# Calm — user reviews > 3,605 indexed App Store user reviews of Calm by Calm.com, rated 4.80/5 from 1,976,407 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calm/id571800810/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calm/id571800810.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,710,317 · 4★ 164,909 · 3★ 52,225 · 2★ 16,400 · 1★ 32,556 ## What do users think of Calm? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💤 Helpful for sleep - 🧘‍♀️ Effective for meditation and relaxation - 🎨 Variety of content (sleep stories, meditations, music) - 🙏 Positive impact on mental health - 🤗 Soothing narrators - 📚 Useful for both adults and children **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription - 🔒 Limited free content - 🕰️ Difficulty finding specific content - 🔁 Repetitive sleep stories - 🙃 Accessibility issues for disabled users - 🌃 Lack of features for night shift workers **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes or freezes - Playback issues with audio and video - Difficulty cancelling subscription **Most requested features** - Add repeat button for sleep stories - Separate kids and adult content - Allow creating custom playlists - Improve search and navigation - Add more diverse narrator voices - Provide text-based instructions for techniques ## Newest reviews (16 of 3,605) ### 4/5 — New sleep stories *2026-08-23, version 6.101.1* Could we add more book or movie or tv show related sleep stories, maybe more of them about wolves and some new ones about dragons if possible? Just a suggestion, ### 4/5 — AI Photos *2026-08-22, version 6.101.1* Cheapens app ### 3/5 — Sleep stories *2026-08-22, version 6.101.1* I really enjoy some of the stories, especially the train stories but not enough of them ### 5/5 — Sooo helpful *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* I was really struggling to sleep until I used this app With music and stories to mindfulness meditation it has so much to offer ### 5/5 — Peaceful *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* This app is very peaceful loving and helps me heal ### 5/5 — Sleep *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* When ever i need to get to bed, the background noise of a sleep story ( is my case Professor Rambles) helps me sleep. It is nice and calming. Thank you calm for your service. ### 5/5 — Calm Review *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Amazing work to help people fall asleep!Definitely recommend for kids and adults. There’s a sleep story or meditation on here for everyone! Personal favorites are Waldorf Astoria by Paige DeSorbo, A Christmas Shift, and Harry Styles’ meditation one! ### 5/5 — The best *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* Amazing ### 5/5 — Tamara is exceptional *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* Great content ### 5/5 — All good *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* I’ve always appreciated Tamara’s meditations. I can think of no ways to improve them. I depend on them to start my day well. Thank you. ### 3/5 — Great content, annoying user interface *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* The fact that I’m writing this review instead of experiencing the calm I was looking for sums up my disappointment. There’s some really great content, but the user interface has some really messy and confusing quirks, I would give it five stars if they would make it simpler and more intuitive to use. ### 5/5 — Saved me! *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* Listening to the daily meditations through the past six years helped me go through the unravelling of our hotel business after Covid, the subsequent loss of the hotel and the very real threat of bankruptcy. I’m still here and still smiling thanks to Calm 🌹 ### 4/5 — Calm is cool *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* This is a great app if you have trouble sleeping 💤 and if you are reading this you should watch the owl house on Disney it is really great show and has a comic coming out soon if you want more of the show ### 4/5 — Great for the most part *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* I love this app and use it daily, but it’s very often slow to respond. ### 5/5 — 10/10 recommend *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* Absolutely love the app have used it for 2 years now. Sleep stories, EDMR helps with stress and headaches also love the daily inspiration ### 5/5 — Reason why i love calm: *2026-08-20, version 6.101.1* 1. I'm so stressed all the time, but when i turn on calm i fall asleep in 7min 2. It helps me focus on the good side of life! 3. I can hear the stories i love from different points of views 4. Its great for ALL AGES, 5. Sometimes they have famous people reading like harry styles 6. ITS AMAZING 5 STARS! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Less marketing please *2026-08-23, version 6.101.1* First thing I see every time I open the app that I prepaid a year for is a sales pitch. So incredibly lame. And the UI is redundant and totally disorganized. And the fake helping me cues as though it’s a mindfulness app are super annoying. I hate that I bought this. ### 1/5 — Overpriced *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Success went to their heads. I used to have this app for free many years ago. I now redownloaded it and am met with this app trying to charge me $80/year for something that I had for free. Outrageous scam. ### 1/5 — Scammers *2026-08-19, version 6.101.1* They will not let you delete you personal data once you create an account. Will be reporting them to Apple support too as this is illegal. ### 1/5 — Red flag! VERY difficult to cancel free trial! *2026-08-19, version 6.101.1* I have been trying to cancel my free trial of Calm for three days