problem is nausea inducing. Calm has also gotten in the habit of over using celebrities to make content. When they used the first few celebrities to read stories it was novel and now it seems like they are just another promotional arm of Hollywood. Celebrities already permeate the news cycle and try to sell you every product under the sun ,I don’t like opening Calm to get some sleep having them in my face again. Enough of these attention seekers already! Get back to using your original staff members!
I wish fewer of the sleep stories told you how you supposedly think There’s nothing that wakes me up more than someone claiming I made a decision I would never make or have an opinion I would never have. I wish that more had a more ‘this happened’ or ‘that happened’ passive voice, instead of bothering to justify or explain how ‘you decided to not have a destination in mind’, it could just be written ‘there’s no destination for today so there’s no rush’ or something similar.
I also seriously don't understand how a part of a story being about how ‘I’ was apparently too cheap to buy an umbrella is supposed to be restful.
I like most of what the app offers though.