Headspace: Sleep & Meditation

This app used to be amazing, but is getting way worse through “improvements”. The meditations themselves are still solid, but the app is getting increasingly overwhelming with loads of in-app push notifications, recomendations, what is helping others… I loved the incredible simple home page featuring just a few meditations. Now there are over three times as many on there. The mindfull design of the app was one of its biggest strengths for me, now it almost starts to feel as overwhelming as a social media platform. Please Headspace stay to your authenticity! Don’t let the money lure you! There are already plenty of overwhelming apps out there.

Sometimes the meditation stops ‘playing’ during the session. As a result you end up meditating for way too long. Once this happens once or twice you’ll start wondering if it stopped playing during meditation. Not a good foundation for ‘anxiety relief’…

You can’t just force people to update. I now had to use mobile data to update, otherwise I couldn’t use the app.

Keeps saying’ take our latest version for a spin’! But you can click all you like but even after updating it keeps asking for an update

Top app to benefit off of those who need help by making literally every video closed off without paid subscription. Not even worth one star

Headspace heeft zonder notificatie van tevoren tientallen euro’s van mijn PayPal-rekening geschreven en mijn abonnement voor een jaar verlengt. Contact met helpdesk gehad. Die zecht niks voor me te kunnen doen, want het zou verlenging zijn na een proefabonnement. Maar mijn vorige abonnement was een gewoon jaarabonnement. Nadat ik dat had verteld en gezegd dat dit soort abonnementen in Nederlandse na een jaarabonnement alleen maar automatisch verlengd mogen worden per maand en niet zomaar voor een jaar zonder bericht vooraf, kreeg ik een standaard mail zonder verder menselijk contact. Dieven zijn het!

I’ve been a headspace lover for 10 years.. but the past years the app has been changing from simplistic and great to chaotic and too complicated. There are a lot of videos and things that you need to do instead of just meditating. As a consequence i started to dislike the app and not meditating anymore so decided to move to another app. Also it has become quite expensive

Helaas, hier ga ik niet aan beginnen, hopelijk komt deze app ook nog in het Nederlands

I love their mediation content but recently they have made home screen fully suggestion based instead of their old design — which had one or two suggestions with mainly courses you have subscribed to. Now the home screen is annoying, I can’t find content i have subscribed to and added to favorites. Clearly not extending my subscription anymore!

Coming back the app has a layout that annoys me. How can something that aims at focus have such a confusing and distracting overview page. I started a course but that does not show on the homepage… I feel they are overshooting with the amount of material. It feels like some kind of Pinterest. Thats not good.

Wat een verschrikkelijke app. Constant pop-ups met vragen over je stemming en doelen terwijl je juist naar deze app komt omdat je moet ontspannen. Mega stressvol. Ik raad het af!

I’m extremely frustrated with my experience trying to install the Headspace Apple Watch app. The App Store and Headspace support pages clearly promote the app as available, so I spent a significant amount of time reinstalling, reconnecting, and troubleshooting—only to find out after all that effort that the app is no longer supported. This lack of clear communication is unacceptable and feels misleading. I wasted my time and energy because of outdated information. Please update your information immediately to prevent others from going through the same thing.

Ik weet niet wat er anders is maar de afgelopen weken heb ik vooral last van meditatie onderdelen die vast lopen of helemaal niet openen in de app..erg vervelend want de app was eerst echt top

The makers of the app are increasingly going woke. This is very disturbing to me, making the app no longer my place to relax and unwind. Very sad about it.

I use the app for more than 6 years and I really like the meditations offered. I also have a paid subscription. However, the app is slowly losing its value because of multiple things. The app crashes during meditations or while I explore new options. The real value for me are the meditations and I feel overwhelmed by the other features that are being pushed a bit too much. If I filter meditations I expect to find meditations and not extensive suggestions of affirmations, sleepcasts and wind downs. It is just misleading and confusing. Please let the users choose their content. It is disappointing to see the value constantly going down

Pros
- I like the meditations;
- It’s nice that you can choose a length for most.
Cons
- The coaches are a bit uncanny so I don’t use those sessions;
- Sometimes I feel like I’m spoken to like a child;
- The ‘home’ glitches often;
- There are no widgets;
- Disappointing that there is no option to create your own collections.

Pls don’t bring ai to this kind of content. We’ve enough of this allready in different apps.

Tried to relax this morning using this app. But the sound kept suddenly stopping to my airplay speakers. Which got me more tense.