App Profile: Sensate: Stress/Anxiety Relief

SilvieSF

Rating: 5/5

I love my Sensate and have told anyone who will listen about it. I bought it to help with my HRV as it was low and I was worried that my heart may have issues (which run in the family) so I wanted to tone my vagus nerve and improve my HRV. What I didn’t expect was it to make it easier to get out of bed in the morning as it relaxed my body so much that my inflammation started to decrease, which decreased my morning stiffness and aches. That’s a great side effect!!

ZShop

Rating: 3/5

I like the device, it’s easy to use, I particularly like that I use it 10 mins every day and have only had to charge once. It is expensive and what is frustrating is after spending a lot of money on the device you then have to deal with an App with so many locked tracks you have to pay for, and very few “free” tracks. And also it’s glitchy, I often try and run a 10 minute version of the one track I like (thankfully I really like it) and it keeps running the 20 minute version despite restarting several times. This is annoying when you only have 10 minute to spend and means you have to stop the track suddenly mid way through. I’ve asked for help explaining my issues and received no help. Just been directed to put my issues into a Google document, even though I’ve already explained them. So I can recommend Sensate, sort of, with these caveats.

Jettquilts

Rating: 2/5

The device is good and it has great potential. The app is lacking a lot. There are not many choices of meditations to choose from and they added 3 additional ones but want me to pay a monthly fee for the use of them. Not at all pleased about that! The choices are not explained well as far as what type of sound is used and the desired outcome. Also, other than one choice, you can’t change the duration of time that they play. For 8$ a month on the Expand app I get close to 100 choices that are clearly categorized and many with time options. For the price of this device, I expected something similar to the Expand app, without being asked to pay 8$ for 3 meditations per month. Luckily I am still within the return period. I hope the meditations available will be increased in number and with better descriptions.