Comparison

Breathing Zone vs Set Your Intention

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

Head to head
About

Breathing Zone

Reduce stress, improve mood, and feel more relaxed and energized with guided breathing exercises. This app uses scientifically based therapeutic techniques to help lower heart rate and potentially blood pressure. Discover mindfulness one breath at a time.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Stress reduction
  • Mood improvement
  • Relaxation and energy boost
  • Therapeutic breathing techniques
  • Breathing analyzer
Features
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Slow down, reset, and breathe with purpose. Breathing Zone offers simple guided breathing exercises for calm, focus, relaxation, and sleep. Choose a breathing pattern, then follow clear visual, voice, sound, or Apple Watch haptic guidance. Adjust the pace and session duration for anything from a quick reset to a longer breathing practice. FEATURES ● Coherent Breathing, Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Extended Exhale, and more ● Custom breathing rates and session durations ● Beautiful visual breathing guides ● Voice prompts, ambient sounds, and haptic guidance ● Daily goals, reminders, activity tracking, and streaks ● A dedicated Apple Watch experience ● Apple Health integration for recording completed sessions as Mindful Minutes FEATURED AND RECOMMENDED ● TIME: "Calm yourself with Breathing Zone." ● Harvard Health: "When you find yourself under stress, Breathing Zone can help." ● Bloomberg: "The breathing trick that can make you more productive." ● New York Magazine: "I like Breathing Zone for its simplicity." ● HuffPost: "An effective guide to mindful breathing." ● University of Sydney: "Breathing Zone provides guidance on slow breathing."

About

Set Your Intention

Track your mental well-being with daily intentions and mindful minutes. This app visualizes your progress using data from Apple Health and supported complications, integrating seamlessly with your preferred meditation apps.

Highlights
  • Daily intention setting
  • Mindful minutes tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Complication support
  • Progress visualization
Features
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Similar to the concept of Activity rings for physical health, Set Your Intention makes it easy to monitor your mental well being. Simply set your daily Intention & keep track of your Mindful Minutes through Apple Health and the supported Complications. You can use your preferred Meditation App — with support for Apple Health — on the iPhone or Apple Watch and the carefully crafted App will visualise your progress.

Screenshots

Breathing Zone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Breathing Zone at every 2 weeks against Set Your Intention's every 5 months. Breathing Zone also leads on device support (5 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.6). Set Your Intention's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breathing Zone ships an update every 2 weeks, Set Your Intention every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Breathing Zone versus Set Your Intention: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathing ZoneSet Your Intention
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTane LangtonPaul Weichhart

Customer experience

Breathing Zone

All ratings3,652 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews445 reviews
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.6%

Set Your Intention

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Breathing Zone

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Breathing rate not matching set value
  • Visual elements not centered on older devices
  • Sudden audio cutoff at end of session
  • Syncing issues between mobile and Apple Watch

Requested features

6 requests
  • Longer session duration options
  • More breathing pattern variations
  • Ability to adjust inhale/exhale ratio
  • Breath hold functionality
  • Integration with health/fitness apps
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  • Customizable reminders or notifications

Set Your Intention

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Breathing Zone

No in-app purchases

None

Set Your Intention

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breathing Zone free?
Breathing Zone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Set Your Intention free?
Set Your Intention is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Breathing Zone or Set Your Intention have ads?
Neither Breathing Zone nor Set Your Intention shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Breathing Zone or Set Your Intention?
Breathing Zone ships an update every 2 weeks, and Set Your Intention every 5 months. Most recently, Breathing Zone was updated on October 29, 2026 and Set Your Intention on October 22, 2026.

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