# Guru: Stories & Meditation — user reviews > 103 indexed App Store user reviews of Guru by Telepathic, Inc., rated 4.40/5 from 17,933 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guru-stories-and-meditation/id1551854825/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guru-stories-and-meditation/id1551854825.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13,857 · 4★ 1,386 · 3★ 758 · 2★ 419 · 1★ 1,513 ## What do users think of Guru? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Helps with sleep - 👍 Personalized meditation - 🌙 Relaxing music **Cons** - 💰 Subscription required to access full features - 🔒 Limited access without subscription - 📱 Subscription issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and glitches - Inability to navigate away from subscription screens **Most requested features** - Free access to full stories and features - Option to choose stories without subscription - Ability to exit subscription screens ## Newest reviews (14 of 103) ### 3/5 — fun but annoying *2025-05-20, version 2.4.1* I really liked the game and the stories were nice and all but to pay $5 each each all to hear and meditate ? Seriously? There’s better apps out there that don’t require much just to be even funner so I honestly love this app but it’s just not it sometimes. ### 4/5 — Awesome *2024-07-18, version 2.4.1* It’s awesome at first ngl I thought it was a scam until I started to read it it was amazing it puts me to sleep really fast ty so much for this app 🩷🩷 ### 1/5 — Nahh. *2024-07-08, version 2.4.1* Ok I was starting to like the app, the music is good. There’s a problem. I don’t want to join the Gurukul because you have to pay. It’s literally asking “Would you like an invitation to join the Gurukul?” And the only option I have is to press “Request Invitation” There’s not even an “X” or a skip button. I don’t really recommend. ### 1/5 — WHY *2024-07-06, version 2.4.1* I HAVE TO FREAKING SUBSCRIBE TO READ ONE STORY I HATE THIS APP GIRL BYE ### 1/5 — I hate this app *2024-06-30, version 2.4.1* I hate this app because tells me I have to pay when they said it was free. I hate this app. I will never download it. I was watching YouTube and then I found this app and it had a commercial and it gave me stories so I wanted to hear a story at night, but, I had to pay and I did not want to because I have troubles sleeping if I don’t have a story on my phone or noises that make me sleep so I hate this because they said it’s free but it is it. I will never use this app ever again. Ew ### 2/5 — You have to pay for EVERYTHING *2024-06-29, version 2.4.1* I saw an as for this app and it look interesting, especially because I have sleep insomnia. When you opens the app it gives to the option to pick a story or a meditation, I picked story. While I was waiting for my story it finally came and it said that before I read the story I have to be a member… idk about you but I am not paying no 5 dollars a WEEK just for sum story’s 😤 ### 2/5 — It was fine at first but then it was annoying *2024-06-25, version 2.4.1* So I joined the app and I was thrilled at first to see how it was to hear the story and it said I need a dam subscription to play a fricking app ### 1/5 — Um no *2024-06-23, version 2.4.1* The reason why I said a one is because I got this app because of the stories which were interesting but in order for me to read the story I had to pay for a subscription and now since I want to uninstall the app I don’t know how to un subscribe and I really don’t want to pay the subscription even after I uninstall the app because some apps do that even after you uninstall them. This is why I rated it a one so please consider this as a way to know if you should or shouldn’t download this app ### 1/5 — Bruh *2024-06-19, version 2.4.1* I wanted a story of romance and when they gave it to me it said JOIN GRU i didn’t have a choice to not do it but I did not want to do it it should have a x button like ### 1/5 — I heat this app *2024-06-16, version 2.4.1* This app won’t let you in unless you pay don’t recommend… ### 1/5 — Nope!! *2024-06-15, version 2.4.1* I hate the fact that i have to pay??? $4.99?!!! A month! No thx ### 2/5 — Clickbait *2023-03-29, version 2.4.0* It’s the fact it said it was free but made me pay 5 dollars just to hear a story like what that’s click bait and I will sue them I’m not joking ### 1/5 — Please make this free *2023-01-18, version 2.4.0* I went to go download this and it looked really cool and nice to have at nighttime. It asked me for what story I wanted and gave me a riddle. After that I was excited to read a story with guru but I had to pay $4.99 a week! I was a little upset and when I paid it made me pay for more even though I had a subscription. I ended up losing $10 from just this app. Please fix this. (I read through all the reviews and they all said the same thing) ### 1/5 — Fraud! *2022-05-10, version 2.4.0* This app is a fraud!! You can’t delete or undo your account and you keep getting charged. DO NOT DOWLOAD THIS APP! