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Waking Up is a guide to help you unlock your mind and learn how to meditate. It offers you a series of guided lessons and mindfulness techniques on mental health, how to meditate, anxiety, neuroscience, stoicism, and more, allowing you to meditate with Sam Harris, a neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author. Meditation sessions are updated daily and you can receive daily mindfulness reminders to help you stay present and mindful in your daily life.

In addition to the meditation courses, Waking Up offers ways for you to explore the theory behind meditation, helping you ground your meditation experience in practical wisdom, gratitude, awareness, and a rational understanding of the world. This allows you to get to the root of understanding the source of your own feelings such as anxiety or stress and helps you to better balance your mind.

On iOS AppStore, Waking Up’s rating is 4.9 out of 5.0, with 30,300 user reviews. On Google Play, its rating is 4.8 out of 5.0, with 31,798 user reviews and more than 1,000,000 installs. At the moment, the app is not available on Amazon.

As an app for guided meditation, the market for Waking Up is certainly not as large as the marker for other kinds of apps like massive games and social apps. But the app still attracts millions of users to install and gain the peace of mind and life enlightenment in meditation. As we can see from the above ratings in the app stores, the vast majority of users are very satisfied with the performance of this app, indicating that the app outperforms other similar apps in all aspects.

The app always provides users with new series and lessons on a diverse range of philosophies and practices, including Stoicism, Zen, mindfulness, and more. And new conversations and sessions with luminaries are being added all the time. As we can see that the app is updated at least once a month to add new content and improve the overall performance of the app.

Whether you are a beginning or advanced meditator, Waking Up opens the door to a deeper understanding of yourself through daily meditation, which in turn helps you exist in the world in a new way. The meditation sessions here don’t just teach you how to meditate, but try to combine practice with theory to help you really feel the difference meditation can make.

Pros

-      The app helps connect meditation to a philosophy of life, including Stoicism, ethics, effective altruism, and more, which helps you face life’s most important questions.

-      Mediation can not only help you reduce stress, but more importantly, it can radically change your sense of who and what you are.

-      You can use the app to receive some short audio reflections, which help you stay present in your daily life.

-      The app helps users engage in mindfulness in practical ways. It is enjoyable to practice while learning the theory and understanding the purpose of meditation.

Cons

-      There are still some bugs to be fixed, for example, the app sometimes crashes during playback.