Healthy Minds Program

Healthy Minds Innovations

About this app

• 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 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/hmi/terms-of-use

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https://hminnovations.org/hmi/privacy-policy

Ratings and reviews

It's a simple and straightforward app. Looked at some of the other apps like calm and head space and I'm almost overwhelmed by how many options there are. Not great for a person that already feels like they've got a cluttered mind. It's amazing that this is free. Having the option to do active or resting meditation is also great. Backed by science and not trying to make money off of me. More of that please!

I appreciate the simplicity and honesty of this app. It's streamlined, the user interface is nice, and it's not cluttered with distracting extra features or stuff that I'm not looking for. I can open the app, do a lesson, then be done. It's easy to see progress, and it's focused on evidence based approaches. Very well designed for those of us with ADHD! I have tried so many meditation apps, but most of them are so stuffed with features and it's too overwhelming. This is the one!!

This is such a wonderful app that I wish I found sooner. Incredibly well put together, based on habits and easy to integrate into your life, makes progress measurable, makes the meditations and skills easy to fit with everything else happening in life, and it also feels like it's very informative. I honestly think it is so wonderful and the fact that it's free for anyone who really needs it and you can just donate if you feel like supporting it or if you're able to support it is fantastic

What's new

Bug fixes and performance enhancements