Comparison

Box Breathe vs Box breathing assistant

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

Head to head
About

Box Breathe

This app provides guided breathing exercises and meditation tools to help users relax, manage stress, and improve sleep. It offers customizable sessions with visual and haptic feedback, progress tracking, and Apple Watch integration.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing modes (classic and free-form)
  • Session timer with cycle or duration settings
  • Siri voice and haptic feedback
  • Weekly session planning and reminders
  • Progress tracking with detailed stats
  • Apple Watch integration with heart rate monitoring
  • Dark Mode themes
Features
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Meet your professional tool for breathing exercises and meditation! Since its launch, Box Breathe has become a trusted companion for thousands of people who practice meditation and yogic breathing, as well as those who struggle with panic attacks and insomnia or just look for a simple tool to help them relax through breathing. Athletes use Box Breathe to control and calm breath both during and after intense workouts, running or swimming. With simple and intuitive design at its core, Box Breathe offers a highly customizable set of features to satisfy your goals: - choose between “classic” Box mode with equal durations of breathing phases and “free-form” mode in which you can specify individual duration for each phase - program your breathing session with a convenient timer by setting either a number of breathing cycles or an overall duration - adjust duration of breathing phases with simple swipes before or during a session - plan your weekly breathing sessions and set reminders - save your breathing patterns and quickly access them from a context menu on main screen - mark each breathing phase with a Siri voice guide or a different sound and custom designed haptic feedback (custom haptics are supported on iPhone 8 and later models running iOS 13) - set haptic response for every second of your breathing session (not supported on devices prior to iPhone 6s) - built-in metronome helps you count every second of your breathing session - track your progress with detailed overall, yearly, monthly, weekly and daily stats - with iOS 13, choose between white and orange themes for Dark Mode - Apple Health integration - independent app for Apple Watch with even greater functionality - on Apple Watch, follow your heart rate as you breathe - Apple Watch app works in background, tapping your wrist to mark each following breathing step - Apple Watch app offers different haptics for inhale and exhale phases, as well as a light haptic marking each second of your session. Fast life pace requires an efficient tool for stress relief, and in most cases a simple breathing session is all it takes. No matter where you are - in a gym, office, at home or stuck in a traffic jam - Box Breathe app will help you calm in a matter of seconds. _______________________ Our preview images were created using 'Previewed' at previewed.app. Drum and Lyre icons by Icons8.

About

Box breathing assistant

This app guides you through a calming breathing technique to reduce stress and anxiety. It helps you control your breathing rhythm to improve focus and promote relaxation. Regular practice can lead to deeper relaxation and increased awareness of your diaphragm.

Highlights
  • Guided box breathing cycles
  • Stress and anxiety reduction
  • Improved focus and concentration
  • Promotes relaxation
  • Abdominal breathing guidance
  • Customizable breath duration
Features
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The Box breathing technique is a breathing exercise commonly used in meditation and yoga for its anti-stress benefits. Box breathing will help you against anxiety. By the voluntary control of the frequency between exhalation and inhalation, the type of breathing (abdominal, costal) I will learn to work better and better, my muscles involved in this breathing gesture (diaphragm, intercostals, etc.). Through the combined effect of better blood oxygenation and neuro-vegetative reflexes, by exercising a voluntary control on our way of breathing, we can rise our level of vigilance. It is commonly felt that increased expiration time (3 minimum exhalation times for 1 inhalation time) promotes relaxation. It is commonly felt that an increase of the inspiratory amplitude with a brief expiration (3 times on the inspiration for 1 expiration time) will be more challenging. Box breathing benefits : • from 4 to 10 cycles: - to find his calm in case of nervousness, - to find a little energy, - to refocus quickly in the present • over 20 cycles and more: - a deeper relaxation, - a discreet relaxation, anytime, anywhere, in any position (sitting, standing, lying), an anti-stress action, - an improvement in the concentration at the same time as relaxation, - a regular practice promotes an awareness and progressive relaxation of the diaphragm." "Considering the benefits of his action, we are encouraged to learn and feel its different effects to include, this work of breathing in our daily lives. As a first step, you can focus on learning about abdominal breathing, then in a second time deepen the learning and automation of square breathing. How to perform box breathing exercise : • Straighten the upper body with the intention of growing, stretching the axis of the spine and opening the chest. • For square breathing, breathe through the nose while keeping the lower jaw relaxed. • Print a flexible movement of the abdomen that accompanies inspiration and exhalation: this is abdominal breathing: - Inspiration: the abdomen swells in a fluid movement - Expiration: the abdomen deflates in the same fluidity. • Once the abdominal breathing is installed, start the square breathing: the four phases of breathing have each the same duration: - Inspiration (3/4/5/6 / ... seconds) - Full lung retention (3/4/5/6 / ... seconds) - Expiration (3/4/5/6 / ... seconds) - Retention empty lungs (3/4/5/6 / ... seconds) - Terms Of Use : https://occirama.com/boxbreathing/terms-of-use/ - Privacy Policy : https://occirama.com/boxbreathing/privacy/

Screenshots

Box Breathe4 screens
Box breathing assistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Box breathing assistant at Free against Box Breathe's $1.99. Box breathing assistant also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 66%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Box Breathe's advantage is chart position (#61 vs unranked) and ratings volume (498 vs 121). On rating, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Box breathing assistant is free to download; Box Breathe costs $1.99 up front. Box Breathe sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Box breathing assistant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Box Breathe against 4.8 for Box breathing assistant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 498 and 121 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Box Breathe's written reviews are positive against 93% of Box breathing assistant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Box Breathe ships an update every 3 weeks, Box breathing assistant weekly. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Box Breathe versus Box breathing assistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBox BreatheBox breathing assistant
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (498 ratings)4.8 (121 ratings)
Positive reviews66.3% of reviews93.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings498 — better121
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#61 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDenys Triasunovemmanuel orvain

Customer experience

Box Breathe

All ratings498 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive66.3%
Neutral10.5%
Negative23.2%

Box breathing assistant

All ratings121 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive93.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative2.3%

Bugs and requests

Box Breathe

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashing or stopping unexpectedly during use
  • Preset options not working as expected
  • Compatibility issues with newer Apple Watch models
  • Sound and vibration features not functioning properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to save and load more than 5 presets
  • Option to disable sound and keep only haptic feedback on Apple Watch
  • Improved Apple Watch integration to prevent screen from turning off
  • Guided audio cues or voice prompts for the breathing cycles

Box breathing assistant

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Box Breathe

One-time2
  • Percussion Sound Pack$0.99
  • Strings & Bells Sound Pack$0.99
3 purchases

Box breathing assistant

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Account / Month$0.991 Month
  • Premium Account / Year$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium account$3.99

Questions

Is Box Breathe free?
Box Breathe costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Box breathing assistant free?
Box breathing assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Box Breathe or Box breathing assistant?
Box Breathe and Box breathing assistant are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 498 and 121 ratings respectively.
Do Box Breathe or Box breathing assistant have ads?
Neither Box Breathe nor Box breathing assistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Box Breathe or Box breathing assistant?
Box Breathe ships an update every 3 weeks, and Box breathing assistant weekly. Most recently, Box Breathe was updated on September 23, 2026 and Box breathing assistant on September 23, 2026.

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