# Expectful: Wellness for Moms — user reviews > 240 indexed App Store user reviews of Expectful by Expectful LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 4,504 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expectful-wellness-for-moms/id1173564771/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expectful-wellness-for-moms/id1173564771.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,128 · 4★ 191 · 3★ 38 · 2★ 36 · 1★ 111 ## What do users think of Expectful? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💤 Calming and relaxing meditations - 🤰 Helpful for pregnancy and postpartum - 🧘‍♀️ Wide variety of meditation options - 🤱 Supportive for fertility and loss journeys - 🧠 Improves mental health and reduces anxiety - 🌙 Aids in sleep and relaxation - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Meditations for couples and families **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription - 🐛 Technical issues with app functionality - 🤔 Lack of free content access - 📢 Misleading about subscription details **Commonly reported bugs** - Meditations not loading or playing properly - Subscription issues and unexpected charges - Crashes and freezes when using the app **Most requested features** - More diverse representation in content - Improved user interface and navigation - Ability to save progress and resume meditations - Integration with other health/wellness apps ## Newest reviews (14 of 240) ### 2/5 — App seems to be void of content *2025-09-09, version 3.3.9* I used this app for my first pregnancy 4 years ago and it was amazing. I redownloaded and it was very dry on content, like meditations had been deleted. There were no events or community portals. I believe no one is working on this app anymore and wasted $8.50 subscribing so sharing this so others don’t do the same. ### 3/5 — Birth *2025-06-09, version 3.3.9* This was a nice bread ### 2/5 — Content change *2025-02-27, version 3.3.9* This app used to be incredible. Filled with meditations, resources, and courses for pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. Unfortunately, they recently decided to gut their meditation collections and essentially remove almost all motherhood content. This app is now only good for the hypnobirthing course. So very disappointing. ### 3/5 — Great content but buggy *2025-02-21, version 3.3.9* This app has been really great throughout my pregnancy; however it feels like the team is trying to do too much since there are multiple errors and bugs that make the experience much less enjoyable. For example, pulling in incorrect content for the daily meditations, some listed as 20 min meditations only being 10 mins, multiple places to update trimester when this should be applied across all given settings. My only other feedback is that I would like if the daily meditations were closer to 10 minutes since the 3-4 minutes feels too short. The hypnobirthing course is great as are many of the informative articles. I can see how this app can get to be excellent - just more quality control needed. ### 5/5 — 5:00 *2025-01-28, version 3.3.9* Wonderful ### 2/5 — Needs Improvement *2025-01-15, version 3.3.9* Bugs have been fixed but it’s been 3 weeks and no added content that used to exist on the app. Still paying the same amount per a month for less content than before. Understand that troubleshooting needs to happen and takes time but disappointed that there hasn’t been any additional updates. I’m 17 weeks into my pregnancy and there have been no updated meditations since week 12. Really loved this app for my first pregnancy and was looking forward to using it for this one as well. ### 5/5 — Exceptional *2025-01-06, version 3.3.9* I heard about this app from a YouTuber. Wow, the daily meditations to connect with your growing baby has become invaluable. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Helpful *2025-01-03, version 3.3.9* I enjoy how relaxed I feel and the motivational quotes it’s easy to listen to and easy to complete once a day. ### 5/5 — Essential for pregnancy *2024-12-30, version 3.3.9* I loved this app and all the content throughout my pregnancy. I really enjoyed the daily meditations curated for each week in my pregnancy. Also used the meditations to help me sleep during pregnancy insomnia. I’m even loving all the content and continuing to use the app postpartum. ### 5/5 — Calming *2024-12-17, version 3.3.8* Struggling to sleep and it put me in such a relaxed state ### 5/5 — Best meditation app for anyone in the TTC and motherhood journey *2024-12-16, version 3.3.8* This app got me through a miscarriage, pregnancy and postpartum. I still listen to these meditations during my new motherhood stages. Now, the app won’t even open at all. Please let us know if you’ve shut down or if you’re working on fixing it. ### 5/5 — Great app, connectivity issues. *2024-12-06, version 3.3.8* I love this app so much but sometimes the meditation will not load for me. I have not had this issue at all until now. I love the resources just would like to be able to connect and listen to my meditations. Other than that though this app helped me learned how to use hypnobirthing and strengthen my mind before I delivered my baby. ### 3/5 — Meditations not playing anymore *2024-12-06, version 3.3.8* For the last week or so, the meditations have stopped playing. It just keeps giving the buffering symbol. I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app. Please help resolve this issue. Thank you ### 2/5 — Appendage for six days!!! *2024-12-03, version 3.3.8* I used to love this app and then they had an outage and no content was available thru the app. Customer support is VERY slow to respond and give updates. I guess I have to find a different meditation app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Links not working *2025-04-13, version 3.3.9* After upgrading to access premium content I realized none of the links are working and the page gives a 503 service error. ### 1/5 — Content Won’t Load *2025-02-27, version 3.3.9* The meditations don’t load which is really disappointing. I used the app during my 1st pregnancy and loved it! I logged almost 500 minutes of meditation. I was excited to jump back in while TTC but the meditations won’t load. I really hope they fix it. ### 1/5 — I used to love this app *2025-01-03, version 3.3.9* Edit Jan 3 - I did reach out to see if the motherhood and healing sections would be added to and instead of responding they marked my requests as solved.I would just