# BreathZen — Ripple Breathing & Zen Timer

> Ripple Breathing & Zen Timer (iPhone/iPad app by 松 李.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/breathzen/id6761292538 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [松 李](https://appshunter.io/developer/1888498708)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-04-13
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/breathzen/id6761292538/reviews.md

## What is BreathZen?

Close your eyes. You can still follow every breath.
BreathZen is a breathing rhythm app designed for quiet practice. Gentle human breath guidance makes inhale and exhale distinct by ear, while holds remain silent. There are no spoken commands and no need to keep watching the screen.
FIVE BUILT-IN PATTERNS — FREE
• 4-7-8 Breath: a longer exhale for winding down • Box Breathing: four equal phases for a steady rhythm • Coherent Breathing: smooth 5.5-second inhales and exhales • 4-6 Calm Breath: gentle pacing without holds • Morning Wake Breath: an inhale-led rhythm for starting the day
MADE FOR CLOSED EYES AND LOCKED SCREENS
With sound enabled, your practice continues when the screen locks or you switch apps. The Lock Screen and Control Center show the current phase, pattern, overall progress, and playback state, with pause and resume controls close at hand.
A RHYTHM THAT FITS YOU
Set inhale, hold, exhale, and rest in half-second steps, up to 60 seconds per phase. Preview the animation and sound while you edit, with live cycle length, breaths per minute, and session duration. Editing and auditioning are free. Saving custom patterns is a one-time purchase, never a subscription.
COUNT BREATHS OR SET A TIME
Practice by rounds or choose 1–120 minutes. When time is up, BreathZen finishes the last complete breath instead of cutting you off halfway through a phase. Paused time does not count against the session.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, ads, tracking, or analytics SDK. Everyday practice works offline. Optionally save completed sessions to Apple Health as mindful minutes.
All five built-in patterns and the complete core practice experience remain free. Custom pattern saving is a one-time unlock.
Practice only within a comfortable range. Stop and return to natural breathing if you feel dizzy, strained, or unwell. BreathZen supports general wellness and mindfulness; it does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.0 — 2026-08-15

A complete redesign around one idea: practice with your eyes closed.
• New human breath guidance makes inhale and exhale clear by ear, with silence on holds 
• Adaptive 0.5–60 second phases without obvious looping or time-stretch artifacts 
• Lock Screen practice with the current phase, pattern, progress, and playback controls 
• Timed sessions from 1–120 minutes that finish the final complete breath 
• Custom four-phase rhythms in half-second steps; edit and audition free, one-time unlock to save 
• Existing users who already saved custom patterns stay permanently unlocked 
• Refined completion ripples, settings layout, and live preview

### 2.1 — 2026-08-08

• On a Mac the app speaks Mac: "Click anywhere to begin", not "tap"
• On a Mac, or an iPad with a keyboard, it now tells you that Space starts and ends a session too
• Settings no longer lists options your device can't use
• Nothing changed on iPhone
• Still no ads, no tracking, no network — your practice history stays on your device

### 2.0 — 2026-08-06

• iPad is a first-class citizen now. The breath field is scaled up to the iPad's own size and the text settles into a centred column, instead of a phone layout stretched wide
• All four orientations on iPad. Landscape gets a layout of its own: the breath field takes one side, the title and the three counters gather on the other, rather than being squeezed above and below it
• Split View, Slide Over and iPadOS 26's resizable windows are supported. However small you drag the window, the layout comes with it — nothing gets clipped
• Fixed the breath field's halo rings drawing past their canvas on iPad and landing on the caption below. The same flaw affected small iPhones and is fixed there too
• Fixed the Last 7 Days chart rendering as a row of ellipses on iPad
• Settings and Practice Journal are no longer a card inside a card on iPad and Mac — they are a single sheet
• With a hardware keyboard, space starts and ends a session; with a trackpad or mouse, the two top icons respond to the pointer
• BreathZen now runs on Apple silicon Macs
• Nothing about the iPhone experience changed from 1.7
• Still no ads, no tracking, no network — your practice history stays on your device

### 1.7 — 2026-08-05

• New Guiding Pad: a soft, continuous drone that brightens as you inhale and settles as you exhale. Follow its swell to keep your pace, even with your eyes closed. Turn it on in Settings
• Phase chimes are actually audible now. The exhale and rest cues sat below the range a phone speaker can reproduce, so they simply vanished, and the overall level was too low. Both are fixed
• Phase chimes used to be silenced by the ring/silent switch. Since you turn them on deliberately, they now sound even in silent mode
• Fixed the rest of a session going silent after a phone call or after unplugging headphones
• Buttons in Settings such as Manage My Patterns only responded at their two ends; the full row is now tappable
• No ads, no tracking, no network — your practice history stays on your device

### 1.6 — 2026-07-26

• The system network prompt no longer appears on launch — some users may have seen it in the previous version; BreathZen has never gone online or sent any data • Rewrote the four breathing cues: the inhale guides your belly to rise, the hold lets the breath rest instead of straining, and the empty beat is no longer framed as waiting • Settings and Practice Journal open faster the first time • No ads, no tracking, no network — your practice history stays on your device

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