Box breathing assistant vs atmosfix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Guided box breathing cycles
- Stress and anxiety reduction
- Improved focus and concentration
- Promotes relaxation
- Abdominal breathing guidance
- Customizable breath duration
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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/
atmosfix
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Follow the air pressure around you with a clear forecast. Save a place or use your current location, explore the pressure chart, and choose alerts for high, low or rapid changes. When you want to, log how you feel in a quick check-in. Review your recorded days, severity and pressure context in Trends. These summaries describe what you recorded; they do not establish that pressure caused a feeling or predict a health event. Atmosfix works with a free core: forecasts, configurable pressure alerts, check-ins and basic history. A Home Screen widget, Apple Watch companion and App Shortcuts offer quick access on supported devices. Optional Health views read sleep, mindful-session and step information only after separate permission requests. If enabled, derived 24-hour summaries can be saved with check-ins in protected storage on that device. Raw Health samples are not copied, and derived Health context does not sync with iCloud. Ask Atmosfix uses saved derived context only after a separate opt-in. Check-in sync with iCloud is on by default when available, and you can turn it off in Settings. Saved places and alert preferences stay on each device. Forecasts and optional weather context need a network connection; you can still make a check-in without weather. Support Atmosfix is an optional, renewing subscription using the existing App Store products. The free core remains available without it. Prices and renewal terms are shown by the App Store before purchase. Atmosfix is a weather and personal-record tool, not a medical device or a source of medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://juanferbazo96.github.io/atmosfix-legal/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Box breathing assistant at 15.0 against atmosfix's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Box breathing assistant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and atmosfix sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Box breathing assistant ships an update weekly, atmosfix fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Box breathing assistant | atmosfix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (124 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | emmanuel orvain | JUAN FERNANDO BAZO GERMAN |
In-app purchases
Box breathing assistant
- Premium Account / Month$0.991 Month
- Premium Account / Year$1.991 Year
- Premium account$3.99
atmosfix
- Atmosfix Supporter$0.991 Month
- Atmosfix Supporter$1.991 Month
- Atmosfix Supporter$2.991 Month
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