Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom

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

   Worst meditation app. Save your money and get the more popular proven apps like Calm. The meditation clips are guided by amateurs who speak in abrupt sentences without a calm and soothing voice. The instructions are not congruent and I often felt jarring experience with this app.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Nothing is free. I realize you’re operating a business… but c’mon. There ain’t even a calming ocean sound included as a teaser. Cheapskate much? Everything is locked upon downloading. Your responses to reviews that “Money shouldn’t keep you from meditating” means that you’re not even listening to your potential base. Ya gotta offer a “little” something to get “alotta” something, know what I’m saying here? $$ You just lost my potential subscription, regardless of what your geo-political views are! It does me no good to never know what you are so talented (as you proclaim). Make this make sense. Include some teaser clips and maybe I’ll be back.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Secret charges. Horrendous app. I track app subscriptions on App Store. This Bypasses App Store subscriptions to secretly (with zero notices) charge you $20 mo they as you forget about it.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   $$$$$. Paid BS only $xx.xx a year!

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

   disappointing. content vibe is off. needs better voicing and new writer.

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

   Sam supports genocide. Sam’s political activism is in conflict with his mindfulness efforts. His hypocrisy and racism are unacceptable. Supporting genocide in Gaza while supporting theocracy in Israel is not ok. He hates Muslims, but isn’t able to separate theocracy from individuals. All of this troubles me and I can’t support him at all in any way.

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   No free version. I do not like having to install an app before I learn there’s no functionality without a $160 subscription. This is slimy.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Overpriced. I paid for a family plan for a year and felt it wasn’t worth the money. I enjoyed the 30 day intro course because I felt like it taught me the “why” behind meditation, but after that, I felt like the content was way overpriced. And now that I see what a hateful man Sam Harris, I would rather not give him anymore money.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Hard to believe. That someone with his politics espouses mindfulness of any kind. Very disappointed. Will not be paying for this subscription any longer.

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

    Terrible app terrible human. Terrible and not a wise man at all

11. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    SCAM - STEALS $$. I downloaded and wanted to try this out. I opted for the free trial (7 days) and immediately cancelled the same day - so I wouldn’t forget. I just got charged $161.99 . And to top it off the only button that doesn’t work on the app is the “contact us” button.

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

    Bad value and fake. App does not do much and Sam Harris is a bad person

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    BUYER BEWARE! They will keep charging you and make it difficult to cancel!. See title. I have had numerous $60 and $120 charges come through. After my first charge of $120 I thought I canceled but here I am still getting charged. It’s super difficult to figure out how to cancel and I thought I was canceled, but I guess I’m not. I’m hoping someone from support can reach out to make this right because each time I try to write to support I get an error message. Good luck to anybody who subscribed.

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Better off with Calm or Balance. I wanted to like this app but it is a poor attempt at replicating the main meditation apps like Calm, Balance, or Mindspace and has the audacity to charge twice as much as all the mainstream apps. Billing practices are predatory and they make canceling the subscription very difficult. It seems the creator didn’t want to spend money on other narrators or loves to sound of his own voice. Everyone has different talents and his voice is not made for narrating or guiding meditations.

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Harassing. They will spam your inbox if you don’t sign up and pay for what is offered free all over the internet. The 4.9 rating just tells me people are lazy.

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

    What is he talking about?. I am often accused of being too much of an empiricist, but this sort of thing makes no sense to me at all. I gave it a try because I thought it might help me understand what “mindfulness” is all about. But meditating on why I can’t see my own head? No, not for me.

17. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Sam’s Gone Pro Epstein. Don’t watch his recent YouTube video about Epstein. His voice will forever be ruined. I had to unsubscribe from his channel and the app after it. Putrid.

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Super disappointed. This app feels like the SHEIN version of the calm app. Those sweet sounding samples you hear on the IG ads are nowhere to be found once you’re in the app. Weird poorly recorded and possibly AI voices in some of them. Really redundant “trying to reach word count” vibes in the meditations with very little actual substance. Not to mention, no way to cancel subscription in app. You have to go to their website and what do you know, no where to cancel there either. Have to send a support request and then they said they’ll be in contact over email. Somehow they’ve evaded their app showing up in the list of subscriptions you can usually view and manage in your Apple settings as well. Do not get this app

19. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Predatory Billing.. I wanted to give this app a try with their 7-day trial period and was immediately billed over $100 before the trial period even began. Imagine “waking up” to see unexpected charges on your account. Mildly infuriating!

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Predatory billing for an overrated app. Years after cancelling+deleting the app, I'm still getting billed for an annual subscription and having to go through hoops with my bank to keep them from billing me more in the future

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

    Not a good meditation app. Feels like a therapist with ADHD. Jumps from point to point for you to focus on not staying in one place very long losing concentration. It's coupled with agressicely long silent pauses that make you think the session is over and breaks the rhythm of the meditation. Don't waste your time on the trial.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Beware. Hard to track subscription. Underhanded in my opinion. Sub is through the website, not Apple subscriptions. Hard to track unless you remember that you signed up on the website. Until you get hit with a charge and you can’t figure it out.

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

    Why is it mainly men’s voices?. The main narrator is the most unrelaxing voice I’ve ever heard. He sounds like someone’s boss at a financial company. Why aren’t there more women narrators? It almost makes me uncomfortable how not relaxed his voice is. ADD MORE WOMEN ITS WEIRD NO ONE WANTS A MANS VOICE TELLING U TO REALX???

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Conditioning False Expectations. What Sam has done with this app is creating more problems for people because it creates false expectations inside of you through his vague questioning. It’s extremely harmful for highly sensitive individuals. Every meditation is the same concept. It makes you feel like something is expected of you but you will never find the answers, which leaves you feeling broken, unworthy and unfulfilled! Avoid this app and Sam Harris’ ramblings at all cost! You deserve better and you can have better by simply reconditioning yourself to fell worthy just for existing. You don’t need to look for anything. Self-acceptance is already yours. It was there when you were conceived and it will be there we you are finished in this life. Be at peace with it. Be at one with it. It is yours by right and it will always be there for you ❤️

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

    Not worth it. I am not sure why so many people love this app. Most “lectures” courses do not go very deep. Some, like the one by Amanda Knox, are outright stupid and at best a publicity stunt for her. I find it a little shameful.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Paying for a Product I didn’t use. I canceled this subscription within my cancellation window and I was charged 150 dollars on my next billing cycle by this merchant. Being charged 150 dollars for a product I didn’t use and on top of that I’m being held accountable for it for 90 days on the dispute. Can’t trust someone that’s not willing to honor their own regulations much less the quality of their product

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

    Owner of this app is vile. Worthless app and the owner preaches war while he makes money off of rubes

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

    Too costly. Good just expensive cheaper options or YouTube

29. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Scam. I cancelled my subscription before the free trial ended; however, they still charged my account for a yearly membership.

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

    Absolutely not. Just another grift. Not special, not free, not worth $150. Do some research and you'll easily find far better, more reputable, and cheaper options for meditation.