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Insight Timer - Meditation App
Insight Network Inc · 258,812 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 27 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"meditation"
12 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
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"timer"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
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"meditations"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This app regularly refreshes in the middle of a longer meditation, then does not allow you to pick up where you've left off unless you have premium. I tried all the fixes with no luck. I use this mostly for sleep meditations, so this issue …" - Emily Godbout Westerberg
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"years"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
5
"meditate"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
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"find"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Like most, it sucks if you have aphantasia (the inability or low ability to visualize). and most of the time when I find a meditation that doesn't have the visualization tag, they've got long speeches with short meditations. If I want a spe…" - R P
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"every"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
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"stop"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App constantly crashes midway through a story. they make you pay for a subscription to fast forward anything so I'm stuck listening to the same first half of a story several times. It's also disruptive when I'm trying to sleep and the story…" - Georgia Masters
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"getting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "my account keeps getting deactivated. I get logged out frequently. I'm supposed to sign up to join challenges and my password isn't recognised. I tried changing it and my account got disabled. terrible experience" - Christabel Acquah
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"through"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App constantly crashes midway through a story. they make you pay for a subscription to fast forward anything so I'm stuck listening to the same first half of a story several times. It's also disruptive when I'm trying to sleep and the story…" - Georgia Masters
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"sleep"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App constantly crashes midway through a story. they make you pay for a subscription to fast forward anything so I'm stuck listening to the same first half of a story several times. It's also disruptive when I'm trying to sleep and the story…" - Georgia Masters
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"love"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the tim…" - Dan Yavuzkurt
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my account keeps getting deactivated. I get logged out frequently. I'm supposed to sign up to join challenges and my password isn't recognised. I tried changing it and my account got disabled. terrible experience
I used to really love this app. It was my favorite go-to meditation app for years. Then slowly the enshittification began, more and more features being creeping in, the UI began changing, and pretty soon it was difficult to just use the timer. Now It's slow, full of ads, and bloated with extras. really leaves a bad taste in your mouth when the first thing you see before you meditate in the morning is an ad. Sad example of capitalism's creeping co-opting of everything real and good in the world
asked a million questions just to get to the sign up page, then couldn't sign in no matter what I tried just kept getting errors. automatically signs you up for an annual subscription even though you can't access content. I think this is a scam have cancelled and uninstalled. waste of time
This app regularly refreshes in the middle of a longer meditation, then does not allow you to pick up where you've left off unless you have premium. I tried all the fixes with no luck. I use this mostly for sleep meditations, so this issue made the app unusable for me.
Happy New Islamic Year????
This app is pathetic now. You have to take a quiz you can't exit out of about why you want to use the app or haven't used it in awhile after an absence of a few weeks. They start the timer with an unasked for chance at a free trial so I always have to manually go back to the presets in the timer. Every. Time. And then once the meditation is over there is another ad for the premium free trial. I am done with this app for good. It is some cliche money grab social media monstrosity.
Stops playing constantly! I downloaded this app and it looked pretty good, lots of options. One thing I didn't like was the talking in the beginning of many of the sleep audios. But the issue that made me delete the app was that on 3 of the 4 nights that I played a rainfall audio to help me sleep, it would stop playing out of nowhere. Only worked the first time I used it. So disappointing.
extremely annoying that when I go back into the app if I haven't used it in a while, I have to press so many buttons and can't skip the intake survey. I want to simply click on a meditation, or use the timer. all of the added fluff is simply added distraction.
too many notification & push me to purchase premium (SCG)
Please stop making the UI worse! Now the "library" is actually exploring the whole collection on the app, and your library of saved items is reduced to an icon on the home screen? I honestly find the newest layout more unusable than ever
update: 3 years later, checked back & app is now completely useless. going to delete. also, no way this enshittified trash has a 4.7 rating. play store ratings obviously can't be trusted. Dropping my rating again b/c they have gone back to opening the app on the distracting home page rather than the timer. I've considered paying for Plus, but I'm just not interested in Meditation Facebook & and I don't trust them not to keep pushing this on those of us who just want to meditate in peace.
updated review - each year the developers make changes that take away from what attracted me to it. now it feels like their mission is to push the app not create something useful. i cant finish a meditation without a bunch of prompts breaking the peace of the meditation i just completed. my annual membership was recently renewed so im stuck. i canceled for next year bc thats my only option. I've meditated for decades before this app, and it used to be a nice supplement to my practice.
