And so when we came across Insight Timer – a free app loaded with solutions to these problems, we knew it had to join our library of HSP resources.
The app has over 100,000 free guided meditations, live-hosted free yoga classes, free live events every hour, and over 6000 teachers and musicians.
And at the time of writing this, Insight Timer is the most used meditation app with over 19.9 million members.
Insight Timer App Features
Now that you understand what Insight Timer is, let’s take a look at the app’s features. And remember, the following features are based on the mobile app, not the desktop version.
On-Launch Quote
Every time you launch Insight Timer on your phone, the first thing you see is a quote. The quote is different with every single launch. So if you launch the app 10 times in a day you’ll get 10 different quotes.
And for the purpose of this post, the screenshot above shows three quotes we captured by closing and opening the app 5 times. (The other 2 didn’t screenshot right!)
The Homepage: Stories, Daily Check-In & Personalized Meditations
Once the app has fully launched, the homepage displays a greeting and notification of how many meditations are available that day. And on the day of writing this post, there are 768,780 meditations.
Below the greeting is a “Stories” section where you can share your favourite tracks, see what other Insight Timer users are listening to, and follow along on your friends’ meditation journeys. This feature is similar to Instagram and Facebook Stories.
Following the Stories section is your Daily Check-In where the app asks, “How are you today?”
You’re then to respond by picking between 5 mood emojis: Great, Good, Okay, Bad, and Awful. And then according to the mood you’re in, Insight Timer recommends guided meditations for your mood.
And lastly on the homepage is a list of “Made for You” guided meditations. These are meditation recommendations based on what you’ve recently played, your mood as recorded on the app, and what’s trending.
Learn on Insight Timer
Next to the Home page is the Learn section. This feature is host to live events, workshops, courses, and mentoring programs.
Live events are available freely and can be accessed at any time of the day since teachers are from all over the world.
Workshops are a paid add-on feature, Courses are only open to users in Member Plus, and Mentoring Programs are one-on-one paid-for experiences.
This means Insight Timer is not 100% free like Medito App. But don’t dismiss it just yet, its free version has a lot to offer.
Discover Free Meditations on Insight Timer
4th inline on this meditation app is the Discover feature. This is where all the 100,000+ free guided meditations live. The meditations are categorized based on the user’s needs and demographics.
And these categories include Timer, Sleep, Music, Parents, Beginners, Yoga, Anxiety, Healing, and a list of many others from A to Z.
It’s a long list!
But Insight Timer tries to ease your discovery process by compiling the best of the best through 6 main sections:
- Featured
- Popular this Week
- Browse by Time
- New & Trending
- Staff Picks
- Browse by Topic
Connect
With over 19.9 million meditators, it’s no surprise Insight Timer includes a Connect feature allowing users to make friends with people from across the world.
The feature shows a world map with live locations of people using the app at the same time as you. See the screenshot below for details.
You’ll also see the actual number of people in those locations. And when you click on that number, you’re able to see thousands of profile images under a section called Community.
You can then click on an image to see the person’s full profile and a list of meditations they’ve recently played.
Also, you can see the reviews they’ve left, add them as friends, block them, and even report them.
And you may be wondering, “isn’t that a little intrusive for a meditation app?” Well, you have the option to choose between a Private and Public Profile.
A private profile means only your friends can see your activity on the app, while the public profile is open to everyone. And this leads us to the last Insight Timer feature – Profile.
Your Profile on Insight Timer
The Profile section is home to your Timer settings, Stats, Recently Played Meditations, Bookmarks, Playlists, and all activities on the app.
It’s also home to overall App settings and personalization, allowing you to filter the meditations you see, choose your preferred language, set reminders, decide what you see on the home page, set a theme, and many others.
You’d have to download Insight Timer to explore all the available options and decide if it’s the right meditation app for you.
In Conclusion
As always, we share a resource that we think would benefit you as a highly sensitive person (HSP). Whether you decide to use that resource or not is always up to you. And that’s the case with today’s App, Insight Timer.
This free app (not 100% free like Medito) provides you with guided meditations to help with every area of your life. Its main focus is to help users with sleep, anxiety, and stress.
But with over 100K meditations and topics listed from A to Z, it’s clear that Insight Timer has a free meditation for everyone.
So download the app here and give it a go. Then come back to this post and share your experience in the comments section below.
