The best meditation applications on Android and iOS to reach mindfulness

On the App Store and Google Play, paid meditation applications are legion. The advantage ? Most offer monitoring of our daily progressions and meditations, but also programs adapted to our needs. If you are really an aficionado of meditation or simply very anxious, putting your hand in the wallet can really be worth it.

The best apps to meditate

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Here are meditation applications that promise to relax and help you reach fullness in just a few minutes. Test bench.

You want to try meditation but you don’t know where to start ? Mobile applications are there to help you ! For several years, they have been flourishing hundreds on purchasing and download platforms and it is not always easy to navigate. Yes, each of them has their specialty: to sleep, to calm down in front of stress, for children, or simply to start the day on the right foot. Overview of the best applications to meditate.

How free applications work

Close your eyes, take great inspiration and exhale. To find calm and serenity, nothing better than meditation. The most curious can turn to free applications to discover the discipline and perhaps become followers. The advantage ? They are accessible to everyone ! Often, they offer guided meditations where users are helped thanks to soothing voices or let you do free meditation sessions by only putting a sound of atmosphere. These applications also adapt to your schedule. If you have ten, fifteen, twenty minutes … you will necessarily find your happiness there.

The advantage of paid applications

On the App Store and Google Play, paid meditation applications are legion. The advantage ? Most offer monitoring of our daily progressions and meditations, but also programs adapted to our needs. If you are really an aficionado of meditation or simply very anxious, putting your hand in the wallet can really be worth it.

The best meditation applications on Android and iOS to reach mindfulness

Stress ? Anguish ? Irritated ? It’s time to relax. To do this, discover our selection of the best meditation applications on Android. Take a little time for you and find mindfulness through sessions of only a few minutes.

A hard day, an argument with a loved one, an coming exam, a world pandemic … Sources of stress or nervousness are, alas, various and varied. For some, meditation is an effective method to regain control of their emotions, but get started without any knowledge may seem difficult. Fortunately, guided meditation applications exist on Android and iOS to help us find a calm consciousness.

Here are the free or not free meditation applications to download for sessions with confidence.

Meditate with Petit Bambou, the essential

Meditate with Petit Bambou, this is the reference in France with regard to meditation applications. Thanks to a nice very practical visual identity, soft music and relaxing voices, the application allows you to relax easily.

The Mediterranean Service with Petit Bamboo is revolved around ten -minute sessions, but it is also possible to make a tailor -made meditation thanks to the free mediation mode where the duration can be configured or the content of the session. Finally, we particularly appreciate the calm crisis option which is a kind of emergency meditation session allowing to calm down in three minutes after a stress peak, an anxiety attack or a dispute for example.

Small bamboo: meditation

If the application download is free, only the discovery program is available without paying (9 sessions of about ten minutes each). To try the other programs, it will be necessary to turn to the half -yearly subscription at 41.99 euros, taken every six months so.

Insight Timer, the beautiful alternative

Insight Timer is also a very popular service. Here, the goal is more to take advantage of the very large database of meditation sessions (more than 80,000 audio files) which is made available. These are classified by themes and atmospheres: you only have to draw from it according to your mood and the desired goal.

That’s not all, Insight Timer also includes a social dimension where users can share their experiences and how they could achieve mindfulness. Live guided meditations are also offered, but very good ease with oral English is necessary.

Insight Timer – Meditation

You can try the first sessions without even registering for the application in order to give you a first idea of ​​the application. Then you will have to subscribe. The first week is free, then count 64.99 euros per year to access all of the features and courses published by teachers.

Namatata, for beginners of meditation

Meditation is an art that gradually controls itself. It is therefore not necessarily easy to try it when you don’t have the right keys. This is where Namatata comes in. This application is really focused on learning the basics of meditation so as not to burn the steps and progress correctly.

This very educational side for beginners does not prevent Namatata from being rich in functionality and offering adapted sessions to overcome negative moral states (stress, anxiety, etc.).

You can try the subscription for free for seven days, then the package goes to 38.99 euros for six months of use.

Mindfulness, interface and statistics

The mindfulness application offers a very easy to handle interface to display a whole bunch of statistics on each of your sessions. The service offers daily follow -up to best support you in your meditations.

