Headspace User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.3% of reviews
Neutral10.0% of reviews
Negative experience52.7% of reviews

~ Based on 1,842 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Headspace Safe?

Headspace: Sleep & Meditation appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Headspace is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 973,892 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

97.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 973,892 App Store ratings for Headspace.

Is Headspace Legit?

Headspace: Sleep & Meditation appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Headspace is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

I need to meditate!

Why is it not letting me meditate?!

Fed up of the app going down

Why does the app go down multiple times a year? Its so annoying!

crashes upon launch

just downloaded. crashes immediately. tried deleting and redownloading. fix yalls app

Not Friendly With Apple Health

Also, newest version sometimes locks up. And it’s a navigation nightmare as others have noted.

Hero to zero

I used to love this app so much and have used it since pre-covid days, but it’s so glitchy now and causes so much stress. I can’t go a day without having to log out and log back in or delete the whole app and reinstall it. The loading times have got so bad that it won’t pull up the meditations or soundscapes, so I’ve just stopped using it. So disappointing as I’ve loved this app for years and paid for it too. I’ve spoken to support and they just told me to delete the app and reinstall it - which isn’t a great constant solution. I won’t be renewing my subscription this year.
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Update messed up

The app signed me out, and I have been unable to sign back in, giving errors of too many updates.

The 45 min sleep casts are not on the web, so I cannot use the sole thing I utilize the app for.

I attempted to use their AI help, was told they are working on it. Had a person contact me only to ask me the same questions.

Very frustrating,
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Good but Ui design is bad

The app has a great selection of courses and resources but is severely lacking in user friendly interface. If you are doing a course, it’s expected you do it daily. So why wouldn’t the recent courses be on the front page. You have to click into a different menu to see it now. They removed it to add their ai chat bot to the front page 🙄. I don’t care if you want a chat bot but don’t put it in front of the only thing I open the app for. These kinds of design choices will make me cancel my membership.
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Too many AI features

Headspace used to be a great app for mindfulness. However, they’ve recently added more and more AI features which feel unnecessary. It’s hard to find relevant meditations, and it feels like the app is trying to accomplish too many goals at once.

Bad App, I don’t recommend

Not worth the download

Money

You have to pay to do almost everything.

Headspace cust svc made it right, and then some, when my subscription disappeared

I was super annoyed when my annual subscription disappeared 6 months in. Contacted customer service, and though they couldn’t restore my account for some reason, they gave me a new annual subscription. The process was very quick and very easy, and I really appreciate what I hope was human staff.

Haven’t gotten to jump back in, but before I took my break from the app, I found the level of the app pushing adding therapy services to be way overwrought. No way that gets five stars, despite my satisfaction with customer service.
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Annoying

I wanted to like this but it’s just an app designed to add frustration to your life.
it advertises meditation training but it just gives you very some light guided meditation. I tried to take a CBT (another topic, I couldn’t find one on meditation) but it prevented me from taking multiple sessions the same day. I mean, why bother learning it while I’m interested in it? Instead, make me watch an intro, give me a task like, “think about your feelings“ then tell me to come back tomorrow to actually learn something?

I know what you’re thinking, ‘this person clearly needs some meditation and patience practice’. You’re right but i’ll use the Calm app instead because it doesn’t give me a whole new set of feelings to learn about.
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Gave me more anxiety…

Why make an app that’s just locked? You don’t offer any free content whatsoever? That’s insane

Sleep!

such cute and simple aesthetic. but please have more Jo and Simon sleepcasts. I literally use this app because of them

Please stop making it worse with every new version

Please stop making it worse with every new version, no need to keep developers busy. Just leave it, or better revert 3-5 years back. It was and should be a simple app following the idea itself. As others said, it’s getting harder and harder to find something, except AI that not everyone needs.
I’m continue doing “Take a breath & rest”, “Lift your mood”, and then “Try today’s meditation”, in this original and very logical (for me) order. Think about it. But at least stop making it harder to follow such original or any other order (smaller controls, more clicks).
Change is inevitable, I know, but let’s try to make it to the better, please, not worse with each design change. Read feedbacks of users who use it for years, don’t ask AI :) Thank you!
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Love the app - hate the tech issues

I’ve used this off and on for years and have always loved it. Ever since getting it on my iPhone 17 pro max with iOS 26.5.2 it will NOT sync with my mindful minutes so I can track my progress and every time I try to troubleshoot it gives me instructions for a button that doesn’t exist. I’d give it 5 stars if someone could actually help figure this out but until then - 2 stars
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I dont feel like i can use anything for free

I havent had a thourough look but i got this app amd EVERYTHING i could see had a little lock on it, telling me i need to subscribe or pay monthly or something. For a free application tahts really misleading.

Every subscription that renews automatically deserves less than 0 stars

I was relaxed and calm until I saw this notification hope you guys go under

Bugs, Bugs

This used to be such an amazing app. I’ve subscribed to it continually for four years. But this year it is so slow, so full of bugs and course links that don’t go anywhere that it’s unusable. Such a shame. I hope they fix it. Until then I’ll subscribe to Calm

Honestly, why do you have to pay?

Has a person who can’t struggles to sleep I’ve taken sleep gummy’s vitamins everything and it’s so I actually thought I found something perfect but it was not $69 a year or a month is honestly way too expensive in this economy and also by the fact that self-care therapy healthcare health, everything for you because some people actually do have medical conditions that are very important. This is actually very expensive it’s self-care. You can’t even use it if you don’t wanna pay and I’m saying that it’s just horrible. Besides, I feel like you can actually make this a bit better because there is a chance for people they just want to be understand and then you’re charging people like for $69 a year. I don’t even remember if it’s said for a month, but it’s just expensive. Why would you use it I would just use a Health app on your phone.
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