Synopsis: Balance is the world’s first personalized meditation audio program that adapts to you.
Price and Platform: 7-Day Free Trial + $69.99/year premium. iOS and Android.
RDN Score: 5/5
Pros
Polished, pleasant and user-friendly app design with comforting narration.
Begins with a detailed user questionnaire to immediately help personalize the meditation program experience.
Select and rank priority goals such as reduce stress, improve sleep, improve mood or increase focus.
Identify and narrow down distractions and assess the degree of difficulty in finishing tasks or procrastination.
Offers a range of meditation experiences tailored for beginner to experienced meditators and options to meditate morning, afternoon or evening.
Opt in or out of daily meditation reminders.
Creates a personalized foundations plan program based on your goals and assessment.
Includes guided meditations and quick exercises targeting anxiety to quiet worries and build skills.
Offers short exercises for midday resets, visualizations, walking meditations, timed nature sounds and more.
The premium Balance program includes a library of meditations for stress and sleep, to tackle skills such as gratitude, and new monthly meditations.
Offers ongoing personalization with daily questions to further customize your meditation plan.
Select your preferred meditation duration, starting with a brief three minutes for beginners.
Tap into the Balance coach for guidance during your first 10 days in the app.
Learn and practice techniques to help focus your attention one task at a time.
Train your focus with learned skills to help you concentrate better when not meditating.
Balance uses calm and encouraging voices that normalize the difficulty in starting a meditation practice but also motivate by acknowledging the progress the user makes with each meditation session.
Opt for a supportive masculine (Ofosu) or feminine (Leah) voice for each guided meditation.
Includes breathing exercises and easy ways to practice from wherever you are.
Includes a sleep tab with activities to help you fall asleep or wind down before bed.
Cons
Requires an email login to participate and access your personalized plan.
Graphics are not gender neutral.
Bottom Line: Great for anyone wanting to get into a regular meditation practice, including experienced meditators but especially for anyone new to the practice, Balance lives up to its promise as the meditation program that adapts to you.
Marisa Moore, MBA, RDN, LD, is based in Atlanta and specializes in culinary nutrition, communications and consulting. She blogs at marisamoore.com. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
Synopsis: Balance is the world’s first personalized meditation audio program that adapts to you.
