Beam vs Box Breathing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beam
Master breathwork and meditation to reduce stress, improve focus, and regulate anxiety. This app offers guided exercises for beginners and experts to enhance well-being and build resilience through mindful breathing.
- Hundreds of breathwork exercises
- Expert-led guided meditations
- Wellness progress tracking
- Customizable reminders
- Immersive soundscapes
- Leaderboards for motivation
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Beam by Moksha makes it fun and easy to master the art of breathwork and meditation. Unlock the power of your breath to reduce stress, improve focus, boost energy, regulate anxiety levels, and enhance overall well-being. Perfectly designed for beginners and experts alike, our app helps you build mindfulness and resilience one breath at a time. Most people don’t realize how much improper breathing affects their health and well-being. Shallow or fast breathing contributes to stress, anxiety, and fatigue. By learning how to breathe properly, you can: - Activate your parasympathetic nervous system, reducing anxiety and calming your mind - Improve focus, concentration, and productivity at work or school - Enhance sleep quality, leaving you feeling refreshed and energized - Lower your heart rate and blood pressure for better cardiovascular health We combine the latest research in breathwork and mindfulness with an easy-to-use interface to make wellness accessible for everyone. Our app includes 5 different scientifically-backed categories of breathwork exercises: 1) Calm – reduce your resting heart rate, stabilize your mood, and increase lung capacity 2) Energy – find focus and enhance your attention while boosting your energy levels 3) Morning – relieve muscle stiffness and tension first thing in the morning 4) Recovery – recover quickly and effectively after strenuous exercise 5) Sleep – shut out any distractions and relax before falling asleep FEATURES INCLUDE: • 100s of Breathwork Exercises – Tailored for every goal, from stress relief to energizing • Expert-led Guided Meditations – Updated weekly for fresh content • Wellness Checks – Track your progress and health improvements • Leaderboards – Motivate yourself and compete with others for consistency • Custom Reminders – Build lasting habits with personalized nudges • Immersive Soundscapes – Relax and focus with soothing background music Ready to breathe better and feel better? Download the Beam app today and start your journey to mastering your breath Terms of Service: https://www.moksha.site/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.moksha.site/privacy
Box Breathing
Enhance your well-being with guided breathwork exercises. This app offers personalized sessions based on a breathing test, with categories for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. Experience immersive audio, haptic feedback, and sound cues for stress reduction and improved performance.
- Personalized breathing test
- Exercise categories (Calm, Sleep, Focus, Energize)
- Audio guide and sound cues
- Haptic feedback
- CO2 tolerance test
- Stress and anxiety relief
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Unlock the power of breathwork and improve your physical and mental well-being with Float - the ultimate breathing app that makes it easy to breathe. Customize your experience with a breathing test and choose from exercise categories for calm, sleep, focus, quick relief, and energize. Used by top coaches and athletes, Float combines an audio guide, haptic feedback, and sound cues for a truly immersive breathing experience. Breathing is an essential practice for both your physical and mental well-being and Float is the ultimate breathing app that guides you through personalized breathing exercises to help you increase your performance throughout the day and reduce stress & anxiety. With Float, you can take a CO2 tolerance test, which gives us a reliable idea about your breathing in the last weeks and months. This test allows us to customize the breathwork to your very individual demands, ensuring you get the most out of each session. Whether you're an athlete or an office worker, practicing breathwork can be a powerful way to boost your health, and performance, control your nervous system and manage anxiety. Practicing breathwork is scientifically proven to increase your physical and mental performance. The benefits of learning to breathe with Float are endless, including relief from stress and anxiety, emotional healing, increased CO2 tolerance, improved immunity, and easier sleep. You'll also develop or increase self-awareness, enrich your creativity, improve focus and clarity, and boost your confidence and self-esteem. Breathwork with Float can also help you process emotions, heal emotional pain and trauma, and increase your CO2 tolerance. Additionally, it can help boost your immunity, fall asleep easily, enrich creativity, and improve focus, gain clarity and reduce brain fog. Float's breathwork exercises are curated by some of the top breathing coaches and are used by psychologists, physiotherapists, Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, freedivers, yogis, and neuroscientists. We continue to work on expanding the breathwork exercises library to cover the most frequent stressful events occurring during the day. Breathing exercises are categorized into CALM, SLEEP, FOCUS, QUICK RELIEF, and ENERGIZE. The list of breathing exercises available in Float includes: – 4-7-8: Drift into sleep – Acumen: Get clarity, get focused – Alert: Get ready for action – Balance: Reconcile left & right brain – Box Breathing: Be right here, right now – Coherent: Stabilize your mood – Doping: Pre-workout routine – Ninja: Get calm like a ninja – Recovery: Cool down after a workout – Resonance: Sharpen your mind – Slumber: Sleep soundly – Sunrise: Rise & shine – Sunset: End the day in serenity – Unblock: Set your nose free – Wind Down: Take a moment to deeply relax – NSDR: Non-Sleep Deep Rest Please be aware that sessions can cause and are not limited to: – Tingling – Dizziness – Trembling, shaking, or other physical sensations – Emotional experiences – Experience energy moving through your body Got a question? Send us an email at team@keepfloating.com DISCLAIMER: This content in the Float app is not medical advice or a treatment plan and is intended for general education and demonstration purposes only. The content should not be used to self-diagnose or self-treat any health, medical, or physical condition. Don’t use this content to avoid going to your own healthcare professional or to replace the advice they give you. Consult with your healthcare professional before doing anything contained in this content. Links: Privacy Policy - https://www.keepfloating.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use - https://keepfloating.com/terms Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/float.breath TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@float.breath The Float app saves your meditation and sleep sessions to your Apple Health app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Box Breathing at every 3 weeks against Beam's every 4 months. Box Breathing also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (320 vs 29). Beam's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Beam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Box Breathing holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Box Breathing has 320 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Beam's written reviews are positive against 79% of Box Breathing's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Beam ships an update every 4 months, Box Breathing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beam | Box Breathing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29 ratings) | 4.8 (320 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 320 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YAYMIN, Inc. | STRV s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Beam
Box Breathing
In-app purchases
Beam
- Moksha Premium Plan Monthly$7.991 Month
- Moksha Premium Plan Yearly$59.991 Year
Box Breathing
- Float PRO - Monthly Membership$9.991 Month
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$39.991 Year
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$49.991 Year
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- Float PRO Breathing Exercises7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Float PRO Breathing Exercises$199.99









