Comparison

Focus vs Breath

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

Head to head
About

Focus

Practice mindfulness and meditation using eye movements with augmented reality. Track your progress and sync mindful minutes to your health data. Enjoy relaxing music and engaging games designed for mental well-being.

Highlights
  • Eye-controlled focus and meditation
  • Augmented Reality eye tracking
  • Mindful minute tracking
  • HealthKit synchronization
  • Relaxing music
  • Flip Game
Features
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Focus is controlled entirely using your eyes.Practice focus and meditation through eye movements. Focus use Augmented Reality to tracking eyes, aims at physical and mental care through integrating meditation and focus into an app. How it Works: - The dot show where you're looking on the screen. - Docile thoughts through focusing one dot and listening relax music in one minute. - Record mindful minutes to 'Health'. - Support Widget. - Enjoy emptying yourself. - Enjoy Flip Game. Matters needing attention: - Focus has been connected to HealthKit,which can synchronize meditation time to 「Health」. If your have any issues or some advices, email us at lbechomt@163.com. We're always looking to improve!

About

Breath

Features
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Breath is a guided breathing timer for one practice: slow, even breathing at about 5.5 breaths a minute. That rate is known as resonance breathing, or coherent breathing, and it is the pace used in HRV biofeedback. Two audio tracks ship inside the app, one short and one long. You open the app, tap one of two circles, and it begins. There is nothing to configure. HOW A SESSION GOES Each breath cycle lasts 11 seconds, about five and a half seconds in and five and a half out, cued by soft tones over an ambient bed. The audio keeps the rhythm, so there is nothing to count. Tap once during a session and the screen fades to black while the audio and the timer keep running. Eyes shut, or the phone face down. Tap again and it comes back, slowly. Audio continues when you lock the phone or switch apps. END finishes early, fading the audio out. A session under one minute is discarded. WHAT IT KEEPS Six weeks of practice as a quiet grid of dots, with your current streak, your total minutes, and your recent sessions. With your permission, each session is written to Apple Health as a Mindful Session. The Health permission is write-only. Breath asks for no read access at all, so it cannot see your heart rate, your heart rate variability, or anything else in Health. PRIVACY Breath collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party code, and the app makes no network requests of any kind. Both tracks are bundled inside the app, so it works in airplane mode. Your practice records stay in the app's own storage on your device. ABOUT THE RHYTHM Your heart rate already rises and falls with every breath you take. Breathing at about one cycle every eleven seconds, roughly 0.09 Hz, puts each breath in time with a rhythm the body already has, and the amplitude of heart rate variation reaches its maximum right there. That much is measurable, and it is why paced breathing at this frequency underlies HRV biofeedback. Whether it produces lasting change is a separate and less settled question. Breath keeps the rhythm and leaves that open. Breath is a breathing timer. It makes no medical claims, and it does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.

Screenshots

Focus4 screens
Breath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Focus at 3 against Breath's 1. Focus also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus ships an update every 10 days, Breath fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus versus Breath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusBreath
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer荣煜 罗琛 丁

In-app purchases

None

Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Breath

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Breath free?
Breath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus or Breath have ads?
Neither Focus nor Breath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus or Breath?
Focus ships an update every 10 days, and Breath fortnightly. Most recently, Focus was updated on October 24, 2026 and Breath on October 15, 2026.

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