Meditation by Soothing Pod Reviews

by Xhat1964

Ok, I know going into this that ranting about an app whose purpose is to promote mindfulness is rich with irony and snarkable witticisms, so if you must indulge, do so knowing that I completely support you because a part of me is smirking at me even as I write this. So here goes: What is the deal with all of these apps claiming to be designed for iPad, and then don’t even support landscape mode!!?? For that matter, where is Apple in all of this? How does Apple allow a developer to list their app as being iPad compatible when it doesn’t support landscape mode? Landscape mode is one of the joys of working with an iPad. Not including it as a feature harshes my Zen. Ok, breathe in.... breathe out... loving kindness flowing to the developer...

by Shy477

For a few days, it was working after temporarily downloaded Sleep Stories on my IPhone each night after hearing them two nights ago. Then when I tried to delete them, it keeps showing up on the Downloaded icon on the Settings section icon? I tried several times to delete the downloaded sleep stories but it still shows up on the Offline section of Meditation ?!? It was a difficult choice to leave but I had do what I had to because the deletions of the Sleep Stories that I already listened to were not going away?!?

by Honesty-Like It Or Not

I have only been using Meditation for a short time (and not as regularly as I’d like) in an attempt to help with symptoms of a sleeping disorder. I haven’t used all of the features available but so far, I haven’t had to pay for any of the content and have had a pretty good variety from which to choose. I’m not using it for this app, so I can’t comment on the quality of the guided this app, but I do enjoy the sleep stories.

The one drawback for me is that the narrator voices are limited at this time, which is why it is only rated with four stars at this time. I’m not a fan of the male voice. He’s not ‘bad’, it’s just not a soothing voice for me as an individual. I’d like to see more choices available of those that are reading/guiding within Meditation .

by Littlegsquared

I love Meditation, my husband and I listen to it to fall asleep almost every night. I appreciate how new stories get added but when I click “see more” or “see all”, nothing comes up. So I have to only pick stories from the recommended list or my recents. This means that sometimes we can’t access our favorites stories. I would love if this could be fixed!

by NetProphet1976

This has quickly become my this app app of choice, but there’s just a couple of things I wish I could tweak. First, after every session Meditation asks about setting a reminder. One of the things that stresses me out the most is all the notifications my phone already gives me on a daily basis. I’m never, ever going to say yes to this. Please give us the option to have it stop asking. Second, I’d really like to be able to set permanent preferences for the background sounds for the sessions, instead of having to manually set my choices every session. I admit both of these are small things, but they would take this review from 4 stars to 5.

by MDDD17

This is my first time using a this app app. I find the narrators voice to be very smoothing. I also like the relaxing sounds in the background during the this app session. The only thing I would recommend changing is at the end o the this app sessions for the relaxing sounds to keep going until the user is ready to turn off/end the session. I find that I would like to have the relaxing sound going until I’m ready to open my eyes or be finished with my relaxation.

by MarketingNightmare

I have tried many similar apps in the past, even though this is a brand new app - it’s beyond every expectation already. I am completely delighted with the soothing voices of narrators for meditations, and still trying to decide which story teller is my fav so far.
The amazing part is they have new content everyday!
Each day you get new meditations and other content that help you relax and keep calm through the rest of your day. I love listening to the music they have while I do other things during the day, and I am completely impressed with the travel sounds, feels like as if you have been teleported to all those amazing places. Videos are wonderful and so realistic! After a very busy and often very hectic day, I love listening either to their sleep meditations or bedtime stories. They have meditations, stories and music for children as well.
I highly recommend Meditation, you will enjoy new daily journey on it.

by KennebagoLake

I am so happy to have found Meditation - a book of free meditations plus a daily this app chosen for you to make it easy. Catalog of relaxing music.. sleep stories.. this is excellent please keep up the good work.

One thing when I press the “see more” option on the right hand side of the sleep stories it brings me to a blank page. Could be a bug.

by KkKiIiWwWiIIi

I definitely recommend Meditation👍👌👍 Meditation made me feel peace with myself for once❤️❤️ I recommend this to everyone even kids ❤️❤️❤️They have amazing stories for kids that will help them learn and other things. it has amazing sounds like make me fall asleep in an instant this is a great app and it’s free! you don’t have to buy anything even an subscription!get this!!!

by Al's

Meditation is a true LIFE SAVER!! It is absolutely wonderful! Beautiful guided meditations, sleep stories, and any kind of soothing nature sounds you could possibly dream of! Customizable to your liking as well. Best part is, I honestly can’t even believe Meditation is truly totally free! I have clicked on everything and there are no hidden fees or ads anywhere. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much for creating this free amazing app!! 🙏🏻😃🤍

by Jjbroomco

Soothing Pod has a great selection of ambience sounds and music, along with a large variety of high-quality guided meditations. I finally found the perfect this app app with everything I wanted, for free. No more having to pay for what amounts to a small mortgage each month with other “premium” apps out there. This one is perfect. Thank you for making it available!

by Katie1183

So I use an app called color therapy and I kept getting notifications in Meditation to download an app called soothing pod I disided since color therapy was a good app this could be good too and I was right, this is the best most soothing app I have ever used (and still do) they have great story's mediations and soothing sounds so if you are looking for a great app with soothing sounds great mediations and story's this is Meditation for you.

