Insight Timer User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.7% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience23.2% of reviews

~ Based on 2,598 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Insight Timer Safe?

Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Insight Timer is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 444,471 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

98.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 444,471 App Store ratings for Insight Timer.

Is Insight Timer Legit?

Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Insight Timer is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Needs AI transparency

While helpful in some areas, I really wish there was a way to filter out AI generated or assisted tracks.

Whole

Whenever I go to Insight Timer I know I will find the right experience I need for the day. I finish my practice feeling whole in my body.

Tool for peace

This app is by far the eminent supplement for emotional peace, freedom and care of yourself and your consciousness. It could be an affirmation, bed time story, sound bath and breath work. There are so many resources curated intentionally by amazing humans. I endorse this for my clients and love it for myself.
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Amazing app with so much content

I love Insight Timer and recommend it to everyone. It has such a huge variety of offerings and free content. I love both the guided meditation & the music especially the Hindu meditation music.
The ability to create playlist and bookmark favorites is a huge bonus.
Thanks for offering this amazing app and its content. We all need help with stress relaxation and affirmation as well as great music.
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PERFECT even on Free Edition

Many mindfulness apps are extremely limited in what they offer before a paywall but Insight Timer is true to their ethos!

Mama Millie

I love this app, it is so convenient and exactly what I need to hear in all of my life moments. If I will slow down and take the time to reflect each day, I can change tomorrow. Thanks for helping me do that!

Great app!

It has so many options! I use it for many different things! I recently discovered the live sessions which has been beneficial so far!

Many years with IT. Life altering results!

I pay premium. But totally not necessary to get the “good stuff”. The free content library is MASSIVE!
There is something for everybody. Even children.
I thought meditation meant sitting quiet and still.
It’s MUCH more & much easier than that.

Check it out. You are worth it!

Gratitude

I have been using Insight Timer almost from its beginnings, meditation sets my day on a path to peace, I do not think I would have a daily practice without this gentle tool. I further believe it contributes to peace all over the world. 🙏🧘‍♂️🙏☮️

Best app for Mediation

I have used it since 2011 - I’ve never used an app for so long and so much - it is the best for all things meditation

Propósito

Práticas diárias que ajudam a crescer e evoluir contribuindo com a formação de uma rede mundial de pessoas que buscam aprimoramento nas relações com o interno e o externo. Uma possibilidade que está ao alcance de rodos.

Love!

I love, love, love Insight Timer! This app has been a beautiful resource and support on my journey of healing and awakening. May all our meditations contribute to the happiness, well-being, and freedom of all beings everywhere. Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu.

The best meditation yoga, journaling, happiness inducing, mental health, soothing sounds/music app

I love this. The guides, groups, courses, live events and especially the community…! My most used app by far.
It’s all great and there’s no need to pay unless you fall in love! 😍 All of the best guides have free meditations to listen to. 36 million minutes (hrs? A lot!) a year of new added material. This app is life changing!! I’ve leveled up and enjoy life so much more because of Insight Timer. Trillions of people agree and donate $ to guides because they were helped so much or were even moved to tears. There’s no comparison when it comes to similar apps. Insight Timer blows them all out of the water in every way. I can’t add my profile link. If you search for me, we can be friends 💛 To me and so many others, this app is priceless!! I can actually say that being on it continually makes me a better person today than I was yesterday. ❤️
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One of the best sleep aids I’ve tried.

I had been trying library audiobooks to help me fall asleep but insight Timer is so much better. I’m able to store chapters and books and they are always there waiting for me.

Be mindful of where this is headed

I am not excited about the new video update. This is a place we go to meditate and get away from social media. I appreciate the ability to follow teachers that resonate with so we can see when they post new meditations. But I am bothered by the promotion of videos when I first open the app now, and what the addition of video format could mean for the direction of this app.
It already is unpleasant to see the same, likely paid for, promoted teachers when I search for mediations. I don’t want to be advertised to and overstimulated by video clips trying to grab my attention.
There’s enough content that’s been transitioned to subscriber only.

Keep in mind the base intentions of the app.
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The Swiss Army knife of mediation apps

This app has every type of guided, talk or course-form track. Sometimes I type in what feels like the most random thing and to my delight and appreciation, so many options present themselves to help me in that particular moment. I have found deep relief in the resets, groundings, and bits of wisdom, and recommend this app often.
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Cluttered

I use to love this app. It was streamlined and easy to use. Now it’s cluttered with all kinds of roadblocks to getting started with questionnaires and dogma. It’s a huge turn off and I’m looking for a different app to use now. I’ve been on this app since 2014 and have seen it go downhill fast in the last few years.
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I love this app

I have had it for a while now it has so many different varieties of meditations and options for self improvement!! You will not regret downloading it at all

Formerly excellent, now schlocky and gamified.

I’ve used Insight Timer for about 10 years and paid for the subscription 4 of them. This past year, I’ve become very annoyed with it and I’m actually avoiding it. Despite paying for the premium, I am forced to encounter multiple popups and prompts just to meditate.

No I don’t want to commit, journal, read random quotes, or tell the app my feelings. I don’t want to follow every teacher, notifications, or the widget. And there are so many meditations I am lost in the content and it’s hard to find what I need. Now it’s hard selling those expensive retreats. I’m going to cancel.
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Too much work

This app used to be very good but with all the new updates and features from the last few years since they updated the UI it became a disconnected mess. Sure there are good guided meditations but to find them it feels like you need to sift through a toxic bog that you will need to meditate to cleanse yourself from. The community used to feel connected but somehow the developers made it difficult to use and there is much less real interaction from the community. With all the clicks I need to shoo away before and after a meditation session I feel less grounded than before I even opened the app.

If you’re looking for mindfulness you may find it here but at what cost?
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