Calm
Meditation and sleep app with guided sessions, sleep stories and soundscapes
Guided meditations, breathing exercises, bedtime stories and all-night soundscapes such as rain, sold as a subscription. Most people open it for one of two reasons: a ten-minute daily sit, or a steady sound to fall asleep to in a hotel room. Its Train Your Mind series has an NBA player talking through emotions, sleep and pressure in ten-minute pieces. The free tier is thin; the annual plan is the real price.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- LeBron JamesDoes it
Basketball player · NBA all-time leading scorer
The sleep app he named on the Ferriss show, where he picks the rain on leaves soundscape to play on his phone through the night. In December 2019 Calm announced a multi-year partnership with him that includes original audio content from him, which is the disclosed sponsorship flagged here.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #349 transcript: LeBron James and Mike Mancias“It’s an app called Calm actually, that I use. Yeah. And I’m the guy who picks rain on leaves. That’s what goes on on my phone throughout the night.”
The Tim Ferriss Show #349 transcript: LeBron James and Mike Mancias (opens in a new tab) · 30 Nov 2018
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