Breathly vs Telo Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Daily relaxation
- Breath training
- Multiple breathing techniques
- Open source
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Telo Lab
Effortlessly track your food intake with AI-powered meal logging. This app analyzes your camera input to provide calorie and macro breakdowns, adapting your budget to your activity levels. It offers insights into eating patterns and automatically tracks fasting windows.
- AI-powered meal logging via camera
- Automatic calorie and macro calculation
- Activity-based calorie budget adaptation
- Automatic eating window and fasting tracking
- Data insights and pattern analysis
- Apple Health integration (read-only)
Read full descriptionHide full description
Telo Lab is a recovery lab for your food — a food tracker built for people who take their recovery data seriously. LOG MEALS IN SECONDS Point your camera at a meal. Get calories and macros without digging through a database. Adjust anything — portion, macros, meal type. A TARGET BUILT AROUND YOU Your calorie budget adapts to your Apple Watch activity, not a generic formula. Active energy flows in from Apple Health automatically. EVERY MEAL, CLEAN A journal that reads the way you think: honest totals, macros that actually add up. PATTERNS ACROSS YOUR DATA See what your logs are telling you — like weekends running +259 kcal over weekdays. EATING WINDOW & FASTING Tracked automatically from your meal times. No timers, no manual logging. BUILT ON APPLE HEALTH Read-only access. Your health data stays on your device. No streaks. No guilt. No wellness clichés. Just your food and your data, in one place.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Telo Lab at weekly against Breathly's every 4 months. Breathly's advantage is ratings volume (93 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.2). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Breathly against 5.0 for Telo Lab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathly has 93 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Breathly ships an update every 4 months, Telo Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breathly | Telo Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matteo Mazzarolo | Vitali Grigorjev |
Customer experience
Breathly
Telo Lab
Bugs and 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
Show 4 moreShow fewer
- Option for custom sounds
- Streak feature for consistent use
- Progress tracking with graphs
- Change background screen color
Telo Lab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Breathly
No in-app purchases
Telo Lab
No in-app purchases
