Breathing Zone vs Mindfulness Coach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Stress reduction
- Mood improvement
- Relaxation and energy boost
- Therapeutic breathing techniques
- Breathing analyzer
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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."
Mindfulness Coach
Learn and practice mindfulness with a guided training program. Access audio exercises, informational resources, and progress tracking tools to reduce stress and improve emotional balance. This app is free and respects your privacy.
- Self-guided mindfulness training
- Audio-guided mindfulness exercises
- Information library on mindfulness
- Goal setting and progress tracking
- Mindfulness mastery assessment
- Customizable reminders
- Access to support resources
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Mindfulness means noticing and paying attention to what is going on in the present moment, without passing judgment on it. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective for reducing stress, improving emotional balance, increasing self-awareness, helping with anxiety and depression, and coping more effectively with chronic pain. Mindfulness Coach 2.0 was developed to help Veterans, Service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. Mindfulness Coach also offers a library of information about mindfulness (for example “What is Mindfulness?”, “How to Anchor Your Attention”), 12 audio-guided mindfulness exercises and a growing catalog of additional exercises available for free download, goal-setting and tracking, a mindfulness mastery assessment to help you track your progress over time, customizable reminders, and access to other support and crisis resources. Mindfulness Coach is free, doesn’t take or share any of your personal information, and doesn’t require add-on purchases. Mindfulness Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Breathing Zone at every 2 weeks against Mindfulness Coach's every 9 months. Breathing Zone also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Mindfulness Coach's advantage is review sentiment (93% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Breathing Zone against 4.8 for Mindfulness Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.8K and 11K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Breathing Zone's written reviews are positive against 93% of Mindfulness Coach's.
Breathing Zone ships an update every 2 weeks, Mindfulness Coach every 9 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Breathing Zone | Mindfulness Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better | 4.8 (11K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.2% of reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tane Langton | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) |
Customer experience
Breathing Zone
Mindfulness Coach
User reviews
Breathing Zone
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Amazing app
- 👍 Simple and effective
- 🎨 Beautiful visuals
- 🔊 Customizable sounds
- 🕰️ Flexible session settings
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
- ⚠️ Timing issues with breathing rate
- 🔒 Lack of syncing across devices
- 🔇 Notification sounds can be disruptive
- 📊 Lack of progress tracking or statistics
Mindfulness Coach
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly
- 🚀 Helpful for mental health
- 🚀 Effective for mindfulness and relaxation
- 🚀 Great for beginners
- 🚀 Comprehensive content
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs with timers and tracking
- 🐛 Difficulty navigating and finding specific content
- 🐛 White screen can be harsh on the eyes
- 🐛 Lack of music or background sounds
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
Mindfulness Coach
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer not working properly
- Tracking/progress not saving consistently
- App crashing or freezing
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Better organization and filtering of content
- More variety in session durations
- Ability to import custom music/sounds
In-app purchases
Breathing Zone
No in-app purchases
Mindfulness Coach
No in-app purchases
Questions
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