Comparison

Box Breathing vs Oako

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

Oako

Features
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What is really inside your cosmetics? Oako tells you. Photograph the ingredient label of any cosmetic product: shampoo, cream, sunscreen, makeup or toothpaste. Oako reads the INCI list, analyzes every ingredient and gives you a clear health score with easy to understand explanations. SCAN ANY LABEL - Capture flat labels with a single photo - Combine several photos for long ingredient lists - Capture labels that wrap around round bottles in several overlapping photos - Import ingredients directly from a product web page UNDERSTAND EVERY INGREDIENT - Health score at a glance - Concerns per ingredient, clearly explained - Tap any ingredient for details - Optional comedogenic check for skin prone to blemishes MADE FOR YOU - Store your allergies and every scan is checked against them - Pregnancy mode highlights ingredients often avoided during pregnancy - Works for previously scanned products too COMPARE AND DECIDE - Compare two products side by side - Comparison history so you can look results up later - Ask the built-in assistant questions about your scanned products YOUR LIBRARY - All scans in a searchable library with favorites and categories - Synced across your devices with iCloud - Share results with friends in any messenger PRIVATE BY DESIGN All analysis runs on your device using Apple Intelligence. Nothing is uploaded for analysis and we never see your data. Your library stays on your device and in your own private iCloud, and syncing can be turned off. No account, no tracking, no ads. FREE AND PREMIUM Oako is free to use with daily limits on scans, comparisons and assistant messages. Premium removes these limits. Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Oako provides general information about cosmetic ingredients. It is not medical advice. For health questions, consult a doctor or pharmacist. Privacy Policy: https://www.saharcreative.studio/oako/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our Terms: https://www.saharcreative.studio/oako/terms.html

Screenshots

Box Breathing4 screens
Oako4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Box Breathing at 16.0 against Oako's 26.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Oako sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Box Breathing versus Oako: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBox BreathingOako
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (320 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings320 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTRV s.r.o.Sahar Ebrahimi

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
3 purchases

Oako

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Box Breathing free?
Box Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oako free?
Oako is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Box Breathing or Oako have ads?
Neither Box Breathing nor Oako shows ads.

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