# Health through Breath - Pranayama Lite

> Guided deep breathing exercises for stress relief and improved well-being. (iPhone/iPad app by Saagara.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/health-through-breath-pranayama-lite/id347190704 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Saagara](https://appshunter.io/developer/341935133)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Medical
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.30/5 from 4 App Store ratings · 87 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 55 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, European Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2010-01-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/health-through-breath-pranayama-lite/id347190704/reviews.md

## What is Health through Breath?

Stressed? Balance your life and experience a relaxed meditative state to relieve your daily stresses and tensions. Health through Breath is a simple and intuitive guide to deep breathing that features a progressive course based on the principles of yoga to help you find balance and stress relief.  

Just some of our reviews:

“The benefit of Conscious Breathing is so underrated. This is the perfect app.”

“This has helped with my blood pressure and with sleeping”

“I train in several martial art styles and this app may be the BEST one for meditation and breathing which results in less stress and more power”

“Love using this after a long, stressful day.”

Combining the power of breath with technology, Health through Breath - Pranayama is an easy way of improving your health and reducing stress. Using music and animated visuals to guide you to slower deeper breathing, Health through Breath by Saagara enhances the way you feel and leaves you with more energy, stamina, and focus.

**** HEALTH BENEFITS ****

Even practicing slow breathing for only 15 minutes a day can reduce stress and stress-related illnesses. Pranayama has been used by people for the following potential health benefits include reducing: Slow breathing and meditation have been shown to help in:
1) Migraines
2) High Blood Pressure
3) Depression
4) COPD
5) Asthma
6) Improves overall stamina and fitness

**** UNIQUE FEATURES ****

Practicing slow breathing is not as easy as it seems. Pranayama guides you with the following features:

- It does counting for you so that you can focus on awareness and technique.
- Music cues that use distinct tones for each phase of breathing.
- A structured course that gradually reduces your breathing rate as you progress through the sessions.
- Fully customizable sessions

Our animated graphics give you a way to visualize your breathing. You can choose either the dial animation, which shows you the relative length of each breathing phase, or the human animation, which shows you the physical aspects of proper breathing techniques.

Want to know how your organs work during breathing? Just slide the transparency button to get an insider’s look at the body. With Health through Breath by Saagara, better health is at your fingertips.

**** ABOUT PRANAYAMA ****

Pranayama is composed of two Sanskrit words: Prāna, which means life force, or vital energy (for the breath particularly) and "āyāma," to suspend or restrain. It is often translated as control of the life force. When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as "breath control." For current students of yoga, our app can help you improve your technique without much conscious effort, so that you can focus your mind purely on breathing and technique. It is a portable, customizable tool that will take your practice of yoga to the next level.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA

## Key features

- Progressive breathing course
- Music cues for breathing phases
- Structured course to reduce breathing rate
- Customizable sessions
- Animated breathing visuals (dial/human)
- Organ visualization during breathing

## Recent user reviews (10 of 87)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/health-through-breath-pranayama-lite/id347190704/reviews.md

### 1/5 — How can you really relax..?

*2026-01-25*

… when you have to go through 1 minute of a very stressful ad before and after breathing?? Besides, the beginner version 5 minutes 1:1:2 doesn’t work (after, of course, having to endure one of their noisy ad). It used to be much better. I hadn’t used it in a while but something’s definitely changed for the worst there.

### 1/5 — Ads make you stressed

*2025-09-30*

There’s adverts before and after the breathing exercise completely defeating the object of stress relieving breathing!

### 2/5 — Super appli mais une mise à jour serait nécessaire!!

*2024-06-24*

J’utilise cette appli que j’a achetée despuis plusieurs année et j’en suis très satisfaite. Sauf que, depuis quelques semaines j’ai changé de téléphone pour une version plus récente et impossible de fermer l’appli après utilisation, je suis obligée de redémarrer mon téléphone… pourquoi n’y a t’il pas de mise à jour prévue?!??

### 5/5 — 長年使ってます

*2023-07-22*

シンプルな呼吸法をやるならこれで十分です。
無料で使えるし、なんだかんだ何年も使ってます

### 1/5 — Full Version gekauft, aber immer noch Werbung

*2022-08-21*

Full Version gekauft, aber nach ein paar Wochen geht nix mehr. Plötzlich soll ich nochmal zahlen…

### 2/5 — Free version has jarring ads

*2021-04-12*

Imagine you are fully relaxed because of this nice app and the slow breathing it encourages. Then right at the end you awaken from your deep meditation to a jarring loud ad. I understand the need for ads to support free versions of apps but to have one with a very loud audio at the end of a meditation is very annoying. I may have purchased the full app if it wasn’t for this. Deleted.

### 4/5 — Très bien

*2021-01-23*

Application très agréable et bien faite. En revanche, je trouve que la publicité juste à la fin de la séance (a la fin du chronomètre) n’est pas agréable du tout, elle est même très dérangeante. Je pense que la placer à un autre moment serait plus indiqué.

### 2/5 — crashes with anatomical animation

*2020-10-05*

there is no support and no updates since 3 years. 
app works as expected when not showing anatomical animation but dial animation instead. please bug fix asap.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2020-09-23*

First time using, seeking relaxation, an ADVERTISEMENT popped up and monopolized my screen.  Not relaxing!  Badly done.

### 4/5 — Adoro!!

*2020-04-30*

Tenho usado todos os dias!! Mto bom, principalmente pros momentos de ansiedade.

## Frequently asked questions about Health through Breath

### What does the Health through Breath app do?

This app provides a guided experience for deep breathing exercises, inspired by yoga's pranayama principles. It aims to help users relieve stress, achieve a relaxed state, and improve their overall well-being by teaching them to breathe slower and deeper.

### What are the key features of this breathing app?

Key features include a progressive course that gradually reduces breathing rate, music cues for different breathing phases, customizable sessions, and animated visuals to help users visualize their breathing. It also offers an option to see organ function during breathing.

### Is this app free to use?

Based on the provided information, the app is free to use and does not appear to have in-app purchases or advertisements. This means users can access all its features without any cost.

### Who is this app designed for?

This app is designed for anyone experiencing stress or tension and looking for a natural way to find balance and relaxation. It's particularly beneficial for those interested in yoga, meditation, or improving their breathing techniques for better health.

### What are the potential health benefits of using this app?

Practicing slow breathing with this app for even 15 minutes daily may help reduce stress and stress-related issues. Users have reported benefits such as relief from migraines, high blood pressure, depression, and improvements in stamina and fitness.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.1 — 2017-08-29

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Optimized for latest iOS version. 
Bugs fixed.

### 6.6 — 2015-02-25

The back button has been fixed the options menu.

### 6.5 — 2014-12-16

Bug fixes.

### 6.4 — 2014-11-19

Graphic improvements. Minor bug fixes.

### 6.3 — 2014-11-02

Bug fixed that made the app crash during session. Minor display issues solved.

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