No longer about meditation
This app saved me in COVID and taught me how to meditate! I loved the guided practice, especially the beginner course with Andy. His instruction really clicked. But the app and its courses have since changed. Rather than focusing on mindfulness and meditation, the app has expanded to include an AI interface for feeling acknowledgement and mindfulness guidance as well as a full-on therapy module. I miss the previous simplicity of the app. I’d subscribe again if there were a lower tier option that really focused on the meditation instead of selling its other products.
Can’t sign in DO NOT USE
Ive tried to sign in and my username is showing as Null null. When I tried contacting their support their LLM routed my support request to headspace care their premium service and the response was your email associated with your account isn’t associated with a premium account and at this point has ghosted me from a response. I can’t get into the app itself to make it a premium account because I’m hard locked out. Do not expect any support they have outsourced it to AI mostly.
don’t make me look
hey, headspace, how about instead of your suggestions for what you, who absolutely do not know me, think would be great for me, the program that I have actually selected for myself and begun shows up on my home page with the next session queued up and ready to go, so that I don’t have to go find it in the library. also, I do not especially care about stats, but in hunting around for the thing that I wanted to do that you hid from me, I did see that my stats say I have done absolutely nothing -all zeros-which is absolutely incorrect. i seem to be having strong emotions about this, i wonder where my next session is?
Idiotic Coding
I signed for a 1 yr sub, so obviously I was intensely interested. Started with the Sleep sessions. Finished the first. Tried to move on to 2d. Couldn’t, despite visual confirmation I’d completed all steps in Session 1. I signed up to learn how to alleviate stress, not become your sitting duck for unnecessary irritants per abject failure to code intelligently. Canceled sub. Moved on to Insight Timer.
Very glitchy
This app has been very glitchy for me. This morning, I wanted to check out the singles and courses, but the app just closed anytime I scrolled to courses. On a different morning, I had to skip my meditation because it was saying all the meditations were locked even though I have a subscription.
Mediation App
If you’re looking for meditation, this might be a good resource. That’s the method used for relaxing stress, and anxiety relief as the developer states in the heading. The focus is on meditation so if meditation is not your thing as is the case with me, then this is not for you. If you’re looking for guidance to work through your thoughts and emotions, then this app will guide you through meditations, but that’s about it. They’re heavily push pushing Ebb AI as a way to talk through your problems. I don’t really feel like talking to AI but was just looking for some guidance to organize my thoughts. This was not helpful for me.
User experience
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Everything is locked behind subscription
Quite literally everything is locked behind a subscription so you your downloading the app for no reason if you just want a nice meditation app. Reviews may be botted or bad reviews deleted.
Lost Touch by Getting Trendy
Headspace used to be my go to, to help me through stressful periods and sleepless nights. It was a good program to step away from everything. In the more recent years, they have caved to all the social trends, rather than focusing on the core methodology of meditation (seems counterintuitive). They also used to have a nice relaxed display of your daily tasks and now its home screen is a chaotic mess. I cancelled my subscription. I only ever use it anymore, when I need rain sounds for my baby on the go.
Love it but don’t like new home page
I miss the old home page that suggested morning breaths and the morning meditation. It’s hard to find those and I just use it for sleep now
Slow to load
I love the content but it takes so long to load both upon initially logging in and when switching screens to search for something. I am miss having the class I’m taking on the first page. I wish I could customize my morning or day with things - if I could I would have the Wake Up, a short morning meditation, Breathing exercise and the class. I might then put yoga or another movement in the evening.
I love this app
Headspace got me into meditation and helped to create a habit. think it’s really working well, it’s been 15,555 minutes :) it actually took me through toughest times of my life when I had trouble sitting with my thoughts and feelings. new animations are so cute! I’m very grateful they came up with this <3
Too many bugs
I’ve loved this app for years, but the most recent updates have left it buggy for me all year. Half the days it doesn’t even open the app even after uninstalling and reinstalling. The meditations no longer work when I click on them. I do t want to uninstall and reinstall or delete the cache every single time I meditate. It should be seamless. Canceling my subscription sadly even though I love the content. I just can’t pay for something I can’t easily access.
