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Buddhify is a simple, practical, and easy to use mobile phone application that teaches you mindfulness-based meditation on the go. It’s available on both the Apple iOS platform as well as Android. It’s designed to help in maintaining mindfulness when you live in a busy urban lifestyle. Buddhify works equally well for those with experience meditating as it does for someone who’s never meditated a day in their life. 

Buddhify is not Buddhist exclusive

Is Buddhify worth it?

Right… we’re discussing a mobile app so let’s hit the pros, cons, and cost. Buddhify is available for Android via the for $2.49, and for iOS in the for $2.99. You may wonder why it’s less expensive on Android. The answer is probably the simple fact that Apple takes a larger cut of the sale than Google does. Even at $2.49 Buddhify is on the expensive end for most Android applications. For comparison, Insight Timer is $1.99 in the Android market. Let’s be real though, if you have a $500+ smart phone and have an interest in meditation, $3.00 isn’t that much. While the app might appear a bit sparse it contains 32 different meditation tracks… so compare that to the average price of a CD and it’s quite the deal.

Buddhify’s biggest draw might be for those who have never meditated a day in their life. It’s simple, straightforward, and built for life a modern world. The interface is clean and gives it a game-like feel by letting you track how much you’ve completed, how often you’ve used it, and in which scenarios (work, exercise, etc) you used it most. The voice leading you on the guided meditations in Buddhify is pleasant and easy to follow. The idea was created by Rohan Gunatillake who is a long-term meditator with a professional background as digital consultant. In short, Buddhify was developed by someone who understands technology, lives an urban lifestyle, and has been practicing meditation for a long time – so you’re in good hands. Another interesting feature of Buddhify is two-player mode. Again, if you’re not familiar with meditation your mind might immediately envision meditation as a solo activity. Happily, that’s not the case (I’ve meditated with others many times) and Buddhify has theability to allow two people to practice and experience the benefits together.

Buddhify isn’t perfect. My biggest gripe about Buddhify (please note that I have an Android so I cannot comment if the same holds true on the iOS platform) is that it doesn’t disable notifications on your phone while in use. You might argue that a notification going off might be something to use during the meditation, “stay present dude!”, but really the app should disable audio for you during the period the meditation is running. In addition to that, the screen doesn’t go off while using Buddhify. Since the screen being on is the biggest vampire on your phone’s battery this should be addressed. When you’re not interacting with the application, in other words while you’re meditating, there’s no reason for the display to be on. The last two are technical issues that I’m sure could be easily worked out in future releases.

In short, I find Buddhify to be a great app for someone who’s on the go and could use a convenient, simple way to take a time-out during their day for themselves.

Are their alternatives to Buddhify?

Buddhify’s approach is unique; and I haven’t really seen anything quite like it. If the idea of Buddhify’s approach is appealing to you then you can’t go wrong. Of course there are many other ways you could practice meditation; the easiest being to simply  (if you follow that link you’ll find a book on meditation that is written by a former punk rocker; it’s a great read). Simply doing a Google search for will turn up oodles of results as well.

More info/Additional resources:

If you like the idea of Buddhify but don’t think you know enough about meditation below are some links that might clear it up for you. Just so you know though… meditation requires very little “understanding” of meditation to do. In fact, sometimes the more you know, the more you attach to a particular notion of “the right way to do it”. Don’t let any of that dissuade you though; experienced or not meditation provides a ton of benefits.

• Lifehacker’s ““
• Buddhify’s own ““
• Insight Meditation Center’s “” podcasts
• HeadSpace –
• and perhaps my favorite for introducing someone to Mindfulness Meditation is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s ““.

Get Buddhify:

• Buddhify’s
• Buddhify for Android available via
• Buddify for iOS available via