Comparison

Stillscreen vs Pranava Breathe

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

Head to head
About

Stillscreen

This app offers a simple, quiet space to pause when feeling overwhelmed or stressed. It provides a 90-second reset without requiring any preparation, tracking, or pressure to form habits. Designed for immediate use, it offers a calm experience for moments of acute activation.

Highlights
  • 90-second reset cycle
  • No meditation or guided sessions
  • Regulation-first approach
  • No streaks or reminders
  • Calm visuals and soft audio
  • Private and requires no account
Features
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Stillscreen is a quiet app for moments when your nervous system feels overloaded. It's not a meditation app. It doesn't ask you to fix anything. It doesn't track streaks or demand daily habits. It simply gives you a calm place to pause. When to use Stillscreen: - When your thoughts start racing - When your body feels activated or tense - When you don't know what else to do - When you need something simple, right now No preparation. No learning curve. How it works: - Open the app - Tap Reset - Take 90 seconds That's it. After the cycle, you can gently check in with how you feel - without judgment or scoring. What makes Stillscreen different: - Not a meditation app - no guided sessions or long practices - Regulation-first - designed for acute moments, not habits - No pressure - no streaks, reminders, or guilt - Minimal by design - calm visuals, soft audio, nothing extra Stillscreen is meant to get out of the way. Who it's for: - People dealing with everyday anxiety or stress - Anyone who feels overwhelmed by traditional wellness apps - Those who want something quiet, simple, and respectful You don't need to feel a certain way for it to work. Privacy: Stillscreen does not require an account and does not track you across apps. Your experience stays private. Stillscreen - 90 seconds to reset.

About

Pranava Breathe

Find calm, focus, and energy with guided breathing exercises and meditation sessions. Choose from a variety of techniques, each with visual animations and customizable sound cues, to help you relax or energize in minutes. The distraction-free design ensures a focused practice.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing techniques
  • Visual breathing animations
  • Customizable sound cues
  • Adjustable breathing pacing
  • Mindfulness timer with phases
  • Distraction-free design
Features
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Pranava Breathe is a beautifully minimal breathing and meditation app designed to help you find calm, focus, and energy — all in under a few minutes. Choose from a curated library of breathing techniques, each with its own guided visual animation and optional sound cues. Whether you need to wind down before sleep, sharpen your focus before a meeting, or simply take a mindful pause in your day, Pranava Breathe has a technique for you. BREATHING TECHNIQUES Relaxing • Box Breathing — Equal inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Used by Navy SEALs and first responders to quickly calm the nervous system. • 4-7-8 Breathing — A natural tranquilizer for the nervous system, ideal for falling asleep. • Coherent Breathing — Slow, balanced breaths at your body's natural resonant frequency for deep relaxation. • 7-11 Breathing — Breathe in for 7, out for 11. The longer exhale engages the vagus nerve to interrupt anxiety and panic in the moment — no breath holds, easy to sustain. • Triangle Breathing — A gentle three-phase cycle of inhale, hold, and exhale — ideal for beginners and children. • Alternate Nostril — Ancient Nadi Shodhana pranayama that alternates airflow between nostrils to balance the nervous system and calm the mind. • Humming Bee Breath — Inhale deeply, then exhale with a steady Om or humming sound. The vibration boosts nasal nitric oxide by 15x, opening airways and promoting deep calm. • Physiological Sigh — A double inhale followed by a long exhale — the fastest known way to reduce stress in real time, backed by Stanford research. Activating • Breath of Fire — Rapid, rhythmic breathing from Kundalini yoga that boosts energy, alertness, and mental clarity in minutes. • Energizing Breath — Quick, rhythmic breathing to boost alertness and energy without caffeine. Meditation • Mindfulness — Timed meditation sessions from 1 to 30 minutes with adjustable phases. Customize each phase length by dragging handles on the circle timeline. Gentle bell sounds guide you through transitions and mark the end of your session. FEATURES Visual Guidance Follow along with elegant shape animations — squares, triangles, circles, and more — that expand and contract with each breath. A traveling dot traces the shape to keep you perfectly in rhythm. Customizable Sound Choose the sound that works for you. Soft ticks keep time with each second. Tonal cues rise and fall with your breath. Or turn sound off entirely for silent practice. Each technique remembers your sound preference. Adjustable Pacing Fine-tune the speed of your breathing to match your comfort level. Start slow and work your way to longer, deeper breaths as your practice develops. Mindfulness Timer Set your meditation duration and divide it into distinct phases — from grounding and settling to focused attention and open awareness. Drag the handles to adjust how long you spend in each phase. A single bell marks each transition; three bells signal the end. Distraction-Free Design A clean, dark interface keeps you focused on your breath, not your screen. No ads, no accounts, no subscriptions. The screen stays awake during your session so you never lose your place. Start breathing better today.

Screenshots

Stillscreen4 screens
Pranava Breathe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stillscreen at 5.0 against Pranava Breathe's 4.0. Stillscreen also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.2). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stillscreen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stillscreen versus Pranava Breathe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStillscreenPranava Breathe
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCallisto Holdings LLCStonekold OU

In-app purchases

None

Stillscreen

No in-app purchases

None

Pranava Breathe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stillscreen free?
Stillscreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pranava Breathe free?
Pranava Breathe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stillscreen or Pranava Breathe?
Stillscreen is rated higher. Stillscreen averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Pranava Breathe averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Stillscreen or Pranava Breathe have ads?
Neither Stillscreen nor Pranava Breathe shows ads.

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