Woliba vs. Headspace for Work

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More Than a Mindfulness App.

Headspace for Work offers a globally-recognized meditation and mindfulness platform focused on stress reduction, sleep improvement, and mental health for employees.

 

Woliba delivers a complete employee experience—combining wellness challenges, recognition, rewards, surveys, coaching, and real-time analytics—so you build culture, not just calm.

Pay for Performance

With Woliba, you pay only when your people engage. Our pay-for-performance model charges based on monthly active users—so your investment aligns with actual usage and results.
Headspace is typically licensed per user for access to mindfulness and mental health-tools—whether deeply used or not. Woliba aligns cost with impact.

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Feature comparison

Woliba vs. Headspace for Work

Woliba
Headspace for Work
Wellness Challenges

Yes

Hundreds of customizable challenges across steps, distance, calories, hydration, nutrition, habits, mindfulness, and more

close No

Headspace focuses on mindfulness, meditation, sleep, and wellness content; it does not heavily emphasize broad, customizable wellness challenges across physical, nutrition, habit domains.
Wellness Content Library

Yes

Weekly articles, videos, workouts, and recipes from Woliba’s in-house wellness team

Yes

Headspace offers a huge library of guided meditations, sleep-casts, workouts, movement and focus content aligned to mental health and wellbeing.
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs)

Yes

Built-in, personalized with content recommendations

close No

Headspace’s core offering is mindfulness and mental health support—not full HRA functionality. There is no public emphasis on built-in, personalized health risk assessments across physical health domains.
Live & On-Demand Events

Yes

Stream fitness classes, meditations, and webinars

Yes

Headspace offers on-demand mindfulness, sleep, meditation and motion content; however, the depth of “live” events vs cataloged content may be more limited.
Custom Rewards Catalog

Yes

Fully customizable rewards, points tracking, flexible integrations

close No

Headspace is centered on mental health & wellbeing content, coaching, therapy; it does not prominently market a fully-customizable rewards catalog for broad wellness/recognition programs.
Admin Dashboard & Reporting

Yes

Real-time analytics dashboard with engagement trends, risk reports, usage data, and team-level insights

Yes

Headspace provides dashboards and analytics for employers to monitor usage, engagement and outcomes of mindfulness/mental health programs.
Recognition Tools

Yes

Peer-to-peer recognition, birthdays, anniversaries, spotlight awards, manager roles, values-based kudos

close No

Headspace does not emphasize recognition tools (peer-to-peer awards, anniversaries, values features) as part of its core mindfulness/mental-health offering.
Manager Recognition Tools

Yes

Managers can recognize, reward, and track team-specific data

No

Headspace does not highlight dedicated manager-recognition workflows in its core offering.
Platform Customization

Yes

Branding, outcomes, recognition workflows, rewards, messaging—all configurable

Yes

Headspace supports branded launch materials, global enterprise support, multi-language localized content, but its focus is less on full engagement workflow customization across recognition + surveys + wellness.
Modular Product Suite

Yes

Pick and pay for only what you need: recognition, wellness, surveys, coaching, more

close No

Headspace is primarily a mental health and mindfulness platform; not built as a full modular engagement suite with recognition + wellness + surveys all in one platform in public materials.
Platform Evolution

Yes

Continuous improvements and new features based on client feedback

Yes

Headspace continuously evolves content and services (coaching, therapy, global support).
Employee Engagement Surveys

Yes

Built-in pulse surveys with dashboards and action planning

Yes

Headspace is centered on mental health and mindfulness; it does not explicitly market built-in employee engagement surveys as part of its core offering.
Mobile-Friendly Experience

Yes

Sleek, modern, mobile-first UX

Yes

Headspace offers a robust mobile app experience with mindfulness content, sleep support and movement; fully mobile-first.
Customer Support

Yes

Dedicated account manager, fast support, strategic engagement reviews

close No

Headspace offers enterprise-level customer success, launch supports, and global service for employer programs.

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Why Woliba is the Smarter Choice

A Truly Holistic Platform

Woliba is built around the 12 Pillars of Wellbeing—supporting physical, mental, social, emotional, and professional health. From wellness challenges to recognition, surveys, coaching, and rewards, every feature works together to help employees thrive across all areas of life.

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Powerful Admin Dashboards and Real-Time Data

Woliba provides full visibility into wellness, recognition, participation, engagement trends, and culture metrics—all from one unified platform designed to drive action and growth.

