Oak - Meditation & Breathing

• Course: Mantra Meditation — $0.00

Last verified 5 Sep 2026

4.8 31648 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Near perfect meditation app

   I have tried numerous medication apps, but I wasn’t happy with any of them. For the first time I can see I am truly enjoying a mediation app (and I will admit, the fact that there are no “pro” “premium” or subscriptions is partly why I enjoy it; I never liked the idea of profiting off of mediation, it seems ingenuine to me). The app is super clean with a beautiful design. However, from my initial experience, here are two things I would tweak: 1. The guiding voice is significantly louder than the background noise. I wish there was a way to control the balance between these two. I don’t like the guiding voice to be too loud, but when I adjust the voice volume to my liking the background sound is almost inaudible. 2. For the breathing exercise, I wish there was an option for an audio guide as well. Just like while meditation, while breathing I prefer to not stare at my screen, but currently there is no way for me to follow the breathing exercises without having my eyes glued to the screen, I hope this will change. Overall, this is an excellent mediation app, and I hope it remains clean and bloat free, with non of the “premium” features that are constantly being pushed with similar mediation apps. Thanks for making the world a better place.

   Shaloha91 · 5 Sep 2026

2. 5/5Mind Blown Away

   I absolutely love this app. There is no subscription that you have to buy to use it. There is an in app purchase but that’s besides my point. I absolutely would recommend this app. Whenever I’ve had a stressful day I can always count on this awesome app to help. Waking up early? No problem! The sleeping section helps with that. Can’t focus? The breathing section helps with that! Just want to be guided on meditation without having to tap your screen to make sure it’s on? The meditation section helps with that! Here’s a quick story: when I first found this app and saw that you could have rain playing for 55 minutes with you phone off, I had to recommend it to my mom. She loves sleep and falling asleep to rain. It was the best to her! Another thing: Since it’s Pride Month I’ll share this. The meditation section REALLY helped me accept my sexuality and gender identification since I was struggling with that and coming to terms with who I was. I was a little ehh about it but doing the I think acceptance breathing meditation course, for a while really helped me come to terms. Have I proven my point that this is a freakin amazing app yet? Still not convinced? Try it out, see how you like it.

   COWMSNDJAMX · 5 Sep 2026

3. 5/5Perfect

   I cannot recommend this app highly enough. It is a gorgeous and highly accessible app- it has a few different types of meditations, some guided breathing techniques, and some night techniques. All are completely free and without any ads whatsoever. Even the app in-depth courses on different meditation techniques are free. The things I really appreciate about this app are 1. How much flexibility there is in meditation settings- there are light and dark options for the screen, you can choose a background noise effect (but don’t have to have one at all), can adjust speaker volume and background volume separately, and can adjust the length of meditation. It’s so simple and effective. 2. I love the loving kindness meditation. I have tried other guided loving kindness meditation routines and a lot involve visualisation techniques that end up distracting me personally. This one is the best- it’s so beautiful and peaceful and is so easy to follow. Truly a treasure and such an effective way to cultivate feelings of tenderness and compassion. I couldn’t fault this app if I tried, it’s my absolute favourite. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

   EmiliaThompson · 5 Sep 2026

4. 5/5Great app. One suggestion

   It’s everything you’d want from a subscription app but without the subscription. Simple to use, soothing backgrounds, and plenty of options. May I offer one suggestion? I like to turn off the chimes on the unguided meditations because they startle me — even the quietest options. (That’s a me thing, not the app.) It would be nice if I could use the background sounds to keep track of the time instead, but without an ending chime, the sound just keeps going. There’s no way to tell how long I’ve been meditating unless I stop to pick up my phone, and wondering whether or not I’m going over time distracts me. Would it be possible to have the background sounds just stop when the time is up? Then I wouldn’t have to be startled at the end of each meditation, but I also wouldn’t risk being late because I accidentally spent 20 minutes meditating instead of 10. :) Otherwise, though, it’s a fantastic app. I like that I have meditation options, deep breathing exercises, and sleep sounds all in one place.

   SuddenlySeymour · 5 Sep 2026

5. 5/5LOVE this app

   I love how simple it is, love that it doesn’t require any subscription nor payments, even tho right now I would be willing to do a payment, (just for Oak in particular), love the badges, I’m not sure if those come with benefits or not but that’d be excellent, love how it counts time as well as frequency of the sessions, love the updates Im really looking forward to more meditations and courses. Developers: I believe that 5.99 for the mantra course is a little bit to much for only that course I mean, are there any other benefits coming soon if I do the payment? I personally believe it’s to much for just one course. Also I’d love if you could add more flexibility with the volumes for voice and background; as well as the breathing techniques not necessarily requiring to see the screen; It would be great to have some type of animation or image of adequate positions for each meditation before starting the meditation itself; for example the loving kindness before beginning, displaying some demonstrations of a position with hands on the heart or just specifying where the heart is and an adequate position to place the hands, something like that would be very helpful. Keep up the great work! You’re really making a difference and making meditation so dynamic, the fact that now smartphones got involved as a tool is wonderful! thank you so very much. Overall I’m very grateful and in love with this amazing app, community that goes along with it as well, if you haven’t downloaded OAK, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to.

   valevig · 5 Sep 2026

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