now. They do not have an easy cancel button within the app, you have to do it through a web browser. I can’t remember my password because I set this account up in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep and signed up for this free trial out of desperation. I have tried to reset my password several times from several devices, and it never sends me the email to reset. The app recognizes me as logged in, and as a premium subscriber, but will not allow me to cancel the free trial through the app without signing in through a Web browser. Even though I’m signed in to the app. They have no live support and the AI bot couldn’t help me so it said it sent an email to the IT team. That was two days ago, and I have heard nothing. It’s a seven day free trial. They are going to charge my credit card in three days if I don’t cancel this free trial. If you were going to use this app at all, I would be very sure that you want to pay for it before you sign up for a free trial. ### 1/5 — great but music eats battery, files do not load *2026-08-17, version 6.101.1* i have used this app for hundreds of hours of meditation. I love it but there are two problems: 1) over time the app seems to get slower and slower. Deleting the app and reinstalling seems to help. Seems like a data structure maintenance issue. 2) content does not load reliably. the app just spins. loading recently played meditations often shows much older stuff, not recent. Feels like caching or CDN issues. 3) I love the Calm music offerings but playing the music dramatically consumes battery - especially relative to apple music which I listen to all day. Seems like some inefficiency needs to be debugged. ### 1/5 — No free options *2026-08-16, version 6.101.1* This might as well be a paid app. Don’t even bother making an account, the entire app is paywalled - front to back. Deleted my account and the app ### 1/5 — Subscription program made me lose my mind mindfulness. *2026-08-15, version 6.101.1* I wanted to check this app out to help my kid become more mindful. It insists you do a free trial, so I did that. Almost everything in the app requires another layer of premium service. Somehow things must’ve gotten clicked to do that canceling the free trial and charging me $50 and I can’t even find anything on here tailored for children. ### 1/5 — Can I just go to sleep *2026-08-15, version 6.101.1* Every time I open the app to go to sleep it asks me to rate it. I like the app but I hate getting asked to rate stuff. So there. Maybe they won’t ask again. ### 1/5 — Questionable cancellation practices - do not take free trial *2026-08-15, version 6.101.1* I got the free trial for this app. Went through 4 different rounds if asking me if I’m sure I want to cancel. Then I get to a screen that in LARGE letters says “No problem. We hope you’ve enjoyed your time at calm”. Two weeks later I see a charge for the app. Turns out in small writing underneath it said you can’t actually cancel here. You can only cancel from the Apple screens. This feels purposefully deceptive to keep the subscription unintentionally. ### 1/5 — Constant frustration *2026-08-14, version 6.101.1* Impossible to get the Premium content to show up. A ridiculous amount of effort to sign in and access the content, even though I paid for a friggin’ year at $70 bucks. An expensive waste of money. No matter how much I did - signed in via email, Apple, deleted and reloaded the app, nothing worked. One time I actually got it to say “Your Premium content is waiting.” And then a second later it went back to everything being locked. No other app has ever been this difficult to use. For something that is supposed to be calming, the developers blew it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Looking for easy self care moments. *2026-08-23, version 6.101.1* This app is great for anyone looking to learn and improve your self care routine. Many different types are available and easy to find. I recommend exploring the apps wide range of products. Some are short some are long. But I always find what fits best for me. ### 5/5 — Love to use *2026-08-23, version 6.101.1* I use this app every night and often during the day. ### 5/5 — Excellent tool *2026-08-23, version 6.101.1* I’ve been using many features of the Calm app for a few years now. It’s always my go-to. I especially appreciate the daily trips with Jeff Warren. 5 ⭐️ from this long time member. ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Best app in the world. I use it everyday and it’s worth every minute of each audio/video. I would recommend it for everyone, whether you’re having a good or bad day. ### 5/5 — Good app *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Best ### 5/5 — Life changing *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Amazing app, love the sleep stories and guided meditations, it’s honestly changed my life ### 5/5 — Oxygen for my emotions *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* I find this app to be important for my emotional, personal and professional growth. Critical actually. ### 5/5 — Appreciation *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Learning how to meditate. CALM is helping me a great deal. Esp. during high levels of anxiety. ### 5/5 — Eases anxiety *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* I have ADHD and PTSD. The sleep stories help me stop the raving thoughts and anxiety ### 5/5 — Life Changing. *2026-08-21, version 6.101.1* Started using Calm a fee years ago after i totally burnt out. Full breakdown. Calm has been a foundation of my rehab and along with breathwork, has totally changed my life. I use DailyCalm everyday. First thing. Thanks Tamara, the voice of my mornings and the voice of my Calm ❤️ --- *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 2026-08-29.*