Plum Village: Mindfulness App v4.4.0
Centre for Applied EthicsAbout this app
Developer Description
Guided meditations, talks + more by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his community
Use mindfulness meditation techniques taught by a renowned Zen Buddhist Master to connect deeply with the present moment, soothe anxiety, experience more joy and happiness, and taste enlightenment.
Explore a wealth of easy-to-use guided meditations, relaxations, and talks.
The Plum Village app enables us to bring mindfulness into our life, so we can live each moment more deeply and create a happier future.
As Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh said, mindfulness allows us to be truly alive.
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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Features
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• Free forever with no ads or in-app purchases
• 100+ guided meditations
• A customizable meditation timer
• A “Mindfulness Bell” to incorporate into your daily routine
• 300+ video sessions/Q&As with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village teachers
• 15 guided meditations for children
• “Favourite” your most loved meditations to find them easily
• Download talks and meditations to the app for easy offline practice
The Plum Village app is regularly being updated with new guided meditations and talks. It is completely free to download and all of the content is available for free.
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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Categories
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The Plum Village app is split into four easy-to-use categories – meditations, talks, resources, and bells of mindfulness:
Meditations
Meditation is a deep practice that helps us generate peace and calm, master our mind, develop a healthy headspace, and get deep insights into ourselves and the world around us.
Meditations include deep relaxations, guided contemplations, silent meditations, and eating meditations. Whether you have a little time or a lot, and whether you want to be on your cushion or applying mindfulness in your daily life, there are meditations to nourish, inspire, and incorporate into your daily routine.
Talks
Listen and learn from the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh and other Plum Village meditation teachers.
Ask Thay includes hundreds of real-life questions asked to the Zen Master, like “How can we let go of anger? and “How can I stop worrying?” His answers are compassionate and infused with insight.
Dharma Talks are teachings given by Thich Nhat Hanh and others on how to bring Buddhist wisdom and mindfulness into our life. Rather than discussing theoretical concepts, they focuses on direct and clear teachings to relieve suffering and create happiness in our day to day lives. Topics include depression, PTSD, relationships, sexual abuse, fear, and dealing with strong emotions.
Resources
In Resources you can find a library of daily practices, chants, poems, and songs. These bring to life the practices taught in Plum Village monasteries around the world and offer ways to bring mindfulness into our world, wherever we are.
Bell of Mindfulness
In Plum Village monasteries bells of mindfulness chime at regular intervals. Everybody stops and takes three mindful breaths to pause from their thinking or talking, breathe, and return to their bodies. The Bell of Mindfulness allows us to have the same reminder on our phone.
We can customize the bell to chime at different time periods. Settings include:
• Start time / End time
• Chime intervals
• Bell volume
• Daily repeating schedule
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Why not give the Plum Village app a try and see how you can benefit from it? The app is a digital companion on your mindfulness journey. Created as a gift to the world, this free app contains invaluable resources to guide you towards inner peace and freedom.
Download today for free!
What's New
Updated playlist menu design.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version Information
- Version
- 4.4.0
- Downloads
- 100K+
- Updated on
- Nov 26, 2025
- Released
- Sep 12, 2018
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Plum Village: Mindfulness App users say on Google Play
As a secular humanist, I value reason and presence, and this app helps me return to both. The guided meditations, chants, and teachings invite stillness, clarity, and awareness. There is no pressure to believe anything supernatural—only an invitation to breathe, to slow down, and to touch life more deeply. I particularly appreciate the balance of structure and freedom: you can sit for five minutes or twenty, walk, breathe, or listen to a Dharma talk. This app has become part of my daily rhythm.
It used to work fine, but I'm having a problem lately where the App just says 'There was a problem downloading new content ' and won't open. is it just me? 🤔 I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the App several times.
current UI makes it unusable on my device, since the header "start" and "skip" buttons in the tour overlap with the top icon bar of my phone and are unclickable.
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