Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation & Mindfulness
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Free mindfulness app meditation practices by Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh
- Rating
- 5.0
- 9.4K ratings
- Downloads
- 426K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 23
- 2026 · v6.0.0
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About Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation & Mindfulness
Use mindfulness meditation techniques taught by a renowned Zen Buddhist Master to connect deeply with the present moment, soothe anxiety, experience more joy and happiness, and taste enlightenment.
Explore a wealth of easy-to-use guided meditations, relaxations, and talks.
The Plum Village app enables us to bring mindfulness into our life, so we can live each moment more deeply and create a happier future.
As Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh says, mindfulness allows us to be truly alive.
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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Features
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• Free forever with no ads or in-app purchases
• 50+ guided meditations
• 10+ mindful practices for daily use
• 300+ video sessions and Q&A with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
• A “Mindfulness Bell” to incorporate into our daily routine
• 10 guided contemplations
• 6 guided meditations for children
• “Favourite” your most loved meditations to find them easily
• Download talks and meditation to app for easy offline practice
The Plum Village app is regularly being updated with new guided meditations and talks. It is completely free to download and all of the content is available for free.
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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Categories
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The Plum Village app is split into four easy-to-use categories – meditations, talks, resources, and bells of mindfulness:
Meditations
Meditation is a deep practice that helps us generate peace and calm, master our mind, develop a healthy headspace, and get deep insights into ourselves and the world around us.
Meditations include deep relaxations, guided contemplations, silent meditations, and eating meditations. Whether you have a little time or a lot, and whether you want to be on your cushion or applying mindfulness in your daily life, there are meditations to nourish, inspire, and incorporate into your daily routine.
Talks
Listen and learn from the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: in question-and-response format, or full-length teachings.
Ask Thay includes hundreds of real-life questions asked to the Zen Master, like “How can we let go of anger? and “How can I stop worrying?” His answers are compassionate and infused with insight.
Dharma Talks are teachings given by Thich Nhat Hanh on how to bring Buddhist wisdom and mindfulness into our life. Rather than discussing theoretical concepts, he focuses on direct and clear teachings to relieve suffering and create happiness in our day to day lives. Topics include depression, PTSD, relationships, sexual abuse, fear, and dealing with strong emotions.
Resources
In Resources you can find a library of daily practices, chants, poems, and songs. These bring to life the practices taught in Plum Village monasteries around the world and offer ways to bring mindfulness into our world, wherever we are.
Bell of Mindfulness
In Plum Village monasteries bells of mindfulness chime at regular intervals. Everybody stops and takes three mindful breaths to pause from their thinking or talking, breathe, and return to their bodies. The Bell of Mindfulness allows us to have the same reminder on our phone.
We can customize the bell to chime at different time periods. Settings include:
• Start time / End time
• Chime intervals
• Bell volume
• Daily repeating schedule
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Why not give the Plum Village app a try and see how you can benefit from it? The app is a digital companion on your mindfulness journey. Created as a gift to the world, this free app contains invaluable resources to guide you towards inner peace and freedom.
Download today for free!
What’s new
Version 6.0.0 · Updated September 23, 2026
- A fresh new look, with a redesigned Home screen and item lists - Faster startup and content loading, with smoother browsing and search. The app now only downloads content for the languages you've enabled, using less data and storage on your device - Bell of Mindfulness now rings reliably on the newest Android versions, and a new "In silent mode" setting gives you more control over how the bell behaves when your phone is silenced - Accessibility improvements and bug fixes
User reviews
This is a truly wonderful resource. Thank you to both Plum Village and the developers for making this available.
A wonderful, beautifully designed app from the community created by Thay. It has perfect guided meditations by Thich Nhat Hanh, with almost entirely silence but every once in a while theres a bell and Thay reminds you of mantras. A great and truly wonderful app that I recommend to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Love this app and teachings
This is exactly the what Thay would want for us, pure and gentle, non-intrusive yet mindful and peace with every breath. It is very easy to use and very very helpful.
So pretty!!!
Wonderful app with deep insights from our Thay! 🙂
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