Box Breathing vs Mindful
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.
Mindful
Enhance concentration and achieve inner peace with guided breathing exercises and focus techniques. Track your progress and cultivate a more mindful, balanced life.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Focus techniques
- Progress tracking
- Stress coping
- Productivity enhancement
- Inner peace cultivation
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Calm your mind in 2 minutes. Mindful Focus is a simple breathing app that combines guided breathing exercises with a focus timer — so you can relax when you're stressed and concentrate when it's time to work. 10 BREATHING EXERCISES FOR EVERY MOMENT • Box breathing (4-4-4-4) — calm the mind and release tension • 4-7-8 breathing — relieve stress and anxiety • Deep Peace, Relaxation and Shavasana breathing — slow down and fall asleep • Kapalabhati, Ocean and Sun breathing (Surya Bhedana) — energy and focus • Gentle and Shamati breathing — quick calm and mindfulness • Adjust inhale, hold and exhale to your own pace • Follow the animated guide — no counting needed FOCUS TIMER • Set a focus session and work without distractions • Great for study, deep work and pomodoro-style sprints • Focus and break intervals, with the timer on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island (Live Activity) • Take a guided breathing break between focus sessions TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Statistics for every session, streaks and ranks • Session history chart • Mindful minutes saved to Apple Health • Daily reminders to build the habit WHY MINDFUL FOCUS • Clean, distraction-free design • Calming sounds for your practice • Works offline • No account, no data collected • Available in English, Russian, German and Spanish Just a few minutes of mindful breathing a day can help you feel calmer, sleep better and stay focused. PREMIUM Unlock all breathing exercises and features with Mindful Focus Premium. Start with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/mindful-focus-privacy-policy/b2ac1340-4040-4705-bb17-7c6b4cecf234/privacy Mindful Focus is not a medical device. If you have a health condition, consult your doctor before doing breathing exercises.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Box Breathing at 318 against Mindful's 3. Mindful's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On price, rating, update cadence 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 Mindful sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. 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 Mindful. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Box Breathing has 318 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Box Breathing's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mindful's.
Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, Mindful every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Box Breathing | Mindful |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (318 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 318 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STRV s.r.o. | Kiryl Sytskou |
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Box Breathing
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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
Mindful
- Mindful Focus - Premium Year1 Month trial$4.991 Year
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