Comparison

The Breathing App vs Program Peace

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

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About

The Breathing App

This app guides users through scientifically-backed breathing techniques to promote calm, reduce stress, and improve focus and sleep. It offers both free and premium features, including various breathing ratios and calming sounds.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Resonance Frequency technique
  • Stress and anxiety reduction
  • Improved focus and sleep
  • Minimalist design with calming sounds
  • Works with screen off
  • Free core features
Features
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Breathe Better. Feel Better. Live Better. The Breathing App helps you calm your mind, reduce stress, and restore balance through simple guided breathing. Inspired by Resonance Frequency, a science-backed breathing technique proven to improve sleep, focus, and emotional balance in just a few minutes a day. What Is Resonance Breathing? Resonance Frequency is a natural rhythm where your heart rate, blood pressure, and brainwaves synchronize into a coherent wave. Breathing at 5–7 breaths per minute brings your body into this state of calm, restorative balance, activating both sides of your nervous system: • The sympathetic branch (energy and action) • The parasympathetic branch (rest and recovery) The result: calm alertness, better sleep, and improved emotional resilience. What’s Inside • Free forever: Kids & Resonance Frequency ratios, up to 20-minute sessions • Beautiful minimalist design & calming sounds by Moby and Maejor • Works with screen off & in background • Simple access to a calm, non-thinking state • No ads, no account required Premium unlocks: • Advanced Calming, Focusing, Energizing & Grounding breathing ratios • Unlimited timers • Alternate-nostril & guided sound breathing • A full sonic experience for deeper practice For Everyone Whether you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, or insomnia, or simply want to improve your focus and energy — The Breathing App is your daily reset button. Created with Love Eddie Stern, Sergey Varichev, Maks Luhouski & Dilesh Mehta Music: Moby & Maejor Subscription Info Start your 7-day free trial to access all premium features: • $4.99/month or $44.99/year (US pricing; varies by country) * • Manage or cancel anytime in your iTunes settings. • Core features remain free forever. * Prices in other countries may vary, and charges may be converted to your local currency based on your country of residence. Your premium subscription automatically renews unless you disable auto-renew in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before your current period ends. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew at any time in your iTunes Account Settings. Your iTunes Account will be charged once your purchase is confirmed. When canceling a subscription or a free trial, your subscription/free trial will stay active until the end of the current period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. Read the Terms & Conditions here: https://www.thebreathing.app/terms We value your privacy. Read the Privacy Policy here: https://www.thebreathing.app/privacy

About

Program Peace

This free app guides users to optimize their breathing patterns for reduced tension and anxiety. It helps users learn deeper, longer breaths scientifically proven to lower blood pressure, improve mood, and enhance focus. The interface is clean, with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing intervals
  • Preset breathing rates
  • Breath counter
  • Mindfulness minutes tracking
  • History and progress tracking
  • Optional breath holds
  • Apple Health Kit integration
Features
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This free app will guide you to optimize your breathing pattern. Breathing short, shallow breaths creates tension in the muscles of respiration, which drives anxiety. Almost everyone breathes in this way to some extent. By training you to become comfortable breathing deeper and longer, this app will help you eliminate the tension and reduce the negative emotions it causes. Scientific studies have shown that paced breathing lowers blood pressure and heart rate and calms the mind. Research has also shown that breathing at longer intervals can improve mood, focus, and flexibility, increase athletic performance, reduce recovery time, mitigate fatigue, and help people get to sleep at night. This app is designed to help you take full advantage of those benefits. It also provides an easy-to-use interface without bloat, clutter, ads, sign-ins, in-app purchases, or full version upgrades. Read about the science of optimal breathing. Select how long you want your inhales and exhales to be. Choose the duration of the optional pauses between them. Peruse the preset breathing rates to learn about various breathing methods. Practice the Program Peace exercises to build confidence, a positive mindset, and rehabilitate systems throughout your body. Program Peace will introduce you to eight different principles of relaxed breathing and then encourage you to practice them while performing related exercises. Here are the principles: • Breathe deeply (high volume): Breathe more fully, breathing most of the way in and out in a way that pushes the belly forward during each inhalation. • Breathe longer (low frequency): Breathe at longer intervals in which each inhalation and exhalation lasts for more time. • Breathe smoothly (continuous flow): Breathe at a steady, slow, constant rate. • Breathe assertively (confident): Do not let social concerns or stressors conflict with the other rules. • Exhale passively: Allow your breathing muscles to go limp during each exhalation. • Breathe nasally: Breathe through the nose with nostrils flared. • Ocean’s Breath: Relax the back of your throat and breathe as if you are fogging up a glass. • Breathe with purity of heart: Knowing that you have only the best intentions, and that you exemplify the combination of nonsubmissive and nondominating, will infuse your breathing with peace. This app is intended to be a companion to the Program Peace book, website, and self-care system but is also a fully stand-alone product. For more information, you can visit www.programpeace.com. Please leave a review or contact us through the app if you have questions or suggestions. FEATURES: * Breath counter * Customizable breathing intervals * Apple health kit integration * Mindfulness minutes * Current and longest streaks * Track your history and progress * Multiple audible cues * Over a dozen preset rates * Color palette options * Custom reminders * Rank system * Recommended exercises * Optional breath holds * Vibrate function * Multiple audible cues * Dark mode * Create your own color theme * Free book included * Original informative content PRESET BREATHING MODES: * Before sleep * Box breathing * Classic Pranayama * Energizing * Holotropic * Panic blocker * 4-7-8 breathing * and more EXERCISES THAT TARGET: * The respiratory diaphragm * Thoracic breathing muscles * The voice * The neck and back * Facial expressions * Eye contact * Nasal breathing * Fasting * Laughing

Screenshots

The Breathing App4 screens
Program Peace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Program Peace at none against The Breathing App's 4. Program Peace also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). The Breathing App's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 10). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. The Breathing App sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Program Peace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Program Peace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Breathing App has 1.3K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Breathing App versus Program Peace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Breathing AppProgram Peace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.3K ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.3K — better10
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB188 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBreathing App, LLCANOTHER REALITY STUDIO, LLC.

Customer experience

The Breathing App

All ratings1,312 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews296 reviews
Positive85.5%
Neutral5.4%
Negative9.1%

Program Peace

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

The Breathing App

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Audio/visual sync issues
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Inability to change breathing ratios

Requested features

5 requests
  • Custom breathing ratio options
  • Haptic/vibration feedback
  • Apple Health integration
  • Longer session durations
  • More background/visual options

Program Peace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

The Breathing App

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Premium$3.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual Premium$39.991 Year
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  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$44.991 Year
None

Program Peace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Breathing App free?
The Breathing App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Program Peace free?
Program Peace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Breathing App or Program Peace?
Program Peace is rated higher. The Breathing App averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Program Peace averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do The Breathing App or Program Peace have ads?
Neither The Breathing App nor Program Peace shows ads.

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