Comparison

Breathing Exercises vs Pine

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Breathing Exercises

This app offers guided breathing patterns for relaxation, meditation, and breath training. Visualize your breath with customizable inhale, exhale, and hold times. Track your progress and integrate with HealthKit for mindful minutes.

Highlights
  • Full screen breath visualization
  • Guided and free-form sessions
  • Customizable inhale/exhale/hold times
  • Usage history tracking
  • HealthKit integration
  • Custom themes and reminders
Features
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Breathe+ is a beautifully simple way to visualize your breathing. Use Breathe+ for daily relaxation, meditation or breath training. "Relax, de-stress, and find a little peace" - LifeHacker.com "Relax Both Body and Mind With Breathe+" -AppAdvice.com "Breathe+ lets you take a break" -Mashable.com Features: •Beautiful full screen breath visualization •Guided session lengths from 1-60 minutes •Free-form session lengths •Breathe cycle counter •Adjust inhale, exhale lengths from 1-32 seconds •Add breath holds from 1-32 seconds if desired •Change settings even during a session •Track usage history- graphs, total time and streaks •HealthKit integration to record mindful minutes •Custom themes, reminders and more.... Terms of Service: http://dynamicappdesign.com/tos

About

Pine

This app offers guided deep breathing exercises and ambient sounds to help you relax and manage stress. It includes a personal journal with an emotions log and integrates with Apple Health to track your mindfulness minutes and mood over time. Customizable sessions and challenges help build consistent habits.

Highlights
  • Guided deep breathing exercises
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Personal journal with emotion logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable session duration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Habit-building challenges
Features
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Pine lets you find a moment to relax with deep breathing exercises, ambient sounds, and a personal Journal. Pine guides you through deep breathing exercises and meditation on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, and now with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access. Pine features different breathing exercises, each designed to target different types of stress, anxiety, fatigue, and depression. Pine lets you build your own sessions to structure your practice exactly how you like it. Pine has a personal journal built right in, so you can record the daily events throughout your day. The journal also features an emotions log and Apple's State of Mind tracking, so you can record your mood, the thoughts or events behind it, and see how you're really doing over time, right alongside the rest of your data in the Health app. Challenges give you a simple way to build a lasting breathing and meditation habit, one session at a time. Complete Feature List: • A range of deep breathing exercises. • A customizable breathing exercises. • Ability to change the duration of your breathing exercise between 1 minute and 10 minutes. • A great design that helps you relax. • Various ambient sounds to play during your breathing exercises. • Import songs or playlists from Apple Music. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access to your favorite exercises. • Challenges to help you build a consistent breathing and meditation habit. • Reminders to take a minute to relax every day. • Works with Apple Health: Sync Mindfulness Minutes and State of Mind entries with the Health App. • iCloud syncing between your devices so all of your breathing exercises, journal entries, and mood logs stay in sync. Thank you for considering Pine, I hope it helps you improve your life and allows you to take a minute to appreciate the day, Casey

Screenshots

Breathing Exercises4 screens
Pine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Breathing Exercises at 84% against Pine's 11%. Breathing Exercises also leads on ratings volume (3.5K vs 28) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). Pine's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (5 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Breathing Exercises sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Pine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Breathing Exercises holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathing Exercises has 3.5K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Breathing Exercises's written reviews are positive against 11% of Pine's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breathing Exercises ships an update monthly, Pine fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Breathing Exercises versus Pine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathing ExercisesPine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.5K ratings) — better4.3 (28 ratings)
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews — better11.1% of reviews
Number of ratings3.5K — better28
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB146 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynamic App Design LLCBean's Bytes, LLC

Customer experience

Breathing Exercises

All ratings3,423 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews368 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral5.2%
Negative10.9%

Pine

All ratings28 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral33.3%
Negative55.6%

Bugs and requests

Breathing Exercises

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sound not working on some devices
  • Upgrade functionality not working
  • Ads freezing the app
  • Breath timings not working as expected

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to save custom breathing patterns
  • Integration with heart rate variability apps
  • Apple Watch app
  • Darker color schemes for nighttime use
  • Metronome feature
Show 3 more
  • Cycle-based breathing sessions
  • More sound options
  • Ability to pause sessions

Pine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Breathing Exercises

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Unlock Themes$3.99
  • Unlock Usage History$3.99
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  • Unlock Everything$69.99
3 purchases

Pine

Subscriptions2
  • Pine Premium Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Pine Premium Yearly3 Months trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pine Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Breathing Exercises free?
Breathing Exercises is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pine free?
Pine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Breathing Exercises or Pine?
Breathing Exercises is rated higher. Breathing Exercises averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Pine averages 4.3 from 28 ratings.
Do Breathing Exercises or Pine have ads?
Breathing Exercises shows ads; Pine does not.
Which is updated more often, Breathing Exercises or Pine?
Breathing Exercises ships an update monthly, and Pine fortnightly. Most recently, Breathing Exercises was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pine on November 2, 2026.

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