Calm App Review 2020: A Psychologist's Honest Opinion
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2020
- Wondering if the Calm app is really worth it? Find out in my UPDATED 2020 review! I'm breaking down a bunch of the app's features, including some you might not even know exist!
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My company gives their employees free memberships to Calm as long as they’re with the company. I love it!
I love that!!
That’s cool
Same for my company
Wow. Same here. Just discovered it today. For me just for 3 months
Must be a very stressful company to work for, if they're giving Calm for free haha
The answer is basically “yes” if you’re gonna make use of the features 🤷♂️
And if you have kids the answer is just “YES”
Coming through with the cliffnotes version! :) Thanks for watching!
Been meditating for about 3 years now and also been to vipassana retreats. The calm app was the first app that I've used when I started my meditation journey and had 0 clue what I was doing. I subscribed for 1 year and I actually used it on a daily basis, knowing that I spent money on the app. Very beginner friendly and I 100% recommend to everyone to try it. Meditation will literally change your life.
I love hearing this! Meditation certainly isn't a quick fix, but goodness, it is LIFE CHANGING!
I just started a free trial and even the first day, I've really enjoyed it!
The fact I got a headspace ad before this was, ironic
I've been hovering over buying calm for two years. I finally decided to see if any RUclips videos on it. I'm glad I pulled up yours! I'm totally on now. And I'm sure I'll use other features because of it. Thanks!
Oh heck yes! I"m so glad this review was so helpful and that you're going to give Calm a try. The other features are SO good and so worth it, yet I feel like no one ever talks about them! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Same. I have been considering FOREVER. I did the same. I’m finally looking at reviews.
I fixed the time stamps :)
3:35 Meditation Section
7:28 Sleep Stories
10:21 Masterclass Section
11:53 Calm Body
14:03 Calm Kids
17:09 Extra Features
17:40 Is Calm Worth It?
You rock. Thanks!
I didn't get that to review
She is just selling her own stuff. Waste of 17 mins. She says maybe yes, maybe no. Don’t listen to her
When people say God comes to earth, it's not a one time event, it happens once in a while forever through acts like this comment. Thanks for saving my time.
As someone who's had insomnia for years, I've never had anything work until I tried Calm's sleep stories. I'm usually out in like 10-20mins.
That's amazing to hear, and you're definitely not alone! Thanks for watching and sharing!
The 'free' part does not offer much :(
Yup that's why I don't use this app 😂
Look One advice, the calm app is pretty good... but! The free version gives u less of a variety of thing while insight gives u soooooo many things for FREE! not joking! It looks like that insight doesn't even have a premium membership it's so good! Ok hope this helped!
Literally one thing is free. Every single other thing is locked, for us at least.
This is true. That's why I am doing the free trial right now trying to decide if it is worth it. :)
Just found your channel and as a person coping with massive guilt, anxiety and wounded relationships , this app sounds like a nice idea. Thank you for making this video.
So glad you found my channel, and I hope you find it helpful!
❤️❤️ thank you Dr. Allison . So thankful for your review as I am struggling with sleep . I listen to sleep stories ,and adore Dan Jones sleep channel . But in this quarentining journey I am opened to anything . I always wondered about Calm App . And my finger is not hovering 🙂🙂
Thank you for adding the "Chapter minutes" . You nailed it with keeping massive 3:00am search anxiety at Bay and I massively appreciate that .
Thanks again 😊
Thank you so much; I appreciate your comment, and I'm glad you're finding sleep stories helpful!
I use to ask my meditation teacher, if I should buy a meditation pillow, bench etc to help me start meditation.. she said, "no need... just use your sleeping pillows.. when you can meditate without any extra gadgets, tools.. you can meditate anywhere".
Thanks Doc, good review and seems legitimately honest. Very refreshing and I subscribed as a result.
Thank you so much!
I paid a year subscription to calm today because of this video. Thank you for going through all the sections and I realize that it goes way more in depth. Thanks for helping. Also I will be checking your website out as well. You just got yourself a new subscriber.