like a simple answer and they can’t seems to respond. I relied on this app so much to help me get through my traumatic birth and motherhood. Now though there are barely any meditations in the motherhood or healing section. I don’t know if it will ever be back to the original format. There used to be so much more content every where in the app. If it’s not back to the original content I may have canceled my subscription, and I really don’t want to. I legit have anxiety thinking about having to cancel lol ### 1/5 — Helpful *2024-12-16, version 3.3.8* The Expectful app is beyond helpful especially for a fertility & loss journey. My one huge wish as I’ve been using the app for more than a year is that they update content more often. Especially with the pricing change from an affordable annual fee to a higher monthly rate of $8.99 per month. If you are charging more I would expect a more robust experience with new updated content and features. For example Peloton is around $14 per month & the app offers a robust variety of meditations, spin, yoga, walking, pilates… etc. While constantly adding new content daily. That’s only $6 per month more than Expectful. Therefore I expect more updates & content if the price is also going up. ### 1/5 — Nothing is loading *2024-12-08, version 3.3.8* So disappointed with this app. I paid for the full experience over a week ago but it’s been unusable. Not a single meditation or class loads. Such a waste of time. I had high hopes as the content seems to be good. ### 1/5 — Bug needs fixed -please! *2024-12-05, version 3.3.8* My free month trial is quickly slipping away while none of the audio tracks will play. I’ve tried everything to get it working again but it seems like a bug with the app, PLEASE FIX IT EXPECTFUL!! :( ### 1/5 — Not working *2024-12-02, version 3.3.8* Really wanted to try this app but nothing plays and it seems like it has lots of bugs. I’ve downloaded and reinstalled numerous times with no fixes. ### 1/5 — App stopped working *2024-11-30, version 3.3.8* This is a wonderful app but seemed to stop working about a week ago. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2024-11-27, version 3.3.8* I really wanted to love this app because it’s been so hard to find good pregnancy/labor meditations and it has really great reviews. However I can’t even listen to any because they won’t load. It doesn’t matter if I’m on WiFi or cellular data, all it does is play the background sound and the loading circle just spins and spins. I tried restarting the app and deleting and redownloading it and nothing helps. I reached out to support and haven’t heard anything. ### 1/5 — Unable to play anything *2024-11-27, version 3.3.8* I just tried this app, it’s not playing anything sometimes it plays background music ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app for pregnancy *2025-10-27, version 3.3.9* Love the meditations ### 5/5 — Calm mama=happy baby bump! *2025-09-22, version 3.3.9* LOVE this app! Love the daily pregnancy meditations and that they tell me how far I’ve come! (Not an estimate of how many days I have left!) the meditations are soothing and quick so I don’t feel pressured to find time to do them. The classes are AMAZING-the teachers are knowledgeable and kind! Love it! ### 5/5 — Extraordinary *2025-07-29, version 3.3.9* Best app for calming effects and quickly takes over the anxious tendencies ### 5/5 — Relaxing and informative *2025-06-21, version 3.3.9* I love the meditations and the info on how my baby is changing. ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2025-06-17, version 3.3.9* So many meditations, a great Hypnobirthing class (way easier than trying to find a video series on YouTube), and all free! ### 5/5 — Helpful after loss *2025-05-09, version 3.3.9* Really helpful after loss, very validating and calming ### 5/5 — Hypnobirthing content and daily meditations *2025-04-12* I used this app for my first pregnancy. It proved to be a great companion to what can be a lonely journey at times. I used it for daily meditations to manage anxiety or simply to connect with my baby. The meditation approach and content felt well paced and appropriate to what I was experiencing at every stage of the pregnancy. Special praise need be given to their hypnobirthing content. I listened to the course early third trimester and used the visualization techniques often leading all the way up to birth. During the first stage of labour and at the peak of pain the visualizations kept me calm and focused. This app and hypnobirthing content had a huge impact on a positive first birth experience. Now I am using it to manage postpartum anxiety. I wholeheartedly recommend Expectful to every mother to be. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Loving this app *2025-04-04, version 3.3.9* The meditations aligned to every week of pregnancy are amazing. I’ve been looking for something just like this and I’m so glad I found it! Helping me to stay calm and connected to my baby as we both grow. ### 5/5 — Worth Every Penny *2025-03-09, version 3.3.9* I am so thankful for the resource that Expectful has become in my second pregnancy. Not only are the meditations curated for specific seasons in your motherhood journey, the articles and two courses available are high quality tools I go to for support. My favorite is the hypnobirthing course. It is digestible and I love that I can come back to it again and again as I prepare for giving birth. I plan on using it during labor. I wish I would have used this app for my first pregnancy. Even if you just get it for a month before your due date, I recommend it to all birthing folks looking for a tool to support their mental health. Thank you Expectful! ### 5/5 — Exactly What I Was Missing *2025-02-01, version 3.3.9* This is my first pregnancy and it’s been an emotional roller coaster. Working a stressful job, planning the future, and thinking about how everything will change can feel overwhelming. Even I still try to balance it out with connecting to the baby growing in my womb, it can be hard to find a truly quiet space and mindset to reflect. I was already a fan of meditation, but there’s something extra meaningful about meditation with a focus on the wonder and beauty of your pregnancy. I also appreciate there are meditation options of various lengths to accommodate my unpredictable schedule. The guided meditation is very well narrated and I’ve truly enjoyed this app. --- *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 2026-06-10.*