Comparison

ButeykoClinic® vs Tide

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

Head to head
About

ButeykoClinic®

Learn a physician-developed breathing program to enhance immunity, reduce stress, and improve sleep and overall health for adults and children. Access guided exercises, track progress, and test your breathing capacity.

Highlights
  • Video program for children and teens
  • Guided breathing and relaxation for adults
  • Control Pause breathing test
  • Progress tracking
  • Links to resources
  • Find an instructor
Features
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The Buteyko Method is a physician-developed breathing program that boosts immunity, reduces stress, deepens sleep, and improves physical and mental health, in adults and children. Experience the powerful benefits of Buteyko breathing. Free from the UK’s leading Buteyko breathing clinic. Inside the app: • A complete video program of breathing exercises for children and teens • Guided breathing and relaxation exercises for adults with Buteyko Clinic founder and breathing expert, Patrick McKeown • Test your breathing using the Control Pause • Track your progress • Links to resources including MYOTAPE, Patrick McKeown’s mouth tape for sleep • Find a Buteyko Method instructor The Buteyko Method gives long-term relief from asthma, rhinitis, sleep apnea, snoring, PMS, headaches, back and neck pain, anxiety, chronic hyperventilation and more. It supports immunity and may help relieve the discomfort of breathing in a face mask. This globally established breathwork method is safe, simple, and scientific. Download the free app now and begin to practice healthy breathing. For children and adults. For better lifelong health and wellbeing.

About

Tide

Features
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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.

Screenshots

ButeykoClinic®4 screens
Tide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tide at every 2 months against ButeykoClinic®'s every 5 months. Tide also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ButeykoClinic® ships an update every 5 months, Tide every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ButeykoClinic® versus Tide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterButeykoClinic®Tide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOxygen Research Institute Ltd.Quiet Leaf LLC

In-app purchases

None

ButeykoClinic®

No in-app purchases

None

Tide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ButeykoClinic® free?
ButeykoClinic® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tide free?
Tide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ButeykoClinic® or Tide have ads?
Neither ButeykoClinic® nor Tide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ButeykoClinic® or Tide?
ButeykoClinic® ships an update every 5 months, and Tide every 2 months. Most recently, ButeykoClinic® was updated on September 17, 2026 and Tide on September 20, 2026.

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