Ten Percent Happier Meditation Reviews

Good but too confusing

I'm a picky person.

I love the app. I love Joseph Goldstein’s voice, so so calming. I love when he says “looking forward to continuing with you tomorrow”. I really didn’t like the founder, the ABC guy, popping up in every segment, in every interview. I especially didn’t like him playing the meditating teacher roll, that, felt really weird. I get the marketing and salesman aspect of it but I think it’s overdone. Also, it’s too confusing. So many things to choose from and click on. Please simplify.

Worth the cost for anyone seeking to expand their meditation practice

BLaanen

Dan Harris and the cast of meditation practitioners within this app impart small nuggets of wisdom in each meditation. I’m very grateful to be nudged everyday in this way to expand my own meditation practice.

Love this app! ❤️

finneycanhelp

This is the app that I suggest to people whether they are just starting out or if they are advanced meditation practitioners. The Q&A format is fantastic. The teachers are fantastic. The coaches are wonderful. There is no app like this anywhere else. I highly recommend this app with all my heart!

Best Meditation App!

Clifford Rosky

I’ve tried them all, and this is my favorite. It shares many of the virtues of other apps, but it adds a few features that set it apart: (1) It offers specific guided meditations from specific teachers of various lengths, e.g., you can decide whether to use Joseph Goldstein’s open awareness guide for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 ... up to 60 minutes; (2) it offers quick video interviews to set up many of the guided meditations, to help you understand the framework for the guide itself; and (3) it manages to present a lot of options in little packages, so that the user doesn’t feel overwhelmed by the number of options. Not to mention world class instructors, and the host’s unique knack for branding mindfulness in ways that are relevant to modern life, without compromising on the finer points. Pairs wonderfully with the two books by Dan Harris.

I actually AM 10% Happier

Parapadeimos

This App has been a life changer. Am applying the 10% change concept to just about everything. I used to just work or think about work. I am actually able to enjoy things now! Wow!

I really like this app, but ...

MileHighDevs

Bottom line: a great place to start if you’re going to start a meditation practice and you’re ready to spend $100. The $100 is a feature, not a bug — it will help you commit, and unlock easily a year’s worth of material. But this is a crowded space, and there are excellent competitors that you can sample for free, dabble with for $3-5/month, or even commit to for $40-70/year. 10%’s strength is the quality of the instruction. Harris has pulled together a meditation dream team, with heavy hitters like Joseph Goldstein, Jeff Warren, Sharon Salzburg, George Mumford, and JoAnna Hardy. But the a la crate delivery might not be for everyone. After an intro, suitable for beginners or experienced alike, you have to find your own way. There isn’t an obvious flow or recommended sequence, and some of the titles are perplexing (eg, the “ Great for Beginners” section starts with “Pro Tips”?). The first several courses I tried resulted in me scrambling through meditation books and blogs, looking up key words and terms, because the guided mediation covered topics without explanation that were brand new to me. I’m also not a fan of their delivery m/o of first giving you a 3-5 minute video and then the meditation, which may or may not include another 2-3 minute introduction. When you’re ready to sit, sometime’s listening to playful banter gets you out of the meditation zone. Given that we’re on V.4.8, the option of toggling the videos on/off seems (to me) to be something that the developer would have included by now. Similarly, the iPad experience is similarly way behind the development curve. From a UX perspective, it seems intuitively obvious to the casual observer that a streamlined, video-free experience on the phone and a video-heavy and blog-heavy iPad experience is the way to go. (What? Blog? Oh yeah ... there isn’t one, even though it would totally support the podcast and would take an extra 10 minutes of work each week.) But there is no iPad version—it’s just a 2x version of the iPhone app. Bottom line: a strong player in a crowded space, and if you’re ready to commit and don’t mind doing a little outside work to create your own program, you should be happy with the quality of the end product.

10 Happier

xflyingtiger

A great app for helping with a consistent meditation practice.

Wow!!

Bryanna Lynne

Great stuff. I am not only practicing meditation with the Basics but I am learning so much about why it’s important. I’m not so much a skeptic but.. I still kinda am. How can meditation decrease my anxiety... but I’m starting to believe it truly will help! Looking forward to continuing more of this. Plus my therapist told me to practice meditation and mindfulness. So.. that’s what I am doing because I truly want to get better.

Great content

Srad3

I’ve tried many of the meditation apps out there and this has hands down the best content. I love hearing from the experts and the course style. It’s greatly improved my practice and how I interact with my thoughts.

Can’t even get the first video to load

Name McNameface

The videos give me an error. Yes I have internet. It’s also very expensive, as much as a Prime subscription. I wouldn’t even consider it at half the price.

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