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Add your own practice technique: Gratitude vs Mesmerize vs Smiling Mind vs Waking Up

Save a personal practice technique or recipe for future use.

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    Add your own practice technique: details

    Mesmerize

    Breathing patterns

    Custom breathing patterns are supported; an arbitrary written practice recipe is not listed.

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    Smiling Mind

    No listed support

    Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

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    Waking Up

    No listed support

    Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. 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 Gratitude, Mesmerize, 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.

    Gratitude 1 researched
    Add your own practice technique: Personal affirmation sequence

    Save an affirmation collection and repeat it; a general custom practice-technique recipe is not documented.

    Checked . Sources: [1]

    Mesmerize 1 researched
    Add your own practice technique: Breathing patterns

    Custom breathing patterns are supported; an arbitrary written practice recipe is not listed.

    Checked . Sources: [1]

    Mesmerize sources

    1. Mesmerize product features · Checked 2026-10-09
    Smiling Mind 1 researched
    Add your own practice technique: No listed support

    Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

    Checked . Sources: [1], [2], [3]

    Smiling Mind sources

    1. Smiling Mind free consumer app · Checked 2026-10-09
    2. Smiling Mind app and Routine guide · Checked 2026-10-09
    3. Smiling Mind voice and music settings · Checked 2026-10-09
    Waking Up 1 researched
    Add your own practice technique: No listed support

    Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

    Checked . Sources: [1], [2]

    Waking Up sources

    1. Waking Up app organization · Checked 2026-10-09
    2. Waking Up publisher listing and release notes · Checked 2026-10-09