I'm glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting, and I hope you love Calm!
Hi there - I also watched your Headspace review from 2017. Very helpful, thank you!! A lot of change can happen 3 years with respect to technology - curious if you have you done a more recent comparison of Headspace vs. Calm? Is there something in Calm's app that influenced you to change?
The music it plays when you go on the app it is so calming and peaceful it relaxes you and clears your mind gets rid of stress anxiety and depression seriously
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Thanks for the video! I think having all the tools i need in an app like this could work for me and worth the price
Absolutely, glad it was helpful!
Look One advice, the calm app is pretty good... but! The free version gives u less of a variety of things while insight gives u soooooo many things for FREE! not joking! It looks like that insight doesn't even have a premium membership it's so good! Ok hope this helped!
I downloaded the app this week, but didn't subscribe right away. Then they have emailed me with a "new-comers" discount so if you're hoping for a lower price, maybe wait a few days to see if they'll send it to you too!
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for sharing that tip!
@@DrAllisonAnswers What do you think of the app sanvello and it's therapy services. I'm looking for a text only therapist online that will help me with my oh so complicated picture and wanted to know your opinion on such online therapists and if they'd be good enough for what I'm dealing with and where to possibly find one.
I struggle with; CPTSD, Family issues, Trust issues, Low self-esteem, Low confidence, Anxiety and stress, pornography addiction, Avoidance, Hypervigellence, Former alcoholism (maybe not totally relevant), Former substance (possible) overuse, and negative thinking
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Kudos! Such an informative video 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hello! First time watcher! I would love it if you could review the Meditopia app!
I feel like with the pandemic, I and many others I'm sure, are looking for new ways to handle the stress.
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I started using this app during Covid, being home with my children during remote learning our anxiety rose. We would end our night with a guided meditation and my children would go to sleep with the bedtime stories. I highly recommend CALM!
Great topic and informative....thanks 😁
You're so welcome; I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Desde Guadalajara Mexico. I liked your review very much and appreciate your honesty and the easy way to give your opinion and advises... It is a very helpful and complete review. I feel glad cause your English is very understandable for me, as Spanish speaking guy. Thank you and I Will have your experience in mind and will take all You said into consideration. Thank you.
I appreciate that!
Love your honest review.subscribed
Yay! Thank you; I appreciate that! :)
Thank you for the video!
Excellent review ma’am
Thank you; glad you liked it!
Whats your opening music? btw love the review and the video
Watched the Full video and it's very informative thanks for the video
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So glad it was helpful! It's a longer video than normal, so we tried to keep it fresh and engaging with some new camera and editing stuff. Have a great day, and thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you for sharing! I would like to see a review for the Synctuition app too.
Very helpful!
Awesome; I'm so glad! There are so many different mindfulness apps out there, and my hope is to help people make the most out of whatever app they use. (If they use one at all.) Thank you so much for watching and commenting; I appreciate it!
So has Calm overtaken Headspace? Or any other apps like insight timer
If you had to choose between a Calm subscription or a Smule subscription, which would you get?
Just interested in the calm music
FYI if you are a Kaiser member you get the Calm app Premium free for a year! I love the app it helps me sleep, I'm barely trying the meditation feature so I can't comment on that.
Kaiser is a terrible healthcare provider. You'll find out.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Congratulations on your new role of being a mom 😊.I installed calm after your review also in case if you did not knew already you get 1 year free calm with Amex card.
I appreciate that so much, and such a good tip about the Amex deal! :)
Thanks. V informative. Though I have decided to download some soothing music and go it alone. 🙂
I loved this video. It really has me excited to try thr Calm app
Just come across your channel. Really well presented! Not sure I'm gonna buy this app now though.
Welcome aboard; I'm glad you found me!
Does calm do updates often or is it always the same content? I didn’t hear anything on that in this video.
