Downshift: Breathing Exercises

Downshift: Breathing Exercises

Nervous System & Breathwork

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Released
June 8, 2026
Updated
October 24, 2026

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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

2.8

October 24, 2026

• History is now one calendar. Each day can show your reading, your practice and your notes, with a legend. Find it on the You tab, under Your stats. • What's new: a short sheet after an update, and "What Downshift can do" in Settings > Learn lists everything in the app. • One small thing: on the Today tab, plan one thing you'd enjoy, for later today or tomorrow. • Background sounds: Rain, Ocean, Forest, Stream, Night and Wind, field recordings in the public domain. Choose one in Settings > Sound & haptics, or from any session. • Downshift now runs on iPad. • The session list, now called All sessions, loads page by page. Clearer tension wording in Spanish, French, Romanian and Italian. Smaller fixes.

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