# Box Breathing Timer: Fourhold — Paced Breathwork & Mindfulness > Paced Breathwork & Mindfulness (iPhone/iPad app by Ihar Tsikhan.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/box-breathing-timer-fourhold/id6802785487 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Ihar Tsikhan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799971624) - Category: Health & Fitness - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.6 · 55 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-15 - Data updated: 2026-10-09 ## What is Box Breathing Timer? Fourhold is a breathing timer for box breathing and other paced breathing patterns. A light moves around a figure, each phase is named in a word, and a bell marks every turn — so you can stop counting and follow it instead. People reach for a few slow breaths before sleep, to relax after a hard hour, to focus before something that matters, or when stress or anxiety has the breath running fast. Call it box breathing, breathwork or just breathing exercises — Fourhold keeps the count so you do not have to. FOUR PATTERNS Box — 4-4-4-4, four equal sides, to steady. Triangle — in, hold, out; gentler. 4-7-8 — in 4, hold 7, out 8; for sleep. Coherent — 5½ in, 5½ out, to settle in. Set the pace on box and triangle from three to seven seconds a side, choose the length in cycles or leave it open-ended, or tap a preset — Reset, Focus, Before sleep — and begin. SOUND MADE ON THE PHONE Three soundscapes: Drone, a low tone that opens as you fill. Tide, surf rising and falling with the breath. Air, thin and open, almost nothing. A bell at each gate, and an optional metronome tick. None of it is a recording — it is generated on the device as you breathe, so it never loops. On phones that have them, haptics put the breath on your skin. With sound on, a session keeps going when the screen is off. Put the phone down and listen. YOUR PRACTICE Finished sessions land on the Practice screen with a streak and a calendar, kept on your phone. You can end a session early, and any full cycle you have breathed still counts. Set a daily reminder if you want one; it is scheduled by your device and skipped on days you have already practised. APPLE HEALTH Turn it on and finished sessions are added as Mindful Minutes, alongside the rest of your mindfulness time. Fourhold only ever writes. It never reads your Health data, and that data never leaves your phone. NIGHT AND DAWN One instrument, two lights: the lantern in the dark, or warm paper with the ink flipped. Or follow the system. SIX LANGUAGES English, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, following your device language. Every feature is the same in every language and every country. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ADS There is nothing to sign up for. Every pattern, every soundscape, every appearance and your whole record are free and stay free. If you want to say thanks, the Support page has a tip jar — a tip buys nothing. ALSO A small home-screen widget, and Siri shortcuts to start a session or open your practice. Fourhold is a general wellness app for paced breathing. It is not a medical device and offers no medical advice. If 4-7-8 leaves you lightheaded, return to normal breathing. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Small tip | $0.99 | one-time | | Kind tip | $2.99 | one-time | | Generous tip | $9.99 | one-time | ## Is Box Breathing Timer safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Box Breathing Timer. ## Is Box Breathing Timer legit? Box Breathing Timer: Fourhold has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Box Breathing Timer is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-20 A new icon: the box, with one colour for each of its four sides. Settings has a new Counts row. Show the count and the guide line on every cycle, in full for the first cycle only, or not at all — the figure and the bell still keep time. A session now opens with a short "Breathe out" before the first inhale, so you start from empty. The exhale is now rose instead of coral, so the colour warms while the box fills and cools while it empties. Small fixes and polish throughout. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-18 You can now end a session instead of leaving it or starting over. Pause, then tap "end", next to "start over", and you land back at the start rather than in a new run. Any cycle you have already completed still counts. Ending is not the same as finishing, so it does not ask how you feel. Open-ended sessions can be closed the same way. After a session that finishes on its own, Fourhold may ask you to rate it on the App Store. It uses Apple's own rating sheet, and asks at most three times ever, months apart; it never appears during a session. Settings now has a Rate Fourhold row, which opens the App Store review page whenever you want it — and turns the automatic ask off. Small fixes and polish throughout. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-15 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Box Breathing Timer | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Caloura - Calorie Tracker AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caloura-calorie-tracker-ai/id6793804336) | 3.0 (2) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Mochi Meditation & Breathwork](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mochi-meditation-and-breathwork/id6758957134) | — | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Box breathing - breathcode](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/box-breathing-breathcode/id6746636186) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Calorie Tracker: Burner Diet](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calorie-tracker-burner-diet/id6758013652) | 4.9 (22) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Posture Reminder: Good Spine](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/posture-reminder-good-spine/id6743769260) | 4.7 (3) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Get a Grip - Be The Man](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/get-a-grip-be-the-man/id6757168629) | 4.2 (15) | Free | Health & Fitness | ## Related topics [box breathing timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/box-breathing-timer) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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