Leave a Review Slowdive | Meditation & Mantra
Next to Nothing & No Chakra Clearing
When I saw this app advertised on Instagram, it claimed to feature chakra clearing. I’ve had various guided meditation recordings in the past for chakra clearing but cannot find my favorite one again. I thought I’d give this one a shot after looking at it—it seemed robust with a nice look to it.
After paying a lifetime fee of $70 (my bad) I installed it and looked through the options. I found one short ambient meditation for chakras but it’s completely lame. Just music and chanting. No guidance through the chakras, no explanations.
I looked at other meditations which were equally lame like Waheguru and Ram which were odd but not traditional. The Om meditation were acceptable. There’s a lot of New Age takes on various religions.
Perhaps it’s the way the interface is designed but I certainly don’t see many choices for meditation, classes, music, or sounds. Heck, I am headed over to Insight Timer for $25/year. They have zillions of options and classes. Much more professional.
Now I have to navigate the journey of a refund. I went to the App Store for a refund and there’s a link to the developer’s social media accounts. I messaged the Instagram account but I don’t have much trust it’ll be resolved there.
PS: Just got Insight Timer instead. It’s looking amazing so far!Show lesskako1961
Developer Response
Hi katko2. Thank you for taking the time to write us such a detailed review. Ensuring user satisfaction with the app is really important to us and we'll consider all your comments. If you could email us at support-slowdive@reliz.com, then our support manager Daria will be able to assist you with the refund.Don’t bother
App does not offer a trial and does not even show any of the interface before asking for immediate payment. Not going to pay in advance and hope the app has something to offer.
In response to the developer. First, I’m not asking for free for all things for all time. I’m asking for either a limited free offering to see the sense of things, or a free trial of the whole thing.
If you want to offer an app for a paid up front cost, then don’t make it a free download and instead charge before downloading. You go through an entire onboarding process, asking permissions for various things, and only at the end of onboarding reveal that you cannot even see the interface without getting charged. You may as well just put the initial charge as a cost to download.
Finally, looking at current reviews, I noticed multiple reviews from different people with the same comment, reviews of literally only two words, that all magically rate five stars. Seems like astroturfing to me. For real people out there considering downloading this, just walk away.Show lessravenskana
Developer Response
Hi ravenskana. We’re sorry to hear that you were disappointed and weren’t able to try out the app. Our goal is to create an app that is useful, reliable and secure for all our users. However, it is impossible for us to do for free. We’re always open to feedback, and it would be great to hear from you if you could email us support-slowdive@reliz.comDownloaded, Purchased, Removed
As the title implies I downloaded this app and then purchased a plan. From the time I downloaded it, ambient music was playing and after I purchased the plan, I realized that I couldn’t turn off the ambient music. I thought it had stopped on its own and went about my business only to realize that music was coming from my purse. I was busy at the time so I just removed the app, but now I have to deal with either trying to get a refund or figuring out how to stop the music in the future. So far, this has been a total pain and I wish I hadn’t gotten myself into this in the first place.Show lessMountainYogaGirl
Developer Response
Hello MountainYogaGirl! Thank you for your review! I'm sorry to know you had difficulty turning off this music because there's a pause button right on the main screen of our app. Music doesn't turn off automatically because a lot of our users prefer to meditate with it and asked us to make this music continue even when the screen turns off. If you need more help with pausing the music or refund, please contact us at support-slowdive@reliz.com, we're here to help!okay so far but..
I just saw an advertisement this app on instagram and have been wanting to do some meditating and spiritual and chakra healing (after all had been advertised) so i figured i'd give it a shot- AFTER being asked several questions and spending about 5 minutes of setting up my profile- i am then introduced with the fact that the app is useless unless you pay- literally no access to anything. okay cool i buy a one month subscription because I really want to start my journey- after making my purchase i go to the meditations and while there are many options which seem helpful- there was not a single guided meditation, outline, or section on chakras and aligning them- kind of disappointing but i will still be using the app to its full potential because the other qualities are great.. just put some chakra stuff in there.. :))Show lesstdogg16
Developer Response
Hello tdogg16! Thank you for your review! :) You can find our chakra balancing meditations in the list of all meditations in the Practices part. If you need help with finding it, please contact us at support-slowdive@reliz.com, our support manager Daria will be able to assist you further.Lies
This app promises to refund you if you don’t find it useful. It’s guaranteed, and since they make it so you pretty much have to pay $40 to even see what is available, I did. Very quickly I realized it wasn’t for me, it bad but just not going to be beneficial for someone who already has a daily meditation routine. So I contacted the app (same day) to get rid of the subscription and be refunded. 3 days later a rep contacted me with instructions to type into any search engine “how to get a refund from apple for app subscriptions” lol. If I wanted to argue with Apple about an app guaranteeing refund and why I need one, trust me I would figure out how to do so on my own. I expect so so so much more from a mindfulness app and quite frankly I’m disgusted at their behavior and would never trust them with anything that has to do with my menta health.Show lessjessem923
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your review, although I'm sorry to know you were disappointed with the refunds politics. As you purchased your subscription through Apple, the refund should proceed through Apple too. I'll report to the team that our message about the refunds is not readable clear enough and confuses our users. Also, we’re always open to feedback, and it would be great to hear from you if you could email us support-slowdive@reliz.comNot bad…but
I really like the meditations, however the user face is a bit confusing to use. I can’t find anywhere that I can see all meditations; as my main goal was to use this app for chakra work. A random chakra meditation came up today but otherwise I can’t seem to choose out of all meditations. Also, the app keeps switching my days and nights around even though I gave it access to everything. Also, if I did want to change any preference I don’t like how you have to go through the whole test again to change one preference. Otherwise I think the meditations are very good, but I’m hoping to see improvements in the future.Show lessFrozenentity777
Developer Response
Hello Frozenentity777, thank you for such a detailed review! We so appreciate you taking the time to share your experience! We'll report all your comments to the product team. Ensuring user satisfaction with the app is really important to us, so it would be great to hear from you further about your experience if you could contact us at support-slowdive@reliz.comLooks/Sounds Great But There is a Price
This app does not give you any indication that there is a price to pay. Why don’t they just charge you from the get go whatever price they want you to pay? It’s misleading you get the app go through some series of questions and then you find out do you have to pay $30 for a year to use.Calm1818
Recommend
I like this app even though you have to pay for itNareen Boddisyn
Lovely
I like the fact that I can customize almost everything in this app, it’s actually very helpful to just make my meditation as I want it to beJaslynne Graviehf
The best meditation app I’ve seen
This app is awesome, new design is fabulous. It’s easy to use and it helps so much to establish meditation habit, incredible.
I’ve been trying bunch of other apps in this space but I have never seen anything even close to this. Great product! Huge thanks to whoever created it, you rock 🤍Svetlannnka!
