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Sway

Health & Fitness • PauseAble ApS
4+ v1.1 Recorded price: $2.99 App Store →
★★★★★
★★★★★
(17 App Store ratings)
🏆 Best: #55 Paid (VNM)
IPA Analysis
Technical Specs
Bundle ID com.pauseable.sway
Version 1.1
App Store Size 161.77 MB
Minimum iOS 8.0
Devices iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Catalog release date 2017-03-30
Latest recorded version date 2017-06-01
Features & Support
Vision Pro
Advisory 4+
Languages (1)
English
Top In App Purchases
No In App Purchases Listed

Preview

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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 2017-06-01
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. Using Sway now adds mindfulness minutes to Health App on iPhon...This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. Using Sway now adds mindfulness minutes to Health App on iPhone iOS10+ devices. Sway in Chinese: 摇摆
Version 1.0 2017-03-29

App Store User Reviews

Adoration "Key" 2017-08-06
★★★★★
★★★★★

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 p...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.
NCguy1701 2020-02-19
★★★★★
★★★★★

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 pro...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.
tonkinite 2017-12-08
★★★★★
★★★★★

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 Min...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.
ShmacksonShmerry 2017-07-29
★★★★★
★★★★★

Looks and Sounds Great... Gives me Anxiety

I really wanted to love this app. The idea of an app where you meditate through motion rather than following a guide is great and really excited me. The audio ...I really wanted to love this app. The idea of an app where you meditate through motion rather than following a guide is great and really excited me. The audio and visual design are both fantastic. But, the app itself is nagging and ruins my meditation every time I attempt to use it. If you start going too fast or go too slow, it abruptly notifies you, bringing you out of your meditative state and forcing you to change your motion. This has condition me to feel constantly anxious rather than relaxed while using the app. Their solution to get you to keep using the app is that you must achieve a prescribed amount of meditation minutes daily or you lose a level. Decent motivation, but also figures in to the over-all anxiety inducing nature of the app. I hope they allow options in the future to accommodate people who want to move more freely during their practice. Until then, I'll stick to regular meditation and other movement practices.
tcbhbg 2019-06-18
★★★★★
★★★★★

One Major Flaw

Unfortunately, I love almost everything about this app and would be thrilled to use it as part of my meditation. The idea of focusing and calming through moveme...Unfortunately, I love almost everything about this app and would be thrilled to use it as part of my meditation. The idea of focusing and calming through movement is quite appealing to me. But. It requires that you start with a couple of minutes, and then do it daily to “unlock levels” of longer meditation. If you miss a day, you’re knocked back down in time and have no control over this. First, I’m not playing a video game and don’t want to unlock levels. Second, and more importantly, I like to use a variety of meditation tools and styles and don’t want to commit to one app or practice every time. The fact that I can’t choose my own duration of meditation session is an absolute deal breaker for me. This is a useless tool for me that would be highly useful if I were able to make my own decisions about the length of my session.
NeuroWorm 2017-09-06
★★★★★
★★★★★

Nags and causes its own type of stress

I really wanted to like this app, but I found that I ended up dreading using it. The music and graphics are beautiful. However, you have to keep your eyes glued...I really wanted to like this app, but I found that I ended up dreading using it. The music and graphics are beautiful. However, you have to keep your eyes glued to the screen for instructions. There's no option for customizing it to fit your needs. It also gets to the point of being really naggy in order to keep you using the app. If you miss a single day, you go back! More frustration than it's worth.
new users 2017-08-03
★★★★★
★★★★★

App crashed when you stop the mediation

Don't buy until they fix the problems Seem like the developer doesn't continue fixing the problems. I bought both sway and pause but both all crashed while I w...Don't buy until they fix the problems Seem like the developer doesn't continue fixing the problems. I bought both sway and pause but both all crashed while I was trying to stop the meditation.
chicletkey 2017-06-10
★★★★★
★★★★★

Easily the best meditation app

The meditations are so simple that they work better to clear your mind than just silence alone. The soundscapes are really good and adaptive to your pacing. Use...The meditations are so simple that they work better to clear your mind than just silence alone. The soundscapes are really good and adaptive to your pacing. Use with wireless headphones for best results.
sheeplvl1 2017-06-14
★★★★★
★★★★★

U miss U go nack/ U don't miss the bugs still makes U go back

So buggy it made me lose lvls...This is aggregating like the reviwer in previous version had sad. Stupid bugs are still out there to get ur meditation lvls........So buggy it made me lose lvls...This is aggregating like the reviwer in previous version had sad. Stupid bugs are still out there to get ur meditation lvls........ When will I ever see lvl 6 ....
Kenziethefox 2018-07-21
★★★★★
★★★★★

Infuriating

I did day one, came back for day two and it had reset itself as if I never did day one. This is more frustrating than its worth.

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Bundle ID com.pauseable.sway
Current Version 1.1
Minimum iOS 8.0
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