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Everyone. The “youth” in the name isn’t about age: it’s the lighter, curious, younger-at-heart you that’s still in there, whatever your age. Zenful Youth is a few quiet minutes to find your way back to it.
Tell it what’s on your mind, by typing, speaking, or picking a topic, and choose a length. Zenful Youth writes a new guided meditation about it, with pauses and breathing cues, then guides you through it over a background sound like rain or ocean.
Meditations are written with Apple Intelligence, so you need an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, running iOS 27 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings › Apple Intelligence & Siri. If it’s off or still downloading, the app tells you what to do.
Spoken meditations use voices from ElevenLabs. You connect your own ElevenLabs account with a key, and the app walks you through it step by step. ElevenLabs sets its own age requirements for account holders.
You don’t need a key to use the app. Without one, every meditation is shown as gentle on-screen words over your background sound.
Check that Text to Speech is turned on for the key in your ElevenLabs settings, then copy it again and paste it in Settings › Voice.
Your ElevenLabs plan has a monthly limit. When it runs out, the app says so, and you can keep going with on-screen words until it resets, or upgrade your ElevenLabs plan.
Yes. Sessions keep playing in the background, with controls on the Lock Screen and a Live Activity showing how long is left.
When a session is paused and you minimise the player or leave the app, the background sound goes quiet too, so nothing keeps playing while you’re away. It comes back when you open the player again or press play.
Yes. While a session replays, tap the label at the top of the player (it shows the sound’s name) and pick another. The session remembers it for next time.
Yes. Opened up, Zenful Youth uses both sides of the fold: the welcome, Meditate, Sessions and Settings each show two columns.
Yes. Tap the bookmark while a session is playing, or choose to save it when you end early. It waits in Sessions and picks up where you left off.
No. There are no accounts, analytics, or ads, and your sessions, moods, and reflections stay on your device. If you connect a voice, the meditation text is sent to ElevenLabs to be read aloud. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Delete sessions from Sessions, disconnect your voice in Settings › Voice, or delete the app to remove everything.