UCLA Mindful

4.4
220 reviews
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About this app

With this easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. The app includes meditations in multiple languages. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, and cultivate positive emotions.

Mindfulness is paying attention to our present moment experiences with openness and curiosity and a willingness to be with our experience. Through regular practice, taught through this app, you can develop a meditation practice and learn to bring more mindfulness into your daily life.

This app offers:

• Basic Meditations for getting started, in English and multiple languages.

Languages include Armenian, Cantonese, Farsi, Filipino, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mixteco, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language

• Wellness Meditations for people suffering from challenging health conditions

• Informative videos exploring how to get started, supportive meditation postures, and the science of mindfulness

• Weekly podcasts from UCLA's Hammer Museum and other drop-in meditation sessions-- a 30-minute meditation on different themes you can search for and bookmark

• A timer to meditate on your own


The Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), is an educational and research center dedicated to fostering mindful awareness practices to promote health, well-being, and a compassionate society. It is located at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Due to MARC's mission of radical accessibility of mindfulness practices, this app is entirely free to the user.


Disclaimer: These meditations are for educational purposes and are not clinical treatments.
Updated on
Mar 14, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
206 reviews
A Google user
November 9, 2019
I'll try to reinstall, but at the moment, either the meditation downloads are unsuccessful or they skip and repeat like a broken record. UPDATE: I've downloaded the latest version which was supposed to have fixed this bug, but no luck! It's like listening to Max Headroom ( showing my age). UPDATE: 11/9/2019 version; Most of the skipping audio is gone, but not entirely. Podcasts still skipped several times in the first minute or so, maybe a buffering problem?
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UCLA Health
November 7, 2019
Our technical team has solved this problem. Please update your app to the latest version. If you have other problems, please contact us at https://support.uclahealth.org/.
Magnus W
May 18, 2022
I like the simplicity and non-commercialisation of this app. It has what I was looking for - some good guided meditations and it's not bloated with stuff and popping up "upgrade to premium to unlock this and that" like most commercial mindfulness apps. The UI might look boring and a bit dated, but that's actually a good thing as it focuses on the core functionality instead of whistles and bells. The only thing I could wish for is more meditations, but for a beginner this is perfect.
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Bruce Butterworth
March 31, 2024
Two related questions: I"m going to be on a remote island in Indonesia where internet is spotty - can the meditations be downloaded so that no connection is needed to listen to them? Please advise soonest. Again, I will be where there is no internet. The environment is wonderfully peaceful but I still have some physical pain I need to deal with in a shoulder. Thanks
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What's new

This added the playback loop feature.