Comparison

Respire Now vs Glowm

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

Head to head
About

Respire Now

Features
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Breathe deeply. Find your balance. Respire is a guided breathing app designed to help you reduce stress, improve your sleep, boost your focus, and restore your inner calm—just by breathing consciously for a few minutes each day. Inspired by scientifically-backed techniques such as coherent breathing, box breathing, and the 4-7-8 method, Respire gives you a powerful yet simple way to relax your body and mind, anytime, anywhere. Why breathing matters Your breath is a natural and powerful tool. When used intentionally, it helps regulate your nervous system, calm the mind, and improve your overall wellbeing. By practicing slow, controlled breathing, you can: lower your heart rate, reduce anxiety and tension, fall asleep more easily, improve focus and productivity, enhance emotional resilience. Respire helps you tap into these benefits through guided breathing exercises tailored for real-life situations—from stressful meetings to sleepless nights. What Respire offers • Guided breathing exercises: including coherent breathing (5-5 rhythm), box breathing (4-4-4-4), 4-7-8 breathing, and more • Customizable relaxing sounds: background audio like rain, waves, forest, fireplace, white noise, and ambient tones • Smart timer: set the duration of your sessions for focus, relaxation, recovery, or sleep • Offline access: use Respire even without an internet connection • Progress tracking: build healthy habits and stay consistent over time • Minimalist and calming interface: distraction-free experience, with no ads Who is Respire for? Whether you're: feeling overwhelmed at work, struggling with anxiety or insomnia, needing focus before a study session, recovering after a workout, or simply looking to recharge mentally during your day, Respire is for you. No prior experience with breathing techniques is required—just a few minutes and a willingness to pause. When to use Respire To reduce stress A few minutes of slow, deep breathing can help lower cortisol levels, calm racing thoughts, and ease nervous tension. To improve sleep Create an evening ritual with soothing breathing rhythms and calming sounds to relax your body and fall asleep more easily. To increase focus Use focused breathing to clear mental clutter and prepare your mind for work, study, or creative tasks. To recover After exercise or a long day, restorative breathing helps your body return to balance. To reset anytime Respire is your go-to tool when you need a mental reset during a busy or emotionally intense day. Simple, effective, and always available Respire is designed to be intuitive and gentle. Open the app, choose your breathing rhythm, add a calming soundscape, and let your breath guide you back to a place of clarity and calm. No subscriptions required to get started. No ads. No unnecessary distractions. Just your breath—guided, supported, and empowered. Download Respire now and reconnect with your breath Even a few mindful breaths can make a real difference. Take a moment for yourself. Breathe deeply. And start your journey toward a more centered, peaceful life—one breath at a time.

About

Glowm

Create personalized soundscapes by blending white noise, nature sounds, city ambiences, and music. The app visually reacts to your audio mix, transforming into a colorful orb. Designed for sleep and focus, it offers quick mixes and a built-in night light.

Highlights
  • Personalized soundscape mixer
  • Visual color orb that reacts to sound
  • 60+ sounds across six collections
  • Artist soundscapes for remixing
  • Designed for sleep and focus
  • Built-in night light feature
  • No ads, no account, no tracking
Features
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Glowm is your personal soundscape mixer. Blend white noise, nature sounds, city noises, chill beats, and real artist soundscapes into a mix that's entirely yours, then watch the whole app bloom with the colors of your sound. A LIVING GLASS ORB Your mix, visualized. Every sound has a signature color, and the orb (and the entire app) shifts to match your blend. Silence rests in deep purple; sound blooms everything into color. MIX AND BLEND FREELY • 60+ sounds across six collections • Color noise: white, pink, brown, blue, violet, and green • Nature & life: rain, thunder, creeks, crickets, and an owl waking up • City life: coffee shops, wet streets, and NYC nights • Chill beats: lo-fi loops cut to the same bar, so stacked beats stay locked together • Binaural beats: Delta, Theta, and Alpha tones (best with headphones) • Soundscapes: ethereal beds of choir, lunar pads, and starlight ARTIST SOUNDSCAPES Real artists, released as stems you can remix. Fade the layers of one composition in and out; everything stays locked to the pulse. MADE FOR SLEEP AND FOCUS • Runs all night, with Lock Screen and AirPods controls • One-tap quick mixes: Sleep, Focus, Chill, Meditate, and more • Save favorites and bring them back in a tap • A built-in night light: pull down and the orb fills the screen QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No account. No tracking. A generous free library, sound packs at $1.99 each, and Glowm Unlimited ($3.99/month or $19.99/year) for everything, including every sound we ever add. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glowm.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Respire Now3 screens
Glowm4 screens

Verdict

The call

Respire Now and Glowm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Respire Now sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Glowm sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Respire Now versus Glowm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRespire NowGlowm
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven MartreuxADAM HAROLD MOORE

Customer experience

Respire Now

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Glowm

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Respire Now

Subscriptions2
  • Premium mensual7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium7 Days trial$8.991 Year
7 purchases

Glowm

Subscriptions2
  • English$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Chill Beats Collection$1.99
  • Binaural Beats Collection$1.99
  • Soundscapes$1.99
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  • Tarkington2 variants$1.99

Questions

Is Respire Now free?
Respire Now is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glowm free?
Glowm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Respire Now or Glowm have ads?
Neither Respire Now nor Glowm shows ads.

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