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Customization Without Limits

From branding to outcomes, to rewards, communications, recognition workflows, and program design—Woliba adapts fully to your organization’s culture and goals. Headspace offers excellent mindfulness and mental health solutions; Woliba offers full flexibility across the entire engagement spectrum.

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Built to Power Your Entire Workplace

Creating a work culture is a shared responsibility where every individual plays a vital role and it all starts with selecting the right solution. Allow Woliba to transform this into a reality.

Woliba is my favorite wellness program I’ve ever experienced. The articles and recipes are easy to read and valuable, and I love that I can access everything during the workday. The videos and articles stay current with health trends, which is especially nice.

Lisa Owen

I love the flexibility—there’s no set schedule, so I can explore videos, recipes, and challenges on my own time. On weeks when I have a few extra minutes, I can really take advantage of the app.

Malcolm O’Brien

I give Woliba a solid 10. It offers a lot of informative topics on health and wellness, and I really enjoy the variety of recipes for different health needs. The step challenges are great!

Sumana Disimone

I’d give Woliba a 10! I’m motivated by the point system and love that I can sync my Fitbit to track my steps. As a busy mom of two, it’s great to have a place to log my workouts and stay on track.

Brehan Stetka

The Woliba program keeps me motivated to participate with others and maintain a healthy mindset. I enjoy the challenges, tips, recipes, engagement board, and helpful videos. On a scale of 10, I would absolutely recommend Woliba—it’s been a great program.

Naomi L CDC

Woliba is extremely easy to use! I love the variety of content—sessions, recipes, and articles that support a more holistic approach to wellness. The challenges and points system keep me motivated, and syncing with my watch makes it even easier to stay on track.

Erin Z

Woliba is a great tool for staying on track with your goals. I love that I can earn points in so many different ways, including doctor’s visits and immunizations—other apps don’t offer that range. The mental health resources, yoga, and stretching videos have been especially helpful for managing anxiety and improving flexibility.

Billie Ann M.

Woliba helps set my goals and keep me on track throughout the year. It’s great for staying consistent with daily workouts, discovering new recipes, and learning through wellness education. The challenges use gamification to make healthy habits fun—and the rewards and insurance incentives are a big bonus.

Katie B

Headspace for Work is a leading mindfulness and mental health platform.
Woliba is a total employee experience platform.

If you’re ready to go beyond mindfulness and build a culture that attracts, retains, and energizes your people—Woliba is ready.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Woliba utilizes a Monthly Active User (MAU) pricing model, ensuring you only pay for employees who actively engage with the platform. This approach offers cost-efficiency and aligns expenses with actual usage, providing better ROI compared to traditional per-seat pricing models.

Absolutely. Woliba offers extensive customization options, allowing you to align wellness challenges, recognition programs, rewards systems, surveys, and branding with your organization’s specific goals and culture.

 Yes. Woliba supports teams in over 25 countries, offering multilingual content, timezone flexibility, and mobile-first access, making it ideal for distributed and international workforces.

Woliba provides access to over 300 wellness challenges, including those focused on physical activity, mental health, nutrition, and more. Challenges are fully customizable to align with your company’s wellness strategy.

 Indeed. Woliba integrates employee recognition, surveys, DEI tools, coaching, and real-time analytics into a single platform, facilitating a comprehensive approach to employee engagement and well-being.

Woliba’s real-time admin dashboard delivers insights into participation rates, wellness trends, recognition activities, and more, enabling HR teams to make data-driven decisions and measure program effectiveness.

 Woliba offers a 60-90 day guided onboarding process, with continuous support thereafter. Additionally, optional program management services are available, starting at $200/month, to assist in running engagement campaigns and wellness initiatives.

 Yes. Woliba’s challenges are designed based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, promoting sustainable habit formation through stages of change, motivation, and accountability.

Woliba’s in-house team of wellness professionals, including coaches and mental health experts, curates and updates content regularly, ensuring relevance and alignment with the 12 Pillars of Wellbeing.

Woliba employs points systems, badges, leaderboards, and social feeds to gamify wellness activities, fostering motivation and participation among employees.

Yes. Woliba allows administrators to pre-schedule wellness campaigns, events, and automated communications, streamlining program management and ensuring consistent engagement.

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Employee Recognition

Wellness Challenges

Wellness Resources

Employee Engagement Surveys

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Recognition

Recognition that bolsters company culture, empowers employees, and boosts productivity.