Popular meditation and wellness app Calm is offering some of its content for free to Spotify users. A small collection of Calm’s sleep stories, meditations, and podcasts is available through the music streaming app at no additional cost. You need a paid Calm subscription for full access.
According to a Techradar report, around 30 pieces of Calm content are available for free on Spotify. These range from 60-second meditations to 40-minute sleep stories. The company has categorized its content under four playlists: Calm for Beginners, Calm for Stress & Anxiety, Calm for Meditation, and Calm for Sleep.
There’s also a dedicated section for kids. It offers meditation lessons as well as sleep stories for kids, some of which are narrated by celebrities like Jennifer Garner and Wanda Sykes. Calm also has content read by Cillian Murphy, Dame Mary Berry, and many other celebrities in addition to meditation specialists.
Of course, the free content is just a fraction of what the platform offers. But if you want to access everything, you will have to purchase a paid Calm subscription, which costs $14.99 a month or $69.99 annually. New users get a 30-day free trial via Spotify. Once you have subscribed, you can link your Calm account with Spotify and enjoy the content of both platforms in one place.
Note that Calm already offers a separate mobile app of its own. You can also use that app to enjoy its content. But, with the Spotify integration, you have one fewer app on your phone. This will help enable a distraction-free morning yoga session with your favorite music playing along. This also means you can use Calm on every device where you use Spotify. It could be your phone, smart speaker, smartwatch, or desktop.
Spotify and Calm partner up to mix music and wellness
This partnership between Spotify and Calm is a result of the former’s Spotify Open Access program launched in 2021. It allows companies to offer their content on the music streaming service. This enables them to reach more potential subscribers as millions of people use Spotify around the world.
Calm is likely looking to benefit from Spotify’s popularity as well. It is one of the most widely used wellness and meditation platforms globally. The company has surpassed 100 million downloads and had more than four million paying members as of October 2022. This integration with Spotify may enable it to grow further amid growing competition in the wellness sector.
2023-07-19 15:07:50