Comparison

Breathwrk vs Program Peace

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

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About

Breathwrk

Improve your mental and physical well-being with neuroscience-based breathing exercises. This app offers guided sessions for sleep, stress, focus, and energy, with customizable sensory experiences and habit tracking.

Highlights
  • 100s of guided exercises and classes
  • Daily updated classes
  • Habit tracking and reminders
  • Customizable sounds, visuals, and haptics
  • Lung score and exhale tests
  • Apple Health Integration
  • Offline Access
Features
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Breathwrk, now a part of Peloton, is #1 breathing app for Sleep, Stress, Focus, and Energy. Breathwrk is a simple yet powerful way to improve your mental and physical well-being in just seconds with neuroscience based breathing exercises. Join the millions breathing with Breathwrk across the world today! Peloton All Access, Guide and App+ Members have Breathwrk provided for free as part of their membership. After downloading the latest version of the Breathwrk App, Peloton members should follow the instructions and log in with their Peloton username or email and password. Breathwrk makes it fun and easy to learn and master breathwork with guided breathing exercises. Get a full sensory experience with customizable sounds, visuals, haptic vibrations, and breath coaches. Build your practice by setting reminders, tracking streaks, and following Breathwrk’s recommended protocols. Breathwrk adapts to your lungs, goals, and the time of day to improve your body and mind. Explore an extensive library of guided exercises and classes that help improve stress, anxiety, sleep, energy, focus, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), lung capacity, blood pressure, and more. It’s not magic, it's neuroscience! Discover and master the same techniques used by psychotherapists, athletes, sleep doctors, yogis, neuroscientists, and breath experts like some of the world's leading breath experts! Breathwrk is recommended by top psychologists, mental health experts, and even elite coaches. It is fast, easy, yet powerfully effective. You can do Breathwrk anytime, anyplace, and anywhere! Change your breath, change your life! FEATURES INCLUDE: * 100s of exercises and classes * Daily classes updated every 24 hours * Habit tracking and reminders * Custom Reminders * Streaks & Levels * Lung score and exhale tests * Apple Health Integration * Mindfulness Minutes * Offline Access * And More CALMING EXERCISES * Activates your parasympathetic nervous system * Reduces cortisol, lowers stress, and improves mood * Relaxes muscles, lowers heart rate, and blood pressure * Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity * Leads to long-term neuroplasticity FOCUSING AND ENERGIZING EXERCISES * Activates your sympathetic nervous system * Improves focus, cognition, and memory * Enhances physical performance and readiness * Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity * Leads to long-term neuroplasticity SLEEP EXERCISES (4-7-8) * Activates your parasympathetic nervous system * Reduces cortisol, lowers stress, and improves mood * Relaxes muscles, lowers heart rate, and blood pressure * Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity * Leads to long-term neuroplasticity HEALTH EXERCISES * Helps alleviate pain, headaches, and cramps * Helps improve lung capacity and improves heart rate variability (HRV) * Helps with cravings from quitting smoking and vaping * Helps lower blood pressure and heart rate FEATURED IN: Forbes, RollingStone, Healthline, Goop, Vogue, The Skimm, GQ, and much more! CONNECT WITH BREATHWRK Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@breathwrk Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/breathwrk Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/breathwrk/ Got any questions or feedback? Reach out to us at info@breathwrk.com More Info Privacy Policy - https://www.breathwrk.com/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions - https://breathwrk.com/terms-and-conditions Copyright © 2025 Breathwrk Inc.

