Simple Habit Sleep, Meditation

I just wanted to take a minute and share my two cents with you. There are always a hand full of you that look down on these (or any other) product’s development team for charging a few dollars to enjoy the “premium” features. Is it because you already spent money to buy the phone, these companies should be spending their own time and money to develop apps for you free of charge. Let me break some news to you guys, by asking you this. Are those apps you’re using that cost you zero to download and use REALLY free? Would you go to work, clock in from 9-5 every day of the week, and be contempt with big goose egg on your paycheck?? I doubt it! So why are you able to buy something without spending any money! It’s not your money they are after guys and gals! Read the fine print of what you are purchasing! They aren’t “FREE”! In fact, they are far from it! READ!! If I went to a full service gas station, said “fill it up” and at the end of the transaction they said “it’s on us”, wouldn’t something seem a little off? READ!! This is a great app, and worth every penny they are charging! Why? Because at the end of the day, I know exactly what I’m paying for! Goods and services, at the exchange of money, just like it’s supposed to be! FIVE STARS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Keep up the great work and keep sending these awesome updates! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Everyday’s a struggle for me. I deal with anxiety, stress, and I personally consider myself on the verge of being depressed. Today, I decided I should try and do something about it. I downloaded this app in hopes that it could enlighten my mood, and be my shoulder to lean on when I need a little comfort. I wasn’t disappointed when I opened the app. It’s organized, and I love the format of everything. I adore how there’s an on the go feature, and most of it is speaking, so if panic/anxiety strikes in public just put on your headphones and calm down instantly. I would LOVE to give this app 5/5 stars, because frankly I think it deserves it. But, there’s one problem. You have to spend money to buy a lot of the calming aspects of the app. Music, stories, and ASMR are all things you must purchase, as there are only 1-2 free options. I really believe this app has a lot of calming properties, and I really do like it, I just don’t think it’s right to pay a ridiculous amount of money for one application. As if I think it is worth downloading? Yes. If you need a slight bit of relaxation, or just a relaxing podcast you can listen to on your way home from work, this is the app for you. If you’re looking for an app with super reasonable prices that you find yourself wanting to open every single day for a large amount of time, I frankly wouldn’t reach for this app. But I love the concept, and I just think if this were to be fixed, I would love this app that bit more.

I’ve used this app 6 out of the last 7 days, some days using it multiple times throughout the day. I like it a lot so far. It’s made meditation simpler for me. The instructors’ voices are soothing and visually I like the organization and simplicity of the app. Not all of the topics apply to me, but for the topics that do apply, there isn’t a ton of variety. I end up using the same session a few times in a row until I can mentally get to a good place. Not only that, but most of the practices offered are only 5 minutes long which is another reason I’ll repeat a session but this causes me to stop meditating to restart the session. So I wish there was a way to adjust the time for guided practices that really help me. I haven’t purchased I subscription yet only because I’m not sure how often new practices are added and I’m afraid of becoming bored listening to the same sessions on repeat everyday so I’m going to wait a little bit to see. But so far I’ve found it very useful to calm my anxiety. 5-10 minutes in he morning has helped lift my mood and it’s nice to use in emergency bouts of panic or obsessive thinking!

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If there are any meditations for emotional abuse survivors, I can’t find them by searching. It’s really upsetting for me that as an abuse survivor I can’t find an app with meditations that are not about managing petty anger or a stressful day at work, but serious damage from abuse. While the depression and anxiety meditations are partially helpful, some of the wording is just not at all geared towards people with PTSD and deep-seated anger that doesn’t have to do with poor anger management over small potatoes, but lingering wounds and consequences of the behavior of others that you couldn’t do anything about at the time. There really needs to be some meditations available in the free version for healing from emotional abuse, and dealing with PTSD— I was hoping to find that in SOS on the wheel, but nothing. I like this app otherwise, it’s pretty and well narrated, but I’m very disappointed that I can’t find an app that will help me with my specific problems, and do one or two meditations geared toward this for free as I have like no money 😢 I know that PTSD and abuse aren’t sexy and enticing words to plaster on a meditation title, and maybe the developers want to be more diplomatic with their language use, but some of us really need to feel included and like there are meditations specifically for our more serious problems.

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I have been a dedicated user of this app in the past and have promoted it on my FB page, even to the point of being awarded several weeks of premium for free because I have 2.5k followers and they try the app’s free trial on my recommendation. I had a pop-up a couple of days ago asking if I wanted to try a couple of days of premium for free, after which I would be charged $95 for premium. I READ THE FINE PRINT! It said nothing about the fact that if you’ve had a free Trial in the past you can’t have one in the future. But guess what?!! THEY CHARGED MY ACCOUNT ANYWAY AND APPLE WONT REFUND ME!!! I consider this to be deceptive business practice. It’s unfortunate because I work at a Fortune 500 Company and as a member of our health and wellness committee, I am beginning a meditation education series. As part of that series I was going to run a contest by having everyone use the app to track their meditation practice for two weeks, using this app. Integrity is important to me. This app has lost my trust and I don’t think that email is going to be an effective way to reach someone. I’m certainly not going to risk my personal reputation by promoting a company that TRICKS their customers so they can charge them for an annual membership. I’m a single Mother and this is way outside of my budget. Thanks a ton Simple Habit.