Sway 4+

Name: Sway
Price: 3.99 CAD
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Author: PauseAble ApS

PauseAble ApS

Conçue pour iPhone

- 3,4 • 5 notes

- 3,99 $

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Description

Sway is an ‘interactive meditation’ experience. It uses your phone to track movement and provides feedback to help you gain focus and improve your attention.

With six unique levels, you will learn new techniques to be mindful in everyday life situations and subtly practise mindfulness anytime and anywhere.

From simply moving your phone in your hand while sitting down or lying in bed, to gently swaying your body while waiting for the bus or even walking slowly around the office – Sway is designed to help you find focus in everyday life using ‘interactive meditation’.

Relying on slow and continuous motion, Sway encourages you to find your own, most effective and subtle way to practise mindfulness in any given situation.

Sway is best experienced with headphones.

KEY FEATURES:

MINDFULNESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
Engage in mindfulness activities everywhere with subtle body movements

INTERACTIVE MEDITATION
Based on a new scientific approach to meditation with motion tracking feedback

LET THE SOUND GUIDE YOU
Generative audio landscape supports your experience without interacting with your screen

PROGRESS THROUGH SIX LEVELS
Discover new techniques to be mindful in everyday life situations

LONG TERM RESULTS
Use Sway 20 minutes a day for maximised effect

Sway is based on ‘interactive meditation’, a new approach to meditation which shows similar results to ‘guided meditation’ but is even more effective in noisy and busy environments. It’s scientific validation shows that engaging in interactive meditation daily may have long term benefits to your attention levels.

Sway is a collaboration between digital product studio ustwo and Danish mental wellness company PauseAble.

1 juin 2017

Version 1.1

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Using Sway now adds mindfulness minutes to Health App on iPhone iOS10+ devices.

Sway in Chinese: 摇摆

3,4 sur 5

5 notes

De-gameify this app

I want to love this app more than I do, but it has a major design/philosophical flaw that makes it infuriating.

I purchased this app with the intent to use it for walking meditation. And it's quite possible to do so, but only at the higher 'levels' of the app. Does the sensitivity differ between levels? I don't know, but the app does appear to behave differently from one level to the next.

This would be fine, and kind of cool, but the app is gameified such that if you miss a day (or more) you slide back a level (or more). To get back to that sweet level that works great for walking meditation, I have to progress through each level that proceeds it, but one. day. at. a. time.

Why? Why design the app this way? It could be a great support to meditation, but instead it's just a terrible 'game'.

Please, in the next version, give the user the option, once they've progressed through a level, to 'hold' their current level if they wish and not slip backwards. Do that, and you've got something unique AND useful. Thanks!

Don't buy this

While the visual design is great, the application of the vision for this app misses the mark. It's not a mindfulness app or even close to a meditation app. It's a neat idea, executed well with little to no thought of how the user will benefit from it.

Quite annoying

Meditation that involves awkward continuous movement with fine muscles is not relaxing. It does force you to focus on the present as all you can think of is how irritating it is to keep your phone in constant motion. I'd like my $4 and 3 minutes back.

Appreciate for your feedback. We designed Level 1 as an introduction with hand movements, we understand it may feel awkward in the beginning. In that case we suggest to try put your phone in your pocket, then gently swaying your body, or practise walking slowly and mindfully (we strongly recommend wearing a headset), and let the sound feedback guide you. It may feel much more natural without holding the phone in the hand.

Every movement can be mindful. We build Sway as a very open tool to help you practise mindful movements, we hope you to give Sway a bit time, and be creative in finding your own way to Sway. Please let us know your further feedback.

Le développeur, PauseAble ApS, n’a pas fourni de détails à Apple sur ses pratiques en matière de confidentialité et son traitement des données. Pour en savoir plus, consultez la politique de confidentialité du développeur.