Unwind vs Self

Unwind is a refreshing, delightful, and distraction-free mindful breathing companion to help you with meditation and get you through the day. Unwind combines beautiful illustrations with background ambiances to create an atmosphere that is perfect for mindful breathing. HOW DOES UNWIND WORK? We’ve forgotten the true significance of mindful breathing. We are so busy that we have even forgotten how to breathe correctly—which drastically affects our overall health and happiness. Unwind fixes that. Unwind comes with a number of guided breathing exercises including the following exercises: - Start your day fresh This breathing exercise gets you ready for the day feeling refreshed, relaxed, and also shaking off any lingering remnants of sleep - Relax & unwind This breathing exercise relieves your mind of any stress or anxiety. By the end of this exercise, you’ll feel relaxed and more focused. - Sleep better & faster When you are ready for bed, this deep relaxing breathing exercise helps you get calm, and fall asleep in minutes. ------ And it doesn’t end there! UNWIND COMES WITH THE FOLLOWING EXTRA FEATURES - Mindfulness History Unwind securely backs up all your session details with any notes or mood you’ve logged. Reflect on your past and get better with just a tap. - Stats and Insights Find it hard to stay motivated? Track your mindfulness journey and set daily targets and build streaks to make sure you stay motivated and spend some time daily to be mindful. - Widgets With support for iOS 17 Lock Screen and Home Screen Widgets out of the box, you’ll be able to track your daily mindfulness progress right from your home screen. - Background Ambiances Unwind comes with over 30 background ambiances each with a unique sound and illustrations so that you can craft the perfect atmosphere for your mindful breathing session. The ambiances help reduce distractions and improve focus on the breathing. - Breathing Companion After you begin a session, Unwind breathes with you by animating the background scenes to help you stay mindful and in sync. - Voice Prompts Unwind also supports voice prompts to guide you through the breathing exercises if you prefer to do them with your eyes closed. - Haptics Unwind comes with the best haptic feedback during exercises. - Daily Reminders Enable daily reminders and Unwind will gently remind you when it's time to do your breathing exercise. You can also set custom reminders. - Daily Mindfulness Quotes After each session, Unwind displays a fresh mindfulness quote for you to absorb in the perfect state of mind. - Sync to Apple Health You can choose to track your Mindful Minutes in Apple Health by enabling the “Sync to Apple Health” option. - iCloud Sync Your stats and mindfulness history is backed up privately in your private iCloud account and can only be seen you. So if you decide to switch your phone and use multiple devices, your data will never be lost. --- You can subscribe and pay on the App Store, using your Apple ID. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renew may be turned off after purchase by going to the ‘Manage Subscription’ page in settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. The subscription will renew at the same cost. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/mysticalbits/unwind-tos/blob/main/privacy-policy.md Terms of Use: https://github.com/mysticalbits/unwind-tos/blob/main/terms-of-use.md

Sometimes a person is suddenly alone. The relationship ends, the family dissolves, the friend moves, the old life goes quiet. Or they have been alone a long time and are learning that solitude is a skill the culture didn't teach them. Either way, when they reach for their phone in a hard hour, they want one steady voice. Not a coach, not a therapist, not another self-help framework. Someone who has been there. This is that. Self-Reliance Tips is a hundred small observations from someone who has been in a hard hour and made it through. Each one opens with "You might..." or "Consider..." or "Some people find..." The choice always lives with you. There is no card that begins "You should." Three cards wait face-down each day. Tap as many as you want. The cards you reveal stay in your Collection forever, so you can come back to them on a different hard hour. There is no streak. No notification asking you to be consistent. No progress meter measuring whether you "showed up." What you'll find: A hundred cards across the small spectrum of a real life: nervous-system regulation, micro-actions, self-compassion, solitude as a skill, connection without performance, grief, identity, and witness-staying. Cards on subjects with documented mechanisms (slow exhale, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, self-compassion break, facial-feedback, weak-tie research) link to authoritative sources for the curious: Cleveland Clinic, APA, Healthline, self-compassion.org, Greater Good Berkeley, Harvard Health. Drew's note in Settings names what he was going through when he built this app. Brutal honesty over performance. What you won't find: No subscription. No streaks. No ads. No data collection. No advice voice. No "you should." No promise that things will be fine. If the hour you are in is bigger than this app, the resources at the bottom of Settings are real people on the other end: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, Veterans Crisis Line, NAMI HelpLine, SAMHSA, RAINN, plus three therapist finders that filter by insurance and sliding-scale options. You are allowed to call them even if you are not sure it is bad enough. Self-Reliance Tips is not therapy. It is not a substitute for professional care. It is steady company. For the person who has heard enough fix-it speak. For the four-in-the-morning hour. For the days you are learning, slowly, how to be alone with yourself in a way that holds.