Comparison

NTX Apnea vs Swyn

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

Head to head
About

NTX Apnea

This app offers a comprehensive system for freediving and spearfishing training, focusing on improving breath-hold, awareness, and relaxation. It provides a variety of exercises with detailed instructions and expert guidance to suit all experience levels.

Highlights
  • Breath-hold training exercises
  • Breathing and relaxation exercises
  • Customizable training parameters
  • In-app exercise history
  • Automatic difficulty adjustment
  • Audio and video guidance
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NTX Apnea is a complete freediving and spearfishing training system for improving breathold, awareness and relaxation. Exercises target different aspects of training (e.g. dive reflex, breathold under stress, CO2 tolerance, self awareness, etc.) and support a wide range of difficulty making it an ideal tool for apneists of any experience level. Exercises are richly supported with detailed instructions along with expert audio and video guidance. SUPPORT: Email: kociubin+ntxapnea@gmail.com with questions, suggestions or bug reports. BREATHOLD TRAINING EXERCISES: -Halfway Holds -Lazy Tables -Spanish Steps -Crazy Tables -Zany Walks -Oxy Walks -Wonky Square BREATHING AND RELAXATION EXERCISES: -Guided Breathe-up -Coherence Breathing -Box Breathing FEATURES: -Variety of exercises (e.g. easy, medium, pro, indoor/outdoor) -Customization and personalization of parameters/settings -In app exercise history -Exercise suggestions -Automatic increasing of difficulty based on performance improvements -Built in pre-exercise warmup/breathe-up -Audio guidance -Detailed instructions and videos

About

Swyn

Features
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Other breathing apps set the pace and expect you to keep up. Swyn goes the other way. Your in-breath is yours, however long it happens to last, and Swyn takes it from there. Hold anywhere on the screen. Swyn opens under your finger and keeps opening for as long as you hold. Nothing to reach, nothing to count. Lift your finger and Swyn sits through the pause that follows, then draws the out-breath back down at the length you picked. Only the out-breath is automatic, and that is deliberate. Watching the clock on a long one is what makes it hard to hold. Swyn does the watching. It is built to be looked at, too. Swyn warms as you breathe in and cools as you breathe out, wisps drift off as it goes, and its face softens the longer you stay. The day and night appearances are drawn separately rather than one dimmed into the other. Haptics run underneath all of it, so you can close your eyes and still follow the breath. DAILY MOMENTS Three optional cues: Start gently in the morning, Reset in the middle of things, Wind down at night. Switch on any of them, or none. Set your times by dragging across a full day that shifts from morning light to night as you move, or type them in exactly. Every day, or weekdays only. Swyn will not chase you. A moment you miss stays missed. Nothing gets rescheduled, no catch-up turns up later, and Swyn never remarks on how long it has been. They are silent, ordinary notifications, scheduled on your iPhone and nowhere else. MAKE IT YOURS • Out-breath length, from an even 1:1 to a long 1:3 • Day and night appearance, or follow your iPhone • Haptics, breath countdown, natural or fixed-length sessions ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app is a real app, not a remote. It works with your iPhone locked, in another room, or off. Hold the screen to breathe in, or switch on Turn your wrist and start a breath by lowering your arm. The whole breath arrives as haptics, so you never have to raise your wrist to see it. QUIET BY DESIGN No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Swyn collects nothing. Nothing you do in it leaves your device. Swyn is made for general wellbeing. It is not medical advice, and does not diagnose or treat any condition.

Screenshots

NTX Apnea4 screens
Swyn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: NTX Apnea at 15.0 against Swyn's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
NTX Apnea versus Swyn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNTX ApneaSwyn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (66 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings66 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMariusz KociubinskiYadav Ramburn

In-app purchases

None

NTX Apnea

No in-app purchases

None

Swyn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NTX Apnea free?
NTX Apnea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swyn free?
Swyn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NTX Apnea or Swyn have ads?
Neither NTX Apnea nor Swyn shows ads.

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