Content from my favorite wellness app will soon be free for Spotify subscribers

Date:
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:54:07 +0000

Description:
Spotify is distributing some of Calm's meditation content via its Open Access platform.

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Wellness app Calm is distributing some of its content on Spotify via its Spotify Open Access platform. Some of it is free for Spotify subscribers as a sample for Calms sleep stories, meditations, and podcasts, while other
content will require a Calm subscription or free trial to listen to.

Spotify Open Access is a feature for developers that allows third-party apps to distribute their content via one of the best music streaming services , locking some of it behind subscriptions to the original app. Calm has
released four playlists: Calm for Beginners, Calm for Stress & Anxiety, Calm for Meditation, and Calm for Sleep.

Around 30 pieces of content in total have been released in the Free tier, ranging from 60-second meditations to 40-minute sleep stories, so you can access Calm's content wherever you operate Spotify from your smart home speaker, phone, desktop, or best smartwatch without downloading the Calm app or paying anything extra.

Many more pieces of content have been released on the Paid tier, which requires a Calm subscription.

Its not much different from how Calm works on its own, with some content available for free and others requiring a paid subscription just on a platform with far more subscribers.

Calm has also partnered with Spotify to release a 30-day free trial, so
people who like the content can sign up to the app and grab it all for one month totally free.

Calm features content read by celebrities in addition to meditation specialists, from Oppenheimers Cillian Murphy to the Great British Bake Offs Dame Mary Berry. Analysis: Start a mindfulness habit for free (Image credit: Shutterstock)

I love Calms content (as seen in my Home Screen Heroes write-up on Calm ),
and its good to see it reach more people for free. Its on the more expensive end of the wellness app scale, so even if you dont want to pay for the subscription for a year, having these short meditations and sleep stories available is a great place to start a mindfulness habit.

Theres also tons more mindfulness content available on Spotify, free for subscribers. Just searching the word meditation and sorting by podcasts & shows will reveal hundreds of guided meditations, soundscapes, and sleep stories shared on Spotify networks. Sleepy, for example, is a podcast in
which narrator Otis Gray simply reads public domain books such as The Count
of Monte Cristo , Winnie the Pooh , and poetry by Emily Dickenson.

Whether you want to subscribe to Calm, as the Open Access sharing of Calm content so clearly intends you to do, is neither here nor there. If this sharing of popular mindfulness content for free encourages more people to reduce day-to-day feelings of stress or anxiety, thats a win in my book. You just need a set of the best headphones to listen to it.



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