Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom

Best meditation app hands down. The wide library of courses made by various teachers lets you go really in-depth.
Also great as a first step into the world of exploration of how the mind works.
For me is the app an absolute must-have and it’s worth every dollar.

Ik ben heel erg tevreden met deze app van Sam Harris.
Hij geeft heldere instructies en maakt het allemaal “ natuurlijk” om te doen. De lessen zijn verhelderend en inspirerend.

Sam is an excellent teacher and I love this style with barely any spirituality, it is just not what I’m looking for in my meditation. The app works well and while I don’t call the subscription a bargain, for me it is well worth it.

I tried meditating before but never got hooked. Sam Harris and all the others inside waking up have changed that forever.

Have been using it for a year now and couldn’t do without it anymore. Sam Harris and his guest narrators give very practical insights on mindfulness. They helped me understand a whole lot more about the matter, super valuable to me ♥️

Sam Harris’ approach to meditation resonates deeply with me. It is a great app with so many valuable lessons from different scholars and different points of view.
The last few years of my life have been challenging and Waking Up has helped me staying on my path whenever the going gets tough.

Big fan of the app and it’s really helped me tremendously. I do run into quite some bugs while using the app though, and I think the user experience could be improved even more if these are fixed. For example, I use the app quite a lot in offline mode, listening to episodes that I’ve downloaded to my device. However, very often the app will not correctly continue playing from the time I stopped the app previously. Usually, it will just restart the entire episode or play a different one from the same series. Then, I have also encountered issues where downloaded episodes suddenly disappear, and then reappear as downloaded.
So, five stars for content, three stars for the technical side.

Best meditation app out there, soothing voice, explains basics and the introductory course builds up nicely. The scholarship initiative is also great. I personally didn’t have the money to spend, but still being allowed to use it is just so nice!

I'm a big fan of sam Harris podcast aince forever
As a person who is an atheist, I found myself always uninterested in meditation, as I saw it as a “spiritual “ thing”
But Sam Harris treats meditation differently and helps people train their minds, and their attention, helping u to live a better life and to be intentional with their energy and what u give energy to
Our minds are chaotic and left untrained will be hard to live the life we want and build the things we wanr
The meditation app helps u do just that, every day is a mind training for 10 mins
The meditations are great and I highly recommend this app!

Sam has a lot of knowledge and wisdom, and you can tell that he genuinely wants to help build a more mindful and loving world. I highly recommend anyone that cares about their quality of living to try it out.

This program has helped me to reduce a “clinging” to a restless mind. I feel more calm since engaging with this app and highly recommend others to give it a try!

I’d like to be able to customise what are counted as mindful minutes in Apple Health. In my case I only want Practice sessions to be counted and not Theory or Life.

This is not just an app but a place I go to everyday. I’m very grateful that it exists because it has helped me in numerous of different ways.

The app is simply wonderful. It expands my consciousness and provides so many useful tools for living more examined and mindful life. Great meditations (don’t skip Introductory course even if you’ve been meditating already for some time!), plenty of amazing talks on fascinating topics with amazing guests. I enjoy the app tremendously!

This app was great. The monthly option to subscribe, some free content and a great starter course. Coupled with a different approach to mindfulness really made it unique. Returning to it after a few months only to find out that even the timer is behind the paywall is just to much for me. The app is a digital paper weight unless you pay. Maybe not the greatest development.

Excellent app, and very good content.
This app was recommended to me by a friend, at a time where I really needed it.
Waking Up helped me look at my life, career, and mind with new insight. Insight that I needed, and wish I had a long time ago.

I had used the app before a few years ago, but got frustrated after a while doing the introductory course by Sam Harris himself because it felt too difficult for me, so I stopped using the app.
Now, I gave it another shot and I am amazed by all the different material! Funny enough, I noticed I am still not the biggest fan of Sam Harris style and voice, but the app is full of other great teachers. So for anyone who has had trouble relating to some voices/speakers, be assured there‘s lots to choose from!
I have been using the app for a week only and just had a super touching metta meditation.
Also, the app is very pleasantly designed with great images!
Overall: just love it!

I would like it if the app remembered the auto play setting per series, instead of it being a global setting. I use auto play for some series (especially those in Theory and Life), and not for others (especially those in Practice).