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So good, but want more please!
I’ve used smiling mind for the past three or four years and I’ve loved it, the meditations are all very relaxing and well structured. I love how you can see for how much time you’ve meditated, and for how many days you’ve meditated consecutively, it creates a lot of incentive to continue meditating and using the app.
The only negative thing I have to say is that I want more!! Particularly more sleep meditations and meditations specifically for when you wake up. I’ve already gone through their 21 day sleep meditation module twice, as well as their sleep for teen and adults modules many times, and they’re amazing, but they do get repetitive if you’re doing them super often. Otherwise, affirmation meditations would also be a good feature.
Overall, highly recommend.Show lessPicture Editor
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing! We are always working towards adding more content and features, stay tuned!Great app
I love the app but for some reason I don’t have the daily well-being check. I enabled it in the settings but it doesn’t show up. Can someone help or am I doing something wrong?tuiisabird
Developer Response
Sorry to hear this, try reaching out to info@smilingmind.com.au and someone will help you out.Exceptionally simple, useful essential tool for life!
I have some experience in meditation and have long held the view that it is an essential skill for life. I’m amazed at how easy this little app is to use and how accessible it is to a multitude of people. Even though I felt experienced in meditation it taught me many more things and gave me more purpose for increasing practice and the structure around me to make it an everyday “thing”
I want everyone to practice calm and I am now taking steps to have it as part of my workplace everyday maybe even an a part of our OccHelath&Safety compliance Mindfulness Ambassadors or Calm Wardens!!😀
This app is a positive step in the right direction for educating the general everyday folk and will help reduce stigma and isolation for people with mental illness and mental health issues as well as people with burnout at work or just stress toward illnesses.
Congratulations!Show lessMegalegs66
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing!Love!!
I think that overall it does a great job of making mental health tools accessible to all ages and creates a simple and adjustable format for those who have never engaged in mediation or those who regularly mediate. My instinct would be to give this app 4.5 stars because I think there could be more visual pieces not only to make it more inclusive of those with hearing impairments, but to also diversify the ways which people engage with mediations. In my exploring of the app, I did not discover breathing visuals or other short videos explaining how to do certain tasks. It is not a necessary feature but would make the app more inclusive and accessible. I think the app should also expand the pool of the cultural and linguistic options, to better include those who do not speak English. A recent study found that “nearly half (48%) of school-aged children experience sleep disturbance that results in less than the recommended sleep duration, which may negatively impact mental health and behavior”, in the United Sates (Puzia, et al., 2020). Puzia et. al. researched children under the age of 18 using the Calm app to help decrease their sleep troubles. More than 96% of parents, whose children used the Calm app when lying down to go to bed, believed that it was helpful to put their child to sleep. Similar to Calm, Smiling Mind allows for access to mediation tools not just for sleep but in dealing with stress and other life challenges individuals face.Show lessE Loogie
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this wonderful detailed review!Best meditation app out there
I’ve tried a whole bunch of different meditation apps, and none compare to Smiling Mind. The guided meditations are thoughtful, relaxing, and engaging. I never feel bored during a session, and there’s always a session that feels right for my mood/day. I’m looking for relaxation in my meditations, and the way the sessions focus on my breathing/the motions of my body helps me keep my focus and really feel the benefits — no other app I tried did this. Thank you to the developers, I have used Smiling Mind for years and plan to keep doing so!Show lessmidnightxday
Download/Favorites sections don’t do much
I would hope to go to my download section and be able to use it to begin using the meditation(s) I liked enough to download for use offline and not have to return to the app to find the meditation within its module to use it. So it is helpful to have the list when you use more than one, but not especially efficient.
Favorites are the same, in that, it shows a list of the meditations I enjoy the most. However, if I use the meditation 3 times it appears as though I have 3 favorites with the same name. I can’t access the meditation from the favorites module, so again, it’s fairly useless.
Meditations are very good and I have donated to this excellent program. I read some 10-11 year olds who have anxiety and are not finding relief with the recommended meditations. For mine, as an old woman I use the body scan and it helps me. So try some other meditations it doesn’t have to be for kids, or anxiety. Just try stuff, it’s just people saying nice stuff. You are probably smarter than they realize. When I have to fly I listen to the drumming for the “Master and Commander” soundtrack. Lol Keep trying don’t give up.Show lessGettnTired
Developer Response
Thanks for the helpful feedback!Bro, Thank u so much
Thank you so much for making this free and one of the best apps out there. Having it free help so much with money it’s weird because a couple days I started to use mindfulness in my daily life
Thank so much
Whoever sees this you gotta give it a tryMrPandaxx
Developer Response
Thanks for your review!So far so good
My early experience of using this is positive. I find the meditation approaches more accessible than the world’s top paid meditation app (He@dsp@ce - which I also tried for about a year and found it too abstract - it was also annoyingly notifying and emailing me all the time).
The only slight annoyance with Smiling Mind is filling in the questions before you start a session - perhaps there’s a way to disable this?
Great work, nice job our Aussie friends!Show less!dave the cardboard box
Developer Response
Thanks so much for the kind review! You can go to the 'More' page and turn off the Wellbeing Check In before a mediation.Too complicated and annoying
If you wanted to create the most complicated, confusing, annoying and user-unfriendly mindfulness app, this would be it! There are too many interfaces and courses to navigate for this to be helpful. You don’t have the option of just doing a simple 10 or 15 minute meditation if you want to which makes it impossible to be consistent. There is way too much talking during each recording. I am a complete beginner and even I felt like basically every session was filled with 50% rambling about ‘the mind is a thought machine, thinking is what it does!’, which makes it impossible to focus and actually practice mindfulness. When I tried to do one of the extended meditations I couldn’t finish it because for what seemed like 5 minutes the guy wouldn’t shut up about bubbles. Shame as this is one of few mindfulness apps that a free.Show lessxudhejejehs
Developer Response
Hi there, we are really sorry to hear you think this. Our app has hundreds of possible meditation including many simple 10-15 minute meditations. The app is designed to teach beginners about the science behind mindfulness meditation as well as practice it. We also have many meditations designed for children that use things like bubbles to teach about mindfulness. Please share any suggestions of how we can continue to improve the app with info@smilingmind.com.au.au - thanks for sharing.Update is huge improvement
I've used this app for a while. The content was always great the but layout/design was a bit confusing and overwhelming. Not anymore. I opened the app recently dkr the first time in a couple weeks and was excited to see a whole new design. It's a huge improvement and much easier to use. I feel like this is now on par with the big paid apps like Headspace or Calm.Show lessChrisobs13