Yes; they do regular updates! The app has changed so much since I first started using it, and I LOVE the changes!
I paid for the app about a Month ago (probably should have watched this first) trying to get in to mindfulness found it very helpful
Haven't really looked at the other areas of the app. I do have issues with sleep, but a little sceptical about using this as would you almost become reliant on them. Could that be an issue?
2006's Alison and today's Alison looks same. Younger and Beautiful 😍
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Calm vs Omvana.... hmmm 🤔 which one did you prefer?
Nice video! Helpful tip: Turn the intro music down some. :)
Yeah..!
I just cursed at her for that
@@JOSEI-TENNO Dramatic much
When is an honest opinion not an honest opinion? When it's a paid promotional video.
OTHER LANGUAGES?!?! I had NO IDEA that other languages was an option! Love it because it will help me use my French and Spanish ♡
Thank you!
How do I unsubscribe so they won't take my money??.. how can I get intouch with the administration?
Great info
Ma'am can you please tell me in sos mode what are the options available ?
I have A.D.D. (mild) and can have at times-some anxiety issues (mild). Looking forward to using this to become more present and veer off distractions which in turn make me forget what I was supposed to do lol.
Hi. Just a question. Is Calm App better than Headspace? Thank you.
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Hi Allison, Did you check Synctuition? It would be great if you could do an honest review about it. All i find is ads. Thank you!
I've been using Calm daily for nearly seven months and I am happy to hear there is a life membership. I will consider whether I can stretch my budget to that.
I NEVER pay for apps. But I was struggling for so long with sleep issues that I decided to take the plunge and try the app for a year. I would do two short daily meditations and use the sleep meditations, and I would see if it helped. Because I have strong motivation, I have stuck to that plan, with shifts to suit what I need at the time, and it took very little time before I began to sleep better. I know longer use the sleep meditations because I’m usually relaxed enough to drop off after my last meditation of the day. (Often enough fall asleep during it, I confess.) I seldom need sleep meds anymore, and usually sleep through the night. This isn’t to say I have no struggles at all anymore-I do. But working with the daily meditations, the various programs of seven days of one thing or another (eg sleep, happiness, self-esteem, focus, etc.), and using the daily check-ins (these are very useful), is a mainstay if my mindfulness practice and has slowly helped me build emotional resilience and embrace other practices I have been less regular with, despite their importance in my life.
It took me awhile to relax into this. I had to get used to the woman who leads most of the meditations and come to trust that she was genuine in both her knowledge and her own challenges-I didn’t want someone who was just repeating things they heard in yoga class, I wanted someone who had struggled as I had. Tamara is both knowledgeable and genuine, and her deceptively simple, short meditations have a profound cumulative effect.
I don’t use the sleep stories or the music. I've listened to all the Masterclasses and liked them, but they aren’t the veggie burgers and potatoes of the app for me. But what I do use makes the app abundantly worth the cost to me. I’m lucky that I can pay it now. Until very recently I couldn’t, and I know there are many, many people in that position.
Three other reasons Calm is worth it, even in my stripped down usage. One is having all of these things in one place so I don’t have to waste time searching for what I want. Another is the daily offering, so I’m not listening to the same meditations over and over. And equally important for me, having one voice I can focus in on and come to feel comfortable with. That familiarity is very helpful for me. (There are other people leading meditations, but I stick mostly with her.)
Wow...you gotta get to the point with this long ass comment smh
Straight up.. I didn’t even bother
@@Becca14219 You also just gotta move on and let other people be, its not like you are paying for their RUclips subscription so shut up and go back where you crawled out of
Based on some of these comments, i think half of you guys need the app. Stop tripping on this lady’s video. If you want a different presentation, then make your own or watch another one.
Lol, I appreciate the support; thank you! I think people forget they can leave the page with just the click of a button! :)
Doctor, every morning i wake up with anxiety and go to bed at night with depressed emotions. Help me out!!! Please....
I’m gonna download it
Ah, I'll go read the info on the Google app store.
