Comparison

Breathing Zone vs Program Peace

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

Program Peace

This free app guides users to optimize their breathing patterns for reduced tension and anxiety. It helps users learn deeper, longer breaths scientifically proven to lower blood pressure, improve mood, and enhance focus. The interface is clean, with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Customizable breathing intervals
  • Preset breathing rates
  • Breath counter
  • Mindfulness minutes tracking
  • History and progress tracking
  • Optional breath holds
  • Apple Health Kit integration
Features
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This free app will guide you to optimize your breathing pattern. Breathing short, shallow breaths creates tension in the muscles of respiration, which drives anxiety. Almost everyone breathes in this way to some extent. By training you to become comfortable breathing deeper and longer, this app will help you eliminate the tension and reduce the negative emotions it causes. Scientific studies have shown that paced breathing lowers blood pressure and heart rate and calms the mind. Research has also shown that breathing at longer intervals can improve mood, focus, and flexibility, increase athletic performance, reduce recovery time, mitigate fatigue, and help people get to sleep at night. This app is designed to help you take full advantage of those benefits. It also provides an easy-to-use interface without bloat, clutter, ads, sign-ins, in-app purchases, or full version upgrades. Read about the science of optimal breathing. Select how long you want your inhales and exhales to be. Choose the duration of the optional pauses between them. Peruse the preset breathing rates to learn about various breathing methods. Practice the Program Peace exercises to build confidence, a positive mindset, and rehabilitate systems throughout your body. Program Peace will introduce you to eight different principles of relaxed breathing and then encourage you to practice them while performing related exercises. Here are the principles: • Breathe deeply (high volume): Breathe more fully, breathing most of the way in and out in a way that pushes the belly forward during each inhalation. • Breathe longer (low frequency): Breathe at longer intervals in which each inhalation and exhalation lasts for more time. • Breathe smoothly (continuous flow): Breathe at a steady, slow, constant rate. • Breathe assertively (confident): Do not let social concerns or stressors conflict with the other rules. • Exhale passively: Allow your breathing muscles to go limp during each exhalation. • Breathe nasally: Breathe through the nose with nostrils flared. • Ocean’s Breath: Relax the back of your throat and breathe as if you are fogging up a glass. • Breathe with purity of heart: Knowing that you have only the best intentions, and that you exemplify the combination of nonsubmissive and nondominating, will infuse your breathing with peace. This app is intended to be a companion to the Program Peace book, website, and self-care system but is also a fully stand-alone product. For more information, you can visit www.programpeace.com. Please leave a review or contact us through the app if you have questions or suggestions. FEATURES: * Breath counter * Customizable breathing intervals * Apple health kit integration * Mindfulness minutes * Current and longest streaks * Track your history and progress * Multiple audible cues * Over a dozen preset rates * Color palette options * Custom reminders * Rank system * Recommended exercises * Optional breath holds * Vibrate function * Multiple audible cues * Dark mode * Create your own color theme * Free book included * Original informative content PRESET BREATHING MODES: * Before sleep * Box breathing * Classic Pranayama * Energizing * Holotropic * Panic blocker * 4-7-8 breathing * and more EXERCISES THAT TARGET: * The respiratory diaphragm * Thoracic breathing muscles * The voice * The neck and back * Facial expressions * Eye contact * Nasal breathing * Fasting * Laughing

Screenshots

Breathing Zone4 screens
Program Peace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Breathing Zone at 3.7K against Program Peace's 7. Breathing Zone also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Program Peace's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Program Peace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathing Zone has 3.7K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Breathing Zone versus Program Peace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathing ZoneProgram Peace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.7K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.7K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTane LangtonANOTHER REALITY STUDIO, LLC.

Customer experience

Breathing Zone

All ratings3,652 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews442 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.7%

Program Peace

All ratings7 ratings
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

Program Peace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Breathing Zone

No in-app purchases

None

Program Peace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breathing Zone free?
Breathing Zone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Program Peace free?
Program Peace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Breathing Zone or Program Peace?
Program Peace is rated higher. Breathing Zone averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Program Peace averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Breathing Zone or Program Peace have ads?
Neither Breathing Zone nor Program Peace shows ads.

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