Breathing Exercises vs Box Breathing
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
Box Breathing
Enhance your well-being with guided breathwork exercises. This app offers personalized sessions based on a breathing test, with categories for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. Experience immersive audio, haptic feedback, and sound cues for stress reduction and improved performance.
- Personalized breathing test
- Exercise categories (Calm, Sleep, Focus, Energize)
- Audio guide and sound cues
- Haptic feedback
- CO2 tolerance test
- Stress and anxiety relief
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Unlock the power of breathwork and improve your physical and mental well-being with Float - the ultimate breathing app that makes it easy to breathe. Customize your experience with a breathing test and choose from exercise categories for calm, sleep, focus, quick relief, and energize. Used by top coaches and athletes, Float combines an audio guide, haptic feedback, and sound cues for a truly immersive breathing experience. Breathing is an essential practice for both your physical and mental well-being and Float is the ultimate breathing app that guides you through personalized breathing exercises to help you increase your performance throughout the day and reduce stress & anxiety. With Float, you can take a CO2 tolerance test, which gives us a reliable idea about your breathing in the last weeks and months. This test allows us to customize the breathwork to your very individual demands, ensuring you get the most out of each session. Whether you're an athlete or an office worker, practicing breathwork can be a powerful way to boost your health, and performance, control your nervous system and manage anxiety. Practicing breathwork is scientifically proven to increase your physical and mental performance. The benefits of learning to breathe with Float are endless, including relief from stress and anxiety, emotional healing, increased CO2 tolerance, improved immunity, and easier sleep. You'll also develop or increase self-awareness, enrich your creativity, improve focus and clarity, and boost your confidence and self-esteem. Breathwork with Float can also help you process emotions, heal emotional pain and trauma, and increase your CO2 tolerance. Additionally, it can help boost your immunity, fall asleep easily, enrich creativity, and improve focus, gain clarity and reduce brain fog. Float's breathwork exercises are curated by some of the top breathing coaches and are used by psychologists, physiotherapists, Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, freedivers, yogis, and neuroscientists. We continue to work on expanding the breathwork exercises library to cover the most frequent stressful events occurring during the day. Breathing exercises are categorized into CALM, SLEEP, FOCUS, QUICK RELIEF, and ENERGIZE. The list of breathing exercises available in Float includes: – 4-7-8: Drift into sleep – Acumen: Get clarity, get focused – Alert: Get ready for action – Balance: Reconcile left & right brain – Box Breathing: Be right here, right now – Coherent: Stabilize your mood – Doping: Pre-workout routine – Ninja: Get calm like a ninja – Recovery: Cool down after a workout – Resonance: Sharpen your mind – Slumber: Sleep soundly – Sunrise: Rise & shine – Sunset: End the day in serenity – Unblock: Set your nose free – Wind Down: Take a moment to deeply relax – NSDR: Non-Sleep Deep Rest Please be aware that sessions can cause and are not limited to: – Tingling – Dizziness – Trembling, shaking, or other physical sensations – Emotional experiences – Experience energy moving through your body Got a question? Send us an email at team@keepfloating.com DISCLAIMER: This content in the Float app is not medical advice or a treatment plan and is intended for general education and demonstration purposes only. The content should not be used to self-diagnose or self-treat any health, medical, or physical condition. Don’t use this content to avoid going to your own healthcare professional or to replace the advice they give you. Consult with your healthcare professional before doing anything contained in this content. Links: Privacy Policy - https://www.keepfloating.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use - https://keepfloating.com/terms Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/float.breath TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@float.breath The Float app saves your meditation and sleep sessions to your Apple Health app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Box Breathing at none against Breathing Exercises's shown. Breathing Exercises's advantage is ratings volume (3.4K vs 318). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Breathing Exercises against 4.8 for Box Breathing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathing Exercises has 3.4K ratings behind it against 318, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Breathing Exercises's written reviews are positive against 79% of Box Breathing's.
Breathing Exercises ships an update monthly, Box Breathing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breathing Exercises | Box Breathing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.4K ratings) | 4.8 (318 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 318 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dynamic App Design LLC | STRV s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Breathing Exercises
Box Breathing
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
Box Breathing
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
Box Breathing
- Float PRO - Monthly Membership$9.991 Month
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$39.991 Year
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$49.991 Year
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- Float PRO Breathing Exercises7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$199.99
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