Comparison

Vela Studio vs OpenBreath

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

Head to head
About

Vela Studio

Features
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Téléchargez notre application Vela Studio  pour toujours avoir votre studio préféré dans votre poche ! À partir de notre application, vous pouvez planifier et programmer vos cours, consulter les horaires, vous inscrire, et bien plus encore ! Optimisez votre temps et ne manquez plus jamais les dernières informations qui seront toujours à portée de vos mains. N’attendez plus et téléchargez Vela Studio  dès maintenant.

About

OpenBreath

Features
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A breathing app for coherence practice: you set how long to breathe in, hold, breathe out and hold, and follow a sphere that opens and closes with the breath. Nothing is asked of you first. There is no account, no sign-in and no network — the app makes no connection of any kind, so your practice log is on your iPhone and nowhere else. THE BREATH • Presets for the usual patterns — coherence 5.5, 4-6, 4-7-8, box 4 — and any timing of your own. • A sphere that opens as you breathe in and closes as you breathe out, as a cloud of points, bubbles, stars or a glow, in a colour you pick. • Sound per phase: waves that rise and fall with the breath, a soundwave whose overtones gather and dissolve, a marker at each turn — singing bowl, bell or metronome tick — an mp3 of your own, or silence. The bowl and the tick are pitched by the turn they mark, so going into a breath in does not sound like going out. • A singing bowl when the session ends, so you can sit with your eyes shut and not wonder whether it is over. • Optional haptics at each phase change. • Optional torch that brightens as you breathe in and fades as you breathe out — the breath to follow with your eyes closed. • A count in after you press start — four seconds by default, as long as you like — to put the phone down and shut your eyes before the first breath. • Time left, a dot per breath and a breath count, each hideable for a barer screen. WHAT IT REMEMBERS • Every sitting, day by day, with the pattern you breathed and the breaths you finished. The ones you cut short count too. • Goals, as many as you like: one sitting a day, a hundred breaths a day, an hour a week. They are counted from the log, so a goal set today already credits the practice behind it. • Streaks, totals and milestones at 3 days, a week, a month, 100 days, half a year and a year — each said once, quietly. • A backup of the lot — log, presets and goals — written to one file you keep and read back later. Sittings merge rather than overwrite, so importing an old backup onto a phone you have kept practising on keeps both sets. The log can only grow. FREE, AND FREE SOFTWARE No ads, no accounts, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and nothing to unlock. OpenBreath is released under the GNU General Public License v3 or later; the source is public.

Screenshots

Vela Studio4 screens
OpenBreath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: OpenBreath at weekly against Vela Studio's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Vela Studio ships an update every 3 months, OpenBreath weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Vela Studio versus OpenBreath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVela StudioOpenBreath
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLFM STUDIOSStanistil

In-app purchases

None

Vela Studio

No in-app purchases

None

OpenBreath

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vela Studio free?
Vela Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenBreath free?
OpenBreath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vela Studio or OpenBreath have ads?
Neither Vela Studio nor OpenBreath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vela Studio or OpenBreath?
Vela Studio ships an update every 3 months, and OpenBreath weekly. Most recently, Vela Studio was updated on October 15, 2026 and OpenBreath on October 8, 2026.

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