Whil: Mindfulness & Meditation

I’ve been using Whil for a few years and wow, this newly released, redesigned version is so nice. Easy to navigate, simple, fun and makes the content so easy to find, use. You can even look up mindfulness sessions that map back to your astrological sign! Love the tips and articles attached to each session and the daily quote that gets served up upon opening the app. Have Always loved the content, now it’s just easier, so intuitive to navigate! This is by far the best quality mindfulness app on the market!

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For something that is supposed to promote mindfulness and which I was hoping to use to help with relaxation, this app is currently doing the exact opposite. All I have received is a feeling of frustration while trying to login; I am less at peace than I was before I downloaded this currently useless app. I have to log in via a third party and I have tried logging in via their little search function, which opens a safari window and shows I am able to link my third party app with whil but if I wanted to do this in safari I wouldn’t have bothered to download the app. I tried opening from my third party app, but that only opens it and it still asks you to search to link things (which, surprise!...opens safari). Somewhere in the help it says you can use your third party login information to log into whil directly. Well I tried that via the app and it didn’t work.

I really like it. My employer rolled this out about 2 months ago and I am quite satisfied. I use it almost nightly to help me fall asleep. (Working full time, full time in a masters program, a 5yo and a 8 month old= hard to settle my mind down to fall asleep) The one thing I would change is that the app runs like a video even when there is no image playing. So when I open a session and play it- if I fall asleep during (which is kind of the point) my phone never goes off. So the screen stays lit with the image of the session and when it’s done it turns to a play button. I wish that it would allow the phone screen to turn off and just stop playing when it’s done.

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This is a half baked and unfinished application redesign. Load screens take wayyy too long and are unnecessary between every menu option. Why do we have to take a deep breath every time we press wanna go to the previous menu? Wut. The search functionality is useless and everything is sorted by ‘courses’ yet you can’t see individual sessions. No teacher/narrator options anymore. The choice to boost or relieve for certain feelings and find go-to sessions is gone, and super disappointing. We still can’t see a listening history, or favorites, or most listened. Y’all need to listen to your audience and keep doing what ain’t broke. Plain and simple, this redesign is missing a lot of old and familiar features while simultaneously neglecting a ton of future potential.

Whil has helped me manage a lot of stress and anxiety. I am constantly trying to fix things that can’t be fixed and stress when I cannot fix them. The stress is so overwhelming sometimes I can’t function at full capacity. I also have chronic lower back pain and the stress makes the pain worse. Doing 5 minutes of guided meditation a day, usually more, in this app has helped me so much to just release the hold - and then the stress and pain lessens. And then it’s easier to get through the day.