Description of App
Headspace is meditation made simple, a way of treating your head right. Using proven meditation and mindfulness techniques we’ll show you how to train your mind for a healthier, happier, more enjoyable life.
How it works
Starting with our free Take10 programme, we’ll teach you the basics of meditation in just 10 minutes a day.
If you enjoy Take10 and want to learn more, then you can choose to continue and get access to hundreds of hours of original meditations, including guided and unguided, ranging from 2 to 60 minutes.
“It’s kind of genius” Emma Watson
“Andy Puddicombe is doing for meditation what Jamie Oliver has done for food” The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEpOF7vUymc
What you get
- Free access to Take10, Level 1 of the Foundation Course – learn the basics in 10 x 10 minute meditations
- Personalised progress page to track your stats
- Buddy system for you and your friends to motivate each other in your journey’s
- Rewards for regular meditation
- Reminders to keep you on track with your practice
- Options for you to continue your journey after Take10, with inspiring packs and one off sessions on a range of topics such stress, happiness and appreciation
- Ability to download sessions for offline use
What our users say
"I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for a product that has so profoundly changed my life. Having such an easy and guided way to meditate has kept me on track for several months now, and the changes are profound and too many to count." - Brandon, Headspace user
What's more, science is proving the benefits of meditation…
Research demonstrates that regular meditation can have a physical effect on the brain – actually causing areas associated with learning to grow, and the part generating stress responses to shrink.*
Hölzel, B. K. et al. (2011). Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray
matter density. Neuroimaging, 191, 36-43.
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Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Comments
Problems running Ios 7
Hi,
has anyone else tried this app with Ios 7 running? I have the feeling that a lot of the app is missing on my iPhone. For example, the settings for setting reminders and stuff are nowhere to be found. I only have the main screen with the numbers, the progress screen and the buddies thing. It seems that the app is not optimized for iPhone 5, but for Ios 8. It may be a voiceover problem, but the description says it requires only Ios 6, so I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't run propperly for me.
Ios 7
I'm not sure what to suggest other than contact the developer:
https://www.headspace.com/contact-ushttps://www.headspace.com/contact-us
helpful guidance
Chris: I hope you're still monitoring this post; your guidance was great! It confirmed what I was guessing was going on with the timeline, next session, unlabeled buttons, etc.
I'm going to try to work with the developer(s) to make improvements, so if anybody wants to join me (without bombarding them), that'd be great. I don't think the fixes would be hard, and it'd be nice not to be distracted by the app.'s oddities. After all, I'm trying to deal with my distractions by meditating. :)
I really like the content/approach.
Feedback for the Developers
Hi Jen! I'm actually trying to decide whether or not to renew my subscription. I still like the app a lot though.
Are you in touch with someone at Headspace, or did you provide accessibility feedback through an AppStore review? I should send them something as well - strength in numbers and all that.
email followup to vendor
When I do follow up, I intend to send email; I find it's easier and clearer than a lot of short tweets. I'd like to help them clean it up as easily as possible for everyone. I'll probably offer to show them a Skype demo. But I'm not going to get back to this for a week, at least.
Version 3, increased inaccessibility
Hello All,
Well, they did create a lot of noise about their Headspace 3 launch.
Sadly, at least as far as my observations go, this new version became even more inaccessible than the previous one.
I only just spent about 20 minutes trying to select the "Restlessness" option in the "Brave" section (to be found under "Discover" > "Packs"). I kept failing.
Switching voiceover off, tapping on the screen where I suspect "Restlessness" to be, and then re-activating VoiceOver either gave me the "Anger" Pack or the "Change" pack (both of which, ironically enough, I might actually need after having wrestled with this app...).
Well, I am going to send a Tweet or two towards their Support Channel.
Best regards, and happy meditating everyone!
headspace accessebility
Hi all,
Was recently looking for a good habitbuilding mindfulness app and came upon calm and headspace. Calm does not seem to be all that accessible at all and even though headspace seemed really accessible at first that changed when I tried to delve a bit deeper into th eapp. Trying to select a category does not seem to work at all with voicover just like with the duolingo app. I am trying to contact the developer later today through eamil about this after exploring how far this impacts the apps usefulness and encourage anyone else who would like to use this app to do hte seem. Its a real shame because the meditation teacher is really good...
Greetings, Anouk
improved accessibility
Hi!
Headspace just rolled out a new update, and they've made huge VoiceOver improvements, it's the only thing in the release notes. I had a brief look this morning, and accessibility seems great. I'll check it out later tonight, just thought I'd let you guys know.
Best
Malthe
I agree! Accessibility way better
It did take them a while, but I too think that the app is now very accessible again. The category selection works well, and one can select from all available meditation packs with VoiceOver enabled. Time to thank the developers I think!
Love this update.
Credit to the devs for improving this app. I have been waiting for this for a long time. Great news.
Wait some moments
After you have selected a pack, Headspace takes some time to download the necessary audio and video content. You may even find a progress bar counting up the percentage. During this downloading phase, the button to play the episode is indeed grayed out.
May question to you thus would be: If you wait a few minutes, does the mentioned jumbo play button become clickable (not announced as dimmed out anymore)?
Hope it does. Best regards!
Double tap and hold on it!
Yeah, answer is there already in the subject! :;) Took me a moment to figure out, but ever since cracking that one, I have had no problems using the main functions of the app.
Just find the grayed out play thing icon, and double tap and hold on it. Optionally, when you've first done a session on one pack, the active pack will be featured as the Next session thingy on the first tab. And there you can flick down via the rotor action menu to find e.g. Start day 2 of stress meditation. Just double tap then and you're placed on a screen that has a play button that works just right out of the box, with no grayed out crap! :)
Happy meditating, and take care! :)
VoiceOver access greatly improved in mid March 2019
The latest Headspace release 3.51.0 is now nearly perfect. In particular you can easily switch packs and repeat sessions.