Health
- All-time
- 4.77★
- Last 500 reviews
- 3.49★
- Negative
- 34%
- Top complaint
- Price & subscription
Health
- All-time
- 4.84★
- Last 500 reviews
- 1.97★
- Negative
- 72%
- Top complaint
- Price & subscription
- Calm has fewer unhappy reviewers: 34% of its recent reviews are 1–2★, against 72% for Headspace.
- Users of both apps complain most about price & subscription.
- The biggest difference is price & subscription: 16% of Calm reviews vs 29% of Headspace reviews are negative and mention it.
- Recent written reviews average 3.49★ for Calm and 1.97★ for Headspace (all-time: 4.77★ vs 4.84★).
Complaints theme by theme
Share of all recent reviews that are 1–2★ and mention the theme. ■ Calm ■ Headspace
What the top complaint sounds like
Calm: price & subscription
★ Long-time subscriber lost because support simply doesn’t exist I was a long-time paying subscriber, and I finally cancelled. The app stopped working properly for me, leaving me unable to reliably use a service I was paying a premium subscription… v7.2 · 2026-10-03
Headspace: price & subscription
★ Poor customer service for a mental health app …companies to offer long term free trials with what seems to be the hope that you will forget about auto-renewal and get charged for a year subscription. Any other app would handle immediate requests for refunds appropriately, by offering a full refund or at the very least… v3.408.1 · 2026-01-24
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FAQ
Do users complain more about Calm or Headspace?
Calm has fewer unhappy reviewers: 34% of its recent reviews are 1–2★, against 72% for Headspace. Both samples are the latest US App Store written reviews, which skew more negative than star-only ratings.
What is the main complaint about Calm compared with Headspace?
Users of both apps complain most about price & subscription. The biggest difference is price & subscription: 16% of Calm reviews vs 29% of Headspace reviews are negative and mention it.
How was this comparison made?
We read up to 500 of the newest US App Store reviews for each app (Calm: 2026-08-15 to 2026-10-18; Headspace: 2025-10-12 to 2026-10-17) and matched 1–2★ reviews against the same complaint patterns. Percentages are of all recent reviews, so the two apps are on the same scale.