Olo - Wellbeing Journey

I've struggled all my life with meditation. I am a high achiever with a mind that constantly thinks, and doesn't like to stop. This has made “regular” meditation a laborious experience for me. I try so hard not to think that I don't enjoy it. Tonight, I experienced something different with Olo. This was the next level of guidance for my mind and emotions. It’s hard to describe, you need to try it. Extra kudos to the high quality of the unique sequences - both the composed music and sounds and the way it is composed to deeply touch your soul. Enjoy!

I’m blown away by the design of their soundscapes that take you on an incredible journey of self awareness. This is wellness for your inner world, which in turn leads to your outer world. This is the kind of app you want to tell everyone about.

Promising, has some good sound mixes, but they need to go back to the drawing board. Their app is 3 parts and they haven’t made all three parts world class. (1) design and UX of app, they nailed this. It’s amazing. (2) soundscapes or sound mixes that help take your monkey chatter brain offline, they have a few but limited nice ones but then the part (3) is rotating the soundscapes so you don’t hear the same ones over and again because in order to turn off the monkey mind it cannot be able to anticipate what is next. I’ll break this sound rotation into a few parts (a) they seem to have tried this and know about adding fresh sounds and even change the timing of sessions so it’s not exact and (b) they attempted some new soundscapes recently but their newer one fundamentally fail to be soothing/ear candy, pique curiosity (which births visual imagination, or at least does for me, aka puts your mind into some scenario based on sounds you’re hearing) and/or are just plain weird. Their new soundscapes sound like the professional who made the good ones let their 5 year old come into the booth to play and draw stick figures but in a sound’s sense. Maybe they got lucky on creating a few good soundscapes when they launched, or maybe a different person is doing it, either way, the newest stuff is not great. I’ve downloaded 5 competitor apps to see if their execution is any better because the idea is solid but execution, while admirable the progress and attempts they’ve made, still does not cut it to be a paid app 👎.