Breath Routine vs Daystead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breath Routine
This app helps you train your breath with customizable routines for relaxation, meditation, and improved lung capacity. It offers full control over breathing sessions, allowing you to set durations and track progress. Designed for both beginners and experienced users, it provides a distraction-free experience to build resilience and improve your relationship with your breath.
- Customizable breathing routines
- Adjustable inhale, exhale, and hold durations
- Breath-hold training for various goals
- Save and reuse breathing presets
- Track completed sessions and total time
- Monitor longest breath holds and progress
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Train your breath with intention, clarity, and control. This breathwork and breath-hold trainer is designed to adapt to you - whether your goal is to relax your nervous system, deepen meditation, increase lung capacity, improve breath holds, or prepare for freediving and underwater sports. Instead of forcing you into rigid programs, the app gives you full control over every breathing session. You decide how you breathe, how long you hold, and how your practice evolves over time. Built with a clean, distraction-free design, the app works equally well for beginners discovering breathwork for the first time and experienced practitioners looking to fine-tune their training. Every session is intentional, flexible, and easy to repeat. What you can do: • Create multiple custom breathing routines for different goals • Customize inhale, exhale, pause, and breath-hold durations • Train breath holds for relaxation, performance, or freediving • Save, name, and reuse your breathing presets anytime • Select a routine before each session and start instantly • Edit or remove routines as your practice changes • Track completed sessions and total breathing time • See your longest breath holds and monitor progress over time Whether you’re practicing calm breathing before sleep, building a daily breathwork habit, or training breath holds to improve CO₂ tolerance and focus, this app supports steady progress without pressure. There are no accounts, no complicated setup, and no unnecessary features, just guided breathing sessions that help you slow down, build resilience, and improve your relationship with your breath. Breathe consistently. Train patiently. Progress naturally.
Daystead
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Preview another date and time using your current weekly routine, note and display settings without changing the live day card. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Settings and tap Rehearse another day. 2. Choose a date and time, or step to the next or previous day. 3. Check the routine, current note behavior and quiet-hours face, then return to Now. The live day card, weekly plan, family photo, quiet hours and caregiver handoff remain available. Snapshot date formatting now follows the same calendar time zone. WHAT TO KNOW Preview does not change the device clock, clear the live note or dim the screen. Timed routine items are plans, not confirmations of completion. A note appears only on its assigned date. This is a display and coordination tool, not a medical monitor. iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Breath Routine at Free against Daystead's $0.99. Breath Routine also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). Daystead's advantage is chart position (#200 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Breath Routine is free to download; Daystead costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Breath Routine ships an update every 6 days, Daystead every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breath Routine | Daystead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #200 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ahmed Khelifi | Robert Corbin |
In-app purchases
Breath Routine
No in-app purchases
Daystead
No in-app purchases









