Happier Meditation

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Click bait much?. App Not useful if its all pay for access.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Meditation access. A complete disappointment to take user through an extensive onboarding even is having an account. A person looking to meditate should not be finding it so hard to access their meditation.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   VPN issues. Latest version gives a network error when connecting through a vpn.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Have to pay. I thought this app would be helpful but you have to pay $100 for the whole year, you can’t even choose a monthly subscription. So much for these people really wanting to help others, everyone is just out to make money.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   NOT WHAT YOU THINK. This used to be my favorite app but when they split with Dan Harris, it became a scam. Don’t waste your money!! Support Dan Harris!! Go to the 10% App!

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   OMG "DEVELOPERS" ARE YOU EVEN READING THE REVIEWS?. 👉WOW! I AM NOT THE ONLY USER WHO HATES THE ENFORCED "CHECK-IN PAGE👈 I am one of the top users—the app doesn't even have milestones for the amount of consistency and milestones I've reached. I am grateful to Dan Harris for creating this and really sad to hear that he split with the co-founders due to creative and financial differences 💔 I have complained to support over the past year about the invasive "check-in" page and they had at least changed it to opt-out—but nope, not anymore! I guess maybe they are using it to collect health & wellness data of users 🤔. I emailed them to ask them to return the "Skip" option and they said they hadn't removed it. I am an experienced Beta tester for apps with 20 years' experience. I realize that it's popular to add check-ins make the user feel "personalized" but this number of complaints? Nope. Cancelling my subscription and following Dan Harris over to "10% Happier With Dan Harris"

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   This is not Dan Harris’s app. Through listening to Dan Harris’s podcast, I recently discovered he parted ways with this “Happier Meditation” (previously 10% Happier) app in 2024. Hence the name change. I could be wrong, but it seems that this app continues to regurgitate his content and profit off of his success. I hope I’m wrong. In any case, If you want the real deal and more than just the ghost of Dan Harris, download and try “10% with Dan Harris.”

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   just another money, grabbing scam. avoid this one. It leads you through 10 time wasting minutes of happy happy, joy, joy, and then at the very end. Says, oh wait! You gotta give us 99 bucks. what a bummer.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Gratitude. For several years, I have been fortunate to awaken to guided morning meditations with the 10% happier meditation app. It has afforded me greater balance and consistency within my life. I appreciate having this platform on my life’s journey.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    The app will not stay logged in. Sometimes the app will log you out and not login or respond when you try to log back in

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Dan left. So will I.. Following Dan to a new platform. App is too expensive.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Used to be good. I am frustrated with the changes to the app. The tone is always implying I’m doing something wrong. It’s says things like, “Not quite where you want to be?” or “It’s okay you didn’t check in this month.” I am fine with where I am. I do not want to do a check in. I was happy with the app when it just had courses and not so much going on. It has changed so much and not for the better.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Stop being annoying. When I open the app to meditate I don’t want to be badgered to update the stupid app. I come here to get away from all the other apps that want to distract me AND YOU DO THE SAME. I update the app whenever I DECIDE, not you. The app was a lot better a couple of years ago when it was simple, now it’s just Netflix for meditation content, using the same tricks I’m trying to use meditation to fight against.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    not free. everything costs money

15. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    False advertising scam. Was offered a 7-day free trial and was charged $99 immediately instead with no warning. Don’t download this app or interact with them. This is a case for the BBB!

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too much tracking. Why does a meditation app need to pull my location and health data? Plus more.. I’ll pass.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Just Canceled. Really grateful my subscription doesn’t renew until June so I still had time to cancel. Absolutely hate the new app design. Spent 20 minutes trying to find the 10% Happier podcasts last night before I realized they’re gone. Ad free listening was part of what I always used the app for, along with occasional meditations. I’ll stick with the pod and other apps for mindfulness. This new update is also hideous and difficult to navigate. 👎

18. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    Fraudulent. Took money from my account without my permission. Apple says that it wasn’t them and this app said it wasn’t them and yet I am am out of $99

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Podcasts? Dan Harris?. Dan Harris is gone? No more ad-free podcasts. Home screen is now confusing with the squares to navigate through. No longer finding value in the cost of the subscription. The ad-free podcasts really made it worth it.

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    5 free meditations. I downloaded this after listening to one of Dan Harris books that mentioned it. I was excited to try it. Once I completed my five free lessons everything else is locked. It requires a payment. I would not recommend this app unless you were looking forward to paying to meditate.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bad UX. Wasn’t able to successfully make an account. Also forces you to go through a long line of questions just to make an account (and potentially need to redo it if having trouble). useless app

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Recent changes made it useless. First the podcast episodes got removed from the app, so I as a subscriber no longer have an easy way to listen to the episodes without the ads. Now guided meditations pause when the screen goes to sleep. This is ridiculous. How am I supposed to meditate if I have to wake up my iPhone every minute or so?!

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Changed the access rights after paid annual subscription. They removed the podcasts and I was never explicitly informed that the access would change during the annual subscription period. It is a major downgrade. The company only provides a scripted response to the similar complaints. Very disappointed. I would appreciate a prorated refund as an option because the service content changes.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No more Dan podcasts. While I have adjusted to the new changes the latest change of eliminating Dan‘s podcast 10%, Happier has been very disappointing. I am unhappy to no longer have access to them and old episodes I had saved through the Happier app.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Forced paid subscription. I’ve been using this app for free for a few years and I got on today to do a meditation and now it’s locked behind a paywall. I have literally thousands of minutes of meditation in this app and now I can’t access what was once free content due to greed. Deleting forever. Greedy developers.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Removing the podcast. I loved the app when it also featured uninterrupted 10% happier podcast but there isn’t anything new or informative on the app besides what was previously there before Dan Harris left.

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    App continues to get worse. I’ve been using this app for 3+ years. I really like the teachers and the meditations but the content has changed very little. During a recent update we lost access to the 10% Happier podcasts many of which are interesting and helpful. It has been a good run but not worth the cost.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    New update, no podcasts anymore. I will not be renew once my subscription ends. Taking away the commercial free podcasts was a breech of my trust in the content you provided.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    What happened to the podcast interviews with experts on different areas?. Very disappointed that longer podcasts/interviews are gone

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Amazing content. Landing/starting page is a “check in.” Auto-renews @$100 annually.. I unsubscribed after 5 years due to the new “check in” landing page. I have paid the 100 bucks a year for 5 years. The content IS high quality. Now, when you open the app, the landing page is an interactive “check in.” I have an extra click to get to a meditation. It would be great if they had a “lifetime membership” price. After having paid $500 for the services of this app—it was worth it. I kinda wish it was paid for and I could just ride out this annoyance until they fix it. But—It is too expensive to be broken/annoying. Every year, I decided—“I get a lot out of this app, I will buy it again.” But the landing page is a deal breaker. If I were able to keep the whole app—for free—for what I have already paid, I would. But I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate the “check in” as the landing page. I tried checking in—ughhh. If they want to offer a check-in section of the app—great! Offer check in. Offer journaling prompts. Offer habit checkers. BUT not on the landing page. ***A meditation should be on the landing page of the meditation app. It should be the first thing I see.