It’s 2026 and no dark mode app icon?
How do you forgive this?
Stop trying to trick users in to using the AI chatbot
The home row is constantly swapping icons around in an effort to get users to accidentally start a conversation with their AI chatbot named Ebb. It’s INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. There is so much great content on this app, stop trying to force AI down our throats.
Headspace
I LOVEEE this app but almost every thing is reserved for premium which really sucks! :( and premium is 70 dollars a year. The app would be SOOOOOO much better if they offered more tools and videos for free! I really hope in the future that they consider this!
Nothing free.
There is nothing free on this app for people to use. Then you have To pay 70$ overpriced, and annoying
Too beginner
Way to much politics on this platform for mediation, classes are too short, and for beginners
I miss old headspace
This current version is way too cluttered
Meh
I think I was expecting more from the app. Was not useful at all. Better and free apps out there.
Ok
Can’t do anything unless you pay
Very Bad
I was crying because NOTHING was available to me and my mum refused to pay for it! Make it to 2 dollars instead of 13.
Shortcut broken
I use a shortcut to launch the daily meditation but it’s been broken by the latest update?
Privacy?
I have not dared to use this app at all — nothing in the terms of service builds confidence that my sensitive data stays private.
Coaching will drop you if you’re in crisis
Probably fine if you just need some mindfulness, but they claim to offer mental health coaching and what they don’t tell you is that they will only help you if you’re having mild symptoms. They will literally deactivate your account if you’re in crisis. Also, if your insurance (like Kaiser) pays for your account, they will tell them everything you say without asking your permission or informing you.
Core is good, experience around it is bad.
This app keeps getting in its own way and it becomes increasingly frustrating. I hate that it keeps trying to push AI and therapist services despite me repeatedly saying no. You’d think one place annoying constant harassment for paying more money would be absent would be a meditation app but alas. Beyond that, the core experience of just trying to find a meditation to do is annoying. There is no search functionality, and if you started a course it’s 50/50 if the app will remember that you started it and add it to your recents list. It feels like the app is constantly trying to push you away from its core use case, meditation, which is baffling.
Love!
My husband and I started using music to help us fall asleep. I love this app because I can quickly find something soothing and control how long it plays for. He uses our Bluetooth speaker with a music subscription. Sometimes, crazy wild non-soothing songs play. (We have different bedtimes due to work schedule differences). I also love the different calming things. Played a breathing exercise one day at work when I was feeling overwhelmed. Cool feature to my health insurance.
Be ready to pay for everything in the app, nothing is free
Was looking for a free app to help with my sleep schedule, but as soon as you open the app, nothing is available unless you pay. Just a scam, all they want is money
Terrible support
Support has been “working” for weeks now to resolve an issue I have linking my health insurance company to the app for purposes of claiming a benefit that my insurer provides for free headspace. Totally useless and a massive time suck. Great app - terrible support, awful rollout of a massive partnership with a major insurance carrier. So ironic that a meditation app causes so much frustration for their users.
I thought that there were some free options
I’m not sure if you have to pay to use this but I made an account hoping to improve my mental health and it told me I can pay but it was optional. Everything I want to do had to be paid for so I just gave up and deleted it. I wish caring for my mental health could be free.
Stay Away
My insurance dropped them as a company and HS kept my daughter’s appointment and billed me for it. Then they charged me for a second appointment that I cancelled in plenty of time. I can not delete my account with them and just have to keep an eye on the app to make sure they don’t try and continue to make appointments and bill me for them
$$
Seems great but it sucks that they don’t tell you everything is locked behind a paywall…
Great SleepCasts, but I miss the Suggested Daily Routine
Headspace is a great app with an awesome mission to help people create habits for better mental well-being and equanimity. I love using SleepCasts to help me fall asleep. (My husband is always asking me to put on the Cat Marina episodes haha, so he loves it too.) However, when Headspace got rid of the Suggested Daily Routine, I completely fell out of routine with meditation. I struggle with choice fatigue, so having some preloaded suggestions for different meditations, videos, and activities throughout the day was a really helpful feature. Im trying to get back into meditation, so I’m leaving this review in hopes that Headspace will consider bringing back the Suggested Daily Routine.
