Box Breathing vs Virtusan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Virtusan
This app offers personalized daily wellness routines based on your sleep and recovery data. It provides a variety of guided sessions for rest, focus, movement, and mindfulness, with optional hardware integration for deeper insights.
- Personalized daily wellness protocols
- NSDR and body scan meditations
- 40 Hz binaural beats for focus
- Functional fitness and resistance training
- Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditations
- BioAge and Daily Bloom insights
- Library of expert-led sessions
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Slept badly? You get NSDR or a body scan. Carrying stress? A physiological sigh. Recovered well? Resistance training. Same app, different answer, every morning — because it reads your night before it decides. WHAT IS IN THE APP REST & SLEEP • NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) — enter deep relaxation in 10 minutes • Body Scan — relax, let go, and drift off into sleep • Morning Sunlight Viewing — collect sunlight, sleep better at night • Deep Rest Meditation — set worries aside for the night • Caffeine Cutoff — set an earlier caffeine cutoff for better sleep • Warm-Up Wind-Down — build a steady rhythm for better sleep FOCUS • 40 Hz Binaural Beats — listen in to help you focus better • Physiological Sigh — push back on stress when it hits • Cyclic Hyperventilation — get alert in 25 quick breaths MOVEMENT • Functional Fitness — exercises that mimic daily activities • Cardiovascular Training — exercise to make you sweat and burn calories • Resistance Training — build strength, boost endurance, sculpt your body • Compound Exercises — exercises to help you build strength MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS • Mindfulness Meditation — cultivate greater calm, clarity and joy • Morning Meditation — set the tone for a productive day • Loving Kindness Meditation — feel safe and at peace • Self-Compassion Meditation — stay inspired and motivated • Intention, Attention, Attitude — Dr. Shauna Shapiro's three-part framework for change that lasts DAILY RITUALS • Daily Hydration — are you drinking enough every day? THE VIRTUSAN RING (OPTIONAL) Lightweight, no screen, nothing to swipe. Heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen and steps. Check your heart rate on demand any time. You do not need it to start. BIOAGE AND DAILY BLOOM BioAge is a daily read on how your body is ageing, from sleep, HRV, heart rate, stress and activity. Daily Bloom shows where your body is right now in one view — and the protocol that follows from it. THE LIBRARY 200+ sessions from Dr. Andrew Huberman, Dr. Shauna Shapiro, Dr. David Sinclair and Dr. Michael Reid on sleep, stress, focus, recovery and healthy ageing. WHO IT IS FOR People who are tired of tracking. If you check your numbers every morning and still do not know what to do differently, this was built for you. No athletic background assumed. SUBSCRIPTION Free to download. Premium unlocks every protocol. Virtusan is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. It is for general wellness and fitness purposes only. BioAge, Daily Bloom and all scores are wellness estimates, not clinical measurements. Terms of use: https://virtusan.com/inapp-view/terms-and-conditions EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Box Breathing and Virtusan both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of Box Breathing's written reviews are positive against 37% of Virtusan's. Virtusan's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Virtusan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Box Breathing against 4.7 for Virtusan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 320 and 506 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Box Breathing's written reviews are positive against 37% of Virtusan's.
Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, Virtusan every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Box Breathing | Virtusan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (320 ratings) — better | 4.7 (506 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 37.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 320 | 506 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STRV s.r.o. | Virtusan AG |
Customer experience
Box Breathing
Virtusan
Bugs and requests
Box Breathing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Virtusan
Reported bugs
4 issues- NSDR recordings no longer available
- Light exposure tracking not working
- Editing error in NSDR session
- Journeys and routines not logging properly
Requested features
5 requests- More cardio workouts
- Better instructions for exercises
- Ability to backup and restore progress
- More unique content beyond meditations
- Improved organization and navigation
In-app purchases
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
Virtusan
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$12.491 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Premium Yearly1 Year trial$69.991 Year









