Comparison

Calm vs Mindfulness.com Meditation App

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

Head to head
About

Calm

This app offers guided meditations, sleep stories, music, and breathing exercises to help users reduce stress, anxiety, and improve sleep. It caters to all experience levels, integrating mindfulness into daily routines for enhanced mental well-being.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Sleep Stories
  • Breathwork exercises
  • Relaxing music
  • Stretching exercises
  • Mindfulness programs
Features
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Calm is the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation. Find anxiety relief, stress relief, and better sleep through breathing exercises, sleep sounds, deep sleep music, and mindfulness programs for insomnia, beginner meditation, and beyond. Downloaded by 180 million people worldwide. Fall asleep faster with Sleep Stories, bedtime stories for adults narrated by Matthew McConaughey, Stephen Fry, P\!nk, Bob Ross, and more. Only on Calm. Manage stress, relieve anxiety, improve your sleep cycle, and refocus your attention. Apple App of the Year. Apple Editors' Choice. Happiest App in the World (Center for Humane Technology). 3M+ five-star reviews. Recommended by top psychologists, therapists, and mental health experts. SLEEP STORIES — ONLY ON CALM * Drift off to Matthew McConaughey's Wonder — a dreamy journey through the mysteries of the universe * Travel through the village of Provence with master storyteller Stephen Fry in Blue Gold * Fall asleep to the soothing brush strokes of beloved painter Bob Ross in Happy Little Zzzs * Tackle insomnia with 100+ exclusive Sleep Stories, new content added every month MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS * Beginner meditation to advanced practice — guided sessions for every experience level * Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt, Daily Jay with Jay Shetty, Daily Trip with Jeff Warren * Mindfulness topics: deep sleep, anxiety relief, stress relief, focus, breaking habits, self-care, personal growth, and more * 7- and 21-day mindfulness programs to build a lasting practice ANXIETY RELIEF & RELAXATION * Breathing exercises and breathwork to ease anxiety, stress, and insomnia * Bilateral stimulation music and neuroacoustic sounds for nervous system regulation and somatic relaxation * Guided breathwork for stress relief, anxiety relief, and deep calm * Stress management and self-healing through Dailies: programs for social anxiety, personal growth, and mood balance * Mindful movement and stretching with Daily Move SLEEP SOUNDS, MUSIC & SOUNDSCAPES * Calming music, nature sounds, and sleep sounds: ocean waves, heavy rain, campfire, and more * Exclusive focus and sleep music from top artists * Full soundscapes and sleep sounds to help you relax, meditate, and sleep soundly ALSO FEATURING * Daily Streaks & Mindful Minutes — emotion and mental health tracker * Calm saves your meditation and sleep sessions to your Apple Health app. Mental health is health. Calm is for anyone looking to improve their sleep, manage stress, and address everyday anxiety. Meditation novice or seasoned expert. Take a deep breath and find your Calm. Calm is free to download and use. There are never any ads and some of the programs and features are free forever. Some content is only available through an optional paid subscription. Be sure to check out our Apple Watch app to quick-start breathing exercises and track your meditations. Subscription pricing and terms: Calm offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $14.99/month and an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $69.99/year to provide you with unlimited access to the Calm Collection while you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://www.calm.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.calm.com/privacy

