Free mindfulness apps to support your daily practice
Meditation instructions, guided meditations, and dharma talks for solo learning and practice
Healthy Minds
App
The free award-winning Healthy Minds Program app—ranked “best meditation app” by the New York Times, Healthline, Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and Business Insider, and the Emmy award-winning Kindness Curriculum, which contributed to Sesame Street’s season on kindness.
Medito
Free-forever meditation app
The nonprofit Medito Foundation, based in Amsterdam, believes meditation can positively transform our lives, and no one should have to pay for it. Practicing meditation can help reduce anxiety and stress as well as improve attention, sleep, and well-being. Simply put, their free-forever meditation app is made for people, not for profit.
Plum Village
App
A free app with guided meditations, deep relaxations and other practices offered by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village, hie global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living.
Plum Village
Podcast
This podcast series helps us to transcend our fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh’s calligraphy ‘The Way Out Is In” highlights that the way out of any difficulty is to look deeply within, gain insights and then put them into practice. “The Way Out is In” is co-hosted by Brother Phap Huu, Thich Nhat Hanh’s personal attendant for 17 years and the abbot of Plum Village’s Upper Hamlet, and Jo Confino, who works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems change.
Tergar
App
Discover inner peace and well-being through Meditations with Minyur Rinpoche, your mindfulness companion anytime, anywhere. This app offers a diverse array of guided meditations led by the renowned instructor Minyur Rinpoche, recognized for his mastery in meditation and mindfulness techniques.
Waking Up
A New Operating System for Your Mind
Learn the fundamentals of mindfulness from Sam Harris – neuroscientist, author, and creator of Waking Up – as he also guides you into the deep end of meditation.
Our intention is to make Waking Up available to everyone, regardless of financial circumstance. While we need to function as a business, we never want money to be the reason why someone can't benefit from what we've built. If you truly can't afford the cost of membership, we invite you to join Waking Up for free.
Sam Harris
Mindfulness Coach
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Mindfulness Coach was created by the VA’s National Center for PTSD to help Veterans, service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. It's free, doesn’t take or share any of your personal information, and doesn’t require add-on purchases.
UCLA Mindful App
University of California, Los Angeles
With this free, easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of UCLA Mindful, UCLA Health's Mindfulness Education Center. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, cultivate positive emotions, and help improve overall physical health and well-being.
Insight Timer
App
This app contains guided meditations, sleep music tracks, and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more. It also has music tracks from world-renowned artists.