Featured · Monday
A morning that doesn't start in the inbox
Andy
9 min · Morning
Stress less
All with Mindfulbay
- 100+ meditations and sleep stories
- Personalised AI guide, Kalm
- Live guided breathing, 10 patterns
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Today's meditation
Managing morning anxiety
Andy · 10 min
Sleep tonight
River of stars
Sleep story · 42 min
Focus session
Deep work, ninety minutes
Soundscape · 90 min
Six minutes a day·Slow software·No trackers, no streaks·Practice, not performance·On-device audio·Made for humans·Breathe in. Breathe out.·An indie studio·Six minutes a day·Slow software·No trackers, no streaks·Practice, not performance·On-device audio·Made for humans·Breathe in. Breathe out.·An indie studio·
Your AI guideTell Kalm how it feels.
Tell Kalm how it feels.
It knows what helps.
Racing head at midnight, pre-meeting nerves, the 3 p.m. slump — describe it in your own words and Kalm answers like a coach, then hands you the exact session for it. No forms, no scores. Just a conversation.
- Understands what you mean, not just what you type
- Recommends real sessions from the library, inline
- Private by design — conversations aren't stored
Kalm
Your meditation guide
I can't switch off. Big day tomorrow.
That before-the-big-day hum is real. Let's turn the volume down first — two minutes of long-exhale breathing.
Okay. Then what?
Then I'll queue Evening — a body scan that releases the day. Most people are asleep before it ends.
Suggested session
Evening · body scan · 12 min
Breathwork, guided liveFour seconds in.
Four seconds in.
Four seconds out.
This is the actual guide, breathing right now. Ten patterns — box, 4-7-8, coherent, long exhale and more — drawn live on screen so your body can follow without counting.
- Ten patterns across calm, sleep, focus and energize
- One-tap session lengths from one to ten minutes
- Optional ambient sound underneath
Everything you need
to feel a little better.
Meditation has been flattened by the apps that promised to teach it. Mindfulbay puts the practice back in the centre — and the gimmicks in the bin.
100+ guided meditations
Stress, anxiety, focus, grief, walks to the bus stop. Sessions for every minute of every day.
Sleep stories, softly told
Drift off to forty-minute soundscapes written by poets and narrated by actors who understand pace.
Focus, on tap
Binaural ambient and pink-noise palettes engineered with neuroscientists for long, easy attention.
How it works
Three steps. The third is closing the app.
Most apps try to keep you inside them. We try to send you back into your day, lighter than when you opened us.
01
Tell us how today feels
A two-tap mood check. Tired, wired, fine. We don't need a journal entry — we just use it to choose the right session.
02
Get one session, made for now
Six to twenty minutes. Always a real teacher, never a generated voice. Always a transcript if you'd rather read.
03
Close the app and live
No streak guilt at 9pm. No badges. Come back when the next moment asks for it. The practice belongs to you, not the app.
What kind of wellness are you looking for?
This weekHand-picked,
See the full libraryHand-picked,
not algorithmic.
A small editorial team chooses three meditations and one sleep story every week. No machine-learning roulette.
Featured · Wednesday
Loving-kindness for the difficult conversation
Mira
14 min · Heart
Featured · Friday
Closing the week without taking it home
Kenji
11 min · Evening
Sleep · This week
Cabin in the pines
Read by Inês
35 min · Sleep story
Sleep storiesDrift off in under
Drift off in under
ten minutes.
Sleep Stories written by poets, narrated by actors who understand pace. Forty-minute soundscapes that breathe — no jarring resets, no auto-play queue jumping you into a true-crime podcast at 2am.
Independent researchThe wellness category lies a lot.
The wellness category lies a lot.
We'd rather show our work.
We have not run a clinical trial on Mindfulbay, and we're not going to imply otherwise. What we can point you to is the independent, peer-reviewed research on meditation itself — including the parts where the effect was modest. Read it and judge for yourself.
47
randomised trials in the 2014 JAMA review
3,515
participants across those trials
18,753
citations screened to find them
49
adults in the 2015 JAMA sleep trial
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014
Meta-analysis · n=3,515Goyal et al. screened 18,753 citations and reviewed 47 randomised trials covering 3,515 participants. They concluded that meditation programmes can produce small to moderate reductions across multiple dimensions of psychological stress.
Read the paperJAMA Internal Medicine, 2015
Randomised trial · n=49Black et al. randomised 49 older adults with moderate sleep disturbance to six weeks of mindful awareness practice or sleep-hygiene education. The mindfulness group improved more on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
Read the paperHow we work
Four principles, pinned above the studio door.
01
Practice, not performance
We hide streaks if you want them hidden. We will never shame you back into the app.
02
Slow software
We ship less, more carefully. No dark patterns, no growth hacks. The interface stays out of the way.
03
Privacy as a feature
On-device audio analysis. No tracking pixels. No selling data — not even the polite kind.
04
Evidence-led
We build on independent, peer-reviewed research on meditation — and we link it in full, including the results that were modest.
Loved by 8M+ practitionersReal voices,
Real voices,
real quiet.
“I've tried every meditation app. Mindfulbay is the only one that feels like it was built by adults.”
“Falling asleep used to take an hour. Now it takes one Sleep Story. My doctor noticed before I did.”
“Focus sessions saved my dissertation. Two hours a day, recovered.”
The Quiet LetterA weekly note,
A weekly note,
no app required.
One short essay every Sunday morning on attention, sleep, and the strange business of being a person. From the writers behind the studio.
- One letter a week, on Sundays
- Written by humans, not LLMs
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Begin tomorrow,
breathing easier.
The whole studio is open to members. Six minutes a day to undo today — sign in and start whenever you're ready.