Goldminds Reviews

When we first got Goldminds , it was great. It has helped with bedtime some. However, most nights I have to restart Goldminds 3-5 times before the stories finally load. By that time, my toddler is wound up and frustrated that “stories” aren’t working.

Also, not a fan of having to select her age every day to sort the stories even after clicking her profile. Maybe future updates have age attached to profile so the stories auto sort.

Overall, the stories have helped how much energy bedtime takes but could use improvement.

My 1.5 year old is not a great sleeper and can give me a run for my money. Every time I use Goldminds, she falls asleep in minutes. She seems to find it so soothing! The songs and stories are so calming. My 3.5 year old likes it too and requests a story each night!

Just giving 4 stars instead of 5 because Goldminds is in its early stages and has some little bugs. Also it may be the overachiever in me, but I don’t love that you don’t get credit for listening unless you listen to the whole story or music file. Sometimes my daughter falls asleep 3 to 5 minutes in and I want Goldminds to acknowledge we used it and it was so effective we didn’t have to listen to the whole thing 😂

I was skeptical this would help our 22 mo old with falling asleep without the boob. But it has! It took our son a little time to take to it, so I layered listening to a story while I still nursed to sleep for about a month and then we cut out the momma milk (with the help of “Booby Moon” too). Now our son knows when we’re done reading our books in the rocker that we pick a story and he falls asleep on me within 5-10 min - sometimes faster! This is huge as he had been nursed to sleep for every nap/bedtime since born. He loves the bubble story and is currently obsessed with the Santa Sleigh ride. I’ve used this in the car too when needing him to nap on the way home. At night Cynthia’s voice makes me doze off too, she’s too good. lol

I’m legit shocked. Just downloaded Goldminds as my 22 month old was fighting bedtime. I said do you wanna listen to a story and he got so excited. He is a boob obsessed boy always nursed to sleep. Within 5 min of just lying on my chest while listening to the barnyard adventure he passed out! I legit cannot believe he went from wired and restless to fast asleep within minutes. He was just telling me nooo tired right before this. I think this will be veryyyy helpful for us when weaning from breastfeeding, I can totally see him being able to fall asleep listening to stories instead. I am very excited to test out some more stories!

Goldminds is life changing. We have some big feelings before school and often before bed as well. I’m so happy to report that “Gary the Goat” and “Melody the Mermaid” are staples during our ride to school. No matter how rough the morning is going, Gary and Melody help calm the situation with the familiar soothing voice, positive affirmations, and pure joy they bring to my son. Equally as impressive are the calming sleep stories. Winding down can be difficult but these stories help tremendously. I am thrilled that I have this tool to help me.

This was not just amazing for my 3.5yo daughter who has nonstop energy, but for my husband and I! After long days the bedtime battle was always a thing. Just using this after one night my daughter was more relaxed and so were we! The personalized stories added the relatable touch needed to really capture my daughters attention. We also tried the playground Fallon asleep and i have never seen my daughter so calm. I can’t wait to continue using this as part of our nighttime routine!

Every day after bathtime I start a story for my 18 month old while we get into jammies. He usually puts up a fight when I’m changing him, but the second I say “stories?!” he immediately gets excited. I can tell he’s really listening to the stories too because he’ll interact with words that he recognizes. It immediately sets the tone for bedtime for us. I play another story while I rock him to sleep, and within about 10 minutes he’s usually out. I’ll be using Goldminds forever!

I can not say enough good things about Goldminds already. We are only three days into it and are using it as part of our 2 year old’s transition from rocking to sleep to falling asleep in his own bed at naptime and bedtime. Each time we have used a story he has been asleep in less than 10 minutes and had no protest at all to laying in his bed 🙌🏼 we even used it in the middle of the night for a night waking and it helped him go back to sleep much quicker than normal. I can not wait to keep using it!

My son has a harder name for people to pronounce and the fact that the build your own stories say it correctly has made him feel so special! He asks for “the one where I’m a space explorer” multiple times a day. The quiet time and going to sleep ones really help settle him so we can get him to sleep faster and with less fight. My personal favorite though are the morning affirmations - I’m adding it to our morning routine to listen and do them together during breakfast. I can’t wait to see what else this app has in store!

We have been loving the this app app! We switched to it from listening to music as the final part of sleep and my 4 year old falls asleep so much faster. She loves picking her stories/songs, and usually only makes it through part of one in a playlist most nights. She sleeps more soundly through the night more often. I wish we had this sooner when we were going through even more rough sleeping patterns , it’s like magic in engaging and calming her active little mind. There is such a great variety of stories and calming music. It even has helped at times throughout the day for increasing calm/focus.

I started using the Goldmines app a few weeks ago before I weaned my 14m/o off feeding to sleep. I was really nervous about this transition as she has never been a good sleeper and bedtime generally takes a year off my life 😵‍💫. I tried to layer listening to stories in before weaning, skeptical but desperate and willing to try anything. All I have to say is wow! The stories are so cute ( bonus points for seasonal ones) and I love the subtle transition from stories to calming music. My daughter is a raging extrovert so listening to these stories I think helps her ease into sleep without feeling like she’s missing out on anything. I have genuinely gone from dreading bedtime to enjoying it! It now takes less than 20 minutes for my daughter to fall asleep. We love these stories and the creators behind them!! It’s been such a lifesaver.

