Mindroid: Relax, Focus, Sleep

Petr Nálevka (Urbandroid)

About this app

Mindroid is an AVS (Auditory Visual Stimulation device - aka Mind Machine) app for Android.

It provides each of your brain hemispheres with a signal (either audible or visual) with a slightly different frequency in order to stimulate your brain waves. For more info on this phenomenon please refer to this Wikipeadia.

It helps you Relax, Meditate, be Creative and Productive or Sleep depending on the selected program. It is a great help for those fighting with stress or insomnia.

Stimulation is full-featured and comparable with single purpose AVS devices. Headphones needs to be used in order for the audible stimulation to be effective!

In order to perform visual stimulation close your eyes and match the red spots on your display with your eyes.

Mindroid is fully compatible and encouraged to be used with cardboard goggles or compatible light stimulating glasses or sleep masks.

You are kindly welcome to use Mindroid for FREE if you are fine with the default setting. To take advantage of all the available programs and to mix them with the different environments, please consider purchasing the Mindroid Unlock. Please install the Unlock on top of the current installation (do not uninstall Mindroid).

Thank you very much for downloading Mindroid. Have fun!

CAUTION! Mindroid shall not be used by users suffering any epileptic or cardiac symptoms.

Visual modes explanation: ​
Monaural: is the main mode and the other modes are really just experimental (use them if you know what you are doing). In monaural the target frequency is used for both eyes.

Binaural: each eye gets a different frequency and the target frequency is the difference between those two

Bihemispheric: is based on the theory that each side of the eye is connected to a different hemisphere

Combo: is purely experimental - it uses all of the above - mainly to induce visual fantasies

Ratings and reviews

If you have never tried a sound and light machine this is the best way to get started. A pair of inexpensive VR googles work great with this app. It has many advanced features and is programmable. I would buy the led glasses but I have the Nexus 5x with the USB C connection. I think this would be great with the new Google pixel headset. Update: I finally bought the sleep mask 8 years later and at $90 its worth it. My mind machine is very old at this point and this is a great replacement.

This is one of the first apps to install whenever I get a new phone. I've been using it for around 8 years now, and it continues to help me. I almost exclusively use the Relaxing setting because it knocks anxiety down to manageable levels. In fact, this app is the reason I discovered I have anxiety. I thought it was normal to always feel that way, but when I used this app I felt kinda funny. It took me awhile to realize that what I was feeling was the absence of anxiety, actual relaxation.

I don't know about the science of binaural beats and all that, but as someone who has always struggled to meditate, this app has been very helpful. It essentially overwhelms my senses so that I can't really concentrate and eventually reach a state of mindfulness. Been using it for a couple months and I'd recommend it to anyone who struggles to get past intrusive thoughts while meditating.

What's new

- Targeting Android 13
- Better media control integration on Android 13