Comparison

Awesome Breathing vs Breathly

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

Head to head
About

Awesome Breathing

This app guides and visualizes your breathing patterns to promote calm, reduce stress, and improve sleep. It offers customizable breathing exercises and pre-set programs for meditation and mindfulness.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing patterns
  • Pre-set breathing programs
  • Guided vocal and tone cues
  • Save sessions to Health app
  • Create and save custom programs
  • Optional pre-session countdown
  • Vibration mode for silent sessions
Features
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Awesome Breathing is a simple, elegant tool to guide and visualize your breathing. Use it daily to help with meditation, sleep, stress, anxiety, focus, or to simply bring a few moments of calm and mindfulness to your day. The perfect breathwork app. Simple, unobtrusive, and best of all, free to use anytime! Set your own pace, follow the calming animated pacer, and enjoy guided breathing exercises for relaxation, stress and anxiety relief, better sleep, and focus. Don't take our word for it: ** 4.9 stars, over 3,700 ratings ** "Two thumbs up, three if I had them. Works exactly as advertised and is super easy to use. Free to use if you want! I happily sent them support and could choose my own amount. As they say in the app name, AWESOME!" "Beautiful and responsive UI with customizable breathing patterns." "I have tested at least a dozen breathing apps. This one is BY FAR the best one I've used. Simple layout, real voice cues, custom programs, and a menu that is relaxing and intuitive. Get it!" "Excellent app, simple to use. As a psychotherapist I am using it myself and recommending it to clients who might benefit." Features: • Clean, simple interface for an uncluttered and calming breathing experience • Fully customizable inhale, exhale, and optional hold (pause) durations, so you can build any breathing exercise or technique you like • Choose from fifteen included programs, such as Box Breathing, Relaxing Breathing (4-7-8), Equal Breathing, Measured Breathing, and Triangle Breathing, plus patterns for focus, running, and performance • Create and save your own custom breathing programs • Sessions can be free-form (no set duration) or timed, by duration or by number of breaths • Optional pre-session countdown timer gives you a few moments to settle in before your session begins • Choose from several beautiful pacer color themes • Ambient background soundscapes to relax and breathe along to • Optional guided voice and tone cues signal when to inhale, hold, and exhale, so you can breathe with your eyes closed and without looking at your device, each with its own volume • Start and end bells can be enabled to signal the beginning and end of your sessions • Vibration mode allows for silent, eyes closed breathing sessions • Playback continues when your screen is locked or the app is in the background, so your cues never stop • Save your sessions as Mindful Minutes in the Apple Health app • Customizable reminder notifications alert you when it's time to take a moment out of your day to breathe A few of the included programs: Box Breathing (4-4-4-4) Also known as Navy SEAL or tactical breathing. A simple, effective way to regain calm and control under stress. Inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4. All through your nose. Relaxing Breathing (4-7-8) Trouble falling asleep? Inhale for 4 through your nose, hold for 7, exhale for 8 out of your mouth. Equal Breathing (4-4) A pranayama practice called Sama Vritti that helps quiet racing thoughts. Inhale for 4, exhale for 4, all through your nose. Try a 6 or 8 count once it feels comfortable. Measured Breathing (4-1-7) A handy stress reducer you can do anywhere. Inhale for 4, hold for 1, exhale for 7. All through your nose. Triangle Breathing (4-4-4) Picture a triangle with equal sides. Inhale for 4, exhale for 4, pause for 4. Repeat. Plus Coherent Breathing, Breathing for Meditation, Yoga Pranayama, and dedicated programs for runners, swimmers, athletes, and endurance. We hope Awesome Breathing helps you reach your goals, and we look forward to being part of your journey. We would love to hear your reviews and feedback. ------ Terms of Service: https://isjustawesome.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://isjustawesome.com/privacy

About

Breathly

This app offers guided breathing exercises for daily relaxation and breath training. Simply select a technique and follow the on-screen prompts to improve your well-being.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Daily relaxation
  • Breath training
  • Multiple breathing techniques
  • Open source
Features
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Pause for a minute and try Breathly. Use Breathly for daily relaxation and breath training: just choose a breathing technique and focus on the guided exercise. Breathly is free and open source. No ads, no In-App purchases.

Screenshots

Awesome Breathing4 screens
Breathly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Breathly at none against Awesome Breathing's 10. Awesome Breathing's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 93). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Awesome Breathing sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Breathly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Awesome Breathing against 5.0 for Breathly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Awesome Breathing has 1.4K ratings behind it against 93, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Awesome Breathing's written reviews are positive against 91% of Breathly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Awesome Breathing ships an update every 5 months, Breathly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Awesome Breathing versus Breathly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwesome BreathingBreathly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.4K ratings)5.0 (93 ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.0% of reviews — better90.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better93
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB34 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperAwesome Labs LLCMatteo Mazzarolo

Customer experience

Awesome Breathing

All ratings1,412 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%

Breathly

All ratings93 ratings
Positive98.9%
Neutral1.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

Bugs and requests

Awesome Breathing

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Breathly

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App does not work in the background when screen is off
  • Vibration does not work when audio is disabled
  • Timer selection UI issue for times over 10 minutes

Requested features

9 requests
  • Allow background playback
  • Integrate with Apple Health / Health app
  • Add more guided breathing sounds (bells, flute, voices)
  • Add resonant breathing technique
  • Numerical counter for breathing
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  • Option for custom sounds
  • Streak feature for consistent use
  • Progress tracking with graphs
  • Change background screen color

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Awesome Breathing

Subscriptions4
  • Support - $0.99 (monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Support - $2.99 (monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Support - $4.99 (monthly)$4.991 Month
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  • Support - $7.99 (monthly)$7.991 Month
One-time6
  • Support - $0.99$0.99
  • Support - $1.99$1.99
  • Support - $2.99$2.99
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  • Support - $4.99$4.99
  • Support - $9.99$9.99
  • Support - $14.99$14.99
None

Breathly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Awesome Breathing free?
Awesome Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Breathly free?
Breathly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Awesome Breathing or Breathly?
Breathly is rated higher. Awesome Breathing averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Breathly averages 5.0 from 93 ratings.
Do Awesome Breathing or Breathly have ads?
Neither Awesome Breathing nor Breathly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Awesome Breathing or Breathly?
Awesome Breathing ships an update every 5 months, and Breathly every 4 months. Most recently, Awesome Breathing was updated on November 6, 2026 and Breathly on November 2, 2026.

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