Goals and ongoing practice · 5-app comparison
Whether the app lets you create guided practices around personal goals.
Calm 
Down Dog 
Insight Timer 
Smiling Mind 
Waking Up Compare custom self-hypnosis creation and editing controls; existing recordings and clinical hypnotherapy are different offerings. Choosing a self-hypnosis app
Compare guided reflection, journaling and personalization tools for exploring how you see yourself. Self-concept journal prompts
Compare creating affirmation audio, cloning your voice, recording narration and replay controls. Own-voice app guide
Compare creating and revising original guided meditations, including scripts, voices, pauses and generation allowances. Create a custom meditation
Compare creating and editing personal tapping audio, rather than access to a library of recorded sessions. Choosing an EFT tapping app
Compare creating guided rehearsal audio around your goals, context and preferred pacing. What is mental rehearsal?
Compare custom yoga guidance, practice preferences and playback. See the guide for instructor-led class libraries. Choosing a yoga app
| Features1 selected | Calm Calm Premium | Down Dog Down Dog membership | Insight Timer MemberPlus | Smiling Mind Free | Waking Up Waking Up membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create guided practices around personal goals |
No listed support
Calm: The consumer app offers recorded meditations, stories, music, timers and check-ins; this comparison excludes the separate Calm Health and Calm Sleep apps. No matching personal goal or practice-production workflow was listed. Browsing a topic or completing a course is a separate capability. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.
Supporting sources:
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Boosts and pose choices
Tailor class focus and exclude poses; open-ended personal-context narration is not listed.
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Routines and discovery
Organize practice routines and discover existing tracks around needs. Creating a new personal guided recording is explicitly outside the assistant connectors' scope.
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Source checked . Availability can change.
Routine from existing sessions
Build a custom mental-fitness plan by combining existing sessions chosen for a goal or need; this does not generate a new narrated practice.
Supporting sources:
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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 for 1 features across Calm, Down Dog, Insight Timer, Smiling Mind, 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.
Calm: The consumer app offers recorded meditations, stories, music, timers and check-ins; this comparison excludes the separate Calm Health and Calm Sleep apps. No matching personal goal or practice-production workflow was listed. Browsing a topic or completing a course is a separate capability. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.
Tailor class focus and exclude poses; open-ended personal-context narration is not listed.
Checked . Sources: [1]
Build a custom mental-fitness plan by combining existing sessions chosen for a goal or need; this does not generate a new narrated practice.
Checked . Sources: [1]
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.