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Calm

Calm

software

1 creator use or recommend it

1 recommend 5 mention 1 critical
Last discussed Sep 21, 2026

A popular meditation and sleep app offering guided meditations, sleep stories, and relaxation content.

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This Week in Startups
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Used for: Daily meditation practice for mental wellness and balance Praised: Flexible duration options, helps with grounding and rebalancing vs: Part of five-pillar wellness approach including sleep, nutrition, exercise, s...

"Meditation, you just pop out the Calm app, shout out to Calm, and just meditate. 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 50 minutes, doesn't matter. Any amount of meditation will reground you."

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"I went through all this with Calm, Fitbod. Build an incredible brand like Calm and Fitbod did."

Tony Robbins
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"I'm working with the guys that built Calm, if you remember Calm, the largest app in the world for meditation. These guys built it and sold it for a billion and a half, I think it was."

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Nico Wittenborn
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Praised: Sleep stories drove major growth

"We had done Calm and Calm had inflected by launching sleep stories. A lot of the growth actually came from people not wanting to meditate but needing to calm down before sleeping."

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Sam Parr
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vs: Used as an analogy to describe Ajay's creative founder archetype.

"Michael Acton Smith is another guy who started Calm — is like Moshi Monsters. Like these truly creatives who just love creating something wacky and silly and probably have really good taste, so it's usually a hit."

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Jason Calacanis
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vs: Described as the top meditation app, with Headspace as second

"This is the second greatest meditation app, right behind Calm — which you are an investor of. I am — I didn't realize you're right."

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Mark Manson
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"The two biggest ones most people have heard of, Calm and Headspace, and Calm and Headspace very much went after the casual user, right? It's like five minutes in the morning, de-stress a little bit, help you relax."

Meditation, Solved · ▶ 1:22:16 · Mar 18, 2026
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Rich Roll
critical

"I listen to all the Sam Harris stuff. I listen to, you know, Calm. I tried them all. Headspace. Can't do it."

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