Love the calm app!
Really bro? Explain me please, i trust you because you are juventini. Forza juve
If u have American Express, they offering free membership for 1 year
And after that, a 50% discount :)
I've never brought the calm app I tried the free part but wasn't sure about buying it do you think it's really worth the money they are asking for I struggle with mental health depression anxiety stress
Dr Allison can start an app for sleeping, just keep talking like in this post, droning on and on. I literally started to doze off!
Do you prefer Calm over Headspace?
When you do a lifetime access for £299 on the app does it mean for life till you die.
I read the FAQ's on the support section of their website and nowhere does it explicitly guarantee that, because at the end of the day they are a business so unfortunately no can say for certain; I got it for $160 thanks a certain link I found on their support website which shaves off 60% from the original $400 price tag
Calm is very good♥️
I'm glad you like it!
suffering from chronic depression for decades and being diagnosed bipolar type ll with clinical depression and anxiety. this gimmicky stuff does Not work for me. I have done biofeedback, TMS, EMDR, Ketimine infusions. 100s of therapy visits dozens of medicines, numerous in patient treatments and Nothing works. when i wake up the first thought i have is Ohhh... Not again. Not another day. I just want to never wake up. i also suffer from chronic pain and just want the misery to end. They say suicide is selfish. is it selfish to no longer want to suffer after decades of failed treatments ? No ! what is selfish is society expecting you to continue to suffer. i have had many Dr.s and Therapists, None of them get it. you can NOT understand what it is like from reading books. you have to suffer with it to truly understand how bad it is. a soothing audio recording and watching a aquarium of fish is like putting a bandaid on a amputated leg for me. anyone has any new REAL cures or treatments please share. Thanks.
“Water is life” if that’s life for you, go naked and enjoy of it. Be happy with it and live 🤗✨. I wish you the best adventures, love, peace and happiness. Yes you can!!!
I feel just like the same, i hope you find the answer
@@eduzaum99 I hope all who suffer find a remedy. I have read so many books and done so much research I should have a degree. There is no cure. All we can do is hang on by our fingernails hoping for a breakthrough treatment for chronic depression.
@@eduzaum99 Depression is the loneliest place one could ever be. even in a crowd of 100s or at a family function we are so alone. No words can describe what a desolate empty place major chronic depression is.
Hi! I have read your comment and understood what you were saying that you have tried everything you could so far and it did not help.
If i may i would suggest you to try a session or two of regression hypnosis.
As there might be 100% evil entitities attached to you, which are sucking feeding themselves with your energy, keeping you in this depression missery for as long and as bad as possible, as this is the only way they survive, hosting a body which they can benefit from and produce lots of suffering, as they feed only on low energy levels which you can get only from suffering and pain at all levels.
On this sessions, who is leading the session for you, they are able to see exactly what deamonic entities are behind all this and they are able to anihilate them for good and commanding them to leave you alone for good.
Where i live in Europe one of this sessions costs around 200-300€ and one session lasts around 1.5h-2h, and you don't have to be hypnotised if you can't be easily hypnotised as i am, an assistant of theirs can be hypnotised for you to help you.
I really hope this helps please do your own research about this and try one day if you are able and willing to.
Does it offer breathwork I'm looking for 1 hour breathwork
Thanks for all the effort and deep insight. I just have a question: Does meditation solve your problem when you finish meditating? Doesn't that make people feel worse when they go back to their daily life with no clue how to solve their complicated questions? thanks in advance
Does it *solve* the problem? No. But it does give you a better mind space from which to solve the problem. Stoicism also helps in this regard.
Listen. . . I just heard that Keith Morrison is narrating a Bedtime story on that thing.... GIVE IT!!!!!
use the rule of thirds when there’s a side shot of you talking, the frame looks more balanced
❤️
My name is Allison too! And, even better, it’s spelt the same way!
Well hey there! :)
Thanks for the review. Looking at you talking sideways screws with my head though and is so odd not to mention the annoying blipvert bottom right Just saying
Agreed. The side view is distracting.
