Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline
guruka.comThat is cool that it works offline. I will not use it because I don't like the voices. The free meditation app I would recommend is the Healthy Minds program[1]. I have also seen Medito recommended, but the thing that I like about the HM Program is that it is a very straight curriculum, instead of various options scattered as options.
HM looks great, but looks like they collect lot of personal data.
From their privacy policy:
The personal information we collect may include:
Name User name Email address Gender Birthday (month/year) Ethnicity Relationship Status Number of Family Members/Children/Children under 13 Experience with Meditation User generated content We may collect other information that does not reveal your specific identity, such as:
IP Address or other unique device identifier Information collected through cookies, pixel tags or other technologies App usage data Geo-location information User generated content Device generated data
Ditto on the voices. Male voice sounds like a tin robot and it's distracting.
This is great! I've been using Headspace, but recently I get a Duolingo vibe of it. It's still good, but Healthy Minds is in other league. Thank you!
Does anyone ever worry about prompt injection attacks against yourself in these?
When I was into hypnosis and NLP between one and two decades ago, I used to worry about what the instructions were once I was hypnotized. I lacked the terminology then but there days we would call these prompt injections, just against the human brain.
I guess social engineering is another form, although that's probably more akin to a CSRF or flawed auth logic exploit.
Title should say "meditations" — app is not for actual dispute resolution (well, not directly).
Medito is good Open Source alternative as well. https://meditofoundation.org/
I really like this. I tried korean language and the voice was bit off though. good work!
thank you for feedback! will think how to improve
Offline support is underrated for meditation apps — network interruptions mid-session are the opposite of calming
It’s obviously the unguided section where you sit with whatever emotions the disruption brings up for you!
These are audio recordings right? Could they just say so?
adding text to speech is a great idea, thank you!