# Meditation by Soothing Pod

> Mindfulness, Calm & Sleep

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1508720931](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1508720931)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1508720931`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Miinu Limited
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (8,864 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-23
- **First published:** 2020-07-15
- **Size:** 64 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meditation-by-soothing-pod/id1508720931)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.miinu.com/privacy.php](http://www.miinu.com/privacy.php)

## Description

**#1 Meditation App — 100% FREE (no ads and no subscription)**

Soothing Pod offers guided meditation for any schedule—from 2 minutes to 2 hours—plus a new 10-minute meditation each day. It also includes kid-friendly meditations to introduce mindfulness to children.

**Sleep stories, relaxing music, and nature sounds** with cinematic visuals. Customize narrators, adjust volume, switch between Adult and Kids modes, and use the sleep timer to ease into sleep. Terms and privacy links are included.

## Rankings

- #18,763 — Overall

## Review summary

Users broadly praise Meditation by Soothing Pod for being free, content-rich, and sleep-focused with easy, beginner-friendly access and useful features. Repeated negatives center on stability (crashes and loading), playback issues (narration stopping, poor voices), pricing confusion (free description vs. charges), and concerns about long gaps between app updates. Addressing crashes, stabilizing playback, clarifying pricing, and maintaining updates would address the most cited concerns.

### Pros

- Free to use with a large library of meditations and sleep stories and no ads
- Wide variety of meditations and categories to choose from
- Sleep-focused content (sleep stories and meditatives) effectively helps with relaxation and sleep
- Easy to use and beginner-friendly with guided basics for newcomers
- Helpful features like customizable sounds/voices, timer, and mindfulness tracking

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and loading issues that prevent the app from functioning
- Playback problems such as narration stopping mid-story or not starting, and poor AI voices
- Pricing confusion and perceived misrepresentation of the app as '100% free' given later charges (e.g., $14.99)
- Lack of updates for years, raising concerns about compatibility or potential removal from the App Store
- Occasional offline/loading problems and general instability reported by users

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