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — ……yikes. Keep scrolling *2025-12-21, version 2.4.1* I mean this wholeheartedly, I’m not a jerk on here just trying to tear down an app that still has perks. I rarely even write reviews so for the sake of people who agree to the 7-day trial, which, in my opinion is pretty stingy, and I understand that a lot of apps out there do this, but still, I’m here to reveal my honesty in an effort to warn people—THIS IS A TERRIBLE APP. I don’t just glance around at the App Store now and again. I was in a horrible car accident that just about crushed my entire body and have been cursed to heal in bed for what feels like an eternity. I LIVE in the App Store, trying dozens and dozens and dozens of apps, and primarily through this particular category for the meditations, guided support, AI-generated therapy, breathwork, self-help and affirmations—you name it. And this app, honest to God—is not worth $5/week or $70/year. That’s like, a really really bad dad joke. I mean, if they charged $20/year even, I literally wouldn’t be writing this review. Even though it’s not worth the $20, that’s how much this app MIGHT be worth to someone. More of my honest opinion? This is the basic kind of app you get for free with ads. There is NO WAY they haven’t paid for their reviews!! NO WAY. This app is hardly worth 3 stars! AND THEYRE CHARGING MORE THAN INSIGHT TIMER!!—who btw, offers an insane amount of free content, a 30-DAY TRIAL for Member’s-only content, and is $10 LESS A YEAR. For $5/week you’d imagine you’d be gaining perks neck-in-neck with Insight Timer, the Breethe app, I mean, there’s some fantastic health and fitness apps on the market right now for even less $ Insight Timer has the world’s largest meditation library, over 260,000, more than 17,000 teachers, live events every day, a plethora of guided breathwork classes, courses, challenges, ambient sounds, advanced journaling with milestones, affirmation sessions with access to live retreats! (And yes AI helped me with this, not here to advertise, just compare). What does this app have? Allow me to tell you. First things first, I have to answer a riddle to even get in. Because I got it right I get a 7-day free trial. Okay..well what if I had gotten it wrong? It gives me something like four categories to choose from. I choose meditation. It asks me what kind I want. Again there are four, rather odd choices. I choose “sleep,” thinking I’m going to be led to some options for hypnosis, or affirmations, binaural beats or something to make me sleepy or sleep. Nope! I’m taken to a screen that gives me a challenge with five levels to reach. I have to pass all five levels to hear the spell. One spell. I’m told I have to blow as hard as I can on the phone mic to make a level to make a feather float higher than a line towards the top of the screen—5 times—and if I don’t do it all five times, I have to start the level completely over. Well, I don’t want to do that. I wanted a meditation like you advertised. In fact, I don’t want the spell now either because my expectation’s real low now. So I exit back to main screen. This time I select “Music.” Gives me about eight tunes. On a positive note, all 8 are pleasant and soothing. Bad note, all 8 sound exactly alike with slight variations. OK, I mean, I guess it’s a “perk” but not for five dollars a week. Next I choose an option that says “white noise,” thinking maybe, just maybe it’s got a nice color scheme. I do enjoy some nice pink or brown noise. Nope. Just a very, very gentle version of white noise and that is all folks. This time I choose “Story.” Maybe it has some nice bedtime stories, or talks, or just something. Please just give me something. Anything like what you said you have. Nope. It jumps into a very, very strange and off putting teen drama dragging you out of Guru-land into the Bratz movie. Something about a girl’s boyfriend cheating on her at a party and the story starts out with texts between two girls with the friend texting the protagonist to tell her that her boyfriend is at the party she’s at and all over another girl, so protagonist decides to show up at the party even though she has a cold, then it switches to the boyfriend but he’s really the boyfriend’s twin who made him wear a “Single AF” shirt so that the gf (protagonist) would hear about it from a friend and they’d break up because he didn’t want to do it in person. And then it ends. I’m sorry…..but what just happened. Why did I actually commit to the five minutes it took to finish whatever the hell this was. ..and guess what? There are no other stories. And where is the AI,? I don’t see any AI anywhere, I couldn’t find one. I can’t ask this