Here’s a simple break-down of what’s new in the updated version of buddhify for iOS and the new Android version.
New Content for Existing Sections
We looked at the content which buddhify players were most using and just wrote more tracks and techniques for those sections. So you will see that the wheel has filled up for all the sections with many new tracks for Going to Sleep, Can’t Sleep, Waking Up, Work Break, Feeling Stressed, Work Break, Walking, Being Online, Travelling, Just Meditation & so on. This has been made possible thanks to our expanded team of mindfulness experts.
Three Brand New Sections
We listened to all the thousands of emails and suggestions we received and have created three new sections:
- At Home has tracks for adding mindfulness to common the domestic activities of chores, cooking and taking a bath. And importantly there are two tracks for that key moment when you first come home from work – including a special Two Player Meditation called Together to help connect with your partner or housemate after work.
- Difficult Emotions has five tracks to help you bring some balance to those moments when you are feeling anxious, sad or just in need of some comfort and self-care. These are not intended as therapy – and you should always talk to a trusted clinician should you be experiencing mental health issues – but they do present some useful tools which can help in those difficult moments.
- Pain & Illness was the other most requested area for new content and there are five new tracks to help you develop a different, less restricting relationship with physical pain.
To make the amount of content manageable and navigable, we have had to consolidate and remove a couple of things. We have combined In The Park and In Nature into one section and have removed the sections for Exercising & Suggestions. People are still free to send us suggestions by email of their ideas and feedback and if people would like the three exercising meditations tracks then you can download them here as mp3s. We had to remove something and our analytics showed that this was the least popular section, so apologies if you’re going to miss them on the wheel.
New Features
The main development you’ll see is a whole new section called Together, a simple but quite lovely page which hopes to give you a sense of the wider community of buddhify players:
It shows some overall stats on how the app is being used such as the total number of minutes you’ve all meditated across the world, the number of people who’ve used the app at the same time as you and which tracks are most popular.
It also includes questions from players and answers from the buddhify team. Over time, as you add more questions this will become a useful resource for urban meditation.
There are three other new features you should know about:
- We’ve updated the star system so that tracks you’ve not listened to yet are marked with a star on the main wheel. This was a feature many people asked for and with the update all the tracks will have a star against them to start with.
- We’ve added a quick screen at the start of the app to invite you to join our mailing list. The reason we’ve done this is not to annoy you but to make sure we can contact you to let you know about new products and major news related to the app and our wider work. And if you are already on our mailing list of course we will already have your details so you needn’t enter it in again.
- Related to that we’ve added an additional loading screen which means that in the future, upon loading up you may see additional messages from us related to things we’ve like to tell you about. This will only be related to buddhify and our wider work and it’s just another way to communicate with our players.
We’re really pleased with the new apps, which take the same core buddhify vibe and approach and just takes it one more level up.
Thanks for being a part of our ongoing adventures. You’re the best.