Insight Timer
Timer presets
Named timer presets can preserve a personally configured practice setup; they do not store a new narrated technique or script recipe.
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Personalization and memory · 4-app comparison
Add your own practice technique: Insight Timer vs Mesmerize vs The Tapping Solution vs Waking Up
Save a personal practice technique or recipe for future use.
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Mesmerize 
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| Features1 selected | Insight Timer MemberPlus | Mesmerize Mesmerize Premium | The Tapping Solution Premium | Waking Up Waking Up membership |
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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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The Tapping Solution
No listed support
The Tapping Solution's reviewed library, progress, playback and device documentation do not list this capability. This is our assessment of the reviewed documentation, 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 and plan details
Sources for 1 features across Insight Timer, Mesmerize, 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.
Insight Timer 1 researched
- Add your own practice technique: Timer presets
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Named timer presets can preserve a personally configured practice setup; they do not store a new narrated technique or script recipe.
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Insight Timer sources
- Insight Timer saved presets · Checked 2026-10-09
Mesmerize 1 researched
- Add your own practice technique: Breathing patterns
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Custom breathing patterns are supported; an arbitrary written practice recipe is not listed.
Checked . Sources: [1]
Mesmerize sources
- Mesmerize product features · Checked 2026-10-09
The Tapping Solution 1 researched
The Tapping Solution sources
- The Tapping Solution app features · Checked 2026-10-09
- The Tapping Solution player and reminder help · Checked 2026-10-09
- The Tapping Solution US publisher listing · Checked 2026-10-09
Waking Up 1 researched
- Add your own practice technique: No listed support
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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.
Waking Up sources
- Waking Up app organization · Checked 2026-10-09
- Waking Up publisher listing and release notes · Checked 2026-10-09