Healthy Minds Program by Humin vs Dynamic Mind Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Healthy Minds Program by Humin
This app offers science-backed meditation and mindfulness practices to improve focus, reduce stress, and enhance social connections. It features guided lessons and assessments based on neuroscientific research, designed to fit into busy lifestyles.
- Science-backed meditation practices
- Guided lessons on focus and stress reduction
- Neuroscientific well-being framework
- Active meditation for busy lives
- Mobile mental and emotional well-being assessments
- Integration with Apple Health
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• 2024 Pick: Best Meditation App by Healthline, The New York Times Wirecutter, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Well-being is a skill that can be learned. We’re here to guide you along the way. Backed by four decades of research from world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and the team at Humin (formerly Healthy Minds Innovations) & the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills for gaining focus, reducing stress, and maintaining positive social connections. Research with the Healthy Minds App showed that just 5 minutes a day of practice leads to a 28% reduction in stress, an 18% reduction in anxiety, a 24% reduction in depression, and a 13% increase in social connection. Featuring our scientific Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose, Well-being Framework, the Healthy Minds Program is a holistic, all-encompassing meditation app that offers the best of both guided meditations and opportunities to learn. You’ll learn simple skills to enhance personal well-being, build healthy relationships, and improve communication, performance, and creativity. –––––––––––––––––––––––––– What makes us unique? Developed from Science: While many meditation apps can claim the scientific benefits of meditation, our practices are developed directly from neuroscientific research. You’ll also hear from the world’s foremost neuroscientists about neuroplasticity and how to train your mind. Made for Busy Lives: Our app features active meditation practices that fit into your busy lifestyle. Don’t have time to sit for 20 minutes? Put on an active practice and train your mind while you fold the laundry. Guided by Measurement: Thanks to our pioneering scientific research, the Healthy Minds Program offers the first mobile mental and emotional well-being assessments. Learn about your current level of well-being and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of well-being. Our app also integrates with Apple Health to track your mindful minutes. Goes Beyond Mindfulness: Our guided path offers step-by-step instructions for becoming more present in the moment and developing a sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in life. Driven by Mission and Supported by Donation: The Healthy Minds Program is made possible by our donors, who support our vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world. Unlike other apps that require a subscription, the Healthy Minds Program is available by donation, driven by a mission to translate science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being. –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Read the End User License Agreement and Terms of Use here: https://hminnovations.org/terms-of-use Read our Privacy Policy here: https://hminnovations.org/privacy-policy
Dynamic Mind Practice
This app offers a deep relaxation mindfulness practice designed to alleviate fears, worries, anxieties, and sleep difficulties. It promotes calmness, positivity, focus, and mental clarity through a method developed over 50 years. Experience the benefits of stress release and improved consciousness states.
- Deep relaxation and stress release
- Alleviates fears, worries, and anxieties
- Improves focus and mental clarity
- Aids in overcoming sleeping difficulties
- Master jetlag with practice
- Understanding brain wave states
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The Dynamic Mind PracticeTM (DMP) is a deep relaxation mindfulness practice that has been found to relieve fears, worries, anxieties, physical tension and sleeping difficulties. It also helps us assists everyone who uses it to feel calmer, more positive and present, and creates the ability for us to think with increased focus and clarity. DMP is presented by Gita Bellin who has been teaching, lecturing and consulting internationally for sixty years. Gita and her team at Gita Bellin & Associates have been assisting people with the knowledge and skills that release stress. DMP has been shared with hundreds of thousands of people over 50 years, world-wide, by Gita and the many GBA teachers who have been trained to deliver the practice. DMP is being made available online for the very first time. Gita and her team wish to freely offer the Dynamic Mind Practice to anyone who would like to experience all the great benefits of doing this simple, yet powerful practice of deep relaxation and stress release. Gaining the skill of DMP is especially beneficial in overcoming all the current challenges that we are all facing, at this time. Within this App is an understanding and experience of the Dynamic Mind PracticeTM, including: how our brain waves link to our three major states of consciousness – waking, dreaming and deep sleep; a debrief and important explanation of how the DMP experience links with the Mastery of brain waves; the DMP Deep Sleep Practice; how to use the DMP to master jetlag; further information in regard to using the DMP in daily life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Dynamic Mind Practice at free against Healthy Minds Program by Humin's free with in-app purchases. Healthy Minds Program by Humin's advantage is ratings volume (9.3K vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Healthy Minds Program by Humin against 5.0 for Dynamic Mind Practice. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Healthy Minds Program by Humin has 9.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Healthy Minds Program by Humin's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dynamic Mind Practice's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Healthy Minds Program by Humin | Dynamic Mind Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.3K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.3K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc | GBA Knowledge Foundation |
Customer experience
Healthy Minds Program by Humin
Dynamic Mind Practice
Bugs and requests
Healthy Minds Program by Humin
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress not always saved correctly
- Connectivity issues causing data loss
Requested features
3 requests- Offline mode for meditations
- Ability to bookmark favorite sessions
- More personalization options
Dynamic Mind Practice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Healthy Minds Program by Humin
No in-app purchases
Dynamic Mind Practice
No in-app purchases
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