Coherence vs Same Breath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coherence
Master your nervous system through guided breathwork. Access over 500 breathing patterns to shift your state, from calm and focus to energy and sleep. Connect with a global community in live sessions and create custom routines.
- Nervous system interface via breath
- Shift states: calm, focus, energy, sleep
- Daily global live breathing sessions
- 500+ research-backed breathing patterns
- Custom breathing sequence creator
- Progress tracking and stats
- Community features and leaderboards
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YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM, ON DEMAND Coherence is a nervous system interface. Using the science of breath, shift into calm, focus, or energy in minutes. Your breath is the only autonomic function you can consciously control - a direct line to your nervous system. Coherence gives you the patterns to use it. SHIFT YOUR STATE - Calm: Activate your parasympathetic system to release stress - Focus: Enter alert relaxation for deep work - Energy: Stimulate your system for peak performance - Sleep: Downregulate for faster, deeper rest BREATHE WITH THE WORLD Join the Daily Sync - a live global session where people worldwide breathe together in perfect unison. Watch participants appear around a real-time 3D Earth. Set an intention. Experience collective coherence. 500+ BREATHING PATTERNS Techniques selected from peer-reviewed research and proven traditions: - Coherence: Heart-brain synchronization (5.5s rhythm) - Box Breath: Used by Navy SEALs for composure under pressure - 4-7-8: Vagal activation for rapid calm - Physiological Sigh: The fastest way to reduce stress - Vortex: Fibonacci-based energizing sequence - Tummo: Traditional Tibetan inner heat practice - Sleep, Focus, Energy patterns and more CREATE YOUR OWN Build custom breathing sequences with our visual editor. Set phase durations, add music from Spotify or Apple Music, record your own voice guidance, and share with the community. TRACK YOUR REGULATION - Streaks and daily practice stats - Session history and insights - Weekly progress visualization - Level progression system COMPETE & CONNECT - Weekly leagues with promotion and demotion - Global leaderboards - User profiles and friends - Invite others to sync sessions DESIGNED FOR FOCUS - Minimalist dark interface - Zen mode fades the UI so nothing distracts you - Beautiful animations guide your breath - Sonic cues keep you on rhythm - Works with screen off - Works in airplane mode SUBSCRIPTION All features require an active subscription: - Monthly: $9.99/month - Annual: $39.99/year (3-day free trial) - Cancel anytime in App Store settings Take control of your nervous system. Terms of Use: https://www.coherencebreath.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.coherencebreath.com/privacy
Same Breath
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Same Breath is a breathing app with other people in it. Open a room and you are breathing with whoever is already there. Nothing to book, no teacher waiting, no video call and no camera. You can see how many people are in the room, you breathe the same pattern at the same time, and you can leave on the next exhale. Breathing alone late at night is the part that rarely sticks. Here the room is left in: live, together, and gentle enough to come back to tomorrow. TWENTY BREATHING EXERCISES, ALL FREE Box breathing (4-4-4-4), the relaxing breath (4-7-8), coherent breathing, cyclic sighing, diaphragmatic breathing, pursed lip breathing, the long exhale (7-11), the wind-down breath (4-4-8), triangle breathing, humming bee breath (bhramari), ocean breath (ujjayi), alternate nostril breathing (nadi shodhana), three-part breath, cooling breath (sitali), moon breath, sun breath, light breathing from Buteyko, lion's breath, kapalabhati and bhastrika. Every room says what its pattern is for: calm, sleep, focus, energy, acute anxiety. Some come from pranayama, some from clinical studies, and a page in the app lists where each one came from. Every pattern draws its own shape, so your eyes learn the rhythm before you do. The breathing works with no connection at all. GUIDED, WITH A VOICE TO FOLLOW Real voices guide you through vipassana, body scans, sleep, loving kindness, mornings and first steps. Each kind has its own page and its own colour, the words appear softly as they are spoken, and the room glows in that colour while you listen. Sleep guides let the night fall slowly, then go quiet. RETRO ROOMS Some rooms play like an old game, from the first welcome to the last stage clear, with pixel hearts, little flags for who just joined, and a soft 8-bit sound under your thumb. ONE BREATH A DAY, EVERYBODY AT ONCE Three times a day, on a shared clock, the same exercise opens for five minutes everywhere in the world. Say you are coming, and in the last ten minutes a quiet countdown waits on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. Lock your phone mid-session and the sound and voice keep time, with Pause and End on the lock screen. A PRACTICE THAT GROWS WITH YOU Practise every day, five days a week or three, whichever you can hold. Two freeze days a month cover a miss. Insights draws your week, your streak, the time of day you like to breathe and your steadiest day, each with its own little picture. Until there is enough to say something true, it simply says what it is waiting for. Every minute you breathe gives you a heart, and the one thing you can send another person is calm. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO No messages, no profiles, no follower counts, no way for a stranger to reach you. No invented numbers: an empty room says empty. No ads. BREATHING SAFELY Some breathing is not right for some conditions. The first time you open a forceful room, Same Breath asks a few questions on your phone and never sends the answers anywhere. If something applies, that room stays closed and offers two slower ones instead. Same Breath is not a medical device and is not a treatment for any condition. APPLE HEALTH Save your sessions to Apple Health as mindful minutes if you like. The app only writes. It never reads your health data. PRIVACY Nothing about how you use the app is shared unless you say yes, and you can change your mind any time. Your health answers stay on your phone, and so does your practice unless you sign in. No account is needed to breathe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Same Breath at none against Coherence's 6. Coherence's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Coherence sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Same Breath asks for nothing beyond the download.
Coherence ships an update every 4 days, Same Breath every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coherence | Same Breath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (631 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 631 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 225 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | John Sweeney | Tribe Solutions |
In-app purchases
Coherence
- Coherence Monthly Membership$14.991 Month
- Coherence Membership3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Coherence Friend Pass14 Days trial$69.991 Year
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- Coherence Membership$69.991 Year
- Coherence Membership1 Month trial$69.991 Year
- Coherence3 Months trial$69.991 Year
Same Breath
No in-app purchases









