# Plum Village: Mindfulness — user reviews > 524 indexed App Store user reviews of Plum Village by Centre for Applied Ethics Ltd, rated 4.96/5 from 3,806 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plum-village-mindfulness/id1273719339/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plum-village-mindfulness/id1273719339.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,497 · 4★ 61 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Plum Village? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🙏 Excellent app - 🌺 Wonderful - 🌈 Amazing meditation app - 🏠 A home for my spiritual practice - 📚 Fantastic content - 🕉️ Authentic and trustworthy - 🎁 Generous and free - 🧘‍♀️ Helpful for mindfulness practice - 🕊️ Calming and peaceful - 🌍 Accessible to all **Cons** - ⏱️ Missing an open-ended timer **Commonly reported bugs** - iOS 15 broke the mindfulness bell feature **Most requested features** - Add a setting to customize the number of mindfulness bells - Incorporate more guided meditations led by female monastics ## Newest reviews (20 of 524) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-06-09, version 5.1.0* This is a wonderful app. I live in a location that does not have a place to practice. Your app has provided wonderful information. And helped me greatly in my practice. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-06-08, version 5.1.0* The real thing. A wide variety of practices from an authentic and committed teacher. Beginner or tired old hand, the app is a wonderful offering from a beloved community. 🌺 ### 5/5 — Wonderful!!! *2026-06-05, version 5.1.0* I tried all the mainstream meditation apps, but this one is authentic. No profit motive behind it just a wish to help people. I’m so grateful to the people who make and maintain this.🧶🥰 ### 5/5 — Priceless *2026-05-27, version 5.1.0* A vast treasure trove of tools and teachings. If you are seeking mindfulness you have come to the right place. Thank you Plum Village. 🙏 ### 5/5 — A correction *2026-05-23, version 5.1.0* You wear your everyday clothes every day. So the everyday bell rings “every day.” ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-05-23, version 5.1.0* So grateful for this app. It’s packed with incredible content and so professional yet easy to use. ### 5/5 — such a wonderful use of technology *2026-05-15, version 5.0.0* bringing peace and mindfulness to where we need it most, our everyday modern lives ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-05-12, version 5.0.0* Everything is good. I just wish there were an iPad version of the app ### 5/5 — Thank you Plum Village 🙏🏽 *2026-05-10, version 5.0.0* Beautiful collection - warms my heart. ### 5/5 — Amazing app! *2026-05-07, version 5.0.0* This app has so many interesting and helpful things to explore! I have loved using their guided meditations every day and I always look forward to them!! ❤️ ### 5/5 — The Best App *2026-04-12, version 5.0.0* This is a very well written app with so many features and benefits ### 5/5 — A refuge *2026-04-09, version 5.0.0* Welcome structure, depth, and bredthh all in one place ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-04-02, version 5.0.0* Organization is great and everything works well. The content is great extremely helpful ### 5/5 — So happy *2026-03-29, version 5.0.0* I am so happy this app is here and free! Please be mindful and present. This app can help keep us reminded about the here and now. ### 5/5 — It Is Real *2026-03-26, version 5.0.0* The moments of mindfulness I achieve, are moments of real beauty. This sounds like the Buddhist company talk, doesn't it? But the talk is REAL. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can experience the beauty of the Present. And the Present is also aspiritual, nurturing, love. All those who do not believe me need only start practicing with breathe meditation to see this. Great joy of joys, I am healing and being freed. Touches my heart. ### 5/5 — Gratitude *2026-03-14, version 4.4.0* Sending much gratitude for this app that is our refuge when we seek community, kindness, understanding, laughter, snd wisdom. ### 5/5 — Thank you quality mindfulness resources 🪷 *2026-03-08, version 4.4.0* Such a great! I’m very grateful for the free resources provided by this sangha 🙏 ### 5/5 — The best app ever *2026-03-05, version 4.4.0* The love and care that has gone oo to this app is awe inspiring. I am so grateful for your offerings / thank you ### 5/5 — Joy of Meditation *2026-02-28, version 4.4.0* Short and long meditations for all level’s from beginning to advanced meditators. Meditations are well done. They provide a way to relax and un-stress and declutter the mind. Best app I have used in the last 17 years. ### 5/5 — Amazing mindfulness / applied Buddhism app *2026-02-18, version 4.4.0* Calm yourself and enjoy the present moment with a rich treasure chest of practices, meditation, music and songs from the plum village tradition. It’s all free, so why not give it a go. I have been practicing this for a while now, and have started to appreciate it as a way of coping with life. Enjoy! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken in iOS 26 *2025-09-20, version 4.2.0* Clicking “login” just opens then closes the login form. ### 1/5 — I can't understand what he's saying *2024-10-22, version 3.0.0* Is this in English? I don't recognize any words spoken. Is there an English version. ### 1/5 — Racist and Divisive Content on a Meditation App *2024-09-02, version 2.14.1* This app is supposed to be about meditation and mindfulness, but it includes content on white supremacy that feels misplaced and offensive. Instead of promoting peace and unity, it singles out and unfairly targets white people, creating unnecessary division. This kind of content is inappropriate for a meditation app and distracts from its intended purpose of relaxation and personal growth. Disappointing and unacceptable. ### 1/5 — Missing something *2024-01-29, version 2.13.1* An open ended timer. The other leading app has this ### 2/5 — It has glitches *2025-05-05, version 3.3.0* I had hoped this would be a good app for meditation. It has been awkward. Only used a few days, most recently it just stoped somewhere during a sit. No bell to finish. Hope you clean up these glitches. It