• 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 Humin (formerly 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/terms-of-use
Read our Privacy Policy here:
https://hminnovations.org/privacy-policy
I’ve been using Healthy Minds for well over a year now and I absolutely love it!The features that I find most useful are:- it goes beyond mindfulness only. It teaches you about connecting, purpose and self-knowledge in a broader way.- it’s backed up by science but it also takes care of human beings. I mean, it’s important to know the scientific data behind what’s being recommended, but what I think is equally important is how Healthy Minds makes all this data accessible and easily digestible for real people within everyday contexts.- I find it great too how it offers a learning component followed by a practice. It gives you a sense of progression and all makes sense within each are of improvement. - the follow-up questionnaires are very useful too, as a way to monitor your progress.If there’s one recommendation: It would be nice to see the four (or five, including “Foundations”) areas - Awareness, Connection, Insight and Purpose, displayed together as in some sort of a map, so we can see the bigger picture of what we’re doing and monitor how they interact with each other. Thanks for making Healthy Minds accessible for everyone and sharing so much value! 🙏
Developer Response
Thank you so much for rating our app! Your review will help us spread the word about our app and further our mission of a kinder, wiser, and more compassionate world.
A wonderful resource
happy eemah
This is the app that I would’ve loved to have known about when I was first starting out with practicing meditation and mindfulness. From the very beginning there are some excellent examples of the types of meditation practices and explanations of what mindfulness and meditation is and isn’t. I’ve already recommended this app to friends and family and I will definitely be making a donation to the creators. Thank you all for the time and effort you’ve put into this.
Highly recommended
Emmalajen
The fact that everything this app teaches or suggests is based on the best recent science makes it invaluable. The wellness space is awash with ‘influencers’ and sellers of beguiling and fanciful stories, so I appreciate this app and the experts and research behind it. It’s a hugely valuable tool to learn all the basics and grow my knowledge about the science of the human mind. And it shows me how to put it all into practice in really manageable, practical ways. I’m so glad I came across it.
Love this app
Kylr247
I’m new to mindfulness and this is the first app I’ve used to help me develop a daily mindfulness routine. I love the guided practices but I especially like the learning elements of the app with the quick learning posts, the verbal tips at the end of most practices and the written tips encouraging you to focus on something each day. So pleased I came across this app and thanks for making it available to us all.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for rating our app! Your review will help us spread the word about our app and further our mission of a kinder, wiser, and more compassionate world.
Healthy Minds Innovations is now Humin!
Version 8.7.17
The developer, Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness
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Other Data
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Information
Seller
Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc.
Size
67.9 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.4 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.