Reviews of Headspace: Sleep & Meditate

By: Headspace for Meditation, Mindfulness and Sleep

List of user reviews and ratings for Headspace: Sleep & Meditate

Total ratings

4.27 (Rating count: 339,883)

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Review summary

User reviews consistently praise Headspace for its varied meditation content and potential to help with anxiety and sleep, with a growing library and daily calm. However, repeated complaints center on app instability, crashes, and download issues, along with expensive pricing, refund/billing hassles, and weak customer support, including login problems after device changes. Overall, the content is valuable, but reliability and billing/support frustrations hamper usability for many.

Pros

Large, varied library of meditations, sounds, and routines
Content is effective for anxiety relief and sleep
Can be integrated into daily life as a calming routine
App interface and user experience have improved with updates

Cons

Significant instability: slow performance, freezes, crashes, and mid-session interruptions
Pricing model is expensive with renewal charges and difficult refunds
Customer support is limited/slow with poor contact options
Login/account problems after switching devices (duplicate profiles, access issues)
Download management and offline playback problems (downloads disappearing)

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.20

All time rating average: 4.27

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-06-12	Br*****	these are some moneygrabbing greedy ahs.. Never used it once, contacted them right after the unintended subscription and they refused to refund the one year charge. I have no use for it at all
these are some moneygrabbing greedy ahs.. Never used it once, contacted them right after the unintended subscription and they refused to refund the one year charge. I have no use for it at all
2026-06-11	hy*****	I'm finding the app has become too cluttered. Which, given what its for, decluttering the mind, is somewhat ironic. i often just want to come in, find my daily meditation and thats about it. but even todays meditation, I need to go hunting for because it seems to be on another page. I dont want an AI chatbot, please, stop pushing that on me. Otherwise the resources are there, they just need a damned good tidy up.
I'm finding the app has become too cluttered. Which, given what its for, decluttering the mind, is somewhat ironic. i often just want to come in, find my daily meditation and thats about it. but even todays meditation, I need to go hunting for because it seems to be on another page. I dont want an AI chatbot, please, stop pushing that on me. Otherwise the resources are there, they just need a damned good tidy up.
2026-06-11	Ka*****	I used to LOVE this app as the narrator in the meditation videos is very calming and a perfect instructor. As the updates come though, there is less and less that I can do for free. I get that in order to progress and get better the creator would want to charge for things... but seeing as I dont use this every day, I cannot in good conscious pay for an app like this. I wish that at minimum, the simple breathing exercises were still free. Super disappointed.
I used to LOVE this app as the narrator in the meditation videos is very calming and a perfect instructor. As the updates come though, there is less and less that I can do for free. I get that in order to progress and get better the creator would want to charge for things... but seeing as I dont use this every day, I cannot in good conscious pay for an app like this. I wish that at minimum, the simple breathing exercises were still free. Super disappointed.