Theres other free apps out there and U- Tube has some similar to this app
Dr. Allison - I cannot find anything on your professional background, bio, ED. credentials on the Internet ... please tell me where I can learn more about you as a clinical professional.
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Hello Dr Allison.
I am Rajkumar Chauhan from india .I use calm aap . I am suffering from depression .
yes you can i m also from India
BLAH BLAH BLAH.........GET TO IT !!!!
Yes!!! Yes!!!!!! Yes !!!!!!
I used Headspace for a year or so, it was good... but ultimately realised that I it's really just repetition of the same basic things, which are free.
Calm, on the other hand, offers very little for free. It does its best to push you to subscribe for a year, before you even try it. And the interface is a bit "off". It's not a native app (nor is Headspace) and it's a bit too slow on an iPhone 6. Chugs a bit when it shouldn't. Also, the UI is convolution: they try to pack in far too much stuff.
I appreciate your input; thanks! And you're right, meditation involves a lot of repetition. Like any sort of training, once you get the basics, you need a guide a little less. Thanks for watching!
Got 1 year free
HWO MUCH IS IT
Anyone interested in giving feedback on a new wellness app?
Sounds like you may receive compensation from Calm. Do you?? 22:45
18:31 answer
How about Deepak Chopra and Oprah ?
Just download the apk..😅
i feel like im mad
Timestamps for the review sections:
3:35 Meditation Section
7:28 Sleep Stories
10:21 Masterclass Section
11:53 Calm Body
14:03 Calm Kids
17:09 Extra Features
17:40 Is Calm Worth It?
Please remove the milli-seconds so the timestamps will work
Can you do for headspace?
@@JanineC girl bye she doesn’t need to remove anything. Y’all can literally drag it to the time stamp suggested. Stop being lazy and appreciate that she even gave you that bit of information.
"Dr." Allison doesn't know how timestamps work
@@sallysiphan4399 they arent not appreciating them. its normal feedback
It's worth it only if you can pay for it
This woman is more like a fashion plate than an actual psychologist. LOL! I crack myself up with my cleverness every time!
In fact, this woman does not appear to be genuinely interested in psychology. Clearly, she doesn’t follow her own advice because if she incorporated a daily meditation into her busy schedule she wouldn’t be so hyperactive and excited all the time.
Bruh everything is locked -_-
I’d feel a whole lot better if you were really in my life, sigh. 😂😂🥰 (joking)
Nice review 👍
A horribly annoying app. Found the layout too difficult to understand or how it was supposed to work . I ended up frustrated, uptight and so far from calm I could’ve cried.
You're a psychologist but you don't know how annoying it is to pay attention to somebody that's looking away from you? When professionals want to show off that they have more than one camera they look into the other camera. You would never see this on TV. Why do RUclipsrs do it?
how do we believe that you are sponsored ?, should we just accept it as a fact ?!, I mean how. ?!
I'm definitely NOT sponsored by Calm. I would be legally obligated to say if I was.
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@@DrAllisonAnswers Your video is too slick, and you know a little too much. You don't inspire trust.
Who do you keep looking at LOL that is so weird...... stop looking away like that!
Different strokes for different folks! If we wait until we're perfect at things to do them, we'll never do anything new, so I'm ok with some imperfections!
video starts at 3:40
NO.
That intro was waaaay to long. How many times do you need to say ‘the calm app’
Alex, that's one of the reasons I added all of the timestamps in the pinned comment, which shows right below the video, so people can fast forward, skip, or move to whatever sections they're most interested in. Hopefully, you got what you needed from my review of the "Calm App." :)
Im not paying those crazy fees to help my insomnia.
If anything, opening the app gave me stress 😆
Just make more money and the fees won’t be crazy. You sound like a freeloader.
My god what a beaut
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It cost too much
jeez 23 minutes for you to till me if this app is worth it or not. C'mon