Calm

Wordt zomaar zonder medeweten geld afgeschreven terwijl je afgemeld hebt. En dan nu nog 15€ duurder. Nu Dubbel opgelet en wederom afgemeld. Echt krankzinnig duur voor een app

Really good for children and adults meditations and sleep stories of all kinds it’s got everything.

The idea is great and so is the amount of content. However, there are far more American voices than British and their accents are often so strong that they can be incredibly off-putting to non-Americans. There are Brits in the sleep stories, but in the rest (daily and thematic things, etc.) it’s mostly American. Especially Tamara’s childish, inauthentic sounding voice I find grating. A pet peeve is that whenever there’s an update, there are no developer’s notes but only the same boastful description of Calm itself time after time - I didn’t even know that was allowed. Lastly, another pet peeve: a few photos used for sleep stories are incorrect, for example the one of the Flying Scotsman. I’ve tried to be helpful and tell them, but they refuse to change it, displaying that mentality of Americans who think they know Europe better than Europeans. It’s such a shame because certain aspects of the app’s content that can truly help people and you can tell they’re working hard on it. But an app of this price should cater to a broader audience instead of assuming that everybody likes American(s).

Ik heb me aangemeld voor gratis kennismaking, maar met die gratis week kun je bijna niets. Bijna alles zit op slot. En waar ik bij kon komen, sprak me niet aan. Maar nu komt het, ik heb de klantenservice gemaild om mijn proefabonnement per direct te beëindigen, maar in 4 dagen krijg alleen maar 2 mails dat ze ermee bezig zijn.
Echter, na de gratis week gaat de betaling voor een jaar meteen lopen en daar heb ik echt geen zin in… wordt vervolgd!

App works great! (In a previous review i said that the sound suddenly stopped working, that was a fault on my part and it’s been fixed!
I especially love Jerome Flynn’s sleep stories. My favourite is a night in Shakespeare’s London . I’d love if he were to make more!

Bij openen van de app staat de taal blijkbaar op Chinees of Japans, iets met Aziatische tekens die ik niet herken of kan lezen. iPad staat gewoon op NL, vreemd dus en niet aan te passen, want geen idee wat er staat

Please bring back the option of browsing meditations by topic. Can’t find my favourite meditations anymore

I think that this app is wonderful

Thanks Calm team. I love the daily calms with Tamara. I’ve been listening to them almost every day for the past months and I feel a lot better after the sessions!
On the critical side: please tone down the in-app gift advertising. After every session I need to decline offers from Calm for me to draw in others. Fine if you ask this once in a while, but at times this functionality seems to be the primary function of the app. It’s all about balance ;-).

Calm helps me build awareness, patience, compassion and confidence. I’ve been having a guided meditation before I go to bed for 4 years. I’m so glad that I started using it and kept on doing that.

The app is really nice in terms of content, design and UX.
However, I would love to see some technical improvements to make it live up to its potential:
- stuff like mood rating icons are really pixelated and basically stock images, which really takes me out of the whole calm design
- scrolling briefly lags when more content is loaded outside the screen
- the loading spinner is really obnoxious and I hoped it would be a calming animation
- overall, it’s clear that the app is not native, which is something hard to tackle, but very worthwhile to make the app more snappy

This app just charges and keeps asking to subscribe! Fraud. I wanted to get calm but this got me in rage mode

When I started teaching, life started to feel overwhelming. I was never on "off" mode anymore, which lead to a full blown panic attack when I was just 25.
Since doing some searching and trying many different methods, Calm's simple message of meditation has been the one steady in my life throughout many changes. I highly recommend the app, as the curators do an excellent job keeping the material varied, fresh and using different methodology. I especially love that some of their stories are in different languages (like French) now, and the soundscapes for sleeping. Wonderful and highly calming app.

Tijdens een moment van reflectie krijg ik zeer waardevolle inzichten aangereikt.
Inspirerend!

I wanted to try it but only get stressed more by having to tap away an incredible amount of ads and begging for money. Horrible. Just ask for payment before downloading the app…

The app is a set of sounds and background noises. They offer some weird stories with unbalanced sound levels that will keep you awake instead of helping ease into sleep.
I’m using it for about 7 weeks now and really regret the purchase.

I love the app, using it for a while now with premium, but somehow there are bugs as I cannot keep playing songs in the background. I am not closing the app or using other applications with sound… please fix this soon! :)

I love this app, but it doesn’t let you create a playlist to listen to multiple audio files in succession.
I don’t sleep well, so using the app to fall asleep has been wonderful!
Unfortunately, I wake up every hour so I have to manually choose the next audio file, repeating this 7 or 8 times each night.
If the app allowed users to make playlists, it would be a 5-star experience!