Breathing Together vs Always Pause
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breathing Together
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Take deep breaths together with a cute cat! Customization is easy, too. During your breathing session, you can pinch to deep breathe together with the cat! All features are free. *Ads will be displayed.
Always Pause
Access a curated collection of over 50 science-backed breathing exercises designed for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. This app offers a simple, ad-free experience with haptic guidance on Apple Watch and home screen widgets.
- 50+ science-backed breathing techniques
- Four moods: calm, sleep, focus, energy
- Haptic guidance on Apple Watch
- One-tap rescue feature
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Ad-free and tracker-free design
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Sometimes you just need to breathe. Pause+ is a quiet library of 50 breathing techniques — box, 4-7-8, physiological sigh, coherence, and more. Each one is real, researched, and ready the moment you need it. No streaks. No programs. No notifications chasing you down. Open the app, pick what you need, breathe, close it. What's inside · 50 science-backed breathing techniques · Four moods — calm, sleep, focus, energy · Haptic guidance on Apple Watch — phone-free breathing, anywhere · One-tap rescue for the hard moments · Widgets for your home screen, lock screen, and Control Center Who it's for For people who've tried the other apps and felt worse. For anyone who wants a breathing tool, not another thing to keep up with. For the ones who want quiet — not content. Pause+ is ad-free, tracker-free, and designed to be used briefly. Practice when you need to. Don't when you don't. Breathwork, backed by science. Designed to stay out of your way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Breathing Together at none against Always Pause's 3. Breathing Together also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Always Pause's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Always Pause sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Breathing Together asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Breathing Together | Always Pause |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sumie Watanabe | Work OnDeck LLC |
In-app purchases
Breathing Together
No in-app purchases
Always Pause
- Always Pause+7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Always Pause+7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Always Pause+ Lifetime$49.99
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