Best Meditation Apps for 2018!

People have been practicing meditation for over centuries. It helps us to clear the mind with the use of mindful breathing and guided imagery. Scientists have proven that meditation is very beneficial for our mental health and physical health. If you cannot decide which app to choose to guide you, here are some of the best ones this year.

1. Simply Being
   
   This is a simple app by Meditation Oasis. With this app you can enjoy deep relaxation and stress relief, but you can also enjoy the benefits of meditation without prior experience. It allows you to choose to listen with or without music or nature sounds. You can also choose to listen only to music or nature sounds.
   This app will guide you through meditation. You can choose the meditation length of 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes. It is very useful for beginners but also for experienced meditators.

2. Meditation Timer
   
   This is one of the best apps if you’re trying to reduce stress and anxiety and to improve focus. It will allow you to practice meditation anywhere and anytime. Some of the benefits of this app are that it will enhance your focus throughout the day, it will reduce stress and anxiety, you’ll sleep better at night and it will lower blood pressure and health in general.

3. White Noise
   
   This app is recommended for better sleep. It features ambient sounds of the surroundings that can help you relax during the day and also sleep well at night. You can use this app if you have troubles falling asleep, or if you need a quick nap or if your baby wakes up a lot during the night.
   It contains more than 40 sounds, including all the color noises, mechanical sounds like fan or air conditioner, rushing water sounds, light or heavy rain, waves and so much more.

4. Insight Timer
   
   This is one of the most popular free meditation apps. It joins millions of people to help them calm the mind, manage the stress, reduce the anxiety and sleep better. The music on the app is made from world-famous artists while the guided meditations are led by some of the world’s top psychologists, mindfulness experts and neuroscientists.
   There are more than 10 guided meditations added daily on the Insight Timer, so it is widely used by people from all over the world. You can follow your favorite teachers and also follow thousands of discussion groups and communities.

5. 10% Happier: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
   
   One of the best meditation apps with some of the most respected meditation teacher in the world including New York Times bestselling author Dan Harris. It represents an easy and free access to a 7-session introductory course and mindful meditations. The activities included help you to cope with the anxiety and the stress.
   There are daily updates on activity videos to help you learn how to meditate in the easiest way possible. Also, there is new content every month and practical advice on the best way to eat, work and more.

6. Stop, breathe & Think: Meditate
   
   This is an app that will help you find peace anywhere. It is a very famous award winning app about meditation and mindfulness. It tracks your mood and according to that suggests short guided meditations, yoga and other videos.
   It contains over 30 free activities and over 80 premium activities you can choose from. It also has a tracker for your emotions before and after meditation. Don’t forget, you can change your whole frame of mind with just a few minutes of meditation.

7. Gratitude journal: Bliss
   
   Bliss uses scientifically proven techniques from top researchers. It helps people to increase their happiness, motivation and effectiveness. Some of the exercises are also called interventions and have been proven to increase happiness and other mental traits.
   It works with a daily or gratitude journal that allows you to record meditation and thoughts from the previous day. Every journal entry helps people increase their self-confidence and find inspiration.

8. SimpleMind Free – Intuitive Mind Mapping
   
   This app helps you organize your thoughts, generate new ideas and also remember things. This is such an amazing map that helps you mind map everywhere and anytime. It has a history of 7 years of updates and improvements, so it’s very trustworthy and reliable.

9. Sattva
   
   Sattva has ancient roots, just like meditation. The meditations, chants and mantras on Sattva are brought by Sanskrit scholars you have mastered the inner working of the mind. It contains guided meditations, mantras, chants, meditation music, heart rate monitor, mood tracker, live video events, challenges and much more.

10. Breathe2Relax
    
    This a stress management tool to help people learn diaphragmatic breathing. It is a portable tool that provides detailed information about the stress effects on the body. It also contains instructions and practice exercises which are meant to help people learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.