is simple and easy to use, but the app needs to be more consistent. ### 2/5 — L my j joy o nof elm *2024-10-05, version 2.14.1* dy Nine u no oh no UUID’s B w I’m joiooi Uiyjoiii i United l Iloilo I ok hi n o No ihIOC’s be ok oozyji H P O MiPhones llio I’m o ### 2/5 — iOS 15 broke bell of mindfulness *2021-09-23* One of my recent favourites. Hope the developer looks into this issue. **Developer response:** Dear Arun, thank you for reporting this to us. Our programming team is about to take care of it. Feel free to contact us directly via email for any questions: hello@plumvillage.app We apologize for the inconvenience. With much care 🙏, The Plum Village App team https://plumvillage.app ### 3/5 — Where did the meditation bell timer go? *2025-03-13, version 3.2.0* I like that the app got a facelift, but my favorite feature is nowhere to be found. :( ### 3/5 — Plum village app *2023-07-24* I have used this app for many years, sometimes paying for it, and sometimes taking advantage of the fact that it is a free app. I stopped paying for it when the plum village app began adding more and more to its services and the dharma talks became more and more what seemed to me the focus of the app. I have used the meditations over the years for learning to meditate, and have truly found the meditations to be helpful and healing. But now, more and more, it is hard to find meditations among all the constant additions and “advancements”. You say that you are doing what you feel Thich Nhat Hahn wanted but would he truly wanted updates every other day, so often that finding the meditations on healing anger and frustration are almost impossible to find even though they are are more and more important every day? **Developer response:** Thank you very dear friend, for your valuable feedback. We completely understand and we hear you. Thank you for your patience as our small team is working hard at system updates, processes and more, and we'll address this specific feedback in a big update in the autumn. Thank you for using the Plum Village App all these years as a tool for supporting your important practice. On the path together, Plum Village App Team ### 4/5 — Gratitude *2025-08-10, version 4.0.2* I am filled with gratitude for those who have created this App and to those who offer their guidance and wisdom. Since we cannot all live near a Plum Village community, this App offers guidance and meditation from the dedicated teachers. My awareness and my ability to be more mindful are awakening from these teachings. Thank you, thank you ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — By far the best meditation app out there *2026-08-20, version 5.1.0* I so love this app. It’s free to all, doesn’t blast users with ads, and is well designed. I’ve paid for several of the big ones, and they don’t compare to the quality and accessibility of what’s offered here. If you are able, please donate to support this wonderful offering to the world. ### 5/5 — An Absolute Gift to the World *2026-08-19, version 5.1.0* I have used many meditation apps, and I still use others from time to time, but once I discovered the Plum Village app, it became my first choice, and for weeks at a time, it is my only choice. The combination of written resources, tops, guided meditations, and more cannot be. And when you consider that it is offered freely, no restrictions on content, even if you are struggling, you can get started and supported later. ### 5/5 — Essential *2026-08-05, version 5.1.0* If I could have only a single app on my phone, this would be it. An exceptional resource for those who are interested in Thay’s teachings and the Plum Village tradition, or for anyone looking to find nourishment, peace, and wisdom in an overly stimulating world. Thank you to the community and to the developers who put this together. Incredibly well done! ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2026-07-30, version 5.1.0* I love this app and all the amazing people who contributed to making it. I can tell the people who made it really do care for their cause since the app is free for all. There are many wonderful meditations and talks that have helped me tons. I am so grateful to all who contributed. Thank you very much and I wish the very best for all of you. ### 5/5 — Best app ever! So much wisdom, insight and healing can come from practicing meditation and listening *2026-07-29, version 5.1.0* I love all the content! Best app ever! So much wisdom, insight and healing can come from practicing meditation and listening! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-07-03, version 5.1.0* It’s a gift to learn to be in this moment with every breath. Thank you ### 5/5 — Wonderful monastery in your pocket 💗 *2026-06-25, version 5.1.0* This is currently the core app on my phone. It’s there for me whenever I seek to connect more deeply with lovingkindness, peace, and mindfulness. There are many supportive meditations, talks, and other resources worth exploring. Wishing you well on your journey, my friend. ### 5/5 — Amazing and free *2026-06-19, version 5.1.0* Great well designed app that has all the key features needed for meditation as well as guided talks by the late Thich Nhat Hanh himself and his monks’ teachings ### 5/5 — Great app, focused on mindfulness, lots of resources *2026-06-18, version 5.1.0* I came to Plum Village’s app after being a long time paid user of a different meditation app, but sadly that one has became too much like a social media app in the last couple years. I was sad about the loss but then after trying the Plum Village app for the last month, I am so grateful. Plum Village’s app is an amazing resource and treasure trove of teachings! Plum Village app is focused on wisdom and mindfulness, it’s simple and compassionate, and it has so many resources. I am inspired and calmed by so many of the siblings (teachers); their voices radiate peace. I am very grateful to Plum Village and the developers; this has helped bring me back to a committed mindfulness practice. I will be donating regularly, what a gift. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2026-06-14, version 5.1.0* Wonderful app. I don’t like tech for meditation usually but this is very helpful --- *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.*