Comparison

Breathing Flow vs Runner's Shadow

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

Head to head
About

Breathing Flow

This app guides you through rhythmic breathing exercises to promote mindfulness, reduce stress, and improve focus. Its unique touch interface creates an immersive experience, making relaxation feel like a game.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing techniques
  • Stress and anxiety management
  • Focus and concentration enhancement
  • Immersive touch interface
  • Audio and visual cues
  • Based on yoga and meditation principles
Features
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Breathing flow is a personal breathing coach in your pocket. Learn breathing techniques to promote mindfulness, manage stress, sharpen your focus and find peace — wherever and whenever you need it. The key to a positive state of mind Breathing flow is designed to balance your breathing patterns using simple touch sequences. It is is based on techniques that have been used in yoga and meditation for centuries. Rhythmic breathing brings practitioners into a flow state, boosting concentration, energy levels and performance. Guided by touch Simple touch sequences create an immersive experience, enhancing your ability to be fully present and leave stress and anxiety behind. Better health in a few minutes a day breathing flow is an app designed to balance your breathing patterns using simple touch sequences. Is there science behind it? Absolutely. Multiple peer-reviewed studies show that regulating breathing patterns can help practitioners overcome anxiety, combat stress and enhance performance. Smooth, rhythmic breathing activates the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system, promoting a sense of well-being and calm — the positive mental state necessary for peak concentration and creativity. What makes it special? breathing flow works differently than other relaxation apps. The simple touch interface was designed by game industry veterans to engage multiple senses. By allowing you to touch, listen and see the breathing sequences, the experience becomes an immersive game, not a chore. How does it work? Begin by touching the screen with your inhale. Through audio and visual cues, breathing flow times the length of your inhale, and instructs you when to release your finger from the screen and exhale. After following the cycle for a few minutes, the app invites you to continue with your eyes closed, guiding you solely through audio cues. Through these exercises, you’ll learn to bring your attention back to your inner self. To break away from stressful thought patterns. To achieve a positive state of mind.

About

Runner's Shadow

This app acts as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, consolidating run history from various sources. It helps track personal records, analyze courses, manage laps, and journal run experiences. Additionally, it offers shoe mileage tracking and photo integration for a complete running log.

Highlights
  • Consolidated run history from any supported app
  • Course tracking and personal bests
  • Interval lap management
  • Journaling for run reflections
  • Shoe mileage and lifespan tracking
  • Integration with Apple Health/Activity
  • Apple Watch app for on-the-go tracking
Features
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Follow your runs like your shadow follows you. What Is Runner's Shadow? A runner's companion. A fantastic app for all outdoor runners to augment their kit. Runner's Shadow is an iOS Activity and Health-based app for the purpose of augmenting, tracking, logging, and understanding your outdoor runs, regardless of source; regardless of when the run took place. And it includes an Apple Watch app to get out and run with. Why Try Runner's Shadow? Run History A history of all of your runs, from any supported App. The run history is all your runs, grouped by week, month, year, and all-time. It has graphs, logs, journals, and more (like courses). Courses Which routes you've run. Do you tend to run the same routes repeatedly? Why not keep track of those as courses? This app keeps track of all of your courses; and your personal records for each course. Personal Records What's my personal best? Accurate and complete PRs. What is the best I've done so far at this distance? This course? This week? This month?. Runner's Shadow PR keeps my goals in perspective and my motivation on-point. This app finds and keeps your bests. Laps Keep and Recall interval laps. With a tap of a button in the Shadow Runner's watch app (included), you can set your laps. In the iPhone app, you can see how you did for them. What was the lap distance? Pace? Gain? It's all there. Journaling What are my thoughts after a run? How was the run? What do I find interesting about this course? Who did I run with? What did we laugh about? The journals are for these and/or anything else you want to write there. Labeling Tag runs for later retrieval. Label the people you ran with. Or label which runs were races. Or label which runs were your favorites. Tag runs with labels any way you'd like. Shoe Tracking Keep track of your running shoes. You may have heard that running shoes should be replaced between 300-500 miles or in 3-6 months. But how do you keep track of that? Simply add your shoes to the app, then tap on which ones were worn after a run. We'll keep track of how many run, miles, and days you've put on the pair. Photos Find photos taken near the time of your run. Want to find those shots you get before and after a run a year and a half later? Well, you just go to that run and click the 'camera' button, and there they all are. Graphs? Yes. Numbers? Of course. Maps? You bet. Running app for your Apple Watch? Yeah, that too. Watch Laps? Uh huh. Open to suggestions? We listen. What you'd expect? We try to be more than that. You can run with this or any other app that supports Apple Activity; we'll take it from there. ---- The data comes from Apple Health/Activity. That means that any outdoor running app that works with Apple Health/Activity will work with this one. The data goes nowhere. We don't take it. We don't keep it. We don't track it. We don't track you. We're not interested in all of that. We're just runners who want to enhance all of our running experiences. Contact us: support@alumra.ltd

Screenshots

Breathing Flow4 screens
Runner's Shadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Runner's Shadow at Free against Breathing Flow's $0.99. Runner's Shadow also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 41 months). Breathing Flow's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Runner's Shadow is free to download; Breathing Flow costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Breathing Flow against 5.0 for Runner's Shadow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breathing Flow ships an update every 41 months, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Breathing Flow versus Runner's Shadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathing FlowRunner's Shadow
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 41 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArnaldo RodriguezAlumra Ltd

Customer experience

Breathing Flow

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Runner's Shadow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Breathing Flow

No in-app purchases

None

Runner's Shadow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breathing Flow free?
Breathing Flow costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Runner's Shadow free?
Runner's Shadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Breathing Flow or Runner's Shadow?
Breathing Flow and Runner's Shadow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Breathing Flow or Runner's Shadow have ads?
Neither Breathing Flow nor Runner's Shadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Breathing Flow or Runner's Shadow?
Breathing Flow ships an update every 41 months, and Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. Most recently, Breathing Flow was updated on October 24, 2026 and Runner's Shadow on October 30, 2026.

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