Comparison

Open vs BWK

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

Head to head
About

Open

This app offers guided breathwork, meditation, and movement classes designed by experts to regulate your nervous system and promote personal growth. Access an extensive library of content for stress reduction, improved focus, and enhanced well-being anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Guided breathwork techniques
  • Daily meditation sessions
  • Mindful movement classes
  • Progress tracking and reminders
  • Expert-designed methodology
  • Extensive content library
Features
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“We believe that mindfulness is more than a form of stress relief — it can be a tool for personal growth, deeper understanding, vibrancy. More than a way to disconnect — it can be a way to feel a part of something bigger. More than simply silence — it can be immersive, beautiful, moving.” –Raed Khawaja, Open Co-founder & CEO Regulate your nervous system with Open. Bridge science and spirituality to cleanse your body and mind. Learn breathwork, meditation, and movement techniques designed by experts in neurobiology. Practice on the app and in-person at our flagship studio in Los Angeles. CLASSES BREATHE: Since the dawn of civilization, humans have developed techniques for manipulating our breath to induce desired states of consciousness. Now peer-reviewed studies in neuroscience and psychology confirm that breathwork is a powerful toolkit for regulating your nervous system, optimizing your health and well-being, and catalyzing personal transformation. Breathwork is an umbrella term for myriad practices, both ancient and modern. While many techniques are deeply rooted in spiritual traditions like Yoga, Qi Gong, and Buddhism, contemporary applications integrate ancient wisdom with modern science.This synthesis of ancient and modern has given rise to transformational breathwork, designed to induce profound experiences of catharsis, insight, and breakthrough. Experience a mental reset with just a few minutes of conscious breathing. MEDITATE: Train your awareness and contemplate wisdom – with techniques that span generations, cultures, and traditions – with our daily meditations and monthly programs. Learn how to enhance your focus, reduce your stress and anxiety, and regulate your emotions with simple mindfulness techniques you can incorporate into your daily life. MOVE: Our methodology is designed through the intelligence of fitness – blending endurance, strength, mobility, and recovery – with the wisdom of mindfulness. A ritual for resilience, strengthening the body and mind. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE: Practice on your time with our endless library, with fresh classes added daily. From simple 5-minute breathwork techniques, to 60-minute strength and conditioning classes, build your practice to fit your schedule and meet your goals. Whether you’re starting your journey or seeking a new challenge, there are classes for every level and mood. PROGRESS TRACKING: Create a daily habit that sticks with progress tracking, push reminders, streaks, and badges. A consistent breathwork and meditation practice has proven to reduce cortisol levels and regulate the nervous system–decreasing stress, supporting emotional well-being, and enhancing mental clarity. These techniques can also improve physical health by increasing heart rate variability, promoting cardiovascular health, and boosting immune function. CONNECT WITH US Questions? Email us: support@o-p-e-n.com. Follow along on Instagram: @op_e___n. NOTES Data: Open reads and writes data to the Apple Health App to help you track your Mindful minutes. No data is being sent outside of your device. This is optional. Pricing info: This pricing is for our customers in the United States. Pricing in other countries may vary. Your subscription to Open will automatically renew, unless you disable auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can turn off auto-renew or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple account. You can read more about our terms of service here: https://o-p-e-n.com/terms and our privacy policy here: https://o-p-e-n.com/privacy. GooGhywoiu9839t543j0s7543uw1 - please add peter@o-p-e-n.com to GA account of property 199812543 - date 08/06/2026.

About

BWK

Guided breathwork sessions designed to calm, clear, and energize your mind and body. Explore various session types for stress relief, emotional processing, and self-discovery with accompanying artwork and music.

Highlights
  • Heart-centered guided breathwork
  • Calming, clearing, and energizing sessions
  • Artwork matching session energy
  • Sessions for stress, trauma, and emotions
  • Filter by session length (short, medium, long)
  • Active, Relaxation, and Mixed session types
  • Self-discovery themes
Features
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In this app you’ll find heart-centered professionally guided Breathwork sessions to calm, clear, and energize. The breaths are easy to follow with intuitively chosen music. Each Breathwork Session comes with an artwork that matches the energy signature of the recording to better help you assimilate and integrate. Sessions are created to be highly effective; even a couple minutes will help regulate your nervous system, feel calm and energetic, clear heavy emotions and energy, and process trauma. This app is the perfect accompaniment to your daily routine, and the more consistently you use it, the more effective it becomes. Sessions are intentionally created to achieve certain goals. You can also filter the sessions depending on how much time you have: Short (0 - 10 minutes), Medium (15 - 30 minutes), and Long (30+ minutes). Here’s a sneak peak into the app: Active Sessions Sessions with more active, faster breaths designed to release stress, heavy energy, emotions, trauma, and clear out your body. In these sessions, you will shift your state of being and return to a state of rest. Highly effective to help you clear and balance your nervous system, returning to a natural state of self-regulation. Relaxation Sessions Created to help you completely relax through your natural breath, without any active breathing. Great for a reprieve in the middle of the day or to help you drift off to sleep. Mixed Sessions If you’re looking to gently de-stress but still need a little release, these sessions are for you. Intentionally created with slow, slightly active breaths, this combination will lower your heart rate, regulate your nervous system, and clear your body just enough so you can fully relax. Self-Discovery Many of the sessions are named with a theme. These are perfect if you’re on a journey of self-discovery, self-love and greater connection with yourself. Deepen your connection with yourself, develop your intuition, trust yourself, gain insights, and release any beliefs and stories holding you back. Something for Everyone: There’s something here for everyone. No matter what your need is, through the breath you can shift your state of being and change the way you feel, respond and experience the world. All sessions created with love and intention, designed to ignite and empower the healer within you. YOU are the magic, and you access it through your breath. Still not sure if it’s for you? This app is for anyone who is or has experienced: - Anxiety - Stress - Overworked - Trauma - On Edge - Discontent - Grief - Shame - Strong, heavy emotions - Negative self-talk - Discontent This app is for anyone who desires to feel: - Less Stress - Balanced - Release anxiety - Calm - Collected - Increase self-love through your connection with yourself - Heal from trauma - Reclaim your energy - Release heavy emotions and energy - More intimate with your partner - Increase your intuition and trust within yourself Ready to try it out? Even 5 minutes of conscious breathing helps. I promise you, after 30 days you will feel like a new person! Privacy policy: https://breathewithkatelyn.com/privacy-policy/ End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Open4 screens
BWK4 screens

Verdict

The call

Open and BWK both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of BWK's written reviews are positive against 60% of Open's. BWK also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Open's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (18K vs 8). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and BWK sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Open against 5.0 for BWK. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open has 18K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Open's written reviews are positive against 100% of BWK's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Open ships an update weekly, BWK every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Open versus BWK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenBWK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (18K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18K — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size307 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOpen Inc.KateLyn Costa, LLC

Customer experience

Open

All ratings17,970 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral0.9%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews674 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral3.4%
Negative36.2%

BWK

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Open

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Subscription not showing in Apple account
  • Inability to cancel subscription
  • Unexpected charges after cancellation

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode for classes
  • More free content options
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Better search and discovery
  • Progress tracking and analytics

BWK

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Open

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription14 Days trial$149.991 Year
2 purchases

BWK

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly, $4.99$4.991 Month
  • Annual, $44.99$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Open free?
Open is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BWK free?
BWK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Open or BWK?
BWK is rated higher. Open averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while BWK averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Open or BWK have ads?
Neither Open nor BWK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Open or BWK?
Open ships an update weekly, and BWK every 2 months. Most recently, Open was updated on November 6, 2026 and BWK on November 3, 2026.

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