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Meditation app development needs specific expertise, tools, and technology that may not be available to your in-house team.
We bring our years of experience, specialized knowledge, collaborative approach, and commitment to quality to every project.
When building a meditation app, you must ensure the security and privacy of the sensitive data of your mobile app users.
Our professional developers build mindfulness apps with encryption techniques to protect data from unauthorized access.
Meditation app development requires compliance with regulations, and mitigating legal risks can be challenging.
We have certified and qualified professionals, well-versed in CCPA, GDPR, and other regulations to provide transparency and compliance.
Why Custom Meditation App Development?
Meditation App Development Solutions
To improve user engagement and deliver the best meditation experience, we build solutions that have aesthetically pleasing visuals, soothing sleep stories, pleasant music, and more.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Anxiety & Mood Control
Online Counseling & Therapy
Self-improvement
Mental Health Disorders
Meditation and mindfulness apps have become popular with the growth of mental health awareness. It’s the perfect time to make a move.
We can help you develop a custom-made meditation app with necessary and advanced features for users seeking relaxation and mindfulness.
Mood control apps are popular among regular users and therapists, who recommend their clients track their daily emotions and moods.
Our professional developers can integrate features that allow users to log and track their symptom severity and mood changes over time.
If you’re not offering your clients remote services, you might be doing something wrong. Online counseling is almost a necessity today.
That’s why we offer you a custom-made online therapy app development with built-in video and text chat features, charts, and more.
We know how to make self-improvement a lot more fun for your users and how to keep them engaged with your content and services.
We create immersive and enjoyable user experiences with gamified tools, community options, educational content, development trackers, and more.
Professional therapists and counselors often suggest using mental health disorder tracking and management apps for their clients.
Developing such apps requires a professional touch and compliance with regulations, which our experienced team can guarantee.
Why to Choose Us for Meditation App Development?
Must-have Meditation App Features We Create
We’d love to hear about your app idea and draft the list of requested features. Before we do that, scroll through our recommended features your mindfulness app will benefit from.
The content library feature allows your users to choose and shape their meditation experiences with mindfulness exercises, breathing techniques, challenges, and so on.
This feature allows higher user engagement. By providing access to valuable material, we create a safe, educational space for your customers that they come back to.
This feature allows your users to create video and audio recordings to view for later. They can bookmark favorite recordings, create playlists, and access them offline.
We can help you integrate this feature into your mindfulness app seamlessly. You’ll be offering a great user experience and access to relevant materials.
Mental health apps and meditation apps often have self-development tools. These include CBT exercises, journaling, gratitude practices, stress management, etc.
We recommend adding this feature to improve user engagement and captivate customers with appealing gamified functionalities and personalized experiences.
Self-monitoring has become one of the most popular ways to track your mental health and mood development. You can incorporate charts, graphs, and more in your app.
This feature helps deliver essential data to your users, allowing them to visually perceive their progress, make forecasts, deliver information to their therapists, and more.
This feature allows you to deliver remote therapy and consultation services. Users can easily schedule video sessions or chat with their providers in your app.
We ensure that our mental health apps adhere to all necessary regulations to protect your user data and privacy so they can text and call without worry.
Third-party APIs allow your users to access your mindfulness app on various devices like wearable watches, fitness platforms, and so on, making your services more available.
We can build a meditation app for you that is perfectly integrated with third-party APIs, allowing users to track their data real time, personalize their experiences, and more.
The meditation app development process usually includes implementing push notifications. An app without notifications won’t be able to grow user engagement and interaction.
We can help you integrate intelligent targeting and scheduling to personalize your push notifications, offer relatable and relevant services, and engage users.
Many apps have subscription and membership offers for their users. This feature guarantees continuous engagement and loyalty, effective payment gateways, etc.
With this feature, we can also build analytics and reporting tools, helping you gain insights into subscriber behavior, preferences, retention rates, and more.
Your app may have more than one type of audience, so it’s essential to create a dashboard for therapists, providers, and doctors to monitor their user progress.
