Calmie vs Tide

Calmie is a privacy first meditation app for Apple devices. It helps you pause, breathe, and build a gentle mindfulness habit without ads, accounts, subscriptions, or unnecessary friction. Use Calmie for guided breathing, quiet meditation, sleep support, and a calmer daily reset. The app combines a clean SwiftUI interface with thoughtful Apple ecosystem features so the experience stays simple, polished, and easy to return to. What you can do in Calmie: Guided breathing with Box, Gentle Breath, Coherent Breathing, 4 7 8, and Energize Just Sit sessions with a midpoint bell Sleep soundscapes with ocean, rain, storm, and white noise Progress tracking with streaks, totals, moods, and notes Reminders to help you return to the habit gently Widgets, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island support Apple Watch companion support and cross device sync Siri Shortcuts and App Intents Optional Apple Health mindful minutes integration ADHD Mode and Chronic Pain Mode for a softer start Theme choices with Dusk, Midnight, and Ember Alternate app icons and a calm, native visual style Calmie stores your session data locally and keeps the core experience private by default. Apple Health integration is optional and only used when you choose to enable it. If you want a meditation app that feels quiet, focused, and native to Apple platforms, Calmie is built for that.

Tide is a breathing timer, built around your own rhythm. Build a pattern from scratch: set your own hold times, chain together repeatable step sets, and choose whether a session ends after a set number of rounds or after a fixed length of time. Once it's saved, it works exactly like any other pattern in the app. Not sure where to start? Three patterns are ready to go: Box breathing (4-4-4-4): used to reset under pressure. Equal parts inhale, hold, exhale, hold. 4-7-8: a technique for unwinding. A long exhale that signals to your nervous system that it's safe to slow down. Calm (3-2-5-2): a gentle everyday pattern. Slightly longer exhale than inhale, designed for quiet moments and transitions. Tide also runs on Apple Watch. Start a session from your wrist with quick-start presets and rounds mode. Chime and haptic settings sync automatically between your phone and watch. No narration. No scores. Just the rhythm you choose. Tide is made by Quiet Leaf LLC. See what else we're building at quietleaf.dev.