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Headspace: Sleep & Meditation App Store reviews: what users complain about

We ran AppGripe on 500 of the most recent public App Store reviews of Headspace: Sleep & Meditation (Meditation, by Headspace Inc.) from 4 storefronts, dated 2025-01-12 to 2026-10-18. Average rating in this sample: 2.05★. 399 reviews contained a complaint.

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Complaint categories

A review can count in several categories. Severity is the AI's estimate of how bad the problem is for the user.

Top issues, ranked by reviews × severity

1. Justify or adjust the price: 122 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.4/3.
   “I felt stressed, got an ad for this app, looked really good and calming, I download the app create an account and cannot use anything! Trying so hard to make me pay for a mental health app is insane, it’s just insanely greedy the fact it’s too overstimulating…” (1★, v8.34.0, GB)
2. Soften the redesign backlash: 114 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.3/3.
   “Would have given this 5 stars but why change the layout of things that don’t need changing? Before, there was an option to set it so that my daily meditation was always 20 minutes without me doing anything, now it’s always set as 3 minutes and I have to manual…” (2★, v3.391.1, GB)
3. Ease paywall pressure: 90 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.5/3.
   “It’s quite unfortunate how about every feature in the app is behind a subscription paywall. None of that would have been an issue otherwise, but the home page, and just about every other page, in the app highlights only these paid features with no obvious way…” (1★, v3.381.0, AU)
4. Simplify navigation: 90 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.2/3.
   “I find the content quite good. Not sure if it’s helped. But the app is very overwhelming. There’s so many components to one subject it’s hard to decide what you should be doing. I think it needs an entry level step by step course before doing anything. Also, t…” (3★, v3.408.1, GB)
5. Make trials and renewals transparent: 69 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.2/3.
   “This app has disappointed me twice nice, it gives you the a 14 day free trial then a yearly cost or a 7 day free trial then a monthly cost, that’s all fine however fist time I opted for the 14 day free trial but instantly got charged the yearly fee, so I got a…” (2★, v8.4.2, GB)

How to read this

Apple's public feed only shows recent reviews, so this is a snapshot of the last weeks or months, not the app's full history. Popular apps attract complaints in proportion to their size; the useful part is which issues repeat. Generated 19 October 2026. We have no relationship with Headspace Inc..