You're paying $14.99/month or $69.99/year for Calm Premium. Lifetime access is occasionally offered for $399.99.
Open iPhone Settings > tap your name at the top.
Tap Subscriptions.
Tap Calm.
Tap Cancel Subscription and confirm.
You keep Premium access until the end of your billing period.
Open the Google Play Store app and tap your profile icon (top-right).
Tap Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions.
Tap Calm > Cancel subscription.
Follow the prompts and confirm.
Go to calm.com and sign in.
Click your profile picture (top-right) > Manage Subscription.
Click Cancel Subscription.
Choose a reason if asked, then confirm.
Calm Premium content stays accessible until the end of your billing period.
Saved meditation history, sleep stats, and favorites remain in your account.
Free tier access continues — daily Calm meditation, some content, basic features.
If you resubscribe later, your history and saved sessions are restored.
Calm retains your account, meditation history, sleep data, and saved sessions indefinitely. You can request deletion via [email protected] under GDPR or CCPA. Anonymous practice statistics may be retained for product analytics.
Calm's strengths are the celebrity narrators (Matthew McConaughey, Jerome Flynn) and the Sleep Stories library. If you actually use those, the $69.99/year cost averages $5.83/month. If you mostly use the free daily meditation, cancelling and using the free tier costs nothing.
Calm does not generally issue refunds for the unused portion of a subscription. If you subscribed through Apple, you can request a refund via reportaproblem.apple.com within 90 days. Google Play allows refund requests within 48 hours of purchase.
If you specifically want breathwork, Nerva (nerva.byalif.app) is free during launch and focuses on evidence-based breathing techniques. For broader meditation, Insight Timer has the largest free meditation library. SubTracker can remind you before Calm auto-renews.
Calm doesn't have an official pause feature. Cancel, then resubscribe when you want to return — your meditation history and saved sessions remain attached to your account.
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