Comparison

Pine vs Deep Breathing Exercises

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

Head to head
About

Pine

Find moments of calm with guided deep breathing exercises, soothing ambient sounds, and a personal journal to track your emotions and daily events. Access a variety of exercises and sounds to target stress and anxiety, all synced across your devices.

Highlights
  • 8 deep breathing exercises
  • 16 ambient sounds
  • Personal journal with emotion log
  • Customizable exercise duration
  • Syncs across Apple devices
  • Integrates with Apple Health
Features
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Pine lets you find a moment to relax with deep breathing exercises, ambient sounds, and a personal Journal. Pine guides you through deep breathing exercises and meditation on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, and now with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access. Pine features different breathing exercises, each designed to target different types of stress, anxiety, fatigue, and depression. Pine lets you build your own sessions to structure your practice exactly how you like it. Pine has a personal journal built right in, so you can record the daily events throughout your day. The journal also features an emotions log and Apple's State of Mind tracking, so you can record your mood, the thoughts or events behind it, and see how you're really doing over time, right alongside the rest of your data in the Health app. Challenges give you a simple way to build a lasting breathing and meditation habit, one session at a time. Complete Feature List: • A range of deep breathing exercises. • A customizable breathing exercises. • Ability to change the duration of your breathing exercise between 1 minute and 10 minutes. • A great design that helps you relax. • Various ambient sounds to play during your breathing exercises. • Import songs or playlists from Apple Music. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access to your favorite exercises. • Challenges to help you build a consistent breathing and meditation habit. • Reminders to take a minute to relax every day. • Works with Apple Health: Sync Mindfulness Minutes and State of Mind entries with the Health App. • iCloud syncing between your devices so all of your breathing exercises, journal entries, and mood logs stay in sync. Thank you for considering Pine, I hope it helps you improve your life and allows you to take a minute to appreciate the day, Casey

About

Deep Breathing Exercises

This app offers a simple, visual guide to deep breathing exercises for relaxation and stress reduction. It helps users calm their minds, think more clearly, and improve overall health through guided breath cycles. Features include customizable breath lengths, background music, and HealthKit integration.

Highlights
  • Full screen breath visualization
  • Adjustable inhale/exhale lengths
  • Voice guidance
  • Background music
  • HealthKit integration
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Deep breathing is a technique that allows you to calm your mind and reduce the concentration of stress hormones in your blood, which can contribute to the enhancement of your health. Deep breathing helps you calm down rapidly, think more clearly and focus on what you are doing. Deep Breathing Exercises is a beautifully simple way to visualize your breathing. Use this app for daily relaxation, meditation or breath training. Features: •Beautiful full screen breath visualization •Breathe cycle counter •Adjust inhale, breath holds, exhale lengths •HealthKit integration to record mindful minutes •Voice guidance •Background music •Custom themes

Screenshots

Pine4 screens
Deep Breathing Exercises4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pine at none against Deep Breathing Exercises's shown. Pine also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (11% vs 0%). Deep Breathing Exercises's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. Pine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Deep Breathing Exercises sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Deep Breathing Exercises holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 11% of Pine's written reviews are positive against 0% of Deep Breathing Exercises's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pine ships an update every 3 weeks, Deep Breathing Exercises every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pine versus Deep Breathing Exercises: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPineDeep Breathing Exercises
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (28 ratings)4.6 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB27 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCThach Nguyen Trong

Customer experience

Pine

All ratings28 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral33.3%
Negative55.6%

Deep Breathing Exercises

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral18.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pine

Subscriptions2
  • Pine Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pine Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pine Premium Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Deep Breathing Exercises

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Pine free?
Pine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deep Breathing Exercises free?
Deep Breathing Exercises is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pine or Deep Breathing Exercises?
Deep Breathing Exercises is rated higher. Pine averages 4.3 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Deep Breathing Exercises averages 4.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Pine or Deep Breathing Exercises have ads?
Deep Breathing Exercises shows ads; Pine does not.
Which is updated more often, Pine or Deep Breathing Exercises?
Pine ships an update every 3 weeks, and Deep Breathing Exercises every 6 months. Most recently, Pine was updated on October 14, 2026 and Deep Breathing Exercises on October 13, 2026.

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