Comparison

Breathing Zone vs GroundApp

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

GroundApp

This app guides you through various breathing techniques to help regulate your nervous system and promote calm. It offers personalized breathwork based on your mood and energy levels, with options for guided sessions and advanced training.

Highlights
  • Personalized breathwork based on mood
  • Library of over 40 breathing techniques
  • Advanced O2 and CO2 tables for breath-hold training
  • Guided sessions with ambient sound and haptic cues
  • Live heart rate and HRV monitoring
  • Integration with Apple Health and wearables
  • Progress tracking and BOLT test
Features
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Your nervous system already knows how to settle. GroundApp gives it the right breath. Meet Bodie, your breathing companion. Bodie sits in the middle of Home and breathes the rhythm the wheel lands on. Scroll the wheel to pick a technique, tap Start, or press and hold on Bodie, then breathe with him. No account needed to begin. Collin's 3-minute intro film shows why he made GroundApp and how to use it. CHECK IN WITH BODIE Tap Check in on Home. Name how you feel, rate how strong it is and your energy. GroundApp maps that to a nervous system state and matches breathwork to it. Anxious and wired gets something different from flat and foggy. LIBRARY Techniques: more than 40, including Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Physiological Sigh, Resonance Breathing and Cyclic Sighing. Each has a practice guide: purpose, steps, length and safety. Advanced: O2 and CO2 tables for breath-hold training. Start from a ready-made table or build one from your own reference hold. You begin each hold and can stop any time. Dry land only. Never in or near water. Guided: sessions in Collin's voice, with ambient sound and haptic cues. Sleep sounds: rain, ocean waves, brown noise, a crackling fire and more. AURA (PREMIUM) Aura is Collin Chartier's AI expert in nervous system regulation. Sign in, check in, and Aura builds a plan: two or three techniques, about 10 minutes, with a note on why each fits how you feel. Aura asks before anything leaves your phone, and you can turn it off any time in Profile. Without Aura you still get a plan from your answers. PROGRESS Track your streaks and session history. Take the BOLT test, a comfortable breath hold timed in seconds, and watch your scores over time. Training history keeps your Advanced tables and holds. LIVE HEART RATE Tap the heart button in the player to connect any standard Bluetooth heart rate monitor, or a Whoop or Garmin with heart rate broadcast on. Watch live heart rate and HRV (RMSSD) as you breathe, then get a recap and charts. HRV needs beat-to-beat data. APPLE HEALTH AND WEARABLES Turn on Apple Health and GroundApp reads heart rate, HRV, sleep, steps and active energy to suggest the right breathwork for today, and saves your sessions to Health as mindful minutes. Whoop, Garmin, Oura, COROS and other wearables also reach GroundApp through Apple Health: sync them there, then switch it on here. Readings inform suggestions. They are not a medical assessment. PRACTICE YOUR WAY Set the session timer from 3 to 20 minutes, a custom length or no limit. Layer in music, nature sounds, voice guidance and haptics, each with its own volume. Haptic-only mode is for silent practice. APPLE WATCH Practice on your wrist with the Apple Watch app. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: 4 core techniques, the session timer, streaks, basic stats, check-ins with Bodie and live heart rate. GroundApp Premium adds all techniques, the Advanced O2 and CO2 tables, guided sessions and Aura. Use GroundApp as a guest, or sign in with Apple or Google. GROUNDAPP PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION GroundApp Premium is an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $39.99 per year in the US. Eligible new subscribers get a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://groundapp.live/terms Privacy Policy: https://groundapp.live/privacy Intense techniques show a short safety note before you start. If you have a heart, lung or other medical condition, check with your doctor before you begin a new breathing practice. If you're dealing with panic attacks, trauma, or thoughts of hurting yourself, start with a licensed professional. In the US you can call or text 988 any time. This is coaching and education, not medical or mental health treatment.

Screenshots

Breathing Zone4 screens
GroundApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Breathing Zone at none against GroundApp's 1. Breathing Zone also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 11) and device support (5 vs 2). GroundApp's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating and ads 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. GroundApp sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. Breathing Zone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GroundApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathing Zone has 3.8K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Breathing Zone's written reviews are positive against 100% of GroundApp's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breathing Zone ships an update every 2 weeks, GroundApp every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Breathing Zone versus GroundApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreathing ZoneGroundApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.8K ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB165 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTane LangtonCollin Chartier

Customer experience

Breathing Zone

All ratings3,652 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews446 reviews
Positive81.2%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.6%

GroundApp

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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

GroundApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Breathing Zone

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GroundApp

Subscriptions1
  • Ground Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Breathing Zone free?
Breathing Zone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GroundApp free?
GroundApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Breathing Zone or GroundApp?
GroundApp is rated higher. Breathing Zone averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while GroundApp averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Breathing Zone or GroundApp have ads?
Neither Breathing Zone nor GroundApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Breathing Zone or GroundApp?
Breathing Zone ships an update every 2 weeks, and GroundApp every 6 days. Most recently, Breathing Zone was updated on November 6, 2026 and GroundApp on November 5, 2026.

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