# Ananda Meditation — user reviews > 63 indexed App Store user reviews of Ananda Meditation by Ananda Church of Self-Realization, rated 4.90/5 from 645 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ananda-meditation/id1151716464/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ananda-meditation/id1151716464.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 603 · 4★ 34 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Ananda Meditation? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🙏 Wonderful meditation experience - 👍 Customizable meditation sessions - 🌟 Comprehensive meditation resources - 💎 Inspiring and profound meditations - 🧘‍♀️ Helpful for beginners and advanced users - 🌍 Connects users to the Ananda community **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional app crashes and freezes - 🔄 Difficulty with custom meditation setup - 🔍 Limited selection of guided meditations **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes after recent update - Custom meditations not saving properly **Most requested features** - More guided meditation options - Improved custom meditation builder - Yoga and pranayama exercises - Tips on chanting and using the harmonium ## Newest reviews (18 of 63) ### 5/5 — Won’t Open *2020-04-25* I love this app and use it everyday, twice a day, faithfully. So imagine my disappointment in finding the app crashes every time I open it. Please fix soon...please! **Developer response:** UPDATE (4/26): The app should be working fine now. Let us know at apps@ananda.org if you run into any more trouble and we can help figure it out. Thanks for the report! ORIGINAL MESSAGE (4/26): Hi there — thanks for the report. It looks like this is affecting a lot of users. We're working on fixing it and hope to have it back in normal operation soon. Apologies for the down time! ॐ ### 5/5 — Dear Ananda *2020-04-24, version 1.17* I am enjoying your app. But for some reason I am unable to open the app today. It opens the app and shows the splash screen and displays landing screens and scrolls to my last position and crashes. Please release a fix for this. ### 5/5 — Love this *2020-04-13* Thanks for putting up a free app like this. I am alive just by doing your meditations in this app and all the breath exercises ### 5/5 — The most comprehensive app for Meditation *2020-03-31* Ananda Meditation app is the most comprehensive and easy to use app for meditation. It has an option for every palette, from short visualisations to long meditations, chanting and prayers. What I like best is the customisation option. This app has both regularised and deepened my practice. Thank You and Jay Guru ### 5/5 — Incredible! *2020-03-23* Such an amazing organization - I learned to meditate at an Ananda retreat and to have this app with these wonderful meditations. I use it daily 🙏🏼 ### 5/5 — Suffer From Anxiety *2020-02-02, version 1.17* I su ### 5/5 — Successful living *2019-11-23, version 1.17* 💕 ### 5/5 — Very Dharmic *2019-09-26, version 1.17* I really enjoy this app a lot more than the new SRF system although they also have moved forward leaps and bounds from my first paper lessons in my three ringed binders. I like how it keeps stats on my progress although in truth I spend a lot longer portions of my day on YouTube listening to Asha, swami, and Roy they have a particular vibration that seems easier to tune into. This app is a great asset on the spiritual development, I'm hoping to master patanjalis yoga sutras and rework my neurological pathways to figure out each of the triggers for my seven endocrine glands which produces the hormones or energy the Chinese and Japanese call chi and which you call prana and then move all that energy up into my brain loop it around my aura like I did when I was at Ananda and enter a state of consciousness that utterly terrified me but was ecstatic beyond anything I'd ever experienced. To bad there's not a God realized master to help me finish my training. I could really use a guru in the flesh to guide me through this very difficult endeavor. In any case great app and will continue to increase my meditation durations I just get so amped up from 15-30min I can hardly stand all the blissful kundalini chills that move up my spine and into my brain it is extremely difficult for me to sit down for longer durations but I enjoy meditation practice throughout the day in waking consciousness. Today is my birthday and the tenth year of my meditation practice I started to meditate 5 minutes a day when I was 22 after my soul was ripped out of my body and I was transported to the 7th astral heavens which forever is my home and drives my soul towards ever more spiritual life forms as I long to go back and be there permanently. Which the light beings said was possible so long as I lived accordingly and helped humanity to step into its fullest potential with the help of my friends from both east and west John the Baptist and