Built by a dutch non-profit, Medito is a meditation app that is completely free without ads, supported by donations from the community. The new update brought a completely new interface and new content.
The source code is on GitHub and the app is available for iOS and Android. Sadly the F-Droid version didn’t receive the update yet.
I’m not affiliated with Medito, just a meditator who has used Medito for 3 years now. It helped me a lot, and maybe it can help some of you too. Have a nice day.
YSK that this is not an advertising community
More on why the update is not on F-Droid yet here: https://github.com/meditohq/medito-app/issues/195#issuecomment-1790255585
Version 3.0 introduces a hard dependency on Google Play Services due to the app refusing to load any content if Firebase Cloud Messaging is unavailable. This regression (#581) will need to be addressed before Medito can be released on F-Droid
Breathe in… Good… Now please enable location access in settings, and be sure to – exhale – enable background data access… Feel better?
Seems there’s still some work to do to remove tracking and Google notification services. When it’s on F-Droid, maybe more folks will try it.
That was actually quite funny 😅
But >> The app only uses 4 permissions and has no trackers built in either. The permissions used are:
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STAT
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- INTERNET
- WAKE_LOCK
Can check for yourself here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/meditofoundation.medito/latest/#permissions
So is this just a community for ads now?
Im getting some old and out of touch energy. But man a meditation app sounds contradictory
I can’t meditate without direction yet. I need the app ( I don’t use this one, but I will when my free year runs out ) to keep me focused while I learn how to meditate. It seemed contradictory to me at first ,too, until I tried it for myself.
Guided meditation is by far the best way to start and is always relevant. At some point an app might not cut it much more, and a meditation teacher will always beat an app, but an app beats nothing, at least for begginers.
