Goals and ongoing practice · 5-app comparison
Whether the app lets you use personal obstacles and context in guidance.
Calm 
Insight Timer 
Smiling Mind 
The Tapping Solution 
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 | Insight Timer MemberPlus | Smiling Mind Free | The Tapping Solution Premium | Waking Up Waking Up membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use personal obstacles and context in guidance |
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.
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Context-based recommendations
The assistant connectors use stated needs to find existing suitable tracks. They do not personalize the spoken content of a recording.
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Need-based recommendations
Content can be discovered by need and the homepage supplies personalized recommendations. The guide does not establish free-form context being incorporated into a new recording.
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Feeling ratings
Rate feelings before and after a recorded session; those ratings do not establish personally generated guidance.
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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.
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Sources for 1 features across Calm, Insight Timer, Smiling Mind, The Tapping Solution, 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.
The assistant connectors use stated needs to find existing suitable tracks. They do not personalize the spoken content of a recording.
Checked . Sources: [1]
Content can be discovered by need and the homepage supplies personalized recommendations. The guide does not establish free-form context being incorporated into a new recording.
Checked . Sources: [1]
Rate feelings before and after a recorded session; those ratings do not establish personally generated guidance.
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.