This will reduce the administrative work your staff performs and allow them to check in with their patients, maintain communication, and provide help.
Our Certifications
We’ve been developing meditation apps for more than 14+ years, delivering high-quality and immersive experiences for all our clients. We achieve this with our commitment to user-friendly approaches, regular training, and alignment with industry regulations.
- Industry-wide standards, including HIPAA, HL7&FHIR, and GDPR,
- ISO 9001 certification for Quality Management
- ISO 13485 certification for Quality Management of Medical Devices
- ISO 27001 certification for Information Security Management System.
Why Delegate Your Meditation Application Development to Us?
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Explore
This stage involves research, studies, questionnaires, and materials analysis to learn about audience pain points, opportunities, and possibilities of your solution.
Craft Solution
Once we know what your audience needs, we create a meditation app design, draft the development strategy, choose the tech stack, and finalize the details.
App Prototype
We recommend that our clients create app prototypes. This helps us gather information from end users and give you an immediate look into your future app.
Build and Test
Once we’re sure our prototype does the job well, we start building your app, adding necessary and advanced features, integrating third-party APIs, and more.
Execution
Once the rigorous testing shows the app is successful and error-free, we launch it and monitor everything to analyze user behavior and app performance.
Ongoing Assistance
Our collaboration doesn’t end with the app launch. We provide ongoing assistance and maintenance to ensure the app is effective, make changes if needed, and meet regulatory standards.
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About usGlorium Technologies is a full-cycle app & software development company which covers specific client business needs and manage them with the help of the best possible technology solutions.
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Meditation App Development: from Concept to Launch
Meditation isn’t new, but meditation apps are a recent innovation. They are extremely popular among general audiences, Western audiences, and healthcare providers. Why not? They’re convenient, easy to access, user-friendly, and have several services and recommendations (guided meditations, sleep stories, progress tracking, etc.).
According to Statista, the Meditation app market will reach $5.11 billion by the end of 2024 and $7 billion by 2029. We can safely say that this growth of relaxation meditation apps has been influenced by the stress levels in modern society, the desire for accessible self-care solutions, the rise of remote healthcare services, etc.
The meditation app industry is growing fast, and this has caused companies and developers to jump into the game and introduce their own meditation app. The market is full, but not all apps are created equal. There’s still a chance and opportunity to build a unique and helpful app. We prepared this guide so you can go through the necessary steps and elements of meditation application development.
Top Players of the Meditation App Market
Several main companies dominate the industry. These apps have become examples of how a mindfulness meditation app should perform and have gained immense popularity. We recommend reviewing these key players to understand what makes a successful meditation app:
- Calm: We’re sure you’ve seen at least one ad for the Calm app. This application is famous for its’ bedtime stories narrated by celebrities. Besides this amazing feature, it also has a user-friendly interface and keeps users coming back for more.
- Headspace: If you want to build a meditation app like Headspace, you’ll need to integrate playful animations and guided meditations.
- Insight Timer: This app has the largest library of free resources and guided meditations.
- Breathe: Breathe is a mindfulness app that helps users find their comfortable and suitable daily routines and stick to them.
- Buddhify: As the name suggests, this is also a mindfulness app. What’s unique about this app is its functional suggestion and recommendation system and wheel interface.
We also recommend your app development team overview these and other meditation apps that dominate the industry to learn about their interface, functionality, and what drives users to their services.
How to Create a Meditation App in 6 Steps
Now, onto the main subject of our guide – how to create a mindfulness app. Let’s be clear: the meditation mobile app development process is complex. Such apps require expert knowledge. That’s why we’re always careful when recommending the exact steps of the development, but we are glad to share how our process goes and how you can prepare for the development.
Here are six steps, broken down by our professionals who work on meditation application development:
What sets your app apart from the competition?
You might be worried about the tech stack, your audience’s preferences, and the design. You might even be compelled to jump right into the UI/UX design process, but we recommend taking a step back and assessing your app idea.
Ask yourself these questions:
- What is the unique value proposition for your own meditation app?
