“another "free" app that literally won't let you do or see ANYTHING until you put in your credit card information for either a subscription or free trial that they hope you forget to cancel before they can charge you. i see people getting…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 416 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Balance: Meditation & Sleep
The Mind CompanyGet support for whatever 2026 brings and build habits for lifelong mental hea…
4.6 ★48,581 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
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Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Get support for whatever 2026 brings and build habits for lifelong mental health. Enhance your mental health, reduce daily anxiety and stress, improve your sleep, and increase focus with the Balance Meditation and Sleep app. Balance is a personalized program, like having a personal meditation coach in your pocket. You answer daily questions about your meditation experience and goals, and Balance assembles guided sessions that are perfect for you using a vast audio library of sounds, meditation music, and breathing exercises.
LEARN PRACTICAL DAILY MEDITATION SKILLS Balance's meditations are organized in 10-day Plans that teach concrete meditation skills to improve your mental health and achieve your goals.…
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.212.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.212.0, updated 2026-09-23.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 416 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“DO NOT trust this company. Despite offering a free trial, they will charge you a years subscription even if you cancel many days before the trial is over. Also the meditations talk too much and don't really give much time to meditate…”
“I signed up for the free trial, canceled it immediately, and they still charged me for a year's subscription.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.212.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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