Dear friends,
In August last year, the Plum Village App reached an important milestone: one million downloads since its launch in 2018.
As exciting as this is, there is so much more to our amazing journey. To give a sense of the app’s impact so far, we have put together a thorough but easily browsable report for the year 2024 – the first of many more to come!
Impact report 2024
In just one year, over 1.9 million hours of collective practice took place via the app, with 160,000 monthly practitioners joining us from across the world.
We hope that by reading or browsing this report you’ll continue to discover new ways to get the most from the app, while better understanding how we work and our deep connections to the extended Plum Village community. From the most popular items on the app, testimonials, and collaborations like podcast series The Way Out Is In or Thich Nhat Hanh’s newly translated teachings, to our YouTube channel, and details on how we nurture our mission, it’s all in there.
Each month, around 90,000 of us collectively meditated for more than 100,000 hours.
Together, we are planting seeds of mindfulness that will bloom for generations to come. Because behind every number in this report lie real individuals discovering that peace is always available, and that, when we practice together, we are never truly alone.
📍 Read the impact report here.
Year 2025 and beyond
This year, we continued to make constant additions and improvements to the app. In July 2025, we launched version 4.0, the highlight of which was a much-needed new feature: contributor screens.
We look forward to gradually bringing more mobile app features to the Web Edition of the app, creating a seamless practice experience across all devices. Available at web.plumvillage.app, this version is especially suited for those using a computer, or who prefer to access teachings through a web browser.
New content is added to the app on a daily basis, so watch this space for announcements, and the app’s Latest Updates for new material. We’re also excited to announce that a redesign is in the works.
We need you
From testimonials, suggestions, and comments, to creating subtitles for audio and video material, and spreading the word about the app and our events, we are extremely grateful for the time and effort behind your constant support. Many of your suggestions have become features, or helped us to tailor the app to the real needs of the practitioners using it.
We hope you’ll keep connecting with us. We always love to hear from you!
Other ways to support the app
Offering a monthly donation towards the continued development of the app enables us to keep adding new meditations, talks, and other resources. As has been the case with Buddhist teachings for millennia, the app is freely available to all – but this is only possible due to the generosity of many donors.
If you are enjoying the app but are not able to donate at this time, you can support us by leaving a positive review on the App Store, Google Play, or TrustPilot.
You can also actively help our efforts by contributing subtitles in English or any other language.
If you experience any difficulties or bugs when using the app, please report these via our contact form; we will follow up by email to help.
Thank you so much for creating this app and maintaining it. The app is my go to source for daily meditation practice each morning. I have made in person and online retreats in the past, and the app helps me feel connected to the Sangha. A special note of praise to the filmmaker who is taking portions of Thâys’ dharma talks and meditations, and putting them together with beautiful film segments. I so enjoy watching them and have saved them to my favourites.
Thank you so much dear Gerard, we’re very happy you find the app supportive. We passed your kind words to Miguel too.
Thank you for your kind words, Gerard. They inspire me to create more videos and share Thay’s teachings with the entire Sangha. I wish you much peace and presence.
Thank you Miguel, I look forward to seeing ( and hearing ) your future projects. Keep up the good work!
The short teachings by Thay and your videography is something I use often and also share with people who are suffering. I think these videos make the teachings accessible and user friendly. I bow in gratitude.
Thank you for your kind sharing, Rosemary 🙏
With gratitude,
plumvillage.app team
I use the app every day for deep relaxation, guided meditations and other teachings. One aspect that I am really enjoying is getting to know and appreciate each individual dharma teacher. I return often to recordings and guidance that fit my circumstance, and there is always something new for me. It feels like a deepening and widening compassion. 🙏🏻🪷🙏🏻
Dear Ted, this is so good to hear. We hope you also enjoy the new feature: contributor screens https://plumvillage.app/app-release-4-contributors/ With deep gratitude 🙏
plumvillage.app team
Dear friends, dear Miguel,
like Gerard I want to thank you so much for everything you offer in this app. For me it is support, encouragement and motivation to take my steps on the path.
Greetings from my heart
Barbara
Dear Barbara, thank you for this kind sharing 🙏 With gratitude,
plumvillage.app team
Thank you Miguel, I look forward to seeing ( and hearing ) your future projects. Keep up the good work!
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Dear friends, dear Miguel?
thank you so much for everything offered in this app. The teachings and the wonderful bell are part of my start in the day. They are motivation and help to go step by step on the path.
Kind regards Barbara
Thank you, Barbara! That is a beautiful start of the day 🙏 A lotus for you 🪷
Thank you to everyone who is involved with this app and Plum Village, to the monastics and lay people who create and make a world wide sanga. You, we, all make a difference, we interare. We only say what we think we know, when we listen and watch we often learn something new. 🪷
Thank you, Charlie, for the kind sharing! We’ll make sure the entire team will see your message 🙂 With gratitude 🪷
plumvillage.app team
This app is truly an incredible resource. It has helped my anxiety tenfold—and for free! Thank you to all who have spearheaded, maintained, and improved this effort.
I remember one particularly difficult day leaning on several meditations on the app until I went through what seemed an insurmountable obstacle: an inner child meditation. That meditation rocked my world and began a very deep healing process I otherwise would not have embarked on, or realized I was on, without this app.
I use the app also to help me with difficult conversations. For example, when I am about to go into a social situation that I know will be difficult, I will listen to a deep listening or true love meditation. These meditations are of course the finger and not the moon, but they have helped me immensely in getting there and feeling much more peace with my past, present, and future.
I am so, so thankful and share it with all who I start talking about meditation with!
Dear Kim, what a beautiful sharing! It makes us very happy to read how the app helped you on your path 🙏 A lotus for you 🪷
plumvillage.app team
Dear Miguel, I greatly appreciate your gift of videography combined with Thay’s short Dharma talks. I have used these for our Monday morning meditation here in Boise, Idaho. You bring us the beauty of Thay’s teachings with the beauty of our planet, our home. In gratitude, Tom Neale