Question 1

Is toUnknown free?

Accepted Answer

Partly, and honestly. The 15-minute taster and the first three tracks of every course are open to anyone, with no account. With a free account, both Vipassana Part 1 courses open in full, by donation. Membership ($11/month or $88/year) opens the full library of 284 guided sittings, and ten courses can also be bought on their own, once, for €19–€59. Every price is on one page, tounknown.com/pricing/. No one is turned away for money — a single honest paragraph to tounknown.com@gmail.com is enough to be given full access.

Question 2

Does meditating actually make the subscription cheaper?

Accepted Answer

Yes — that is the model. Sit on 20 days in a month and the next month costs 25% less; 25 days, half price; every day, and the next month is free. The free month can be kept or given to someone who cannot pay. It is counted at the end of the month, so a missed day costs nothing and there is no streak to break. Only completed guided sittings count, not talks — the discount follows practice, not listening.

Question 3

What makes toUnknown different from Headspace, Calm or Insight Timer?

Accepted Answer

Every course names its lineage — the tradition, the source text and the era it comes from — and names the line of teachers the tradition itself comes from. Nothing is invented for the app. And courses unlock by practice rather than by payment: a sitting opens only after you have genuinely sat the one before it, verified by elapsed time, so the track cannot be skipped. And practice lowers the price rather than being irrelevant to it: the more you sit, the less the next month costs.

Question 4

What does 'unlock by practice, not payment' mean?

Accepted Answer

Each guided sitting opens only once you have actually sat the previous one. The server checks elapsed time, so scrubbing to the end of a track does not open the next. Introductions and talks are always open to listen to — only the guided meditations form the chain. It is how a retreat works, and how a living lineage transmits.

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