Healthy Minds Program

4.9
8.27K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

• 2024 Pick: Best Meditation App by Healthline, The New York Times Wirecutter, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated

Well-being is a skill that can be learned. We’re here to guide you along the way.

Backed by four decades of research from world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and the team at Healthy Minds Innovations & the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills for gaining focus, reducing stress, and maintaining positive social connections.

Research with the Healthy Minds App showed that just 5 minutes a day of practice leads to a 28% reduction in stress, an 18% reduction in anxiety, a 24% reduction in depression, and a 13% increase in social connection.

Featuring our scientific Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose, Well-being Framework, the Healthy Minds Program is a holistic, all-encompassing meditation app that offers the best of both guided meditations and opportunities to learn. You’ll learn simple skills to enhance personal well-being, build healthy relationships, and improve communication, performance, and creativity.

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What makes us unique?

Developed from Science:
While many meditation apps can claim the scientific benefits of meditation, our practices are developed directly from neuroscientific research. You’ll also hear from the world’s foremost neuroscientists about neuroplasticity and how to train your mind.

Made for Busy Lives:
Our app features active meditation practices that fit into your busy lifestyle. Don’t have time to sit for 20 minutes? Put on an active practice and train your mind while you fold the laundry.

Guided by Measurement:
Thanks to our pioneering scientific research, the Healthy Minds Program offers the first mobile mental and emotional well-being assessments. Learn about your current level of well-being and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of well-being. Our app also integrates with Apple Health to track your mindful minutes.

Goes Beyond Mindfulness:
Our guided path offers step-by-step instructions for becoming more present in the moment and developing a sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in life.

Driven by Mission and Supported by Donation:
The Healthy Minds Program is made possible by our donors, who support our vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world. Unlike other apps that require a subscription, the Healthy Minds Program is available by donation, driven by a mission to translate science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being.

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Read the End User License Agreement and Terms of Use here:
https://hminnovations.org/hmi/terms-of-use

Read our Privacy Policy here:
https://hminnovations.org/hmi/privacy-policy
Updated on
Apr 23, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.9
8.09K reviews
Kyle Skemer
October 3, 2024
Fantastic free (!) meditation app. It has a series of suggested meditations/courses, which I actually strongly recommend if you're new to meditation, but you can also go straight to specific meditations for certain scenarios (daily mindfulness, sleep, etc). My only minor complaints are that I wish every course had multiple speaker options, and it had variety in courses outside of the "My Path" route. Otherwise it's basically perfect.
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Adam Gibson
April 5, 2025
I really like this app. The meditations and the path are great! The only complaint I have is that there is too much talking. Even on the 30-minute meditations there's not enough time between prompts. I feel like there should be prompts every few minutes instead of every minute or so. Perhaps the meditations should be simpler in order to focus on fewer instructions and have more silent time. That may mean that some of the current meditations need to be broken up into two or more.
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Christine Doxey
April 6, 2025
Highly recommend! Completing the learning course and consistently practicing many of those sessions has significantly changed my life. I'm more at peace, better able to handle emotions, seek to connect, seek to follow my values, and have a better understanding of my self-worth. I loved the fact that I could choose to do most of these as active sessions since I'm so busy. I also like that I could usually choose the speaker.
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What’s new

Bug fixes and performance enhancements