guru any questions in fact every time I tap the screen it just says exit and I’m very confused as to how I get back to the first screen. It’s just not …a good app. If I had accidentally subscribed—because that’s the only way I would’ve actually purchased a subscription for this app—I am 100% sure if I filed a dispute I would win! This app advertises as something completely different and better than it is. It’s not! There are no meditations, there are no real stories, there is no AI model you can ask your questions from, yes, you can set a timer to wake up to a guru-licous melody of some sort (didn’t bother), but that is NOT worth $70 a year. None of it is. And it’s especially not worth $10 more a year than Insight Timer, a real bang for your buck. Sorry, not sorry. ### 1/5 — Dont download *2024-07-28, version 2.4.1* you have to pay to read a story you hav to subscribe to read ### 1/5 — DO NOT GET THIS *2024-07-23, version 2.4.1* I started to get in but i needed to PAY it said it was FREE it’s a lie do not get this if you don’t want to pay it won’t let u click any other button unless you pay this app is trash! ### 1/5 — GURU👎 *2024-07-23, version 2.4.1* Once I started to sign in it said I have to pay so I didn’t even get to experience the app and I have no way to get out of the payment. ### 1/5 — This is the worst thing that you can get *2024-07-22, version 2.4.1* I hate it like it won't even start if you don't pay i hate it Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo x100 much dumb game who in the world has time to carfuly pay it and then pay every single week ### 1/5 — I HATE THIS APP😡 *2024-07-15, version 2.4.1* this app needs to be deleted immediately because they said it was free and it was lying! 🤥 like this creator needs to delete it! ### 1/5 — It’s so ANNOYING *2024-07-14, version 2.4.1* ai thought when I saw the ad “this looks like a cool app to fall asleep with stories.” then I downloaded it and this guru thing made me wake it up I chose a relaxing story then whale it was getting it ready it gave me an easy riddle so I answered it and it was like “CORRECT!!!” so then it was like since you answered it we will give you a free trial. FREE TRAIL??? And it’s 5$ A WEEK???? It’s just crazy to me that I would have to pay 5$ A WEEK just for this app. Trust me go find a better one. ### 1/5 — Why are they lying about being free? *2024-07-13, version 2.4.1* An app description it’s completely free app purchases so why is it $4.99 a month it says it’s free to buy so so why isn’t it free because I downloaded it it said a story so I picked scary it said she want to listen to the story you have to pay so this is dumb that you say that you are free but you’re not like quit lying ### 1/5 — I don’t recommend it *2024-07-11, version 2.4.1* Bro it said was free but I downloaded the app and I had to pay for it and I can’t skip it I just wanna hear some stories and go to sleep early 🙄 ### 1/5 — BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD WARNING DO NOT BYE IT *2024-07-08, version 2.4.1* IT WAS SO ANNOYING DOING IT ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Why this app is actually good *2024-07-31, version 2.4.1* So I have trouble sleeping even though I’m only 10. I see like scary faces sometimes and I listened to this app for like 20 minutes and it helped so much. People are saying this app is bad but it is genuinely good I don’t know what they’re talking about. Thank you Guru for helping me sleep (btw this is my first review on an app) ### 5/5 — The best *2024-07-22, version 2.4.1* I like this app I think I’m going to sleep ### 5/5 — I LOVE THESE STORIES!! *2024-07-09, version 2.4.1* I love the story’s they make me sleep ### 5/5 — Guru *2024-06-29, version 2.4.1* This is a very good app ### 5/5 — It’s *2024-06-21, version 2.4.1* Good ### 5/5 — Lovin the first story! *2024-06-19, version 2.4.1* Lovin the story! Ya stories are real good ya know? ### 5/5 — Best app ever! *2021-09-13, version 2.4.0* Best app ever it helps me when i’m sad and the stories are relaxing thank you so much for making this app i appreciate it! ### 5/5 — Creepy *2021-09-12, version 2.4.0* I think it’s a little creepy ### 5/5 — I like it *2021-08-11, version 2.1.0* I love this app So much ### 5/5 — Killer mom *2021-06-27, version 1.18.0* DAD?? Yes Mom being weird What do you mean She Ben around that doll that you bought her Honey what every you do call 911 I will see you there No dad what do you mean Your mother is a muder she wants to kill you first Dad I’m sneaking out of the house of my room I will call you auntie to come pick you up Dad I see mom Hide under the bed now I’m in the bathroom closet I was not in my room Ok your auntie outside run your mother passed out she will be down for 20 minutes --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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