Oak - Meditation & Breathing

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Monday on the Mind. Your online service is excellent. Thank You.

2. ★★★★★support does not respond or resolve the issue

   HELLO?!!! No customer service. I love this app but I’ve contacted customer service like 10 times to ask how to reset my data and absolutely no reply. What’s the look to of saying you have customer service if you never reply?!!! And you’ll lose your progress with a new phone.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Guided Breath Voice Got Faster. Used to love this app. Every once in a while I open it up and wonder why I haven’t been using it, then I put on the guided breath meditation and remember. The latest update sped up the voice track and instead of being relaxing I feel rushed…

4. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Needs an Apple Watch App.. This would be the perfect meditation companion app. It has wonderfully calming soundtracks, guided and unguided meditation, and breathing exercises. Plus, it’s free. However, as Oak does not have an Apple Watch app, I’m once again searching for a new meditation app. It’s a shame that an Apple Watch app hasn’t been created, for it would make this app that much better for many users. If the developers are reading this, please implement an Apple Watch app. I don’t see what your fasting app has it and this one doesn’t.

5. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

   Lost all my data with new phone purchase. There is no place to restore my data and the purchase of the mantra meditation. I have been using this app since the day Kevin gave us early access. Now it’s reset and all my journey is gone including the purchase of mantra meditation. Looks like another good app down the drain. I recommend Sam Harris’s Waking up app. No issues with data loss there.

6. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Charged $15. I opened the app, it asked me if I wanted to purchase a course. The button said “purchase for $0.00” I assumed maybe a free trial, maybe a free course to try out. Nope. I clicked the button to get the course and got a $15 charge notification from my bank. Please fix that.... extremely misleading and disappointing.

7. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Dark Mode Coming Soon?. I love your app. Simple and brilliantly designed. Please don’t change it. I also love that you are one the few apps that supports iPad in landscape mode! Please keep iPad landscape support forever! It is really only missing one thing - support for dark mode. Many of us that meditate have migraines or other sensitivities to bright backgrounds. I also meditate in bed and need a dark mode to support this. My preference would be to use dark mode all the time based on my iOS setting. Seems like just using the background from the sleep section would be a good MVP. It really doesn’t need to be fancy. Most of the time I put the device down, but breathing and starting / finding courses require the bright (!) screen. The bright screen is especially problematic in the middle of the night when trying to fall back asleep. Or to calm anxiety (again in middle of night). So what do you say. Do you think you can add dark mode support soon?

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Worst first session. I tried this app after using a few others I liked. The lady does not shut up! Her voice isn’t soothing at all. She spends so much time talking & theres 0 peace. I found myself more agitated after a few minutes than when I started. Please do not start your meditation journey with this app. Ridiculous.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   How to contact the developer?. The email address they provide doesn’t work. It just bounces back.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    TERRIBLE. App just displays a blank screen. Tried refreshing it, deleted and re downloaded, checked if I needed to update (I didn’t). Tried to contact support and was never replied to. Awful.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Brilliant!. I used Insight Timer for years, but it became too unwieldy and achievement-focused. Oak is elegant and simple. Best meditation app out there!!!!!

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    The app isn’t working. There is nothing under meditation, course, breathe and sleep. Is it a bug?

13. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    Data Mining?. Read an article where some of the worst data mining apps are meditation apps. Reviewed the privacy policy for Oak and learned you’ll be meditating your privacy away with this app.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No wonder it’s free.... ...there is nothing there. I downloaded the app, and then when I went to the home screen, there were the three options from which to choose. But clicking on them produced absolutely nothing. So either this is a total dud, or it only works if you’re online. If the latter, all I can say is “really???!!” I should go online in order to meditate? The best thing I could say about that is that it seems a bit skewed.

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Eh. Was liking the app. I even purchased one of their courses. Suddenly all my progress was gone and so was my purchase after an update. I tried the “restore purchase”, but it had no effect.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Weird. Voice

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Forever free was a lie. Kevin Rose said fee’s would never be implemented and app would be free forever. Now {{{ Eli Scheinmann }}} announces there’s pay only content. How convenient

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App shuts off when my backlight does. Not enough selections. No custom settings.. It seems very counterproductive and counterintuitive that a meditation app would shut off when my backlight does? So I have to keep pressing the screen every 30 seconds to keep the app active. Renders it useless. I can’t possibly fall into deep meditations or use its sleeping techniques if I have to make sure the audio doesn’t turn off every few seconds. I also looked for an in-app setting to keep my screen on but the only customizable setting the app has are how often it sends you notifications to meditate and of course volume levels. Not to mention there’s less than a dozen meditations to choose from and then it gets repetitive and mundane. Uninstalling.

19. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    4 years since update? No privacy info.. There is no information regarding your privacy policy. So could you please update your app and your privacy policy information? Thank you.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App does not allow doing more than one course. Finished the first course of Mantra Meditation. App tells me I have finished this course but now I'm stuck on this page and doesn't allow access to any other courses. Frustrating!

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Watch App. Love the guided meditations, would love to be able to do phone free with a watch app that could possibly collect HR during mediation.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    You can have voices or background music, but not both.. Tried the meditation for helping me go to sleep. When I decreased the volume so the person wasn’t yelling at me, I couldn’t hear the background music at all.

23. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Forgets Data. This is an elegant and easy to use app, and it provides a simple, streamlined set of meditation tools. I’m giving it two stars, however, because it regularly forgets all the saved data about my progress: how many days I’ve meditated in a row, how many ‘badges’ I’ve earned, etc. for me, that aspect of the app has a lot of appeal, and it continues to fail. Sometimes it finds the data after a few hours, but other times it just disappears for good and I start over. This doesn’t affect basic functionality, but it is a key feature and it’s broken.

24. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good Intro. I have never been able to get any of the courses to download so I never get past the introduction. It looks great but not able to use it.

25. ★★★★★support does not respond or resolve the issue

    Can’t download 10 days of mantra meditation course. The mantra meditation course won’t download. I contacted the developers and received no response.

26. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Sound issues. The sound doesn’t work consistently

27. ★★★★★login, signup and account access

    There is no way to synchronize data between devices. I wanted to use this app, but I can't sync between my iPhone and iPad or create an account. However, I like the app's design.

28. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App stops when auto locks. The app suspends when the auto lock kicks in. It’s not like music apps do that. Please fix

29. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Night Mode. Great app! The only feature missing is a “dark mode” so you don’t light up the room while using.

30. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Prevent auto lock feature is missing. I like the app, only feature is missing, prevent auto lock on iPhone. As it is not clear how much time passed, and how much is still ahead. So I need to touch phone, and see it. Please add this feature, so the screen will always ne on. Thank you!