About

Program Peace

This free app guides users to optimize their breathing patterns for reduced tension and anxiety. It helps users learn deeper, longer breaths scientifically proven to lower blood pressure, improve mood, and enhance focus. The interface is clean, with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing intervals
  • Preset breathing rates
  • Breath counter
  • Mindfulness minutes tracking
  • History and progress tracking
  • Optional breath holds
  • Apple Health Kit integration
Features
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This free app will guide you to optimize your breathing pattern. Breathing short, shallow breaths creates tension in the muscles of respiration, which drives anxiety. Almost everyone breathes in this way to some extent. By training you to become comfortable breathing deeper and longer, this app will help you eliminate the tension and reduce the negative emotions it causes. Scientific studies have shown that paced breathing lowers blood pressure and heart rate and calms the mind. Research has also shown that breathing at longer intervals can improve mood, focus, and flexibility, increase athletic performance, reduce recovery time, mitigate fatigue, and help people get to sleep at night. This app is designed to help you take full advantage of those benefits. It also provides an easy-to-use interface without bloat, clutter, ads, sign-ins, in-app purchases, or full version upgrades. Read about the science of optimal breathing. Select how long you want your inhales and exhales to be. Choose the duration of the optional pauses between them. Peruse the preset breathing rates to learn about various breathing methods. Practice the Program Peace exercises to build confidence, a positive mindset, and rehabilitate systems throughout your body. Program Peace will introduce you to eight different principles of relaxed breathing and then encourage you to practice them while performing related exercises. Here are the principles: • Breathe deeply (high volume): Breathe more fully, breathing most of the way in and out in a way that pushes the belly forward during each inhalation. • Breathe longer (low frequency): Breathe at longer intervals in which each inhalation and exhalation lasts for more time. • Breathe smoothly (continuous flow): Breathe at a steady, slow, constant rate. • Breathe assertively (confident): Do not let social concerns or stressors conflict with the other rules. • Exhale passively: Allow your breathing muscles to go limp during each exhalation. • Breathe nasally: Breathe through the nose with nostrils flared. • Ocean’s Breath: Relax the back of your throat and breathe as if you are fogging up a glass. • Breathe with purity of heart: Knowing that you have only the best intentions, and that you exemplify the combination of nonsubmissive and nondominating, will infuse your breathing with peace. This app is intended to be a companion to the Program Peace book, website, and self-care system but is also a fully stand-alone product. For more information, you can visit www.programpeace.com. Please leave a review or contact us through the app if you have questions or suggestions. FEATURES: * Breath counter * Customizable breathing intervals * Apple health kit integration * Mindfulness minutes * Current and longest streaks * Track your history and progress * Multiple audible cues * Over a dozen preset rates * Color palette options * Custom reminders * Rank system * Recommended exercises * Optional breath holds * Vibrate function * Multiple audible cues * Dark mode * Create your own color theme * Free book included * Original informative content PRESET BREATHING MODES: * Before sleep * Box breathing * Classic Pranayama * Energizing * Holotropic * Panic blocker * 4-7-8 breathing * and more EXERCISES THAT TARGET: * The respiratory diaphragm * Thoracic breathing muscles * The voice * The neck and back * Facial expressions * Eye contact * Nasal breathing * Fasting * Laughing

Screenshots

Breathwrk4 screens
Program Peace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Program Peace at none against Breathwrk's 16. Program Peace also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Breathwrk's advantage is ratings volume (18K vs 10). On price, ads and device support 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. Breathwrk sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Program Peace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Program Peace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathwrk has 18K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Breathwrk versus Program Peace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathwrkProgram Peace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18K ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings18K — better10
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size592 MB188 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPeloton Interactive, Inc.ANOTHER REALITY STUDIO, LLC.

Customer experience

Breathwrk

All ratings18,034 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews600 reviews
Positive36.8%
Neutral11.7%
Negative51.5%

Program Peace

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Breathwrk

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Breathing timers not working as expected
  • Inability to save or restore user preferences
  • Inconsistent performance across iOS versions
  • Sync issues causing loss of user data

Requested features

5 requests
  • More free breathing exercises
  • Ability to create custom breathing routines
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved sync and progress tracking

Program Peace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Breathwrk

Subscriptions16
  • Breathwrk Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Breathwrk Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Breathwrk Pro7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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  • Breathwrk Pro$7.991 Month
  • Breathwrk Premium 900 Monthly$9.001 Month
  • us$13.991 Month
  • Breathwrk English$29.991 Year
  • Breathwrk$29.991 Year
  • Breathwrk Pro7 Days trial$38.991 Year
  • Breathwrk Pro - $49.007 Days trial$49.001 Year
  • Breathwrk Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Breathwrk English7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Breathwrk7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Breathwrk English7 Days trial$54.991 Year
  • Breathwrk Pro $59.997 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Breathwrk Pro - $69.997 Days trial$69.991 Year
None

Program Peace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breathwrk free?
Breathwrk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Program Peace free?
Program Peace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Breathwrk or Program Peace?
Program Peace is rated higher. Breathwrk averages 4.8 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while Program Peace averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Breathwrk or Program Peace have ads?
Neither Breathwrk nor Program Peace shows ads.

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