We live in the hyper-distracted digital age where there’s barely enough time in the day for breakfast, let alone a 15-minute meditation.

This is especially true for students, with our jam-packed schedules of classes, meetings and projects. Yet the same smartphone that feeds into our procrastination may hold the secret to staying relaxed and focused.

Guided meditation apps work as the perfect introduction to meditation whether you’re at home, in the library, on the bus or even at the gym.

There are 100 available apps dedicated to meditation for the iPhone, not including podcasts and meditative albums. Many of these apps have timers, reminders to keep you on track, journals to log thoughts and a statistics page to show progress.

I’ve concocted a list of six apps that are unique and applicable to student life ­— on and off campus.

#1. Buddhify is a self-proclaimed meditation on-the-go app created with the purpose of meditation for the modern life.

While it’s one of the more expensive apps — $4.99 for iPhone, $2.99 for Android — it’s well worth the price of a cup of coffee, with more than 80 custom guided meditations and 32 meditation tracks designed for 14 different activities.

The way this app works is you choose an activity (like being online, feeling stressed, or traveling), then you choose from a small selection of meditations designed specifically for that activity.

#2. Omvana is free for iPhones and Androids and has a library so vast that Vogue has deemed it, “the iTunes of guided meditation apps.” These recordings vary from decreasing stress to revitalizing your sex life.

Along with tools that allow you to record your mood and receive suggested meditations, the app also enables users to mix and match meditation tracks as well as record personalized meditations.

#3. Headspace is an excellent place to start for beginners both because of its buddy system tool to help motivate friends and the Take10 beginners program.

Hailed by Emma Watson as “kind of genius,” Take10 teaches meditation in 10 minutes a day for 10 days.

The only hiccup of this app is that while it is technically free for iPhone and Androids, people have to pay for programs beyond the Take10 program.

#4. Insight Timer was my first meditation app so it holds a special place in my heart.

This free app contains a wide variety of guided meditations by well-known mindfulness teachers like Eckhart Tolle, who wrote The Power of Now.

It also contains a logging and statistics feature to track your progress, a meditative journal, a timer and the ability to connect to meditation communities in your area and worldwide.

#5. Breathe2Relax, while technically not a meditation app, has essentially the same goal: to assist in stress management through breath.

With meditation and breathing going hand-in-hand, this free app is perfect for beginners who consider meditation as a little too hippy for them.

#6. Take A Break! is similar to Breathe2Relax in that it is a great start for beginners, especially those intimidated by the concept of beginning a meditation practice.

Free for iPhone and Androids, this app contains calming music or nature sounds with the choice of a 7-minute work break or a 13-minute stress relief meditation.

Essentially, this app is short, sweet, and easy to use.

I hope these suggestions were helpful, and maybe you found one intriguing enough to take a gander; I know I did. Namaste.

Emily Markanich is a journalism senior.