Apnea Freediving Exercises User Reviews

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Has helped me heaps and is very easy to follow

This is the best app I have used for increasing my breath hold. It has good recourse and has lots of information on the different types of training

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Great App!

This is a pretty good app, if you ask me.

Just today, I started with a best breath hold time of 1 minute and 1 second. Then, I did the C02 table which lasted for exactly 13 minutes and 4 seconds. After that, I did the breath hold test again, and got a best time of 1 minute and 33 seconds!

I used to have this app before, then my record was 1 minute and 32 seconds. But then now I reinstalled it, and I was confident about my breath hold to where I wasn’t getting diaphragm contractions until about 1 minute and 5 seconds into the breath hold. So that made me confident enough to where I tried to beat that score, even if it was only by one second which it was, with a time of 1 minute and 33 seconds!

This is a pretty good app if you ask me. Great app!
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Response from developer

Thank you for the detailed feedback!

Incredible app

Best free app ever there is basically no ads it truly teaches you great technique and helps with your underwater adventures is enjoyable to do the exercises and it has a great simple ui thats engaging to use

Slick well structured program and app

Using the free version but will probably upgrade. It’s a well structured and informative app. Using for two weeks and saw my breath hold time increase from 1:15 to 1:40 static hold. Goal is 3mins active, this method works!

Major bug

If I leave the app to do something to take my mind off the breath holds it seems to cancel the training, but I still get the notifications.

Response from developer

Thank you for letting me know. I will try to improve the App for this use case. iOS doesn't allow to run apps endlessly in the background to save device battery and memory. You can disable notifications in Settings > Timer Notifications. Also, you can go to Settings and enable Background Audio which will keep the app alive in the background.

Triple Breath Hold Time - 1 week

I realize this might not be common for most people but I’ve been using the app for six days and my time has tripled. I started with a 34 second breath hold, and after doing CO2 tables daily, I can now hold my breath for 1:40. A bit of back story I had open chest surgery to remove a tumour breaching my airway (sub carina) last summer and have been using medical cannabis, I’m sure most people can hold their breath for longer than 34 seconds when starting training.

App is easy to use, nicely laid out. Everything that’s needed and nothing more.
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Good if you don’t mind keeping the app open

While it does what is advertised (timers for ventilation and apnea built around CO2 and O2 tables) it’s frustrating that leaving the app during a session causes you to lose progress. The purpose of paying for this app is to be able to go through the tables with a guide telling you when to breath and when to hold. If I can’t leave the app for 15 seconds during a 2 minute step without it restarting, there’s no incentive to use this over timing yourself and using your own tables for free
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Response from developer

That's not easy to keep App alive in the background, iOS just killing it after some time. To fight with that I implemented background audio which plays underwater ambience. You can find toggle button for "Background Audio" in settings. Enable it to play underwater ambience sounds during the training and have app running in the background. Check if that helps in your case and if possible let me know if that helps. Thanks for feedback! P.S. You can run tables for free. I'm keeping full functionality available for free with only few features behind the paywall.

Great training app

So this is simple enough you’d almost expect it to be free but:
1) It is really easy and effective. In one week my breathold has gone from 60 seconds to 3 minutes. I can’t wait for my next snorkel trip, and expect to be a lot higher on breathhold by then
2) yeah I could use a timer to do this but I wouldn’t in practice, so this rocks. I actually use if during my morning coffeee while surfing the news turning what used to be “wasted” time into a workout
3) it’s like $11 a year… for something that if you use it will really tweak your autonomic nervous system
4) No ads / just clean easy uncluttered functionality
5) it’s fun and easy to see your progress. An almost zen like feeling when you realize it’s been two minutes since your last breath and you are calm and present and have no need to breathe

Ps. Bonus #6 Have started Buteyko Breathing during my runs and aerobics. It is crazy efficient. But it works by boosting CO2 blood gas, so you feel like you are drowning because your ANS is telling you to gasp air like a dying fish because even though you’ve got plenty of blood gas O2 your CO2 is high. This is really helping with that, so an $11 app is also boosting my running, all while I drink my morning coffee… pretty cool stuff!
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Response from developer

Many thanks for detailed feedback! I'm keeping main functionality available for free, but have to charge for premium features to be able to keep working on improvements :)

Love ❤️ this app

The audio prompts are so helpful. I also like that you can cut the first long breath up.

What this app needs is a video demo of how to do a few cycles.

So grateful 🥹

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback!  I will think how to improve guidance for first time users.

Great app

Simple to navigate. Visually interesting. Thanks!

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