Ps.
Thank you so much for removing the ads

by Vanessa ShadowFox

Meditation is free and has a lot of sounds, music, books, and meditations you can listen to! If you like Calm then you should get Meditation! It's like Calm, but free. There are no ads to frighten you when you are sleeping or listening. You can check your streaks too, great for goal setting! If you want to sleep listening and need a notification to wake you up in the morning, do this: 1.) Go to your sound 2.) Pick a sound in the list 3.) Press the second button on the bottom of screen 4.) Turn the sound volume down 5.) Turn phone volume up (To hear notification) 6.) Adjust sound volume to your liking 7.) Set a timer by clicking the first button on the bottom 8.) Make sure the phone battery won't die by morning
The process is less complicated than it seems. I do this every night and I can hear my alarm just fine.

by KKBFF

I airways listen to the music when I’m going to bed. Y’all have a really big variety of great options to listen to. Last night I noticed though that they don’t replay anymore. I don’t want to listen to music for 2-4 minutes and it be over, I want to keep listening to it and it doesn’t repeat. Maybe it’s just me, although idk what would be wrong or different, but if it was on y’all’s end I really hope you’ll fix it!! Thank you

by Paige Person

Hi! I hope everyone is having a good day and before i even start righting about Meditation , i just want to say thank you to everyone who is reading this. Ok now for the review, i LOVE Meditation. It is so relaxing and has helped me so much. I’ve only had it for 3 days, but I am in love with it. There are no adds and it is all free! One thing that i would add to it though is to put more stories on it. But other then that, i love it and totally recommend getting it. Best this app app ever!!

by CAQueen

This. Sooooooooo THIS. I don’t how in this day & age, but there IS such a thing as a well crafted quality this app/sleep app that’s free. 👏🏽 It might not stay this way but I & others on a budget & hit hard financially by COVID rejoice! Thank u 4 this. Thank u. There’s a ton of material here. this app, stories, music, nature sounds, ASMR (y those appeal 2 people I’ll never quite get) I think the only thing missing is may b binaural beats but I already have a go 2 app 4 that. Meditation is seriously 10 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Love it.

by Battlefieldscars

No adds, plenty of features, I don’t get it?? Nothing this valuable in life is free, but here it is. It has guided meditations, that keep updating with new ones, soothing music, sounds, and even bedtime stories. I’m a 46 year old man who is in recovery and high blood pressure. I use Meditation in my life everyday. Really helps me so much. I want to thank the developers with the highest thank you. And BTW I use it on my iPhone, so I’m not sure why the bad reviews about not being supported on iPhone. I’m guessing competitors review.

by Mouse Humingbird

I have only had Meditation for a day and yet my sleep has improved so much that I can definitely tell a difference in my sleep and over all I’m more calmer and relaxed. I think Meditation is definitely something everyone should have no matter if you have anxiety, trouble sleeping, or depression this is the perfect app for you. I have anxiety and one of my friends got Meditation and she has depression and she says that it really helps her. So basically what this review is saying is that you need to get Meditation. I love it, it is so incredible. I 10/10 recommend

by Jeff Pham

I really enjoy the big collection of relaxing music and the other content like bedtime stories! There's a big selection of different kinds of music genres, but my favorite is the relaxing healing music. I like how Meditation allows background audio playback which is very useful! I did like the original user interface better however, and I'm having issues with Meditation not deleting Meditation data when I clear the data from the settings. But I really like Meditation a lot and I appreciate the development team behind it!

by Ugh12346

I see you recently changed to format to musuc/sounds come to a hard shut off once the this app ends. From reading reviews some us prefer the music to continue beyond the this app

Is it possible to put that option into Meditation for those of us who like to contunue listening to the music/sounds? It would be ideal for the user to make that choice.

I've been using Meditation for 3 days and the specific feature I extremely like is once the narrator stops speaking during the this app and the this app ends the music and rain sounds continue. What happened !!?

This feature is no longer available.

I'm so disappointed as once I got into the groove I could continue meditating. But now this is not happening.

Is there a setting i can change to allow this function to continue?

This was one of the best features that other Apps don't offer.

You also make it very hard to contact customer support. I tried sending via your App and it won't process.

by Katelyn1210015

I really like Meditation but the one thing that I don’t like is the voice actors they are not that good at calming down me I wish u had more options rather than just 2

by SoothingVoice

Soothing pod is indeed a well-developed app for focus, this app, or relaxation. Somehow, it will ease away the tension in our day-to-day life!! A helpful app that gathers various calming elements in one place!

by LynnDMB41

I tried it this morning! Immediately I might add. Just loving it so far.