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Price: $474.99
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Reviewer: Jennifer Morin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun and informative
Review: I recently started an at home sleep study and was curious about how the brain was working while I sleep so I purchased the Muse. Between the fun little games to train your brain, to being able to see just how the brain reacts to simple things like eye movements, I’m really enjoying this. It’s not too uncomfortable to wear while sleeping. I have loads more to learn about it but so far I love it.
Reviewer: Rajiv
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Complete Disappointment. Did Not Work Out of the Box.
Review: This item was a complete disappointment. It did not work for me at all at first, no stats showed up in the app after multiple sessions. It only started working after several attempts and wasting a lot of time troubleshooting with customer support. I own Muse 2, Muse S, and Muse S (2nd gen), and in my opinion this one is by far the worst. For almost $500 price tag, a product should work straight out of the box, not after hours of trial and error. It feels like I may have been sold a defective unit, though I can’t say for sure. I would not recommend.
Reviewer: Reviewing the Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome product, underwhelming presentation
Review: I have not explored all the exercises and programs yet, but have found the device to be user friendly so far. The amount of neurofeedback info collected by this at-home device is pretty impressive, though I do not have clinical bio- or neurofeedback experience for comparison. I took off one star as packaging and presentation were rather underwhelming considering the value of the device.
Reviewer: BR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It does what it says it will…….
Review: Honestly didn’t think I’d keep using it… but I am!I bought the Muse S Athena thinking it would be another thing I’d try for a week and forget about. I’ve done that with so many wearables. But I am happy with this device.At first I just wanted to try the digital sleeping pills. I’ve always been a light sleeper and I was curious if it could show me anything useful/help keep me asleep. It did. The app showed where my sleep was getting interrupted and when I was actually getting deep rest. It wasn’t perfect every night, but it made me more aware of what was messing with my sleep and the digital sleeping pills seem to help in keeping me asleep during the night (which is cool).The real surprise was how much I started using the daytime stuff. The focus and calm sessions don’t take long, but they help me reset when I’m in that mental fog. I’ll throw it on for 10 minutes before diving into something stressful and I just feel more steady after.The band is soft enough that I forget I’m wearing it. I’ve had a couple times where the connection didn’t register right away, but support helped me out quickly and it’s been smooth since.It’s not magic and it won’t fix your whole life, but it does what it says it will. And that’s rare enough for me to keep going with it.
Reviewer: Brian Szucs
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Effective but badly built. Failed within months, and no short-term subscription option is offered.
Review: I want to be very clear: this device helped me tremendously. From a meditation and awareness standpoint, the Muse S Athena is genuinely effective. The EEG feedback, metrics, and long-form session support made a real difference in my practice, and I don’t regret using it.That said — for a device that costs around $500, the physical build quality is unacceptable.I use this headband about 2 hours per day, carefully and consistently, and it began failing after 3–4 months. No drops, no abuse, no misuse — just normal, daily meditation. The materials feel fragile, strain points are obvious in hindsight, and for something designed to be worn on the head for extended periods, it simply isn’t built to last.What makes this more frustrating is that:There is no short-term or trial subscription option (not even 3 months)The hardware fails well before the price point would suggestYou’re essentially paying premium pricing for a device that behaves like a prototypeThis isn’t a “wear and tear over years” issue — this is a design and durability problem.If Muse fixed the build quality, this could be an outstanding product. The tech works. The data is useful. The meditation support is real. But right now, the physical execution doesn’t match the ambition or the cost.I hope Muse takes this feedback seriously, because the underlying product deserves better hardware.
Reviewer: SungMin
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Poor contact.
Review: It does not work consistently. Constant adjustment needed for good contact just like previous bands from This company. I would use it more but got tired of adjusting. Please don’t waste your time and money on this half baked product that can’t even do the basic must(contact skin!).
Reviewer: Felipe Guarin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: “upgraded from my old muse ,this thing is getting crazy good”
Review: Honestly didn’t think i’d upgrade but here we are.had the previous version and those biofeedback games completely changed how i meditate. like, you HEAR when your brain calms down vs when it’s racing. made meditation actually make sense for the first time. got me obsessed with BCI (brain computer interfaces) and started going down the biohacking rabbit hole hard.so when they added fNIRS sensors (the blood oxygen stuff from actual research labs) i caved and got the athena. and yeah, it’s noticeably better. more accurate, the new brain training games are actually challenging, and i can feel the difference in the readings.If you’re just meditation curious, this is overkill. but if you’re already into tracking stuff and want to see what’s happening in your brain? this is wild.I’m excited about where this tech is going. Each version adds real capabilities not just minor tweaks.
Reviewer: Robert Arnot md
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: There is no apparent way to turn sleep on or off or record it
Review: Saw great reviews of this. And lots of ads on Instagram. Received the device to use for sleep. It’s literally like the whole design team never saw or used the product. Quite simply there is no on and off button to measure sleep. Set up the device for sleep but it recorded nothing. The app is a blizzard of meaningless apps but missed the focal feature…an on and off button for measuring sleep. Infuriating that companies selling health products dont have a design team or have the most elemental understanding of user interfaces.
Reviewer: The Late Reviewer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve only had my device for a few days so an early point of review.1. It seems well made but time will tell.2. I’d seen other reviews before buying and they suggested that much of the ‘real’ content is available without subscription. Well, as I traversed the menus and options I was somewhat surprised to find a great deal of the material only available with a further subscription. Yes, it’s useful without them but using external music is only available to subscribers? Is there some fundamental development cost I’m not aware of that means that can’t be just available with the device? I just want to listen to my own music? Of course, that’s the intent in the board room of these companies as little of it makes much sense to the consumer. We want to push people to a subscription so everything ‘nice’ is hidden there and the basics come with the device. This just seems a punitive call for the consumer and an attempt to ensure that any boredom with the available programs gets you into the world of subscriptions as quickly as possible.3. There’s an option to save results but they don’t go anywhere (that I’ve found) other than on the device. So if you want to see the results of your program on the small screen of your phone then that’s great as it doesn’t get pushed to the cloud where you might access detail more clearly. Nope, that would actually warrant a subscription but create costs for the company so we’re not going to do that. No apps other than mobile devices so even on the computer I can’t see what I’m apparently supposed to be seeing.4. There’s a variety of content available ‘out of the box’ and I suppose it’s enough to help train the mind and develop some skills in the areas provided. That’s obviously the most basic necessity of the Athena so no real gains to be had there.In summary, it’s a fine device but clearly the aim is to have you as a subscriber. There seems little real need for some of the content as available to sit behind a new paywall other than that’s better for the company. Pay (lots) of money per month and perhaps you’ll be happy with a new soundscape once per month. Such a shame we can’t just back to the days when I’d buy them like a game where I just gave a couple of dollars one month and got a couple of new soundscapes (or features) that took my fancy. No, they have longevity to fund and the best way to do that is get a cash flow and hope people just pay for what they already have month after month.Disappointed that a device started with some crowd funding – so no risk to them – ends up just pursuing the cash-flow approach to delivery with little in the costs suggesting the minimum risks associated with the device or its founders (i.e., risk). I’ll continue to use the device as is but a subscription won’t be being paid for by myself. Just such a shame that so much of content that would be pennies per month to delivery ends up being dollars per month for the end use.
Reviewer: Pham Thanh Tung
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good
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