App constantly crashes midway through a story. they make you pay for a subscription to fast forward anything so I'm stuck listening to the same first half of a story several times. It's also disruptive when I'm trying to sleep and the story stops midway through.
It takes >10 non optional screens to enter the app after installing on a new phone. This is not mindful. Or using again after a while. enshittified
Like most, it sucks if you have aphantasia (the inability or low ability to visualize). and most of the time when I find a meditation that doesn't have the visualization tag, they've got long speeches with short meditations. If I want a speech I'll look for a talk. Searching for Aphantasia meditations suck too because they want to talk about it. That would be great if I didnt already have an understanding of it, but sometimes I'd like to have the same kind of meditations visualizers get to have!
why do I have to wait for an animation and press Continue and Finish about 6 times on different pages after I listen to something? it's the opposite of a well designed ux. Also the app tends to suggest paid content with higher ratings than the free content it shows in any suggestion list or search results, which suggests it isn't serving up the best free content.
I used to love this app... but lately it is just getting bloated with pointless features that make it just harder and harder for me to use it. the most recent one is the daily streak animation, which takes forever. why do I need several button presses just to end something that is already finished? stop gamification please, it just makes it worse the only reason I keep using it is because I have my "history" here and would like to keep it.
I used to love this app when it was just guided meditations or a gong, but now the constant forced prompts and challenges to meditate daily are just really annoying and disruptive. I want a meditation app and have no need for the accountability but can't switch off
I am really tired of the forced walk thrus of new features every time I login. I go to this app when I have 5 or 10 minutes to fit in a meditation in the course of a busy day. The forced engagement takes away from my time actually using the core features that I want to engage with, which are the meditation timer, and guided meditations. I am ready to delete my account over this. Please stop forcing me to walk thru screens about your new features and give me an option to opt out of them.
I've used this app since 2010, and it used to be fantastic. But in the last two years, it has incorporated many notifications, urgency-driven streaks, and addictive elements, along with popups, which do not contribute positively to my meditation practice. It's unfortunate that a once-great app focused on mindfulness has turned over-commercial, compromising its main purpose.
"Greed"🤑 Should be the new name for this app. It's just plain rude and disrespectful that after every meditation with the timer you are confronted with a pop-up page up selling you asking you to upgrade.
Since 6/1/2026 upgrade app is crashing
Hard to navigate, cannot find saved items i wanted to come back to. Now all I do is search and scroll looking for these saved items. it wastes so much time. I then just leave the app and go to Spotify. Also it's ridiculous that you cannot fast forward the meditations/videos. I prefer to skip the sometimes lon teacher introduction and get into the actual meditation. If you are an organised & busy person, don't use this app!
too much nonsense to get through to get to what I'm trying to use the app for. end up being annoyed and not wanting to meditate.
Could be great but..... like others I find the streak system annoying plus it's incorrect, if you don't go back properly it doesn't log your progress which is doubly annoying when you don't want to use it anyway!!
good app idea. alot of content to support sleeping and ad free when listening. Unfortunately cant put tracks on repeat locked behind a paywall. so ridiculously predatory on people that may need this for support. exactly like youtube ads tbh. waste of an app if your a free user.
I loved this app for many years, but it has become stressful to use. There are so many screens to go through every time I use it, asking for goal setting and other info both before and after meditating. It should be (and used to be) a chilled and accessible experience. Now it's pushy and uncaring. It puts me off opening it at all. In the past, if access had needed to be through paying for the app, I would have gladly done that. But there's no way I'll be paying for this enshittified version.
Sentiment summary
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Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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