Lifetime subscription that disappeared I was offered a lifetime subscription option about 4-5 years ago, and I paid for it. I assumed that the website who had known me for a year, would know I had a lifetime subscription—but when I returned to the website a few weeks later, in the middle of the pandemic, there was a paywall that asked for my “emailed receipt”. I could not find it, and there was no remedy on the website, which just abandoned me after I paid so much. I didn’t have the energy to fight about it and stopped using your website for a long time after that. You should have been able to identify me, as you had always done, but instead, during a time when I really needed your meditations, I was shut out. That is hard to forget, and whenever I see your paywalls, I am enraged at how you ripped me off and just dropped me during the pandemic time. I loved Tamara Leavett’s meditations, and would like to return. Please honor the lifetime subscription I paid for several years ago. And no, I never found any “receipt”—but you did take the money from my credit card, so please honor your promise of a lifetime subscription.
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Calm was a life savernumberonepeanuton2025-04-06 I have been a subscriber to Calm almost since its beginning.
After my husband’s death, I found myself struggling with falling asleep. I recalled that some of the best sleep I ever had was when I stayed with my grandmother back in the 60s and she would read me to sleep. I thought it would be incredibly helpful. If there was some app that could read me a story and found Calm. When I first signed up there were very few stories, That’s how long ago I signed up. But that did not matter. Just the sound of a soothing voice, barely perceptible, quietly reading me to sleep was just what I needed.
And now my most favorite thing to listen to at night is calm cathedral. My husband is buried in the Washington National Cathedral. My husband and I attended Tenebrae services and it is a beautiful memory so thank you. Calm has been there for me through some of the hardest times of my life and I’m so grateful that you have been there.
When I first downloaded the app, there were several sleep stories that I were free and were on constant rotation as I fell asleep. Then they changed their pay structure to no longer offer some of the stories free but offer a free trial.
One sleepless night, I was desperate for my nightly store so I signed for the trial with the intent to cancel before the trial period ended. But I forgot and got charged.
So I just sucked it up and really started to listen to many of the items available. So many more sleep stories, the meditations, etc. Fast forward to a night where the AD/HD was in full force so I decided to see if there was anything for focus and came across a mix from a Ministry of Sound DJ and I am absolutely hooked! I really was able to kick it into a productive mode. Having this alone is worth the annual subscription cost.
Do yourself a favor and invest in yourself!
Stupid expensivegirl is on a beachon2025-04-08 I heard about this app from a friend and I thought I would give it a try cause I have trouble falling asleep. So I got the app thinking most of the stories and sounds would be free, I clicked the app it asked me a few questions which I answered and then it asked me if I wanted to sign up for a year at the cost of $203! A year! I obviously clicked out of that and scrolled down to the stories, you have to pay to listen to them! Might as well just listen to an audio book on YouTube. That was a bust so I looked for the sounds only one sound was available and the rest you have to pay for. Everything else on the app you have to pay for except for that one sound. That sound is garden rain now don’t get me wrong this sound was calming, you have to better than this.
I freaking love calm, I’ve had sleeping problems since the beginning of time and one night I was staying in Florida with my grandparents and. I couldn’t sleep and my dad gave me his phone and air pods and said, “here try this” and I slept like a BABY! That was 4 years ago and I’ve been using Calm ever since every night and when I can’t have my Calm if my iPad is dead or something, I’m so mad I like Calm because it helps me sleep and I love it because I like the seeing all of the new podcasts and I have like a favourite narrator and stuff it’s very fun and it’s calming and daily. Calm is nice daily. Jay is really nice really really calm. You need to try it.
My honest review as a TeenStrayKids#1STAY-skzon2025-04-06 This app is named “Calm”, but it actually stresses me out 😒. Let me explain, first of all the app does have many good features/choices 🤓 but most of it costs money. 💵 It isn’t “calming” that most of it isn’t 🆓. I know if I want the best experience I have to PAY 🤑for a Subscription/Membership but let me be honest here… Isn’t this app supposed to be “calming” 🤨 for people like, Come On! 🙄 May there be ONE ☝️ app where people don’t have to PAY to be “Calm”? 😐 In conclusion, this app IS great 👍🏼 for people with MONEY but for people who don’t, (Like me for example 😭💀) it’s frustrating. 😩 [P.s Btw I’m 15 ALMOST 16 in 61 days! (LOL! 😜)]
Needs a loop optioncaptain zara meisteron2025-04-05 Excellent for sending me back to sleep but I always wake at the end of the story. Need a loop option. Also I would like to choose to have no silence at the end of the track. And would like to be able to choose no music on the stories. And would like the audio level to be the same across all the stories, and to be the same level in an individual story.
This is because I wake up when a story finishes and becomes silent, and also find the higher audio level at the start of the story also pings me awake when a second story starts. Needing a constant and consistent audio level.
I was gifted a 30 day ‘free trial’ which is a total scam. I checked out the app and didn’t want to continue and barely used it. They hide everything in the small print when you accept your gift, they will send no notifications letting you know that the trial is ending and you will automatically be charged 70$ for a year of it. I filed complaints for a refund to no avail. It’s just bad business practice to fleece people for money. Do not accept any ‘gift’ free trial and shame on these people for the lack of transparency. Do not use.
I love listening to sleep stories Certain voices are soothing to me. When I find a sleep story I like, I keep listening to it until, I eventually hear the end of it, if I don’t fall asleep before the end. And/or I look for more sleep stories narrated by the same reader. There are so many to choose from and new ones are being loaded all the time. I also enjoy the Daily Jay, for short meditations during the day. There are also many other features I have not yet explored. I highly recommend Calm!
Audio & Playback IssuePaTtYoFuRnItUrE25on2025-04-09 An amazing self-care app through and through that has progressively gotten better throughout the years!
The largest issue for me is that I have issues with the audio and play button after pausing a Daily Calm audio. Essentially, after an audio gets paused, it will make me restart the audio from the beginning. Interestingly, after this happens, I can’t access the background audio (often times they are nature sounds) that play while the speaker is talking.