Comparison

Box Breathing vs ButeykoClinic®

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

ButeykoClinic®

Learn a physician-developed breathing program to enhance immunity, reduce stress, and improve sleep and overall health for adults and children. Access guided exercises, track progress, and test your breathing capacity.

Highlights
  • Video program for children and teens
  • Guided breathing and relaxation for adults
  • Control Pause breathing test
  • Progress tracking
  • Links to resources
  • Find an instructor
Features
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The Buteyko Method is a physician-developed breathing program that boosts immunity, reduces stress, deepens sleep, and improves physical and mental health, in adults and children. Experience the powerful benefits of Buteyko breathing. Free from the UK’s leading Buteyko breathing clinic. Inside the app: • A complete video program of breathing exercises for children and teens • Guided breathing and relaxation exercises for adults with Buteyko Clinic founder and breathing expert, Patrick McKeown • Test your breathing using the Control Pause • Track your progress • Links to resources including MYOTAPE, Patrick McKeown’s mouth tape for sleep • Find a Buteyko Method instructor The Buteyko Method gives long-term relief from asthma, rhinitis, sleep apnea, snoring, PMS, headaches, back and neck pain, anxiety, chronic hyperventilation and more. It supports immunity and may help relieve the discomfort of breathing in a face mask. This globally established breathwork method is safe, simple, and scientific. Download the free app now and begin to practice healthy breathing. For children and adults. For better lifelong health and wellbeing.

Screenshots

Box Breathing4 screens
ButeykoClinic®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ButeykoClinic® at none against Box Breathing's 5. ButeykoClinic® also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Box Breathing's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (318 vs 3). On price, rating, 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. ButeykoClinic® asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Box Breathing against 4.7 for ButeykoClinic®. 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 ButeykoClinic®'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, ButeykoClinic® every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Box Breathing versus ButeykoClinic®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBox BreathingButeykoClinic®
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (318 ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings318 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTRV s.r.o.Oxygen Research Institute Ltd.

Customer experience

Box Breathing

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

ButeykoClinic®

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

ButeykoClinic®

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Box Breathing free?
Box Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ButeykoClinic® free?
ButeykoClinic® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Box Breathing or ButeykoClinic®?
Box Breathing is rated higher. Box Breathing averages 4.8 out of 5 from 318 ratings, while ButeykoClinic® averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Box Breathing or ButeykoClinic® have ads?
Neither Box Breathing nor ButeykoClinic® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Box Breathing or ButeykoClinic®?
Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, and ButeykoClinic® every 5 months. Most recently, Box Breathing was updated on September 22, 2026 and ButeykoClinic® on September 17, 2026.

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