# Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep

> Meditation & Anxiety Relief

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id337472899](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id337472899)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id337472899`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Insight Network Inc
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (445,838 ratings)
- **Version:** 20.33.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2009-11-05
- **Size:** 236 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/insight-timer-meditate-sleep/id337472899)
- **Website:** [http://www.insighttimer.com](http://www.insighttimer.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://insighttimer.com/legal/privacy-policy](https://insighttimer.com/legal/privacy-policy)

## Description

Insight Timer is the #1 free meditation app offering thousands of guided meditations, talks by renowned teachers, music and ambient sounds, a practice timer, and a thriving community. It helps beginners and seasoned meditators calm the mind, reduce anxiety, sleep better, and track progress—with Apple Health mindful minutes integration and a wide range of topics and groups.

For deeper learning, Insight Premium adds offline listening, courses, advanced playback controls, and high-quality audio. The app features top teachers like Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Sadhguru, and artists like Moby, and supports a vast library of meditation styles—from Mindfulness to Zen and Vipassana—plus community groups and discussion forums.

## Rankings

- #937 — Overall
- #4 — The Best Meditation Apps
- #27 — Essential Health & Fitness Apps
- #7 — product insights
- #25 — session
- #36 — stop

## Review summary

Users widely praise Insight Timer for its vast, diverse library of guided meditations and courses, much of which is free, supporting daily practice and beneficial outcomes like better sleep and reduced anxiety. The timer and cross‑device access (including a watch app) are also valued. However, several recurring issues temper enthusiasm: intrusive prompts and post‑session questions, changes to navigation that hide saved content and push premium content, and various technical bugs. The app’s monetization may frustrate some longtime users. Overall, it remains a strong mindfulness tool despite these drawbacks.

### Pros

- Huge, diverse library of guided meditations, courses, and teachers, with abundant content available for free.
- Supports daily meditation practice and has helped with sleep, anxiety, and overall well‑being for many users.
- Simple, reliable timer and meditation tools that many users rely on every day.
- Free access and easy discovery—search, bookmark, and find content, plus cross‑device use (watch app).
- Cross-device availability (watch app and widget) enhances convenience.

### Cons

- Recurring intrusive prompts and post‑session questions (daily quotes, goals, etc.) that disrupt the meditation experience.
- Navigation and content access changes make it hard to find saved meditations and push more content behind Premium.
- Technical issues and bugs, especially with the watch timer (limited to 1 hour) and playlists not advancing.
- Perceived shift toward monetization/marketplace, reducing accessibility for some users.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id337472899)