Plum Village: Mindfulness

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About this app

Looking to touch peace, calm and ease in today’s frantic and often stressful world? The Plum Village practices are an invaluable support.

Use mindfulness meditation techniques taught by a renowned Zen Buddhist Master to connect deeply with the present moment, soothe anxiety, experience more joy and happiness, and taste enlightenment.

Explore a wealth of easy-to-use guided meditations, relaxations, and talks.

The Plum Village app enables us to bring mindfulness into our life, so we can live each moment more deeply and create a happier future.

As Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh said, mindfulness allows us to be truly alive.

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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Features
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• Free forever with no ads or in-app purchases
• 100+ guided meditations
• A customizable meditation timer
• A “Mindfulness Bell” to incorporate into your daily routine
• 300+ video sessions/Q&As with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village teachers
• 15 guided meditations for children
• “Favourite” your most loved meditations to find them easily
• Download talks and meditations to the app for easy offline practice

The Plum Village app is regularly being updated with new guided meditations and talks. It is completely free to download and all of the content is available for free.

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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Categories
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The Plum Village app is split into four easy-to-use categories – meditations, talks, resources, and bells of mindfulness:

Meditations

Meditation is a deep practice that helps us generate peace and calm, master our mind, develop a healthy headspace, and get deep insights into ourselves and the world around us.

Meditations include deep relaxations, guided contemplations, silent meditations, and eating meditations. Whether you have a little time or a lot, and whether you want to be on your cushion or applying mindfulness in your daily life, there are meditations to nourish, inspire, and incorporate into your daily routine.

Talks

Listen and learn from the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh and other Plum Village meditation teachers.

Ask Thay includes hundreds of real-life questions asked to the Zen Master, like “How can we let go of anger? and “How can I stop worrying?” His answers are compassionate and infused with insight.

Dharma Talks are teachings given by Thich Nhat Hanh and others on how to bring Buddhist wisdom and mindfulness into our life. Rather than discussing theoretical concepts, they focuses on direct and clear teachings to relieve suffering and create happiness in our day to day lives. Topics include depression, PTSD, relationships, sexual abuse, fear, and dealing with strong emotions.

Resources

In Resources you can find a library of daily practices, chants, poems, and songs. These bring to life the practices taught in Plum Village monasteries around the world and offer ways to bring mindfulness into our world, wherever we are.

Bell of Mindfulness

In Plum Village monasteries bells of mindfulness chime at regular intervals. Everybody stops and takes three mindful breaths to pause from their thinking or talking, breathe, and return to their bodies. The Bell of Mindfulness allows us to have the same reminder on our phone.

We can customize the bell to chime at different time periods. Settings include:
• Start time / End time
• Chime intervals
• Bell volume
• Daily repeating schedule

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Why not give the Plum Village app a try and see how you can benefit from it? The app is a digital companion on your mindfulness journey. Created as a gift to the world, this free app contains invaluable resources to guide you towards inner peace and freedom.

Download today for free!
Guided meditations, talks + more by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his community
Updated on
Sep 23, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted
  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

9.04K reviews
Mike Butler
February 28, 2022
A very good app if you want to learn more about mindfulness and meditation, especially if you struggle with anxiety & depression. It has already helped me in periods of high anxiety refocus myself and to calm down. The only issue in the app is the bell chime doesn't always work if the screen is off. I've turned off battery optimisation but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
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Centre for Applied Ethics
May 4, 2022
Thank you, dear Mike, please accept our apologies for the late response. Our small team are in progress of continuing to make updates, your feedback is valuable to us. We are happy the app is providing you support. Thank you. "Peace is every step" ~Zen Master, Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay)
Moira Lazarus
October 5, 2023
I've used the Plum Village app for about 18 months. It has been invaluable- the podcast "The Way Out is In" is wonderful and there are many breathing meditations of varying length and deep relaxations in the particular Plum Village tradition as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh. It's easy to navigate and I couldn't do without it now - it really does help in a very practical way to calm body & mind and practice mindfulness in a way I otherwise wouldn't. I'm very grateful for this app!
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Ashby
October 5, 2026
I love this app, it is perfect. One request, I guess in the latest update there was a change to the mindfulness bell settings because it correlates to the alarm volume now instead of the media volume (on android). I found the previous set up far better because I could control it with my volume buttons. If there is any chance that you go back to that I would be very happy. Other than this it is such an incredible app and I have shared it with all of my friends who practice with the bell with me.
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What’s new

- A fresh new look, with a redesigned Home screen and item lists
- Faster startup and content loading, with smoother browsing and search. The app now only downloads content for the languages you've enabled, using less data and storage on your device
- Bell of Mindfulness now rings reliably on the newest Android versions, and a new "In silent mode" setting gives you more control over how the bell behaves when your phone is silenced
- Accessibility improvements and bug fixes