Immediately charged for 1 yr w/o getting the 14 day trial
I honestly don’t know if my sleep will benefit from this app because while I was signing up for the 14 day trial I received a notification from my bank that it was charged $76.11 for the subscription . I am so annoyed! I have tried other sleep apps with varying degrees of success and in pursuit of trying to get a good nights sleep I thought I would try this one. The 14 day trial seemed perfect and if it was beneficial I would have absolutely purchased the year however now I have to somehow not be annoyed when I try to use the app tonight. And then what if it doesn’t work for me, I’m out $76 with no recourse? Great.
10 year user
Used HeadSpace for 10 years. Changed my life in every way for the greater. Less stressed, more grounded, clear and calm. Best App I’ve used
Freezes
App completely freezes when trying to sign in
Completely exploitative experience
Here’s an app to help manage your anxiety but whatever you do do not forget to cancel your free trial 9 hours late! Disgusting behavior. I was refused a refund to my surprise, and this company is about self care? Absolutely shameful. Do NOT use.
Charged be when I canceled and never refunded me
They charged me 100$ after I did a full cancel and I didn’t get a refund after reaching out to support.
So glitchy, freezes daily
After a meditation session, half of the time the app freezes. You have to restart it and your session wasn’t saved. I’ve sent in multiple support tickets, been an issue for a year.
Chat limit?
I paid for a year and when I did there wasn’t a chat limit. Over the weekend out of the blue there’s a 30 minute chat limit on Ebb. How can they just enforce a chat limit out of the blue like that? That’s not what I paid for. I never agreed to the new terms. What BS! If I could give zero stars I would. Disgusting… really….
Great for focusing
Love this app. I mostly use it for focus and sleep music. I wish they would add to the music library more. It would also be nice to be able to fast forward 15 or 30 seconds when playing music to easily skip through parts you don’t like.
Doesn’t work when offline
The content seems to help me sleep but it’s disappointing that it doesn’t work when offline. I was on a plane and wanted help sleeping, but the app just sat on a white loading screen. I’d listened to content to help me sleep before, so I just wanted to access that! The help says there’s a download option but I can’t find that.
Good app, long load times, terrible UI
The meditations are pretty good. I hate that Care (therapy) is inside the app and an icon I can’t replace, because I don’t use it. The UI makes it hard to find what I need. It takes fooorrrrrever to load when tapping on a new section. SO annoying. The app used to be so good, really good down hill lately.
Won’t load
Every time I want to use the app, I have to delete it and reinstall it because it won’t load. Yes, cache is cleared. Yes, everything is up-to-date.
Recent changes are not good
Why did you get rid of your widget? Why did you name the app so much harder to use? It was wonderful and I was a paying user for over five years, but then the app became too much hassle and seems to have stopped caring about the users.
Trial Users Beware
Wanted to give this app another try after having not used in for a long time and was offered 14 days free, following an anual subscription. In part of the free trial agreement, it clearly stated that payment would process the first day following the two week trial period and that cancellation was possible at anytime- great, except I got charged immediately for the annual subscription price. Luckily, it’s not hard to request a refund through apple, but seriously confusing, frustrating, and misleading.
I don’t wanna pay for everything
I downloaded this app thinking I would be able to regulate my anxiety with it. It was free wo download, but to acess any of the features of this app, you have to get a free trial, or pay. It is bassiclally designed to take your money. It’s a scam! I would give it 0 stars if I could!!!!
Layout
The content is good but stressful trying to find basic meditations. Bring back the old Today page.
No New Content
I subscribed to this for a year (ended 3/4/26). I noticed after a couple months that they were not producing any new content for the Sleep portion of the app. This resulted in my having to cycle through the same material for the remaining 10 months. I believe a subscription for an app like this should provide new content on a periodic basis - otherwise, just charge a one-time fee.