Comparison

Allurion vs Breath Cycle

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

Head to head
About

Allurion

This app supports a weight loss program by tracking weight, steps, sleep, and exercise. It facilitates data sharing with a healthcare team, enables messaging and telehealth, and offers an AI coach for personalized guidance.

Highlights
  • Weight, step, sleep, and exercise tracking
  • Data sharing with healthcare team
  • In-app messaging and telehealth
  • AI weight loss coach
  • Library of program articles
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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The companion app for the Allurion weight loss program. This app syncs with your Allurion Connected Scale and Health Tracker, and easily tracks your weight, steps, sleep and exercise, and enables you to share data with their Allurion healthcare team, message Allurion Clinics, participate in video Telehealth calls, and easily request support. Participants in the Allurion Program have access to a library of articles designed help them in the program and their weight loss journey. Users also have access to Coach Iris, Allurion’s AI weight loss coach, for personalized guidance and motivation. Health App Integration: This app stores your weight data using HealthKit, so you can use it in Apple Health and other iOS apps.

About

Breath Cycle

Features
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Start with one breath. Breath Cycle is a quiet guided-breathing app with responsive visual cues, gentle sound, and phase-matched haptics. Just Breathe is always free, works offline, and needs no account. WHAT WOULD HELP RIGHT NOW? Find calm, feel less overwhelmed, focus, prepare for sleep, or simply start breathing. Breath Cycle can suggest a suitable exercise without treating your choice as a diagnosis. With Pro, reflections that you choose to save can inform clear, on-device recommendations. SEE AND FEEL THE RHYTHM Breathe with Particles, or choose Air and Color Flow with Pro. Each visual follows breathing in, holding, breathing out, and the optional rest. Sound and haptics stay tied to breathing time, so you can continue with your eyes closed. Choose your visual and duration before starting. Sound and haptics are optional. With Reduce Motion enabled, Color Flow is available to everyone. SOUND AT YOUR PACE Breath tones is a free soundscape. Pro adds Rain, Ocean, Forest and Deep focus scenes and a four-track mixer for your own mix. The breath guide is generated on your iPhone, and all audio is played on the device. REFLECT WITHOUT PRESSURE After a session, you may record how the pace felt and whether you feel better, a little better, about the same, or worse. Reflection is always optional and never presented as a clinical assessment. FIND YOUR PERSONAL RHYTHM Breath Cycle Pro includes optional calibration. Tap when you naturally move to the next phase and save a comfortable rhythm without a visible timer, countdown, score, or performance target. PERSONALIZATION AND PRO Explore the full exercise library, optional calibration, custom rhythms, local recommendations, five themes, Air and Color Flow visuals, 5- and 10-minute sessions, soundscape scenes, a four-track mixer, and optional encrypted backup with Breath Cycle Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No Breath Cycle account. No advertising. No third-party analytics. Your iPhone stays the primary copy. Pro backup is optional, separately enabled, and encrypted on your iPhone before private EU cloud storage. BREATH CYCLE PRO Choose an annual or monthly auto-renewing subscription. An eligible annual subscription may include a seven-day free trial. The total localized price and renewal period are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in Apple subscription settings. Breath Cycle is a general wellness tool. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent a medical condition. Follow a comfortable pace and stop if you feel dizzy, short of breath, or unwell. Privacy Policy: https://breathcycle.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Allurion4 screens
Breath Cycle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Allurion at none against Breath Cycle's 2. Allurion also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Breath Cycle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price and ads 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. Breath Cycle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Allurion asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Allurion ships an update every 3 weeks, Breath Cycle every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Allurion versus Breath Cycle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAllurionBreath Cycle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (778 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings778 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAllurion Technologies,inc.Domenico Marco Di Donna

Bugs and requests

Allurion

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App freezes or crashes frequently
  • Incorrect weight and body metric calculations
  • Sync issues between app and connected devices
  • User data loss after updates
  • Persistent connection problems with Bluetooth scale

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more exercise tracking options
  • Improve data sync with third-party apps
  • Restore detailed body composition tracking
  • Provide manual weight entry option
  • Enhance customization and personalization

Breath Cycle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Allurion

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Breath Cycle

Subscriptions2
  • Breath Cycle Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Breath Cycle Pro Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Allurion free?
Allurion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Breath Cycle free?
Breath Cycle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Allurion or Breath Cycle have ads?
Neither Allurion nor Breath Cycle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Allurion or Breath Cycle?
Allurion ships an update every 3 weeks, and Breath Cycle every 3 days. Most recently, Allurion was updated on October 29, 2026 and Breath Cycle on October 28, 2026.

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