Comparison

Breathly vs Back to Beast

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

Head to head
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.

About

Back to Beast

Features
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Every other recovery app tells you to rest. This one tells you what you can still load, and how heavy. Back to Beast is built for people who train and have picked up a sore shoulder, knee or back — and have no intention of sitting out for four months. TRAIN AROUND IT Tell it where it hurts and it rebuilds the week around that. The lifts that load the sore position get swapped for ones that don't. Legs, hinge, core and conditioning stay exactly where they were. Only the sore side waits. THE LADDER BACK For any lift you can't do right now, you get a ranked series of rungs from where you are to the full movement. Each rung opens when you clear a measured gate — not when a calendar says so. You can always see where you are and exactly what unlocks the next step. IT ADJUSTS MID-SET Flag pain on set three and set four changes. The app takes a rung off instead of stopping you, notes it against that movement, and starts you lower next time. Every adjustment is explained mechanically, and you can overrule any of it. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS A phone camera can count reps and compare your two sides. It cannot tell you an angle in degrees, so this app doesn't pretend to. Readings that carry a real tolerance are labelled as such, and they're the only ones that go into the summary you can hand to a physio. TAKE IT TO A CLINICIAN A structured record of onset, pain, function, range and what you've actually been loading — the fifteen minutes an appointment usually spends on history, done before you walk in. ALWAYS FREE The safety check, the education library and your own history are free forever and are never behind the paywall. PRO, AND WHAT IT COSTS Pro is optional and adds the ladder back to your lift, sessions that adapt when something hurts, and the summary you can hand to a clinician. $20.99 per month, or $119 per year, each with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings at any time. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://backtobeast.com/privacy.html Back to Beast is a general wellness and fitness product. It is not a medical device, does not diagnose, and does not replace advice from a qualified clinician.

Screenshots

Breathly4 screens
Back to Beast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Breathly at none against Back to Beast's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Back to Beast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $20.99 per month. Breathly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Breathly versus Back to Beast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathlyBack to Beast
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (93 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings93 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB66 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatteo MazzaroloMindAble Solutions LLC

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 more
  • Option for custom sounds
  • Streak feature for consistent use
  • Progress tracking with graphs
  • Change background screen color

Back to Beast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Breathly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Back to Beast

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$20.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$119.001 Year

Questions

Is Breathly free?
Breathly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Back to Beast free?
Back to Beast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Breathly or Back to Beast have ads?
Neither Breathly nor Back to Beast shows ads.

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