Breathing Exercises vs Pine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Full screen breath visualization
- Guided and free-form sessions
- Customizable inhale/exhale/hold times
- Usage history tracking
- HealthKit integration
- Custom themes and reminders
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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
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Breathing Exercises ships an update monthly, Pine fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Breathing Exercises | Pine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.3 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 11.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dynamic App Design LLC | Bean's Bytes, LLC |
Customer experience
Breathing Exercises
Pine
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
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- Cycle-based breathing sessions
- More sound options
- Ability to pause sessions
Pine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Breathing Exercises
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Unlock Themes$3.99
- Unlock Usage History$3.99
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- Unlock Everything$69.99
Pine
- Pine Premium Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Pine Premium Yearly3 Months trial$29.991 Year
- Pine Premium Lifetime$49.99