- How is your meditation mobile app better than what’s already on the market?
- Will your mindfulness app allow in-app purchases, or are you offering free services?
Gather information about your audience and their preferences
Engage your app development team and your researchers in this step. We dedicate quite a lot of time to research and user analysis to find all the pain points and develop features according to them.
Analyzing key players in the market (such as we mentioned above) will help you understand your user preferences better. You can use this information as a guide to your meditation mobile app development.
Decide on development approach: in-house or outsourcing
One of the most essential steps of developing a meditation app is to decide whether you want to hire an in-house team or work with an outsourcing company. Both of the approaches have their pros and cons, but we always recommend working with professionals.
In-house development offers you more control over the whole process, and you might prefer it for easier communication, but in-house teams often don’t have enough expertise. You might also need to fill in the skill gaps by hiring a specific professional, which can take a lot of time.
Outsourcing your development might seem risky at first, but app development companies like Glorium Technologies offer flexible collaboration models, complete control, less control, transparent communication, and, most importantly, a team of experts who have developed meditation apps for hundreds of clients.
Draft the first design: UI/UX
You may think that the functionality of your app is the number one important aspect, but creating a successful meditation app requires a comfortable and user-friendly UI/UX design. Users come back to the mobile apps that are easy to use and are intuitive. To create such a meditation app, you’ll need to engage professional designers and UX researchers.
Develop core and extra features
First, you’ll have to decide on the tech stack and know what platforms you’re developing your meditation app for. This will help you decide on technologies to use. Then, you can choose and develop key features that make a meditation app. These features include:
- Guided meditations
- Timer and tracking tools
- Progress monitoring
- Customizable sessions
- Audio library
Scroll up on our service page and find the list of our recommended features and descriptions to help you decide on what to add to your meditation app.
Once you’re done with core features, you can add extra features like AI-powered personalized recommendations, VR and AR experiences, social sharing, and so on. If you’re not familiar with these advanced technologies, we can help you integrate them into your meditation app.
Test, launch, and gather feedback
Last but not least, once you have your app ready, you must engage your QA engineers to test the meditation app. You may need test automation and manual testing, which we offer to all our development clients. We also recommend integrating advanced analytical tools for collecting and digesting end-user feedback. This will help you understand how your app is performing and if there’s any need for adjustments.
Our Recommendations when Developing a Meditation App
We’ve been developing meditation apps and mindfulness apps for more than a decade and have gathered some insights that might help you in your meditation application development:
- Develop a minimum viable product (MVP) before developing the whole app to test the concept and the market
- You can never go wrong with an intuitive design and simplicity
- Make sure your essential features are fully functional before adding extra features
- Research your audience’s willingness to pay before adding in-app purchases and consider offering a freemium model at first
- Meditation app development cost grows as you add more features
You May Encounter Some Challenges When Developing a Meditation App
App development is complex – we’ve already discussed this. It’s clear that some challenges will arise, and you’ll have to mitigate the risks. To avoid these challenges and avoid the growth of meditation app development cost, we recommend working with professionals and being on the lookout for these pitfalls:
- Market saturation: At the beginning of this guide, we mentioned that the market is a bit saturated at the moment, and you need to be careful and precise when you develop your own meditation app. You may need professional help to navigate market saturation.
- Personalization: Sometimes, companies decide to cut the costs of personalization options, and that becomes an issue. Users like personalized services, but integrating this while keeping the app simple may be challenging.
- Privacy concerns: If you create a meditation app, your users will be entering their personal information and sensitive data that needs to be protected. Mitigating legal risks and protecting the app data from unauthorized access can be difficult.
- Monetization: Finding the balance between free and paid options of your meditation app is difficult. Launching your app isn’t enough, and without professional help, some companies get lost.
How to avoid and manage these challenges?
You’ll most likely encounter these challenges, and it’s essential to find ways to address them. Careful planning and expertise are essential, but you can also hire a professional team and delegate development to them.
