BreathState vs Breathe Right

Three minutes. At your desk. Before the meeting, after the call, between the things. BreathState is science-backed breathwork for working life. Not meditation. Not a wellness program. A short, guided session that uses your breath to shift your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and back into focus. Why this works (and most apps don't) Every session is built on three mechanisms with decades of peer-reviewed research behind them: • Nasal breathing releases nitric oxide, which improves oxygen uptake and circulation. • A longer exhale activates your vagus nerve — the fastest route to calm your body knows. • CO₂ tolerance training restores oxygen delivery to the brain, the science behind clearer thinking under pressure. You feel the shift in the session. Heart rate drops. Shoulders drop. The noise quietens. Built for the working day • Sessions in three to five minutes — not thirty. • Guided audio that works in headphones or speakers. • Mood check-in before and after, so you can see what changed. • Streaks and patterns over time, kept private to you. Use it for • The pause before a hard conversation. • The reset after a meeting that didn't go your way. • The walk back to your desk after lunch, when you can feel the afternoon slump arriving. • The wind-down at the end of a long day, before you bring work home with you. Our story Breathstate was born from lived experience — years spent managing extreme stress in high-pressure environments where the ability to regulate under fire was the difference that mattered. We built Breathstate because that same pressure doesn't stay at the job site or the emergency scene. It follows everyone home. The fight-or-flight world isn't reserved for emergencies anymore — it's back-to-back meetings, hard conversations, deadlines, and the slow accumulation of a day that never quite lets up. You deserve a tool that works as fast as the pressure builds. That's what Breathstate is. → Learn more at breathstate.co Privacy Policy: https://breathstate.co/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://breathstate.co/terms-of-service Support: hello@breathstate.co

Nasal Breathing, Breathwork & Guided Meditation I spent 24 years as a paramedic, twelve of them on helicopter retrieval. Staying calm wasn't optional. The breath was the one thing I could always control. Breathe Right is a nasal breathing app built from that experience, with guided meditations supported by breathwork. GUIDED BREATHING EXERCISES FOR REAL LIFE Short nasal breathing sessions for the moments that matter. Breathing exercises for anxiety before a difficult conversation. Breathing for sleep when you're lying awake at 2am. Focus breathing when your concentration has gone at 3pm. Most sessions take two to five minutes. GUIDED MEDITATIONS SUPPORTED BY BREATHWORK The guided section includes meditations built around the breath. Calm before a medical appointment. Settling the mind before sleep. Steadying yourself after a hard day. Simple, practical and easy to follow. HOW THIS BREATHING APP WORKS Open the app and tell it how you feel. Stressed, wired, heavy, foggy or steady. It takes you to the breathing exercises that suit. You breathe. Then you check in again and see the change. That's the whole thing. BREATHWORK SESSIONS INSIDE Breathing exercises for stress and anxiety relief Breathing for sleep, insomnia and waking at 3am Focus and concentration breathwork Energising breathing exercises for the afternoon slump Guided meditations supported by breathwork Breath Endurance Builder: breath hold training for CO2 tolerance Box breathing, 4-7-8 breathing and diaphragmatic breathing The science behind functional breathing NASAL BREATHING AND YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM Nasal breathing filters and warms the air, slows your breath, and produces nitric oxide, which opens the airways and improves oxygen delivery. Mouth breathing does none of this. Slow nasal breathing with a long exhale activates the vagus nerve, lowers heart rate and reduces cortisol. This is functional breathing, grounded in the Buteyko and Oxygen Advantage methods. If you wake with a dry mouth, snore, or sleep eight hours and still feel wrecked, you may be mouth breathing at night. The app includes nasal breathing retraining for sleep. This isn't mindset talk. It's physiology. WHO BUILT IT Ross Pollard. Former paramedic of 24 years. Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor, trained under Patrick McKeown. More than 8,500 plays and a 4.78 rating on Insight Timer. TRY THIS BREATHING APP FREE 3 days free on annual. Then $69.99 a year or $12.99 a month.