Comparison

Box Breathing vs BestSelf

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

BestSelf

This app creates personalized video and audio messages from your future self, using your own voice and image. It provides weekly video updates and daily voice notes to help you stay motivated and focused on your goals. The app also features a unique wake-up alarm and an archive of all your messages.

Highlights
  • Personalized future self videos
  • Daily voice notes
  • Wake-up alarm
  • Message archive
  • Voice and selfie integration
  • Goal visualization
Features
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Your future self has something to tell you. BestSelf turns a selfie and 30 seconds of your voice into video messages from the person you're working to become — speaking in your own voice, from inside the life you described. HOW IT WORKS 1. Record your voice. About a minute of natural speech is all it takes. 2. Describe your future. Say it out loud: where you are, what you've built, how it feels. 3. Meet them. We create your future self and record your first message. THEN, EVERY WEEK Once a week, on your own anniversary day, a new video arrives first thing in the morning — a fresh message grounded in the future you described, and a brand-new scene from that life. Never the same message twice, never the same picture twice. Six different tones, from morning fire to honest tough love, so it stays real instead of turning into wallpaper. EVERY OTHER MORNING, A VOICE NOTE On the mornings in between, a short voice note from Future You — a single grounding thought in your own voice, over the portrait of who you're becoming. Thirty seconds that reframes the whole day. WAKE UP AS THAT PERSON Set the alarm and your future self wakes you: your own voice, fired up, calling you into the day instead of a ringtone. It changes every morning. YOUR ARCHIVE Every message is kept. Months from now, scrolling back through your own face telling you to keep going — and realising you did — is the whole point. WHY YOUR OWN VOICE Generic motivation slides off. Advice in your own voice, about your own specific future, lands differently. That's not a gimmick; it's the entire mechanism. PRIVACY BestSelf works only with your own face and voice. Your recordings are used to create your videos and nothing else — never to train models, never sold, never used to identify you. Delete everything, permanently, from Settings at any time. SUBSCRIPTION BestSelf Pro unlocks weekly video messages, daily voice notes, the wake-up alarm, saving and sharing, and editing your vision as your goals change. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are also available in the app under Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Box Breathing4 screens
BestSelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Box Breathing at 320 against BestSelf's 4. BestSelf's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 BestSelf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BestSelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Box Breathing has 320 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Box Breathing's written reviews are positive against 100% of BestSelf's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, BestSelf monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Box Breathing versus BestSelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBox BreathingBestSelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (320 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings320 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTRV s.r.o.Nicholas Oganesoff

Customer experience

Box Breathing

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

BestSelf

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 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
2 purchases

BestSelf

Subscriptions2
  • BestSelf Pro$12.991 Month
  • BestSelf Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Box Breathing free?
Box Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BestSelf free?
BestSelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Box Breathing or BestSelf?
BestSelf is rated higher. Box Breathing averages 4.8 out of 5 from 320 ratings, while BestSelf averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Box Breathing or BestSelf have ads?
Neither Box Breathing nor BestSelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Box Breathing or BestSelf?
Box Breathing ships an update every 3 weeks, and BestSelf monthly. Most recently, Box Breathing was updated on November 3, 2026 and BestSelf on November 6, 2026.

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