Insight Timer is the world’s leading free meditation app, offering an unparalleled library of guided meditations, sleep resources, music, and talks from globally respected experts. With contributions from meditation teachers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and academics affiliated with institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Oxford, the app combines ancient wisdom with modern science to support mental clarity, emotional balance, and restorative sleep.
Extensive Free Meditation Library
Insight Timer offers over 100,000 free guided meditations covering a wide range of goals and experience levels. New meditations and sleep tracks are added daily, ensuring fresh content and ongoing inspiration. Sessions can be filtered by length, making it easy to fit meditation into even the busiest schedules.
Music, Soundscapes, and Ambient Audio
Thousands of music tracks and ambient soundscapes help calm the mind, enhance focus, and promote relaxation. World-renowned musicians contribute original compositions designed specifically for meditation, rest, and sleep.
Customizable Meditation Timer
A flexible meditation timer allows fully customized solo practice. Bells, intervals, and session lengths can be adjusted to support personal routines, from short mindfulness breaks to longer deep-focus sessions.
Sleep for Insight Timer
Dedicated sleep content supports better rest and healthier sleep habits. The sleep library includes sleep music, soundscapes, bedtime stories, and guided sleep meditations. A sleep mode feature ensures uninterrupted listening throughout the night. In addition, structured sleep courses focus on overcoming insomnia, redefining the relationship with rest, and learning to sleep effortlessly through meditation.
Expert-Led Courses and Topics
Browse popular themes such as reducing stress and anxiety, self-love and compassion, addiction recovery, leadership, focus, relationships, and loving-kindness. Meditation styles range from secular mindfulness and MBSR to Yoga Nidra, Vipassana, Zen, Kundalini Yoga, Metta, and more.
Global Community and Groups
Insight Timer hosts thousands of discussion groups centered on meditation styles, spiritual traditions, belief systems, poetry, and sleep. Groups support shared learning, reflection, and connection across cultures and backgrounds.
Progress Tracking and Motivation
Built-in statistics and milestones track consistency and progress over time, encouraging sustainable daily practice and long-term growth.
Insight Premium Meditation
An optional subscription unlocks advanced features, including over 1,000 in-depth courses, offline listening, high-quality audio, and an advanced player with repeat, rewind, and resume capabilities.
FAQs
Q1: Is Insight Timer really free?
Yes. Insight Timer provides over 100,000 free guided meditations, music tracks, and sleep resources with no mandatory subscription.
Q2: Is Insight Timer suitable for beginners?
The app includes beginner-friendly meditations, short sessions, guided programs, and groups designed specifically for those new to meditation.
Q3: What kind of sleep content is available?
Sleep content includes music, soundscapes, bedtime stories, sleep meditations, and dedicated courses focused on improving sleep quality.
Q4: What does Insight Premium include?
Insight Premium offers access to 1,000+ courses, offline listening, high-quality audio, and advanced playback controls.
Q5: Who creates the content on Insight Timer?
Content is created by over 11,000 meditation teachers, neuroscientists, psychologists, musicians, and sleep experts from around the world.
Version History
v20.1.0—22 Jan, 2026
v20.0.1—16 Jan, 2026
This version includes a number of bug fixes and UI improvements.
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v19.48.1—29 Dec, 2025
This version includes a number of bug fixes and UI improvements.
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