bobaji Krishna and each of the most highly developed saints from recently recorded history along with some angels who have never incarnated and some alien beings who's souls descended into human wombs they are human in life but they're from somewhere else Orian, pledian, or whatever. Be great to find all the saints with an education bill for our public schools. Everyone can meditate so if they train children about amino acids and getting full proteins from vegetarian foods, meditation practices and the practical effects in the body and brain from said technical training from a scientific perspective using words like hormones, parasympathetic nervous system, autonomic nervous system, endocrine glands, neurological pathways, human magnetic energy field, Electroencephalogram for running diagnostics on brain development between the states of consciousness alpha delta theta beta and gamma. Words like that would help to westernize the teachings and quantify them in a way that works in a non dogmatic way for any faith or religious affiliation to use them in their daily lives to increase their bodies ability to perceive the known world. It would be really cool to partner with muse electroencephalograms as you can find on amazon and develop a website or login where you can share and chart your progress in rank that way if there's a person who's a Muslim and I identify as a Christian that we could look say Raheesh you quite the meditator do you think that I could meditate with you because to deepen both of our practices. Steel sharpens steel ### 5/5 — Energization *2019-09-02* I love this teaching demo. It is so helpful for learning the EE’s that even a Klötze like I can easily follow along and learn. The the variety of fast forwards allows one to practice on one’s own and fast forward to sections needing review. Great job Richard ❤️ ### 5/5 — Beautiful, Helpful, Amazing *2019-08-31, version 1.17* Thank you all Ananda brothers and sisters for creating this amazing app full of beautiful meditations that are so helpful in my life. Can’t recommend enough to anybody who wants to start meditating or is already on the path of going back within. ### 5/5 — Meditazione guidata *2019-07-31, version 1.17* Un app fantastica e di grande aiuto. Consiglio vivamente e di più consiglio una visita ad Ananda ### 5/5 — Fabulous meditation app! 👍🏻 *2019-07-22* This is a simple to use meditation app. Full of different types of meditations; from guided, to visualizations. Timed with chanting and prayers and without. And many combinations in between. Plus sections on tips and more. And it’s good for anyone who wants to create a practice, sustain a practice, or restart their practice! ### 5/5 — A personal assistant for your practice *2019-07-11* I can’t begin to talk about how fantastic this app is. Has to be one of the most thought out apps for meditators of all levels out there and the only one that incorporates the teachings of Supreme Yoga Master Paramahansa Yogananda. This app has lessons on meditation and instructions on techniques for the beginner which makes it a meditation course on its own. For the moderate meditator it has guided meditations, chants and kirtans, energization exercises, pranayama techniques and a meditation timer and a feature to set up reminders for ones practice. For those more advance it has a create your own meditation session featur which for me is the highlight of the app. This feature allows you to create a meditation session by incorporating audios and videos from the archive in the app. You can set up the opening prayer, the a chant of your liking, a guided meditation for you specific purpose, sounds of bell, harps or just chanting Aum and a finishing prayer. With this feature the possibilities are huge. I truly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Excellent meditation videos *2019-07-08* I’m so grateful to have been led to Ananda’s meditation videos. They have reinforced my spiritual practice and brightened my path. I definitely recommend them. ### 5/5 — Deepest meditation *2019-04-16* Something wonderful about hearing a master of meditation guide me to stay focused. Makes it easy. ### 5/5 — Visualizations *2019-03-21, version 1.17* Great positive morning habit to set up a joyful, peaceful day ### 5/5 — Speechless *2019-02-20* And grateful that you are doing this service to mankind. ### 5/5 — Ananda app *2018-12-08* Awesome app. Many different guided meditations and other inspirational aspects. