I’m so grateful my company offers Headspace to employees. It really helps develop a healthy mind.

I tried using this app for therapy/psychiatric care because they partnered with my company. It’s similar to Betterhelp where they assign you a provider and then you try them out and can change if you don’t fit well. The issue I had was in the middle of my first session with my psychiatrist the session was unexpectedly terminated. I tried rejoining, on multiple devices, only to sit in the waiting room for 30+ minutes before my provider ended the session probably assuming I just bailed. There’s no way to communicate with your providers or them with you. I tried reaching out to tech support and they submitted an IT ticket which even though I selected as “urgent” I am still waiting to hear back from them. When I tried to reschedule, the next available sessions were almost a MONTH out and none of them are with the provider I was seeing. I tried calling member support and was directed through a bunch of useless menus and then asked to just leave a voice message, which I did (also no reply yet). When I pressed the number indicated to speak to an operator it said “invalid option”. Extremely disappointed in the overall experience. Will be looking elsewhere for care.

Too much money and there’s literally almost no free content. This feels classist.

I love this app and have been a subscriber for nearly a decade. I recommend it every chance I get, and typically meditate daily as a part of my mental health routine. From courses to help with specific challenges, to sleep sounds and music; content for adults as well as for kids - this app covers a lot of ground without making meditation feel like a chore. There are a few other reviews talking about needing new content. Content has been added, but it’s been in very particular areas. There have been some new courses added for work life balance in recent years, new sleep sounds get added semi-regularly, and they’ve added the Therapy and AI features recently. While these options are great, they don’t quite align with my needs. My daughter uses the Sesame Street bedtime stories to help her fall asleep, but there haven’t been any new ones added in ages (nor has there been any unbranded children’s stories added to cover the gap) It would also help if there was more content around temper and outbursts/triggers (and the SOS content is really limited here) It would also be great if there were reminders to do stress and anxiety check-ins when they open - and it would also be great if those check-ins also reported data back to the Apple Health app.

Headspace used to feel like a quiet, supportive space where I could go to simply breathe and center myself. Lately, though, I’ve felt disheartened every time I open the app and am immediately met with notifications pushing new features and programs. Instead of gently guiding me to my daily meditation, I now have to navigate multiple screens, which feels distracting rather than calming. It’s as if the focus has shifted from fostering mindfulness to encouraging constant engagement and upselling. I don’t need an app to tell me what’s wrong with me or how it can “fix” me — I just want a peaceful moment to check in with myself.

Make a little investment in yourself and others by giving this App a try. It is a great way to keep the habit of meditating and will pay lots of dividends to you and the ppl around you!

I’ve been using the app for over a year mostly for the sleep casts. I enjoy them but they lack customization. Consider allowing users to change voices, change wind down exercises (some of them work for me and others don’t and you can’t change or skip them) and adding more options for ambient noise like white noise, rain etc.

I found this app to be very racist and not inclusive. I found some of the content to be offensive and racist as we did not fit the Headspace idea of who should be acknowledged and given respect. When I spoke with Anna of Headspace, she informed me that the racism would continue and we could take it or leave it.

I like the sleep meditations but I like listening to multiple videos but I have to pick up my phone to go to the next meditation/ambient music which defeats the original purpose of sleeping without disturbance.

I love headspace and use it regularly to sleep. I have an iPhone and wish I could cast to my google home speaker. Headspace only allows airplay from iPhone, it seems.