Without registering, you will have access to a few fast sessions (from 2 to 7 minutes), as well as to mindfulness bases (from 12 to 17 min per session for a week) to initiate you to meditation. A free 7 -day offer allows you to fully test the application. Then you will have to pay 47.99 euros per year.

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Five apps to meditate in full awareness

Escape the ambient tumult, stress, anxiety ? In five years, the practice of meditation has experienced a strong boom, supported by digital support. Confinement should anchor it even more in our habits.

Posted on April 05, 2020 at 12:35 a.m., modified on April 09, 2020 at 10:11 am

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“Today more than ever, we live disconnected from our senses, obsessed with the emergency, tossed by the weather in our moods. Day after day, awakening our senses with meditation, we can shape our mind and replace the agitation with calm, hatred with benevolence, discomfort with well-being “, writes Jon Kabat-Zinn in Awakening of the senses (Les Arènes, 2009). This biologist and professor emeritus of medicine developed, in the 1970s in the United States, an educational and preventive program to reduce mindfulness (or MBSR, for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), secular adaptation of the meditation of Buddhist tradition which has spread since.

With confinement, the practice of meditation can contribute to sweeping dark ideas and blurring anxiety. To better live this tumultuous period, and take care of yourself, follow the voice to find the way of appeasement using five applications to choose from.

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Best tied up: small bamboo

“And if it were urgent to meditate ?, estimated, long before the confinement was established, the creators of the leading app in Europe, launched in 2015 by Benjamin Blasco and Ludovic Dujardin. And if the virtues of appeasement, compassion and lucidity brought by meditation could be one of the solutions for a better world and a more positive future ? »» It couldn’t fall better.

Nothing seems to be missing from the small bamboo app, the Swiss knife of Nirvana, whatever the objectives and situations of the practitioners, whether they are 5 to 99 and over, novices or advanced. Before March 17, there were 4.4 million, including 37 % of men, to have installed the apparatus of the Buddhist monk with all smiles. Forty authors and voice, including that of the psychiatrist Christophe André, one of the first French doctors to offer meditation to his patients – present a total of 820 sessions, one, free, to “smile at the Anxiety “: these are both nine fundamental programs, from 8 to 12 sessions each, to” anchor their practice “,” observe your feelings “, or even” go to you “, before being able to turn to personalized meditations, in particular according to the “status” of the meditant, whether in a couple, parent, child or senior. A smooth course and evolving to the rhythm of each.

The little extra: Every morning of the week, Petit Bambou offers on its Facebook page a live meditation of one hour, accessible for everyone.

IOS and Android app. 8 free discovery program sessions. Subscription from 3 to 12 months, from 22 to 65 euros, and for life for 240 euros. Littlebambou.com

The most kid Friendly: mind

“You are sitting well ? So let’s go ! »» Accent so British From Martin Aylward, doubled in an enveloping voice and punctuated by the song of the Tibetan bowl, is an invitation to meditative journey. The co -founder of Mind, thirty years of practice and twenty years of teaching, animates the initiation program in three stages (initiation, STEP 2 and STEP 3) – entirely free since containment – during which he gradually guides the beginner, giving him the keys to meditation. At the end of his apprenticeship, he has eleven thematic programs, led in particular by Christophe André and Fabrice Midal. Martin Aylward also offers 114 podcasted sessions to explore all the sides of the mindfulness as well as live meditation from Monday to Friday at 8 am.

The “Kids” section hosts four programs (guided meditations, yoga, tales and games), designed by Eline Snel, the Best Seller author Calm and attentive like a frog (Les Arènes, 2012), through which 4-12 year olds will find, without appearing there and in a most benevolent environment, “Easy and fun tools to train your attention muscle” and gain calm and serenity alongside Grégoire the frog. Ideal for establishing, alone and/or family, daily tranquility bubbles.

The little extra: The “All your Statistics” section allows you to view the number of finalized sessions and programs, the time of minutes spent meditating as well as the number of people who, in real time, also meditate. Ideal in these confined times.

IOS and Android app. After seven days of free trial, subscription of 6.99 euros/month to 69.99 euros/year, and a lifetime subscription at 180 euros. Mind-app.io