Comparison

breatheX vs Breath Routine

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

Head to head
About

breatheX

This app offers a flexible tool for guided breathing exercises. Customize routines with various sounds and haptic feedback. Track your progress over time and integrate with Apple Health for mindfulness minutes.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing patterns
  • Pre-made breathing routines
  • Sound and haptic feedback options
  • Progress measurement and tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Mindfulness minute tracking
Features
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The breatheX App is a powerful, easy-to-use, and highly flexible breath eXercise tool. It allows an individual to chose from many pre-made breathing patterns/routines or create their own. Users can set practice preferences including sounds and or haptics. The App also provides tools to measure and track results over time and allows users to integrate with Apple Health App to track practice sessions as Mindfulness minutes.

About

Breath Routine

This app helps you train your breath with customizable routines for relaxation, meditation, and improved lung capacity. It offers full control over breathing sessions, allowing you to set durations and track progress. Designed for both beginners and experienced users, it provides a distraction-free experience to build resilience and improve your relationship with your breath.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing routines
  • Adjustable inhale, exhale, and hold durations
  • Breath-hold training for various goals
  • Save and reuse breathing presets
  • Track completed sessions and total time
  • Monitor longest breath holds and progress
Features
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Train your breath with intention, clarity, and control. This breathwork and breath-hold trainer is designed to adapt to you - whether your goal is to relax your nervous system, deepen meditation, increase lung capacity, improve breath holds, or prepare for freediving and underwater sports. Instead of forcing you into rigid programs, the app gives you full control over every breathing session. You decide how you breathe, how long you hold, and how your practice evolves over time. Built with a clean, distraction-free design, the app works equally well for beginners discovering breathwork for the first time and experienced practitioners looking to fine-tune their training. Every session is intentional, flexible, and easy to repeat. What you can do: • Create multiple custom breathing routines for different goals • Customize inhale, exhale, pause, and breath-hold durations • Train breath holds for relaxation, performance, or freediving • Save, name, and reuse your breathing presets anytime • Select a routine before each session and start instantly • Edit or remove routines as your practice changes • Track completed sessions and total breathing time • See your longest breath holds and monitor progress over time Whether you’re practicing calm breathing before sleep, building a daily breathwork habit, or training breath holds to improve CO₂ tolerance and focus, this app supports steady progress without pressure. There are no accounts, no complicated setup, and no unnecessary features, just guided breathing sessions that help you slow down, build resilience, and improve your relationship with your breath. Breathe consistently. Train patiently. Progress naturally.

Screenshots

breatheX4 screens
Breath Routine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: breatheX at 100% against Breath Routine's 0%. breatheX also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). Breath Routine's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

breatheX holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: breatheX has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of breatheX's written reviews are positive against 0% of Breath Routine's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

breatheX ships an update weekly, Breath Routine every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
breatheX versus Breath Routine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbreatheXBreath Routine
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPEAKX LLCAhmed Khelifi

Customer experience

breatheX

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Breath Routine

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

breatheX

No in-app purchases

None

Breath Routine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is breatheX free?
breatheX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Breath Routine free?
Breath Routine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, breatheX or Breath Routine?
breatheX is rated higher. breatheX averages 5.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Breath Routine averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do breatheX or Breath Routine have ads?
Neither breatheX nor Breath Routine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, breatheX or Breath Routine?
breatheX ships an update weekly, and Breath Routine every 6 days. Most recently, breatheX was updated on October 24, 2026 and Breath Routine on October 24, 2026.

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