Balance app - Free 1 year membership at Google Play

So I have been using them for two years with new email accounts and they are great and have helped me control my anxiety and depression. I can confirm that you can cancel it straight after buying and you'll get the whole year free. I have got two of my friends in it as well because of how good they are.
I do want to pay but they don't even have a headspace like £5/month subscription.
After my various combinations and realising that if I don't pay them I'll lose them as they might go out if business, I have now decided to go for a headspace India account using a VPN. It's £10 a year and does a really good job
I still believe balance is better with its personalisations and plans but too expensive

I just want to try it first but it won't let me proceed unless I make a minimum £5 contribution. Shame, as if it seemed useful to me then I would have been happy to make a contribution later.

But what happens at the end of the year?! Am I going to be billed? I'll probably forget to cancel it like I always do, then be left with no money, or failing direct debits. What if they cut off my phone or internet, so I can't even get my money back?!This whole thing is giving me a panic attack.

Use this by all means to get used to Meditation, but know this you don't need to pay anything for Meditation. Don't let an app be a crux. Meditation is about thought training essentially, there's more to it than that as you delve deeper. It trains you to observe your thoughts, in the modern world we empower all of our thoughts with intrinsic meaning. Our thoughts are even predictions of a future that are mostly inaccurate but we put absolute faith in them. So Meditation is about training you that you can choose whether to respond to thoughts or not, you will eventually witness thoughts both good, bad and indifferent come and go. Thoughts are transient and you can't control your thoughts, but you at least with training will have more control over your response to thoughts and that is the power of Meditation.

It's not about perfection, there is nothing to perfect but over time it becomes a very powerful tool. Unfortunately Meditation and its real purpose is so diluted that many don't understand the premise behind Meditation and think it is just about relaxing, it isn't. Training you in thought response may eventually lead you to being more relaxed but the primary purpose of Meditation is you are not your thoughts and you can have a choice of not empowering any thoughts, but sometimes you will fail and that is part of life and that is alright. Hope I explained it OK. I have no idea how well this app teaches Meditation and the real purpose behind it. I do know that you don't need to pay to learn how to Meditate and benefit from it.

If you do want to pay and want to use Meditation to the fullest effect you can read The Mind Illuminated or you could just get the book from a library and read it, it's probably a book you want to keep and reference though as it is a long path that ends only when you do.

Also on the App store. Heat.

Is it just for new users? I used before but cancelled when the free subscription ended.. I wonder if I am elegible?

Is it better than headspace?

Is ot any better than Headspace? I get that free through work. Tbh, I've only used it a handful of times. Didn't really thjnk it was much use, maybe I'm not using it to it's fullest ability.