Integrating Mindfulness into a Routine Schedule: The Role of Mobile-Health Mindfulness Applications

Abstract

Key Points • The number of mindfulness apps is rapidly growing, making mindfulness accessible to a large audience. • Mindfulness apps and in-session mindfulness courses by teachers with personal experience in mindfulness each possess unique advantages and disadvantages. • Randomized-controlled studies of mindfulness apps are scarce but showed positive effects in clinical and nonclinical populations and outcome domains.