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Insight Timer: free meditation, sleep and yoga app
By Irfan Rosli
News editor
- Thousands of guided meditations and mindfulness practices
- Sleep music, soundscapes, bedtime tales and sleep meditations
- Yoga, Pilates, stretching and movement practices
- Customizable meditation timer and short sessions by time
- Breathwork exercises for relaxation, focus and stress relief
- Paid subscription adds offline listening and 1,000+ courses
What Insight Timer covers and who it suits
Insight Timer is a meditation app that also carries yoga, Pilates, stretching and breathwork sessions. The developer says the guided content is led by meditation teachers, neuroscientists, psychologists and wellness instructors, and names universities including Stanford, Harvard and Oxford among their affiliations. Music tracks and ambient sounds sit alongside the sessions in the same library.
The listing presents it for people who want a regular meditation habit, people who have trouble sleeping, and people who want movement practice next to it. It says the content is aimed at both beginners and experienced practitioners.
Finding meditations by topic, tradition and length
Sessions are browsed by topic. The listed topics include anxiety and stress reduction, trauma support, ADHD and focus, recovery and addictions, self-compassion, better relationships, leadership and manifesting. Each topic is a starting point for a set of guided practices rather than a single recording.
The library also sorts by style. The listing names Vipassana, MBSR, Zen, Yoga Nidra, Metta, Kundalini Yoga, walking meditation and breathing meditation, among others. You can select by time to find short sessions for a gap in the day, or for mornings and evenings. Groups cover topics such as beginners meditation, poetry and several religious and secular traditions, and you can follow individual teachers to keep track of their work.
Sleep music, soundscapes and bedtime stories
The sleep section combines sleep music, soundscapes, bedtime tales and sleep meditations, with white noise and ambient sounds for falling asleep. A sleep mode can be applied to any music track, so a track can be played in a sleep-oriented way.
Sleep courses are a separate set of multi-session programmes. The listing describes them as covering insomnia, falling asleep without effort and changing how a person relates to rest. The developer places the paid subscription as the source of its larger course catalogue.
Timer, breathwork and progress tracking
The meditation timer can be customized, and the listing includes a set of breathwork exercises for relaxation, focus and stress relief. Both are available on the free side of the app.
Progress is shown through stats and milestones, which record how sessions have been logged over time. Community groups let users join conversations around shared practices.
What the paid subscription adds
The listing describes one optional in-app subscription, called Insight Premium Meditation. It adds more than 1,000 courses on sleep, happiness, wellness and stress, plus offline listening for meditation and sleep music. The subscription also includes an advanced player with repeat, fast forward, rewind and resume from where you left off.
The developer lists high-quality audio as part of the subscription as well. Without it, the free features still cover the guided meditations, sleep content, yoga and timer described above.
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About this APK
The build we hold is Insight Timer - Meditation App 20.31.0 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.
- Version
- 20.31.0
- 57063
- Requires Android
- 7.0+
- Package ID
- com.spotlightsix.zentimerlite2
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 35 declared · 8 sensitive
- Camera
- Draw over other apps
- Microphone
- Modify files on your device
- Modify your calendar
- Read files on your device
- Read phone status and identity
- Read your calendar
- Signed by
- O=Spotlight Six Software
- Certificate SHA-256
- 1e78cbf38a044249b2c5f996ae2e852011779ba060f166b9b8e8b0df3cc191f7
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