Pine vs StillBox

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

StillBox is a small, careful breath work app. One screen. One box. Tap to begin. The breathing box expands as you inhale, holds when you hold, and contracts as you exhale. A soft haptic tap marks every second of your breath. A short quote above the box sets the tone - from Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Pascal, and others. There is no account. No login. No tracking. No notifications asking you to come back. The app is fully offline; your patterns and settings live only on your iPhone. What you can do: - Start a session with one tap; stop with one tap. - Choose from three built-in patterns: box breath (4-4-4-4), 4-7-8, and 3-4-5-3. - Set the number of rounds: 4, 8, 12, or continuous. - Create custom breathing patterns from 1 to 12 seconds per phase. - Toggle haptics on or off. - Respect Reduce Motion: animations are simplified automatically. What StillBox does not do: - Collect any data. See our Privacy Policy for details. - Show ads, upsells, or notifications. - Require an internet connection. - Track you across other apps or websites. Made by Cerminara Consulting - a small, design-driven consultancy. StillBox is the kind of app we wanted for ourselves and couldn't find: serious about breath, calm about everything else.