
Downshift: Breathing Exercises
Nervous System & Breathwork
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Downshift offers guided breathing exercises for the moments you feel tense or stressed — box breathing, 4-7-8, resonance breathing and the physiological sigh — plus progressive muscle relaxation, a body scan and, with a watch or tracker, a daily nervous-system reading from your Apple Health data.
Breathe along. Follow the animated orb through guided patterns: the Physiological Sigh, Resonance breathing, Box, 4-7-8, and more. Gentle haptics mark every inhale and exhale, so you can do it with your eyes closed.
Build a daily rhythm. A simple daily checklist of evidence-based habits — morning light, movement, a caffeine cutoff, a steady bedtime — with a streak to keep you going.
See your progress. Log your tension morning and evening and watch the trend over time.
Let go of physical tension. Guided progressive muscle relaxation walks you head-to-toe.
On your wrist and your Home Screen. A standalone Apple Watch app with guided breathing, complications, and your reading at a glance — plus Home and Lock Screen widgets.
Yours, and private. Your Apple Health data stays on your device. Your notes sync privately through your own iCloud — no account with us, no servers of ours, no tracking. Ever.
Free to download and use. No ads.
Downshift supports everyday wellbeing and is not a medical device or a substitute for professional care.
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What's New in Downshift
2.6
October 5, 2026
• Plainer wording across the app: practice descriptions, daily-habit notes and several Learn entries now simply describe what each one is. • Two new names. The one-minute card at the top of the Breathe tab is now "Breathing break". In More patterns, the one with equal in- and out-breaths is now "Slow & Even". • New: a Rate Downshift row, under About in Settings.
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