Box Breathing vs Helia
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.
Helia
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Helia makes the invisible chemistry of sunlight visible. It estimates the vitamin D you make from the sun and take from supplements and food, fills a daily target like a budget, and tells you the smartest, safest way to top it up. YOUR DAY, IN ONE NUMBER • Today's vitamin D vs. your target, split by sun and supplements • A live sky background that follows the time of day and real weather • An hourly UV curve and a sun-path arc GET SUN SAFELY • A live sun-session timer with a real-time IU ticker and a sunburn (MED) gauge • Haptic milestones and a warning before you burn • The best window to get sun today — or when to just take a supplement instead • A Live Activity and Dynamic Island that track the session while you're outside CONNECTED • Reads time-in-daylight and outdoor workouts from Apple Health; writes your doses back • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for vitamin D, UV index and time in daylight • An Apple Watch app with three complications • Siri and Shortcuts: log a dose, start a sun session, or ask where you stand • Optional iCloud sync across your devices HELIA PRO • Month and quarter history • Your modelled blood 25-OH-D level, calibrated to lab results you enter • Watch auto-tracking • Custom alerts and Share Studio — turn your sunlight into a card or a video PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your records stay on device with optional iCloud sync; Health data is read live and never uploaded; location is coarse and never stored precisely. No ads, no trackers. Free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade. Helia provides estimates, not medical advice, and is not a medical device. Consult a qualified clinician. Terms of Use: https://pawan.info/legal/helia/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://pawan.info/legal/helia/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Box Breathing at 16.0 against Helia's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Helia sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Box Breathing | Helia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (320 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 320 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STRV s.r.o. | Pawanpreet Singh |
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
Helia
- Helia Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Helia Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Helia Pro Lifetime$24.99