I have a 20 month old and a 3 month old. My husband had to travel for work this week and I was dreading it… he’s been doing bedtime for the 20 month old nightly since the newborn arrived and also cosleeps with him for most the night. Night one, my toddler fell asleep easily in the car but the three month old wouldn’t calm down. Turned on a story and she was calm in 30s, passed out within a few minutes. Both kids transferred easily! Night two, toddler wouldn’t fall asleep in the car and was very restless listening to the Taylor swift method in his bed - switched to a story and he was asleep before it could transition to music. The baby then fell asleep too while listening to the music! Even though I was dreading solo nights, I was excited to try these stories and they did not disappoint! So so grateful!

I have a highly sensitive 3YO and a boob obsessed 1.5YO. It’s been so hard getting them to nap because my 3YO is low sleep needs but could use a mid nap short nap and my 1.5 YO needs a nice long nap but it’s hard to coordinate so we usually sacrifice my 3YOs. Lately we all lay together in my bed and turn on a nap story & they’re both out in minutes. That’s not even the big win - we’ve been struggling with getting my 3YO to actually fall asleep. He will toss and turn and cry he can’t fall asleep. We’ve added the long stories to our bedtime & he hasn’t needed more than 10 minutes to fall asleep. These stories are amazing!! Witch craft !

If you know my child, you know that getting her to sleep is a pain and a half. The bedtime and nap time stories on here are GREAT- easily getting my three year old to sleep in half the time it used to take. My daughter started preschool recently and has been having a lot of big emotions that she doesn’t know how to navigate. Goldminds has been helpful with all of the calming stories that give her strategies to help calm herself down. Another great aspect of Goldminds are the stories that you can create with your child’s name- my daughter loves hearing hear name in the stories (especially because she has a unique name). Would definitely recommend Goldminds to anyone and everyone with children!!

I have a 6 year old, 4 year old, and 16 month old and Goldminds works so well for each of them! My 6 year old loves the stories about other kids who are nervous or finding their courage. My 4 year old loves the create stories where he hears his name being said as the main character of the story. We also play back to school stories on the way to school when he’s having big feelings about separating from me. And when my 16 month old is struggling to wind down for bedtime, we play the bedtime stories and he lays there and listens to them.

And you can rest assured the creators behind Goldminds are incredible people who are dedicated to improving children (and parent’s) lives.
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I am naturally a skeptical person but decided to give Goldminds a try because why not???
My son LOVES it. He asks for the robot story with his name in it alllll the time (great feature) and we listened to a story before nap today and he passed out before the music even ended. I’m shocked. Goldminds is so calming it works like a charm and calms him enough that he’s not pawing at my phone trying to grab it the entire time (this was a worry I had- but it’s unfounded).
It also helps me at bedtime. Sometimes I lay there waiting for him to fall asleep and get so worked up ready to “clock out” and this helps me unwind too!

We still love Goldminds months later. Our son has loved all the holiday stories and they feel like a warm hug ❤️

We’ve been using this for a couple weeks. I will say it was not a magic fix the first use. But within a week, we found our grove. She listens to it in the car on an old iPhone we have (thankful for the family sharing aspect on Apple!), I just have to turn my hotspot on to connect to the internet. She LOVES the personalized stories. And we listen to one of the bedtime stories nightly and she’s asleep before it’s over.

My daughter Is 4.5. I am happy to comfort her to sleep as long as she wants, but I was tired of 90 minute bedtimes. Now we do teeth, 2 books, and pick a story. I connect it to her Alexa and away we go. I have to make sure I have my headphones on and listening to something else or I’ll fall asleep right with her! Lol.

I’ve been using this app for about a month. While we do a bedtime story here or there, our biggest use of Goldminds is after daycare pickup on the drive home. Previously my almost 4 year old would be cranky and hungry, mad at anything, and showing all the classic signs of ‘restraint collapse’ after a long day. She also has an infant sibling that sometimes cries in the car and they would upset her as well.

Now she asks to “listen to a story” and it’s been such a great way to transition our day to home. Even I appreciate the reminder to take some deep breaths! The stories are so sweet and captivating, with a soothing voice. It’s also reinforcing some great regulation skills ! Just today when her brother was crying I saw her taking very purposeful deep breaths, without prompting. Love Goldminds

This might sound like I am being paid to say this, and trust me I’m not. I would yell this from a mountain top if I could.
My daughter is turning 4 in January. Her whole life, she’s been a low sleep needs baby. Her naps would be a solid 30 minutes as a baby, and currently she goes to bed between 9-930pm (sometimes later 😵‍💫)
The day Goldminds came out I got it. We did our normal routine at night: bath, played, watched a show and read a book. I pulled up Goldminds and let her pick a story. She picked the one about the spider. It’s only about 8 minutes long. It was so cute watching her listen to the story. She loved it. After the story was over, she literally rolled over and fell asleep. When I say, never in her life or my wildest imagination!
I’m so impressed and so happy Goldminds was made.

this app is magic! My daughter has always needed a lot of support to sleep. Our previous approach was no longer working for our family, so we thought we’d give Goldminds a try. I am AMAZED that when we play her a story, she will lay down and fall asleep within 10 minutes. This is my velcro baby who always needed to be nursed or rocked to sleep. Now, at almost 2, she’s falling asleep in her crib with little to no complaint. Not something I ever thought would happen!