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Meditation Apps for Stress Relief 2026

By Roman Berdichevskii,software engineer who survived burnout

6 Apps
· Store Ratings & Pricing
· Screenshots Included

Meditation apps from the MindScout catalogue, with screenshots, App Store and Google Play ratings, and pricing for each.

At a glance

Apps Covered in This Guide

1Mindful Slumber: Tibetan Dream YogaFree, in-app purchases from $9.99, contains ads
2QuabbleFree, in-app purchases from $0.99
3CalmFree, in-app purchases from $0.99
4HeadspaceFree, in-app purchases from $4.99
5Insight TimerFree, in-app purchases from $1.99
6Focus PlantFree, in-app purchases from $0.99, contains ads

1. Mindful Slumber: Tibetan Dream Yoga

Tibetan Dream Yoga for a Calm Mind & Restful Sleep

Free, in-app purchases from $9.99, contains ads

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Mindful Slumber isn’t just a sleep tracker or another meditation app. It’s designed to help you: 🌌 Use lucid dreaming as a healing practice → Face and process anxiety, fear, trauma, and subconscious patterns safely in dreams. 🛌 Sleep more mindfully, dream with intention → Learn ancient Tibetan Dream Yoga practices in modern, approachable steps. 🧠 Grow through your unconscious → Cultivate awareness while dreaming to spark real-world insights, emotional release, and spiritual growth.

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2. Quabble

An all‑in‑one mental wellness app with mind workouts, journaling, meditation and a cute virtual companion.

4.8 App Store (4.3K ratings)4.6 Google Play (13.2K ratings)Free, in-app purchases from $0.99

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Quabble by museLIVE Inc. offers holistic daily mental wellness tools—from mood tracking, meditation, journaling, sleep routines to anxiety and stress management. It guides you through structured mind workouts like Gratitude Jar, Bamboo Forest and Proud Dandelion, and features a virtual duck companion and community support. Includes a 15‑day First Bloom habit program, wellness radar, and home-screen widgets to keep routines top‑of‑mind.

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3. Calm

Sleep stories, meditation, music & relaxation

4.8 App Store (2.0M ratings)4.5 Google Play (616K ratings)Free, in-app purchases from $0.99

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Calm is a top-rated app for sleep, meditation, relaxation, breathwork, and stress reduction. It includes guided sessions, sleep stories, soundscapes, stretching exercises, and self-healing tools supported by science.

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4. Headspace

Meditation, mindfulness & sleep with expert guidance

4.8 App Store (974K ratings)4.3 Google Play (340K ratings)Free, in-app purchases from $4.99

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Headspace offers guided meditations, sleep sounds, mindfulness tools, stress management, and an AI companion named Ebb. It provides courses on resilience, emotion control, wellness routines, and mental health coaching to support daily well‑being.

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5. Insight Timer

Free guided meditations & music for calm

4.9 App Store (448K ratings)4.7 Google Play (263K ratings)Free, in-app purchases from $1.99

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Insight Timer is the #1 free meditation app, offering guided meditations, sleep tracks, talks by mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, and psychologists, plus music and tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and support mindfulness.

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6. Focus Plant

Gamified focus timer that grows adorable plants from your focus sessions

4.7 App Store (5.4K ratings)4.2 Google Play (57.5K ratings)Free, in-app purchases from $0.99, contains ads

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Focus Plant is a gamified focus study timer app that helps users beat phone addiction and improve productivity. Users save barren landscapes by turning their focus time into raindrops and growing adorable plants and flora. The app offers over 200 plants to collect, transforms barren lands into forests, includes Pomodoro mode, social features for mutual support, and integrates with Google Fit for meditation time syncing.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you select the best meditation apps?

Apps are submitted by their makers and reviewed by MindScout before they appear. The order follows likes from the MindScout community, and each entry shows App Store and Google Play ratings and pricing where available.

Are these meditation apps free to use?

The list includes both free and paid apps. Each entry shows the price, in-app purchases and whether the app shows ads, as listed on the App Store or Google Play.

How often is this page updated?

The page is rebuilt from the MindScout catalogue every few hours, so likes, store ratings and pricing stay current. Check the store for the latest price in your country.

About the author

Roman Berdichevskiisoftware engineer who survived burnout

Roman is a software engineer who survived burnout. He started MindScout to help people find self-care and productivity apps that fit their lives.

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