Comparison

Box Breathing vs Viz App

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Personalized breathing test
  • Exercise categories (Calm, Sleep, Focus, Energize)
  • Audio guide and sound cues
  • Haptic feedback
  • CO2 tolerance test
  • Stress and anxiety relief
Features
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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.

About

Viz App

Share real-time ocean visibility reports with a community of divers. Log your dives, upload photos, and track conditions like surge and siltiness. See trends for dive sites and connect with fellow ocean enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Share dive logs and ocean conditions
  • View aggregated live viz reports
  • 3-day dive site trends
  • Photo sharing and critter spotting
  • Personal dive stats and activity heatmap
  • Top contributor recognition
Features
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Share the viz in three steps! 1. Write your dive log and report the ocean conditions 2. Fellow divers share their logs as well 3. Everyone's logs are aggregated into a live view of the viz at each dive site! --> The Joy of Participating With so much automation, AI, and tech around us - it's easy to forget how joyful participating in something can be! The Viz App is a chance to get involved with your local viz reports! The Viz App isn't just about dive site reports though. It's chock full of things to make logging your ocean adventures a fun time. --> Water Visibility & Ocean Conditions Water visibility and diving conditions are mysterious and hard to forecast. That's why the Viz App gives real divers the ability to share real reports with each other. Using an app allows everyone to contribute their reports in a standardised way. It makes it possible to show diving conditions in a completely new way. --> Dive Sites 3-Day Trend Lookup the 3-day trend and live conditions. Organised by dive-site & region. See the viz, surge, siltiness, temperature, and more! --> Photo Sharing and Critter Spotting Upload your photos with blazing fast speed. Scroll through your personal logbook to see the highlights of all your best shots from underwater. See the incredible pictures uploaded by fellow divers and snorkellers. "Like" their logs and show thanks for reporting the viz as well as their excellent photos! --> Join the Top Contributors To anyone who has every logged the viz... we all appreciate you! The list of top contributors for each dive site helps recognise those who love sharing the viz with each other. Adding logs, including photos, and tagging critters all earn some contribution points. "Liking" someone's log as well as getting "Likes" also earns some points --> Personal Stats with Incredible detail When back on dry-land, take your day-dreaming to the next level by reliving the highs and lows of your past diving adventures. Track your weekly activity with a unique and inspiring heatmap of your entire year! See the coldest and murkiest dives you've ever toughed out. Remember the days with perfect viz when you spotted every critter. Relish your sense of accomplishment when you look back on the number of dives you've completed in the past month & year. --> Thanks for giving it a go Hope you enjoy the app and find some good viz out there! I’ve been working on an app to make it easier to share the viz with others. The Viz App is a personal passion of mine, and there is no other company or investor involved. Thanks for giving it a try, and PLEASE let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback of any kind! I love diving and snorkelling in Sydney - Gordy's is my goto and Shelly is my fav! When the viz is bad, I go surfing instead!

Screenshots

Box Breathing4 screens
Viz App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Viz App at none against Box Breathing's 5. Viz App also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 79%). Box Breathing's advantage is ratings volume (320 vs 9) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Viz App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Box Breathing holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Box Breathing has 320 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Box Breathing's written reviews are positive against 90% of Viz App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Box Breathing versus Viz App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBox BreathingViz App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (320 ratings) — better4.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings320 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Vision ProiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTRV s.r.o.Flockatoo Tech Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Box Breathing

All ratings318 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative19.0%

Viz App

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Box Breathing

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time1
  • Float PRO Breathing Exercises$199.99
None

Viz App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Box Breathing free?
Box Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Viz App free?
Viz App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Box Breathing or Viz App?
Box Breathing is rated higher. Box Breathing averages 4.8 out of 5 from 320 ratings, while Viz App averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Box Breathing or Viz App have ads?
Neither Box Breathing nor Viz App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Box Breathing or Viz App?
Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, and Viz App every 3 weeks. Most recently, Box Breathing was updated on October 23, 2026 and Viz App on October 24, 2026.

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