Working with an experienced team will help you avoid the most common challenges. At Glorium Technologies, the entire process of development is done by a team of professionals who are involved right from the ideation stage to the post-launch support. The team of developers that we hire are knowledgeable in the specific needs of app development and can offer solutions to problems and ideas on how to build a good app.
How Can Glorium Technologies Help?
Throughout the years, we’ve noticed that users value intuitive design, comfortable experience, and services that clearly show the provider has thought about them. We make these assumptions after 14 years of developing meditation apps and healthcare applications.
We offer a full-cycle meditation app development experience with comfortable collaboration models. You’ll have professional and certified developers who are well-versed in the industry regulations and standards.
We are right next to you every step of the way.
Have questions? We’re here to answer them. Schedule a free consultation and speak with our experts about your meditation app idea.
How much does it cost to build a meditation app?
There’s no sure way of saying how much meditation app development costs without scheduling a consultation and going over the details. However, we can tell you that the complexity of the features, customization, and personalization requests heavily affect the price. For a simple meditation app with basic features like guided meditations, user profiles, and other basic functionalities, you might pay around $30,000-50,000. A complex mindfulness app that has personalized recommendations, social integration, advanced analytics, and other extra features, you may have to pay around $100,000-200,000.
Since it’s difficult to estimate even the approximate cost, we recommend contacting your chosen service provider. We offer free consultations for everyone who wants to learn more about what we do. Schedule a free call, and we will give you an approximate scope of your project. You can also use the cost calculator above.
What platforms do you develop meditation apps for?
Maximizing the reach of your app is one of our primary goals. That’s why we offer a dual-platform approach and develop meditation apps for both iOS and Android platforms. We also offer cross-platform development to make things easier. Consider this too – if you’d like to just test your app out and you’re a bit tight with the budget, you can develop the app for only one platform and develop it for another one later (after you’re satisfied with the performance).
Are meditation apps in demand, and do you recommend them?
Yes. Meditation and mindfulness apps are in demand since mindfulness practices, self-care, and self-improvement have become part of our daily lives. Users are actively setting new traditions, self-care routines, and rituals with the help of such remote services as meditation apps. They’re convenient, comfortable, and often user-friendly.
The meditation app market is a bit saturated at the moment, but you may often come across off-the-shelf solutions or easy-made apps that don’t offer extra features. Yes, we recommend building your own meditation app since it can help you connect with your audience better, grow your brand awareness, and boost engagement. However, you must ensure that your app differs from others and is custom-made.
Is ongoing support and post-development app maintenance included in your meditation mobile app development services?
Yes. We provide post-launch support and ongoing maintenance services. Our collaboration doesn’t end with launch since custom-made applications are complex and flexible. As your business grows, as you find more users and think of new ways to please your loyal customers, we’ll be there to adjust your mindfulness app to the changes.
Additionally, the industry regulations and standards may change, and your app must follow these changes.
Do you work with legacy projects?
Yes, we do provide support for the legacy projects. In case you have an app which needs some improvements, updates or maintenance, we are here for you.
We appreciate that the value of existing solutions should be maintained and enhanced to conform to the modern requirements and generate positive user experience. Our team will assess your project and will provide you with suggestions on how to proceed and will aid you in transition to make sure you get the best support for your meditation app.
Can you provide web development services for my meditation application?
Yes. We offer web development services as well. In case you want to give access to your users on their desktops as well, we can make a user-friendly web application that exactly mirrors the functionality and features of your existing mobile apps.
Can you include subscription and in-app purchase options in the app?
Yes. We can help you with monetization and recommend both paid and freemium options. We can also help you create a subscription-based connection with your audience. If you request this, we can also set up payment gateways supporting multiple currencies and payment methods.
How much time does it take to create a meditation app?
As with the price, the timeline of the project is affected by the complexity of the app and its’ features. Developing a mindfulness app can take months. Since it’s a lengthy process, we recommend allocating your resources properly. If you’re not sure how to do this, you can schedule a free consultation with us – no strings attached. We’ll answer all of your questions and give you an estimation of your project budget and timeline.