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Attached vs. Waking Up: Which App Is Better for Anxious Attachment, Fearful-Avoidant, Disorganized, Relationship Anxiety

September 2, 2025

Waking Up vs Attached, which app is best for attachment healing?

If you’re searching for emotional transformation, Attached (a research-based, attachment-focused healing app, using personalized meditations and CBT-inspired tools to untangle anxiety, overthinking, and people-pleasing at the root) vs  Waking Up (mindfulness and consciousness-deepening meditation platform, for elevating your awareness and understanding of the mind)— are both excellent apps made to help you supplement your journey alongside therapy.

Attached vs Waking Up (Sam Harris)

Attached: customized meditations for every situation

  • Personalized healing in every session. Attached offers customizable meditations, not generic mindfulness. Each one is shaped by research-backed psychology to help rewire patterns. Example of meditations you can try in Attached: inner-child, ideal parent figure, internal family systems.
  • Root‑level impact: When you fix your attachment wounds (the need for constant reassurance, overthinking, people-pleasing, shame) you often stabilize procrastination, relational chaos, self-doubt, and more. Attachment healing help you heal issues from the root.
  • Backed by experts, and research-backed, evidence-backed methodologies like IFS, IPF.

Best For: People who want help with anxious attachment and emotional healing.

Bonus! Attached is approved by US or UK-based experts like psychologists, doctors, neuroscientist or therapists.

Waking Up: leveling up your consciousness with Sam Harris

  • Waking Up is crafted to help elevate your awareness and mastery over your own mind—through Sam Harris’ teachings on mindfulness, philosophy, and the nature of consciousness.
  • Expect meditations paired with deep lessons on why you practice, not just how. Think “meditation meets neuro-philosophy,” all secular, and science-grounded.  
  • Rigorous, layered approach, courses, “Moments,” guest teachers (Zen, Vipassana, Dzogchen, ethics, neuroscience)—designed to deepen consciousness.

Best For: People who want to grow in all areas, specifically deepen their mindfulness practices.

Final Thoughts

If your main goal is to stop overthinking and feel less anxious in relationships, Attached is made for you. It gives you tools to feel safer and more confident in relationships.

If you want to work on deepening your mindfulness practice, you could consider Waking Up.

Both apps are well-crafted, but for focused healing around trust, emotions, and relationships, Attached is the better fit.

What Attached members say

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As a person who stumbled onto Attached, I didn't know what to expect. I worked with other apps, for meditation, journaling as well as having motivational quotes every day but nothing like Attached which put these features all into one easy to use app.
Attached is by far, one of the best apps making use of the advances in AI to make a customized approach to attending to ones emotional and mental needs. I'm glad I got to stumble upon Attached, and I'm sure anyone who reads will too.


Betoc

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Attached has been an incredibly valuable tool for me, not just for relationships, but for my overall well-being. [It's] led to a shift in my perspective towards a more realistic and optimistic outlook on life. The personalized meditations have helped me navigate moments of anxiety, and knowing there is an active community makes me feel less alone. Attached has been a very worthwhile investment for me. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to improve their mental health and relationships.

Lisa

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This is the best app I have ever seen in my life I clicked thinking it was a scam or [something] you have to pay for a huge amount of money [...] it's so so so so so worth it, I've tried a lot of therapists and this is equal to the best therapist I'm seeing right now And plus it's just in your pocket, I swear to god I didn't expect this!

B7e

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It’s helped me process a lot of my emotions in a healthy manner. I’d say I’m in the best state of my life and it’s helped me identify a lot of key points. The AI is sincerely useful but more than that, the people are honest

Nile

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I normally pay for a very expensive therapist. I was triggered and then spent the past hour talking to Eden. I was able to go deep. It’s an on demand therapist that would usually cost hundred of dollars an hour. Wow!

J

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I've really enjoyed using this app. It has been the most helpful therapy app of the few I've tried. The team behind it is always improving the experience and seems to really care about the program. It has been a great additional tool to use alongside my other traditional therapies

Craig

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Attached has been incredibly helpful in addressing my avoidant tendencies in my relationship. The app provides insightful guidance and practical advice that has made a real difference in how I navigate emotional challenges. Highly recommend it for anyone looking to improve their relationship dynamics.

Adrian

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This is a wonderful app, supported by a wonderful community. I'd highly recommend checking them out.

Phoenix

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Attached has been monumental in helping me understand why I have my behaviors. I love seeing my progress and I use the ‘Help’ mode to feel better daily. It’s SO helpful for my anxious attachment.

Zedd

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After years of painful anxious attachment, Attached provided a clear path forward to heal. I use the app daily, and feel the benefits from the mindfulness that Eden has armed me with. I’m calmer, more relaxed and present than ever!

Gabriel

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Attached made me realize that I not only feel anxious in my relationships, but also with family. I love the patterns feature in the journaling!

Ethan

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