Sway 4+
Mindfulness in motion
PauseAble ApS
Designed for iPhone
-
- $2.99
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Sway is an ‘interactive meditation’ experience. It uses your phone to track movement and provides feedback to help you gain focus and improve your attention.
With six unique levels, you will learn new techniques to be mindful in everyday life situations and subtly practise mindfulness anytime and anywhere.
From simply moving your phone in your hand while sitting down or lying in bed, to gently swaying your body while waiting for the bus or even walking slowly around the office – Sway is designed to help you find focus in everyday life using ‘interactive meditation’.
Relying on slow and continuous motion, Sway encourages you to find your own, most effective and subtle way to practise mindfulness in any given situation.
Sway is best experienced with headphones.
KEY FEATURES:
MINDFULNESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
Engage in mindfulness activities everywhere with subtle body movements
INTERACTIVE MEDITATION
Based on a new scientific approach to meditation with motion tracking feedback
LET THE SOUND GUIDE YOU
Generative audio landscape supports your experience without interacting with your screen
PROGRESS THROUGH SIX LEVELS
Discover new techniques to be mindful in everyday life situations
LONG TERM RESULTS
Use Sway 20 minutes a day for maximised effect
Sway is based on ‘interactive meditation’, a new approach to meditation which shows similar results to ‘guided meditation’ but is even more effective in noisy and busy environments. It’s scientific validation shows that engaging in interactive meditation daily may have long term benefits to your attention levels.
Sway is a collaboration between digital product studio ustwo and Danish mental wellness company PauseAble.
What’s New
Version 1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Using Sway now adds mindfulness minutes to Health App on iPhone iOS10+ devices.
Sway in Chinese: 摇摆
Ratings and Reviews
Wonderful idea but...
This is truly a great idea, and the sounds are wonderful, but there needs to be more of a correlation between your hand movements, and the display screen. The prompting telling you that you are moving to fast or to slow, and the subtle bar at the edge of the screen is not enough. Perhaps a soft glowing light at the center of the screen gently trailing off particles of light in the opposite direction of your movements would be nice. Otherwise you feel like you're just moving your phone around for no apparent reason, and a rock would suffice. I am using an iPad and not a phone, so I might be missing something.
I love this app
First: this app isn’t a game. The levels are helping you find the pace of your movements. First, you start by holding the phone and looking at it. Then, you progress to holding the phone and not looking at it. Then you work up to slipping the phone in your pocket and swaying by audio feedback only. Gaining a level isn’t a reward; losing a level isn’t punishment. This is about teaching and training about finding the sway speed. Levels are really irrelevant.
Second: audio feedback is key. It will provide you with gentle reminders when you’re moving too quickly or too slowly. It’s normal to hear this feedback when you slip your phone into your pocket. It also happens if I try a new movement and I have to move to keep my balance. I’ll get a “you’re going to fast” maybe once or twice in a 20-minute sway session. It’s not a punishment if this happens, it’s just feedback.
Last: sway as long as time permits. Some days, I have 10 minutes to sway. If I lose a level, it doesn’t matter. Even at level 1, I can sway with my phone in my pocket for 15 minutes the next day. The levels only matter for beginners, not those who have the sway speed down.
Neat idea, App feels unfinished
App is useful, you finish one level, you move on to the next, making mind training a kind of challenge.
However, there are no real settings, the App writes Mindfulness data to Healthkit, but doesn't read it back, a shockingly common problem with Apps in this category, even the most popular ones. No way to contact the developer via the App, presumably this is possible via the developer page.
Hopefully some of this will be addressed in a coming update.
App Privacy
The developer, PauseAble ApS, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- PauseAble ApS
- Size
- 169.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
-
- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
-
English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 PauseAble
- Price
- $2.99
Supports
-
Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.