# H*nest Meditation — user reviews > 79 indexed App Store user reviews of H*nest Meditation by Headley for Freelance, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 155 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hnest-meditation/id1059195733/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hnest-meditation/id1059195733.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 139 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of H*nest Meditation? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 😂 Genuinely funny and entertaining meditation experience - 🧘 Actually effective at reducing stress and anxiety - 💬 Honest, authentic language that resonates with users - 😌 Promotes relaxation and helps with sleep - ⏱️ Multiple duration options (2, 5, 10, 15 minutes) - 💰 Excellent value for money ($1.99-$2.99) - 🎯 Unique approach appeals to those who dislike traditional meditation - 😊 Therapeutic release of negativity and tension - 🗣️ Relatable, real-world perspective without 'woo-woo' - 👨‍💼 Excellent customer support from developer **Cons** - 🚫 Strong profanity not suitable for sensitive users - 🔊 Continuous talking reduces meditative silence - 🎵 Background music cannot be removed or adjusted - ⏳ Limited content (only one meditation available) **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when selecting time duration (October 2019 update) - Screen disappears after clicking time option - App stops working after iOS updates - Crashes when skipping audio clip sections **Most requested features** - Longer duration options (30-60 minutes or looping) - Apple Watch app compatibility - Health app integration for mindfulness tracking - Version without profanity for broader audience - Alarm/timer functionality - Loop or repeat option for continuous playback - Additional meditation variations - Adjustable background music volume ## Newest reviews (17 of 79) ### 5/5 — LOVE THIS APP *2022-08-19, version 1.6* In a world full of shonks, it can be quite to shut them out. But with Honest Meditation...ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! DOWN WITH THE SHONKS! ### 4/5 — Please update Health App with Mindfulness *2022-03-20* I want to give this app five stars, because I think it’s wonderful. But what I would really truly happily enjoy having is points on my mindfulness in the Health app after having used it. Meditation is meditation is meditation, so even if I’m chuckling, it’s still mindfulness. So it should still count. ### 5/5 — Purchase this, trust me! *2021-12-02, version 1.6* 2, 5, 10, 15 minutes of peace is worth any amount of money. ### 5/5 — Worth the money *2021-09-24, version 1.6* Works as needed. ### 5/5 — Need this on my apple watch *2021-07-31, version 1.6* This is the best stress reliever ever! Wish I could get the app on my Apple Watch. ### 5/5 — First: hilarious. Then: effective. *2020-11-19* My go to meditation app. After a few listen throughs, once I stopped laughing, I realized it actually is a straight up fantastic guided meditation. But...you know, with profanity. I’ve almost run out of people to gift this to. Can’t recommend it enough. ### 5/5 — THE BEST APP TO USE TO FALL ASLEEP *2020-10-07* I can’t relax using “normal” meditation sounds ........ BUT ....... HONEST MEDITATION is THE app (besides the sound of a car purring) for me to fall asleep to. I’m always asleep before it is finished. I totally recommend this to anyone who is a bit red neck, feels like the world is against them, and swears a lot. This is such a great app. 10/10 👍 ### 5/5 — Best meditation app ever! *2020-06-22, version 1.6* Listening to these meditations puts a smile on my face. Please add more! ### 5/5 — Too much stress *2020-05-04, version 1.6* My massage therapist actually played this for me. I LOVE it, my mind is typically to busy to meditate but the humor in this helps me to stay focused and laughing releases so much here of my stress!!!! ### 5/5 — Useful and funny! Best app in my phone *2020-02-07* This is perfect, both as a meditation tool (yes it works!) and as the cause of real stress relieving belly laughs. The only way it could be better would be if Jason were to add more guided meditations. Please, Jason, please. ### 5/5 — REALLY EFFECTIVE! *2020-01-30* I got this app almost 4 years ago for fun but the last two days some rude and wrong people messed with me early in my day. After doing a little EFT refocusing, H*nest Meditation brought me to a deep, relaxed, balanced, optimistic reset more than my regular meditations would have. This is so great. BLESS MR. Headley for this great service to humanity. Thank you! Ahhhh. Buying his book to support him and this work more...I’m serious! ### 5/5 — Best App Ever! *2020-01-30* I’ve been a yoga teacher for 10 years, and practiced yoga for 17. Yet no matter how hard I tried, and how many different mediation techniques I tried, I've never been able to get into a regular mediation. That is...until I found this! This really speaks to me. Despite having a good laugh at it probably first 10-20 times I heard it and shared with people, in the end, when I let it sink in, I have the deepest and most profound states of mediation listening to this. Whether it’s a joke or not, this really works for me on a deep level that I’ll never be able to fully describe in words. I thank the creators of this from the bottom of my soul. ### 5/5 — Best meditation I’ve ever tried!!! *2020-01-14* This is not your run of the mill meditation! I have trouble meditating. This is the ONLY meditation that I can actually do. And it works every single time. It gets rid of the stress that I’m feeling and it helps me to recenter and move through whatever is stressing me at the time. This meditation is hilarious, but it actually works! I highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Every Veteran Should Download *2019-12-06, version 1.6* This is a fantastic tool for veterans dealing with stress. ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2019-10-29* I listen almost every day. Great having different lengths of time to give you just what you need. Funny and relaxing. Not for the sensitive. You’ve been warned. ### 5/5 — Lifesaver app *2019-10-17* When I had a terrible boss, a coworker recommended this to me. After particularly bad days, I’d play the 15 minute version while trying to fall asleep. It took several nights before I was still awake to hear the end. The worst day caused me to play it 4 times. The only way it could be more helpful would be to not be so funny. I’ve played the two minute version for coworkers who were struggling with @$&# colleagues. It #%¥&@ works like magic! Thank you Jason! P.S.: best user support ever. When an Apple update made it stop working, Jason himself replied, and within 2-3 days, it was working again. ### 5/5 — Life Saver *2019-10-13* The best way I can describe this meditation is the Sanskrit term satyagraha “holding onto truth.” It’s not about what Gandhi said about turning ridicule into respect—although it does very much do that. But what I love about this is its sincerity. It’s the meditation I always turn to; it relaxes me in my most troubled state. It’s disarming, charming, intellectual and honest in the best of ways. It was one of the few things, and by far the most important, during the darkest time in my life. And it is now an everyday staple for me and my girlfriend. This needs to be more than $2, and if I could rate it more than 5 stars I would. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Great to start with *2019-10-07, version 1.5* I loved this app but it no longer works. It just keeps crashing whenever I click on the time option I want. I’ve tried deleting it and reinstalling it but it still does the same thing. Please fix I rely on it so much. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work anymore *2019-10-06, version 1.5* I used to love it, but it’s not working with the updates. It’s disappointing when I paid for it. ### 1/5 — 15 Minutes Is A Crime Against Humanity *2019-05-16, version 1.4* They need to offer loop to a full one hour. 15 minutes not enough for a good nap 😴. I can’t give it more than one star. ### 1/5 — I wish I could give it 5 *2019-03-31, version 1.4* It keeps closing every time I try to play it 🙄 ### 2/5 — 5 content 1 interface *2026-06-24, version 1.6* Developer has chosen a foreground text color -white and background color - pale blue - that makes the options, including length, almost totally illegible. ### 2/5 — Can’t use with the recent updated *2019-10-07, version 1.5* Listened to this all the time and last night got the updates. If I click on app the screen comes up but hit a time and the screen disappears. Please fix! ### 2/5 — Love it but *2017-02-05, version 1.3* I could have YouTube it for nothing! ### 2/5 — H*Nest Meditation *2017-01-18, version 1.3* Funny and unexpected, but I didn't find it helpful to meditate. Instead of being led into a meditative state, my mind kept thinking about what silly thing will be said next. ### 3/5 — Funny but *2020-10-02, version 1.6* Clever and funny and I might really use it if he didn’t talk continually. I prefer guided meditations with periods of silence; he becomes just one more irritation. I got exasperated and quit partway through the ten-minute meditation. ### 3/5 — Simply breath out bull sh- *2020-08-07, version 1.6* I love the concept, but I wish there was more like an option to remove the background music. The app also crashes when I’m skipping a part of audio clip. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Funny & relaxing, warning strong language *2025-12-13* Funny meditation that works and puts a smile on your face. It’s actually very relaxing and it would be nice if the developer would make a similar one without the profanity, lol, because the vibe is so good! ### 5/5 — Bl**dy great *2025-01-24* I swear this app keeps my sanity in check. Thank you, whoever you are 🤘🏽 ### 5/5 — Love this *2024-08-15* I use this app any time I have a bad day cuz it’s exactly what I need. Sometimes you can’t just walk through a garden in a meditation and you need more ### 5/5 — Best meditation *2023-12-06* These meditations are the best. You are saying what we are actually thinking. Saying what we wish we could say. Saying what is in our minds. Release the negativity. ### 5/5 — Best Meditation Ever! *2023-11-08, version 1.6* I love this app! When life gets you down this will make you laugh out loud. It’s Honest! 💕 ### 5/5 — This really works to calm you when needed. *2023-07-18, version 1.6* I found this developer’s YouTube video and have enjoyed it so much that I jumped at the chance to purchase this version. I love how there are different time options for your break from chaos. Worth the money. ### 5/5 — Nothing matters *2023-07-04* I believe that nothing matters unless I make it matter. These meditations made me realize that I’m the problem. I have been holding my breath way too long. Need to breathe that crap out. ### 5/5 — lbest meditation app for a **** day... *2023-01-28* OK, I am a former sailor, Vietnam vet, fluent in obscenity in several languages, and Richard Pryor fan and I love this app. (Full discosure, I also volunteer in our hospital's spritual care office do I consider myself....well rounded?) If 10% happier (which I also love) is the 'religion neutral" guide to meditation, this is, indeed, the Armed Forces / Heathen version. And it works for me on many days. ### 5/5 — Full of sass but genuinely real and truly helpful! *2022-11-08* I love this so much. It’s cheered me up, relaxed me, de-stressed me, and I’ve never regretted listening. Worth every penny! ### 5/5 — Joy in a sometimes bleak world *2022-10-08* This app has been the best investment I’ve ever made in an app purchase. Whenever I’m stressed out by other people, this is a perfect salve. It is real and effective guided meditation. It also helps me smile and laugh when I need it most. The humor is intentional and very effective. It provides a therapeutic release of negativity and helps me relax without all the woo woo, new-age garbage. If you want to enjoy life, this app is worth every penny. --- *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 2026-09-09.*