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Update makes app unusable *2020-11-19* I don’t know what happened. I was using the app and it worked great since the beginning of this year (2020). After the very recent upgrade it does not work at all. The meditations do not load and my custom ones (that I had to rebuild because they did not come over with the update) only work randomly, and have never completely worked through a session. Please bring back the original app! **Developer response:** Hi CMJ, so sorry so hear about these problems, especially when they’ve messed things up for you that were previously working fine. Would you like to write to apps@ananda.org? I’d love to help figure out what is going on and fix it. Let us know what your account is, if you have one, and the best way to get in touch with you. I’m sure that we’ll be able to help. ### 3/5 — Prefer the SRF *2021-08-25, version 2.0.14* Much prefer the authorized SRF methods ### 4/5 — Best meditation practice and technique for concentration *2018-01-08* Ananda meditation is the best practice and technique for starting the day with focus and clarity. The only thing I would say could be changed is some of the choppy video and options for putting a full practice / routine together. More yoga options would also be great since it helps take one into meditation more easily if one's mind is busy. Would love to have tips on how to chant and the instrument called the harmonium. **Developer response:** Hi Kalamali, thanks for taking the time to write and share your thoughts. These suggestions are like gold to us. :) We do have solutions for a couple of them, so I wanted to share those in case you found them helpful: - How to Chant: There's a category of videos under Devotional Chanting and Music called "Learn How to Chant with Harmonium" — I think that may be what you are looking for. - Putting a routine together: Look under "Custom Meditations" for how you can build your own custom practices, that you can then re-use. We'd love to know more about the choppy video problem you have; if you're able to write to apps@ananda.org with more information, that would be great! Thanks for your comments and free to write any time with ideas. ### 4/5 — I love Ananda Meditation app *2017-09-25* I have been studying meditation in an online course from Ananda. I found out about this app and tried it. It helped me learn the Energization Exercises better by following the video. I have meditated more deeply than usual by listening to the first of about 8 guided meditations - the 25 minute one given by Swami Kriyananda. I gave 4 rather than 5 stars because there is only one short meditation available so far. Having a number of 5 - 20 minute audios of guided meditations would be very valuable for both beginners or even more experienced meditators who want to add another meditation that doesn't take as long. Thanks, Ananda, for this wonderful app and all you do! **Developer response:** Hi Gail, thanks for your great feedback. We've been recording more short meditations based on your suggestion and others' and will be adding them to the app soon. In the meantime, you might enjoy a couple of new sections: "Meditation Remedies" and "Short Practices for Successful Living." ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-11* Good ### 5/5 — The gift of Ananda Meditation App!!! *2026-06-10* Since receiving my Kriya Ban initiation, I have been using the Ananda Meditation App, especially the Custom Mode, and it has greatly enriched my meditation practice. I particularly love the Invocation Prayer, the Chant, the Affirmations, and the Peace Prayer with the three AUMs—each one helps me enter a deep state of peace, focus, and connection with the Masters…. The entire experience is truly blissful and uplifting…..Deeply grateful for this beautiful app and the light it brings into my daily practice….Aum Guru!!! ### 5/5 — Absolutely Amazing 🙏 *2024-12-15* Thank you for this absolutely amazing app 🙏 I love the feature that one can put together ones own meditation 🙏 It’s truly a blissful app … From short to long to a self planned meditation …🙏one of the best meditation apps I have used 🙏 Thank you and Jai Guru 🙏 ### 5/5 — Miracle of apps for meditation *2020-11-04* I love the customize section of this app. Suddenly, I’m not looking for what I need. I have made it with this app. My morning meditations are blessed so much more now! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2020-09-30* Its is a wonderful combination of chanting,meditation,excercises and what not ### 5/5 — I love this meditation app! *2020-09-24, version 1.17* Very calming, inspiring and profound deep relaxation! ## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — App *2020-09-11, version 1.17* Amazing app thank you for the free chanting and many other videos ### 5/5 — Samadhi *2020-07-09, version 1.17* Mss ### 5/5 — Energization exercise *2020-07-08, version 1.17* We love Gyandev! Thank you and many blessings ### 5/5 — Meditation sublime! *2020-06-05* A truly wonderful app that really teaches you to take stock of your current lifestyle and eliminate attitudes and beliefs that have had the effect over many lifetimes of distancing you from God. It makes you realize where and how you have gone astray and shows you how to get back again to where you are meant to be! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*