Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep
What is Insight Timer?
A meditation app with guided meditations, music, talks, and a meditation timer.
Insight Timer offers guided meditations, talks, music tracks, ambient sounds, and a meditation timer. It also includes community features, progress tracking, and an optional paid subscription with additional features.
Pricing. Insight Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Taking a short meditation break while on the go
- Finding meditations about sleep, anxiety, or stress
- Listening to music or ambient sounds for focus or relaxation
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Why this app is in S tier
S tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Insight Timer scores 99 out of 100: rating 98, rating count 100, App Store search rank 100, update recency 100, Apple's Editors' Choice 100. The five parts are averaged and S tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
The world’s most popular wellness app.
- Apps of the Year Winner - TIME magazine and Women's Health *
- More time is spent on Insight Timer than on all other wellbeing apps combined *
- Happiest App in the World - Tristan Harris *
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Explore meditation, breathwork, sleep, yoga, Pilates, mindfulness, music, and more, with guidance from the world’s leading wellness teachers, meditation experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and instructors. Join millions using Insight Timer to sleep better, reduce stress and anxiety, find focus, build healthy routines, move, stretch, and make more time for everyday wellbeing.
With 100+ new free guided practices added daily, Insight Timer offers something for every part of your wellness journey. Whether you’re new to meditation or building a broader self-care routine, discover practices for mind and body that fit your day.
FREE FEATURES
Thousands of guided meditations and mindfulness practices
Breathwork and breathing exercises for relaxation, focus, and stress relief
Yoga, Pilates, stretching, and movement practices
Sleep meditations, sleep music, white noise, and ambient sounds
Short meditation practices for mornings, evenings, and moments throughout your day
The world’s most popular meditation Timer
Follow your favorite teachers
Community groups and features
Stats and milestones for tracking your progress
Integration with Apple Health Mindful Minutes
Browse popular wellness topics, including:
Sleep and deep rest
Insomnia and better sleep
Anxiety and stress relief
Recovery & Addiction Support
Trauma support
ADHD and focus
Mornings and daily routines
Self-care and relaxation
Mindfulness and meditation
Breathwork
Yoga
Pilates
Movement and stretching
Manifesting and personal growth
Self-love and compassion
And much more.
Explore content for every part of your day and life, including dedicated experiences for women and parents, as well as challenges and courses to support your routine.
Learn from leading teachers, experts, and musicians, including:
Tara Brach, Ph.D, founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington
Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor at Oxford University
Jack Kornfield, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society
Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein
Gil Fronsdal, Ph.D., at Stanford University
Sadhguru
Mooji
Moby
Sarah Blondin, Mary Maddux, Ajahn Achalo, Melissa Ambrosini, Bodhipaksa, Jonathan Lehmann, Jennifer Piercy, Bethany Auriel-Hagan, Kate James and many more.
Explore practices and techniques, including:
Secular Mindfulness
Buddhist Mindfulness
Zen
Insight Meditation
Vipassana
MBSR
Walking Meditation
Breathing Meditation
Kundalini Yoga
Breathwork and breathing exercises
Pilates
Movement and exercise
And many more.
Join community groups for
Beginners
Poetry
Atheism
Christianity
Hinduism
Transcendental Meditation
And many more.
PAID FEATURE - INSIGHT PREMIUM MEDITATION
We have one optional in-app subscription.
- Insight Courses
- Listen offline (download guided meditations to your device)
- Advanced Player (Repeat mode, Fast forward and Rewind, Pick-up where you left off)
- High-Quality audio
The subscription is available annually for US$59.99/year, or monthly for US$9.99/month. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation and will automatically renew at the end of each term unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings, but refunds will not be provided for unused portions of the term. Prices and currency will vary by location. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription, where applicable. The subscription will renew at the same cost.
If you have questions, visit: https://help.insighttimer.com
Privacy Policy - https://insighttimer.com/legal/privacy-policy
Terms and Conditions - https://insighttimer.com/legal/terms-of-service
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Questions about Insight Timer
Can I use Insight Timer for free?
The listing describes free features, including guided meditations, music tracks, a timer, community features, and progress tracking.
Can I download meditations to listen offline?
Offline listening by downloading guided meditations is listed as an Insight Premium feature.
Is Insight Timer free?
Insight Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Is Insight Timer right for me?
Insight Timer is built for taking a short meditation break while on the go, finding meditations about sleep, anxiety, or stress, listening to music or ambient sounds for focus or relaxation. It sits in the meditation list on AppTierList.
Is Insight Timer worth it?
Insight Timer is S tier, ranked #1 of 40 meditation apps with a score of 99 out of 100, from a 4.9 App Store rating across 882,481 ratings. That is the top of its list.
How does Insight Timer compare to Headspace?
Insight Timer is S tier at 99; Headspace is S tier at 99. They score the same. Insight Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases, Headspace is free to download, with in-app purchases.
How often is Insight Timer updated?
Insight Timer was updated 9 days ago, which counts in its favour.
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Ranking
- Lists
- Meditation (S tier, #1) · Sleep Meditation (S tier, #1) · Anxiety Relief (S tier, #1) · Meditation Timer (S tier, #1) · Relaxation (S tier, #3)
- Tier
- S (Best in class)
- Score
- 99 / 100
- Rank in list
- #1 of 43
- Ranking certainty
- settled
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 4.9 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 882,481
- Recent reviews
- 3.5 from 20 in the last 180 days
App
- Price
- Free + IAP
- App Store category
- Health & Fitness
- Current version
- (9 days ago)
- Size
- 243 MB
- Requires
- iOS 15.0 or later
- Age rating
- 12+
- Languages
- 10
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Links
- Developer pages
- Website · Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · reviews · ranking