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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.