About

Mindfulness.com Meditation App

Access personalized daily video coaching and short mindfulness practices for stress reduction and improved sleep. Learn from renowned teachers and track your progress to cultivate a calmer, more mindful life.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily video coaching
  • Short mindfulness micro-practices
  • Guided meditations and courses
  • Stress and anxiety reduction tools
  • Sleep improvement features
  • Progress tracking
  • Donations to mindfulness nonprofits
Features
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PERSONALIZED DAILY VIDEO COACHING Every day, you’ll receive a personalized video lesson & meditation from your Mindfulness Coach to give you practical tools for living a life with calm and ease. SHORT MINDFULNESS PRACTICES. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. Explore our 1-2 minute long mindfulness micro-practices, breathing exercises and short meditations to provide you with in-the-moment support when you need it the most. LEARN TO PRACTICE MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION Join our community of over 1 million people transforming their lives by learning mindfulness, cultivating a habit of mindful meditation or deepening their practice of mindfulness with our mindfulness courses from world renowned mindfulness teachers. REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY Learn & practice a better way of living with 100s of talks, courses, micro-practices, guided meditations, music & soundscapes to reduce stress and anxiety, meditate and sleep better. Meditation sessions are available in lengths of 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes so you can choose the perfect length. IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP Fall asleep fast and get better rest with our Sleep Shuffle, guided sleep meditations, sleep music and soothing nature soundscapes. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Track your Mindful Minutes within the Apple Health app.   MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD WITH YOUR PRACTICE When you take a Mindfulness Plus subscription, we donate a portion of our revenue to non-profit organisations who are bringing mindfulness to people in need. To date, we’ve donated over $500,000 to mindfulness nonprofits around the world. MEET YOUR HOSTS: *Cory Muscara, MA - Mindfulness Advisor to The Dr. Oz Show. Instructor at University of Pennsylvania. Former Monk. Co-founder of Mindfulness.com *Melli O’Brien - Speaker. Writer and Mindfulness Teacher. Co-founder of Mindfulness.com. Host of The Mindfulness Summit, the world's largest mindfulness conference. MEET YOUR WORLD RENOWNED TEACHERS: *Rhonda Magee, JD - Author. Professor of Law, University of San Francisco *Shamash Alidina, MA - Teacher. Author of Mindfulness for Dummies *Kelly Boys - Author. Mindfulness Trainer for the United Nations *Vidyamala Burch - Author. Pain & illness Specialist. Founder of Breathworks *Mark Coleman - Mindfulness Teacher. Wilderness guide and author. *Rich Fernandez - the CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. MINDFUL MEDITATION & TALKS ABOUT MINDFUL LIVING *Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD - Professor of Medicine. Bestselling author. Founder of MBSR. *Tara Brach, PhD - Mindfulness Teacher. Psychologist and bestselling author. *Sharon Salzberg - New York Times bestselling author. *Jack Kornfield, PhD - Mindfulness Teacher. Bestselling Author 12+ books. *Dan Siegel, MD - Bestselling author. Director UCLA Mindful Research Center. *Judson Brewer, MD - Psychiatrist. Director of Research, Center for Mindfulness. *Elisha Goldstein, PhD - Author. Founder, Center for Mindful Living LA. *Mark Williams, Phd - Professor. Director of Oxford University’s Mindfulness Center. We believe training your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life and everyone has the right to the healing power of a mindfulness practice — and money should never be the reason why someone can't access the tools, support, and community to benefit from it. With Mindfulness.com, if you can't afford a Mindfulness Plus subscription, please send us an email, and we will unlock a free year for you to enjoy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Calm4 screens
Mindfulness.com Meditation App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mindfulness.com Meditation App at none against Calm's shown. Mindfulness.com Meditation App also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Calm's advantage is ratings volume (2M vs 2.5K) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Calm sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Mindfulness.com Meditation App sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Calm against 4.8 for Mindfulness.com Meditation App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calm has 2M ratings behind it against 2.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Calm's written reviews are positive against 96% of Mindfulness.com Meditation App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calm ships an update every 4 days, Mindfulness.com Meditation App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Calm versus Mindfulness.com Meditation App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalmMindfulness.com Meditation App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2M ratings)4.8 (2.5K ratings)
Positive reviews64.1% of reviews96.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2M — better2.5K
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size167 MB129 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperCalm.commindfulness.com

Customer experience

Calm

All ratings1,981,815 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews3,855 reviews
Positive64.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative28.4%

Mindfulness.com Meditation App

All ratings2,529 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews490 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral0.8%
Negative3.1%

User reviews

Calm

From 2M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💤 Helpful for sleep
  • 🧘‍♀️ Effective for meditation and relaxation
  • 🎨 Variety of content (sleep stories, meditations, music)
  • 🙏 Positive impact on mental health
  • 🤗 Soothing narrators

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔒 Limited free content
  • 🕰️ Difficulty finding specific content
  • 🔁 Repetitive sleep stories
  • 🙃 Accessibility issues for disabled users

Mindfulness.com Meditation App

From 2.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🙏 Thank you
  • 🌈 Mindfulness
  • 🌟 Amazing
  • 🌱 New beginnings
  • 🌍 Practicing Human

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy
  • 🔒 Subscription issues

Bugs and requests

Calm

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Playback issues with audio and video
  • Difficulty cancelling subscription

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add repeat button for sleep stories
  • Separate kids and adult content
  • Allow creating custom playlists
  • Improve search and navigation
  • Add more diverse narrator voices
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  • Provide text-based instructions for techniques

Mindfulness.com Meditation App

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Frequent crashes
  • Subscription cancellation issues

Requested features

2 requests
  • Archive of daily meditations
  • More content for seniors

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Calm

Subscriptions8
  • Calm Subscription$14.991 Month
  • Calm Premium$14.991 Month
  • Calm Premium$16.991 Month
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  • Calm Premium$29.991 Month
  • Calm Premium$69.991 Year
  • Calm Premium7 Days trial2 variants$69.991 Year
  • Calm Premium7 Days trial3 variants$79.991 Year
  • Calm Premium$79.991 Year
12 purchases

Mindfulness.com Meditation App

Subscriptions10
  • Mindfulness Plus Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Mindfulness Plus+ Monthly$16.991 Month
  • Basics Annual Subscription7 Days trial$16.991 Year
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  • Basics Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • 1 Year Mindfulness Basics7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Plus+ Annual Subscription7 Days trial$67.991 Year
  • Mindfulness Plus Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Plus+ Annual Subscription7 Days trial$76.991 Year
  • Mindfulness Plus+ Annual7 Days trial$84.991 Year
  • Mindfulness Plus Annual7 Days trial$95.991 Year
One-time2
  • Plus+ Lifetime 70% off$149.99
  • Plus+ Lifetime 66% off$169.99

Questions

Is Calm free?
Calm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mindfulness.com Meditation App free?
Mindfulness.com Meditation App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calm or Mindfulness.com Meditation App?
Calm and Mindfulness.com Meditation App are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2M and 2.5K ratings respectively.
Do Calm or Mindfulness.com Meditation App have ads?
Calm shows ads; Mindfulness.com Meditation App does not.
Which is updated more often, Calm or Mindfulness.com Meditation App?
Calm ships an update every 4 days, and Mindfulness.com Meditation App every 3 weeks. Most recently, Calm was updated on September 27, 2026 and Mindfulness.com Meditation App on September 26, 2026.

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