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It streams the content from the Healthy Minds Program but without a login or any of their tracking. Here's a very rough draft of a comparison of the privacy of different meditation apps: https://litter.catbox.moe/crq4n62bf1prei8j.html Balance is crazy! They're essentially a data broker themselves.", "context": "", "use_case": "meditation without tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"}, {"id": 796841216, "item_id": 49802576, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802576", "by": "_x0s2", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like the Healthy Minds program app more than other meditation apps because:", "excerpt": "Either the book I recommended in the post or \"The Healthy Minds Program\" app. The Healthy Minds Program is completely free\u2014only donations are accepted. The book explains their system and includes meditations. 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