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I\u2019ve really tried to meditate. I know it would probably be good for me! But no matter how much I tried (and if my therapist asks, I definitely<\/em> tried), I couldn\u2019t make the habit stick. So I gave up. And I\u2019m not alone: over the past two years, fewer and fewer people have been using meditation apps like Calm and Headspace, according to some new data<\/a> from app research firm Apptopia. <\/p>\n

User sessions at the top 10 meditation apps in the United States peaked in the first half of 2020. That\u2019s not a huge surprise \u2014 at the time, we were dealing with <\/strong>the emergence of a global pandemic that upended life around the world and fundamentally changed people\u2019s day-to-day routines. But usage has been steadily falling since then, according to the report. The number of sessions on the Calm app fell 26.4 percent between July 2021 and July 2022. It was worse for Headspace, which had a 60.3 percent drop over the same time period. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s some possible reasons for this trend. Companies pushed meditation apps as a solution to the soaring levels of stress and mental health challenges people faced early in the pandemic. But now, people aren\u2019t at home for long stretches of time the same way they were at the start of the pandemic and might have less time or interest in meditating. <\/p>\n

Pandemic aside, there\u2019s also been some big shifts in politics in the past few years. Meditation app usage first started to climb after Donald Trump became president and started to fall around the time Joe Biden was sworn into office. Of course \u2014 as the report notes, and as Verge<\/em> readers know well \u2014 correlation is not causation. So we\u2019re not going to draw any conclusions from that particular trend, but it does raise an eyebrow. <\/p>\n

In some ways, meditation apps are a symptom of the huge demand for mental health treatment in the US. There are long waiting lists for traditional mental health services, and it\u2019s often prohibitively difficult for people to find affordable and accessible therapists. In recent years, tech companies have started capitalizing on this demand, offering services<\/a> that they say can fill that gap. Meditation apps are a small segment of this bigger trend, with companies like Talkspace and Ginger also marketing themselves as mental health solutions. We can\u2019t expect mental health apps <\/strong>to go away anytime soon, but the new data hints that \u2014 at least for now \u2014 they\u2019re not taking over as a long-term solution. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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