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Insight Timer
An enormous free library of guided meditation, and a timer for practising on your own.
- Best for
- Free options, Meditation, Mindfulness
- Focus
- Meditation, Breathwork, Mindfulness
- Cost
- Freemium · free version
- Runs on
- iPhone, Android, Apple Watch
- Made by
- Insight Network Inc
The Oria take
If you are not sure meditation is for you, start here rather than paying for anything. The free library is vast and the timer is genuinely useful once you practise on your own. The other side of that size is that browsing can become its own form of procrastination.
What is Insight Timer?
Insight Timer is the opposite of a course: hundreds of thousands of free tracks from thousands of teachers, including a number of Australian ones, plus live sessions and a plain meditation timer with interval bells. The free tier is unusually generous, which makes it the natural first app to try.
What it offers
- A very large free library of guided meditations
- Meditation timer with interval bells for unguided practice
- Live sessions and teacher-led events
- Sleep audio, music and yoga nidra
What we like
- The most generous free tier of any meditation app
- Australian teachers among the thousands on the platform
- The timer suits people who already know how to sit
Things to consider
- Quality varies from teacher to teacher, because anyone can publish
- The size of the library can be its own obstacle when starting out
What it costs
Freemium · free version.
The library is free. A paid membership adds courses and offline listening; the price is not published on the site, so check in the app store.
Pricing last checked September 2026. Apps change their plans, so check before you subscribe.
Questions people ask
Is Insight Timer really free?
The main library is free to use. A paid membership adds features such as courses and offline listening, but the meditations themselves do not sit behind it.
What is the timer for?
It is for meditating without guidance: you set a length and interval bells, and the app stays out of the way. It is the feature experienced meditators tend to use most.
Take it offline
Prefer practising with other people?
An app is a good companion between sessions. These are the places in Perth doing the same thing in a room.
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