Comparison

Monitor My BP vs Box Breathing

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

Head to head
About

Monitor My BP

Easily collect, track, and organize blood pressure readings for yourself or your entire family across multiple Apple devices. Set reminders, sync data, and generate reports for doctor visits. Supports numerous date and time formats for personalized tracking.

Highlights
  • Collect and track blood pressure readings
  • Organize readings by date, person, and time
  • Schedule blood pressure reminders
  • Sync data across multiple Apple devices
  • Generate CSV or HTML reports
  • Supports 22 date and 7 time formats
Features
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Monitor My BP is a universal app designed to allow sharing of blood pressure readings for a single person or any entire family between multiple Macs, iPods, iPads and/or iPhones. The app helps you collect, track and organize all your blood pressure readings with just a few taps. iPhone and iPad Features: Schedule a reminders so you will never forget when they should check your blood pressure No limit on how many blood pressure readings you can enter or the amount of people you can monitor Sync data between multiple iPhones and iPads Easily organize your entire history of blood pressure readings by sorting by these data points: 1. Date Ascending 2. Date Descending 3. Diastolic Ascending 4. Diastolic Descending 5. Systolic Ascending 6. Systolic Descending 7. Pulse Ascending 8. Pulse Descending And grouping by these data points: 1. Date 2. Date and Person 3. Person 4. Person and Date 5. Person and Taken At 6. Taken At 7. Taken At and Person 8. Nothing Filter the history and email a report for doctor’s visits or your own personal records in a CSV file format which can be view using spreadsheet software or in html format that can be view and printed from any browser. Choose from 22 supported date formats and these 7 supported time formats. Store a list of emails address Take advantage of the “Reuse” and/or “Copy” features to minimize typing.

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.

Screenshots

Monitor My BP4 screens
Box Breathing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Box Breathing at 4.8 against Monitor My BP's 4.2. Box Breathing also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Monitor My BP's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, 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. Monitor My BP sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Box Breathing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Box Breathing holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Box Breathing has 318 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Monitor My BP's written reviews are positive against 79% of Box Breathing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monitor My BP ships an update every 5 months, Box Breathing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Monitor My BP versus Box Breathing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonitor My BPBox Breathing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings)4.8 (318 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6318 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, Vision Pro
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB96 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAPG Solutions, LLCSTRV s.r.o.

Customer experience

Monitor My BP

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

Box Breathing

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monitor My BP

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$7.49
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

Questions

Is Monitor My BP free?
Monitor My BP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Box Breathing free?
Box Breathing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monitor My BP or Box Breathing?
Box Breathing is rated higher. Monitor My BP averages 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Box Breathing averages 4.8 from 318 ratings.
Do Monitor My BP or Box Breathing have ads?
Monitor My BP shows ads; Box Breathing does not.
Which is updated more often, Monitor My BP or Box Breathing?
Monitor My BP ships an update every 5 months, and Box Breathing every 3 weeks. Most recently, Monitor My BP was updated on October 3, 2026 and Box Breathing on October 14, 2026.

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