Balance
Personalized Plans
Plans assemble prerecorded meditation guidance around goals and needs rather than generating a wholly new user-authored recording.
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Goals and ongoing practice · 2-app comparison
Create guided practices around personal goals: Balance vs Waking Up
Whether the app lets you create guided practices around personal goals.
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| Features1 selected | Balance Balance Premium |  Waking Up Waking Up membership |
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| Create guided practices around personal goals |
Create guided practices around personal goals: details
Waking Up
No listed support
Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. The assessment concerns this specific control, rather than general access to wellness content. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.
Supporting sources:
Source checked . Availability can change.
Sources and plan details
Sources for 1 features across Balance, Waking Up. Annual prices show the full yearly charge in USD. “Limited” includes conditions. “No listed support” means the feature was not found in the reviewed official documentation.
Balance 1 researched
- Create guided practices around personal goals: Personalized Plans
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Plans assemble prerecorded meditation guidance around goals and needs rather than generating a wholly new user-authored recording.
Checked . Sources: [1]
Balance sources
- Balance personalization and product scope · Checked 2026-10-09
Waking Up 1 researched
- Create guided practices around personal goals: No listed support
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Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. The assessment concerns this specific control, rather than general access to wellness content. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.
Waking Up sources
- Waking Up app organization · Checked 2026-10-09
- Waking Up publisher listing and release notes · Checked 2026-10-09