Comparison

Healthy Minds Program by Humin vs Medito

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Medito

This app offers a tranquil space for daily mindfulness, featuring guided breathing exercises, meditation sessions, and sleep aids. It integrates with Apple devices and HealthKit, with a focus on gentle progress tracking and privacy.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Meditation sessions
  • Sleep wind-down modes
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Apple Watch companion
  • HealthKit integration
  • Gentle progress tracking
Features
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Medito is a quiet space for your day — designed for people who want meditation to feel like a soft place, not another habit tracker. THREE MODES, ONE BREATH Choose Breathe to settle your nervous system, Meditate to sit with awareness, or Sleep to wind down. Each mode is guided by a living orb that gently expands and softens with your breath, paired with subtle haptics and a phase-locked breath cue you can feel as much as hear. HAND-PICKED AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES Layer in rain on a window, ocean at low tide, a forest at dawn, a flowing stream, a crackling fireplace, or crickets at dusk. All recordings loop seamlessly with a soft cross-fade. Explore the Sound Lab to preview and mix. MINDFUL PHONE — NEW Meditate your phone, not just your mind. Mindful Phone is the fourth orb on Home. • A calm home screen of words — launcher widgets with only the apps you choose, a clock and a plain wallpaper • A pause before the apps that pull you in, with a slow breath before you go on — and on iOS 26.4 or later, a moment to say why now and how long you need • Pause all day or on a schedule, go strict when it matters, or let your iPhone's Sleep or Work Focus switch it on • Describe your goal in words and get a plan, using on-device Apple Intelligence where available • Insights that compare today with a usual day: pickups, your hardest hours and the time your pauses won back Screen Time data is worked out on your iPhone and never leaves it. Mindful Phone needs Screen Time access. ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES • Apple Watch companion — start a session straight from your wrist with haptic-only breath cues • Widgets — your streak, total minutes, and per-mode quick-start tiles right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Live Activities — see your remaining time on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you sit • iCloud sync (Pro) — your streak, stats, and preferences follow you to every device, instantly • Awake Display — Medito gently keeps the screen on during a session so the orb stays with you GENTLE PROGRESS, NEVER PRESSURE • Track your streak, total minutes, and total sessions • Log a one-tap mood after each session and watch patterns emerge over time • Set a soft daily reminder at the time that suits you — it nudges, it doesn't nag • Open Health to write your mindful minutes back to Apple Health automatically MEDITO PRO • Every session length — up to 15 minutes to breathe, 30 to meditate and 45 to sleep • The full ambient sound library • iCloud sync of your streak, stats and preferences Choose yearly or monthly, both with a 2-week free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions can be shared with your family through Family Sharing. The free tier always includes Breathe, Meditate and Sleep at core lengths, your streak and stats, widgets, Live Activities, the Apple Watch app, Apple Health and two ambient sounds. No ads, ever. MEDITO + MINDFUL PHONE Everything in Medito Pro, plus Mindful Phone. Yearly or every 3 months, both with a 2-week free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Moving up from a Medito Pro subscription replaces it, so you're never billed for both. Own Medito Pro Lifetime? Add Mindful Phone for life on its own. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your App Store account settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no email • No analytics, no advertising, no third-party trackers • Your stats live on your device and in your private iCloud — never on our servers, because we don't run servers • HealthKit data is read and written only with your explicit permission and never leaves Apple's protected store DURATIONS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE From a one-minute reset before a meeting to a forty-five-minute wind-down on a slow Sunday evening, Medito meets you where you are. Open it. Breathe once. See how you feel. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Healthy Minds Program by Humin4 screens
Medito4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Healthy Minds Program by Humin at none against Medito's 3. Healthy Minds Program by Humin also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (8.5K vs 2). Medito's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Medito sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Healthy Minds Program by Humin asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Healthy Minds Program by Humin holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Healthy Minds Program by Humin has 8.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Healthy Minds Program by Humin ships an update every 3 weeks, Medito every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Healthy Minds Program by Humin versus Medito: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHealthy Minds Program by HuminMedito
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8.5K ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.5K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHealthy Minds Innovations, Inc.Raghava Naidu

Customer experience

Healthy Minds Program by Humin

All ratings8,102 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews619 reviews
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.7%

Medito

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Medito

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Healthy Minds Program by Humin

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Medito

Subscriptions2
  • Medito Pro Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Medito Pro Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Medito Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Healthy Minds Program by Humin free?
Healthy Minds Program by Humin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Medito free?
Medito is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Healthy Minds Program by Humin or Medito?
Healthy Minds Program by Humin is rated higher. Healthy Minds Program by Humin averages 4.9 out of 5 from 8.5K ratings, while Medito averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Healthy Minds Program by Humin or Medito have ads?
Healthy Minds Program by Humin shows ads; Medito does not.
Which is updated more often, Healthy Minds Program by Humin or Medito?
Healthy Minds Program by Humin ships an update every 3 weeks, and Medito every 4 days. Most recently, Healthy Minds Program by Humin was updated on October 19, 2026 and Medito on October 9, 2026.

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