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Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline
- ProllyInfamous 5mo agoTitle should say "meditations" — app is not for actual dispute resolution (well, not directly).
- rubbsdecvik 5mo agoMedito is good Open Source alternative as well. https://meditofoundation.org/ https://meditofoundation.org/
- Cider9986 5mo agoThat 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. [1]https://www.humin.org/wellbeing-tools/app https://www.humin.org/wellbeing-tools/app
- SockThief 5mo agoThis 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!
- Cider9986 5mo agoI'm glad you like it! It's been wonderful for me as well. The creators recently released a book called Born to Flourish[1]—if you're interested, I can share the eBook and/or Audiobook. [1] https://www.humin.org/wellbeing-tools/books/born-to-flourish https://www.humin.org/wellbeing-tools/books/born-to-flourish
- SockThief 5mo agoI'd love to get the audio book if it's not too much trouble Edit: I'll send you an email
- eummm 5mo agoHM 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
- Cider9986 5mo agoI agree, I wish they took privacy more seriously, as more software should. Looking at it optimistically, they don't sell or share with data brokers/advertisers, you can block the offensive connections with a firewall, and the app doesn't ask for any information that is particularly sensitive. Additionally, they use data people choose to share to improve the scientific understanding of meditation and mindfulness. I am someone that values privacy, but I don't find it egregious to use this app.
- high_pathetic 5mo agoDitto on the voices. Male voice sounds like a tin robot and it's distracting.
- summer11123 5mo ago[dead]
- throwaway81523 5mo agoThese are audio recordings right? Could they just say so?
- eummm 5mo agoadding text to speech is a great idea, thank you!
- midnightn 5mo agoOffline support is underrated for meditation apps — network interruptions mid-session are the opposite of calming
- 47282847 5mo agoIt’s obviously the unguided section where you sit with whatever emotions the disruption brings up for you!
- underduck 5mo agoI really like this. I tried korean language and the voice was bit off though. good work!
- eummm 5mo agothank you for feedback! will think how to improve
- snthpy 5mo agoDoes 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.
- BillionSatsPage 5mo agoSeems like the voices are text to speech? You could have an option to change the voice type as well as regenerate different scripts with a simple llm.