Sleep Breathing vs Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sleep Breathing
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Make guided breathing exercises part of a calmer bedtime routine. Drift Breath helps you wind down with gentle haptic guidance, a warm dark screen, and simple breathing rhythms. Start in seconds, close your eyes, and follow the pace of each inhale and exhale. Sessions continue with your screen locked. A QUIETER WAY TO WIND DOWN • Feel each breathing phase through gentle haptics • Start with a quick preset or choose your session duration • Pause and resume whenever you need a break • Keep your session running with the screen locked • Add optional brown noise or practice in silence • Use a warm dark interface designed for quiet evenings • Optionally save completed sessions as Mindful Minutes in Apple Health FIND YOUR BREATHING RHYTHM Choose 4-6 Calm, 4-7-8 Relax, Box Breathing, or Extended Exhale. Follow the guided rhythm at a pace that feels comfortable, whether you want a short pause after a busy day or a gentle ritual before bed. Tap the breathing circle to begin, settle into the rhythm, and make space for a little calm tonight.
Drift
This app offers quick, 60-second calming experiences designed to combat endless scrolling and promote relaxation. It features interactive visuals, guided breathing exercises, ambient soundscapes, bite-sized puzzles, and short narrated interludes for moments of decompression. The app is built for real-life use, requiring no sign-up or lengthy tutorials.
- 60-second calming experiences
- Dedicated Sleep Mode with soundscapes and timers
- Interactive visual exercises
- Guided breathing exercises
- Ambient soundscapes with full-screen visuals
- Bite-sized brain games
- Short narrated interludes
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It's late, and you meant to be asleep an hour ago. Put on the rain, a box fan or a slow piano, set a timer, and let Drift play you to sleep. Every sound in Drift has its own scene, drawn live and slow enough to fall asleep to: snow over a line of pines, embers lifting off a fire, moon jellies drifting up through dark water. Watch it, or hide the controls and let it fill the screen. 43 SOUNDS, SEVEN KINDS Rain, Water, Noise, Nature, Night, Ambient and Instrumental. Thunderstorms and rain on leaves, ocean waves and a stream, a box fan, a deep drone, brown noise and pink noise, crickets and cicadas, a crackling fire, a singing bowl, a cat purring, even the clack of a mechanical keyboard. INSTRUMENTAL Eight calm tracks for the end of the day, from Night Piano and Violin Lullaby to Banjo Blues. Every sound in Drift loops without a seam, so there's no pause or jump to wake you. A TIMER FOR FALLING ASLEEP Choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or play until you stop it. The sound fades out over the last half minute, the screen dims while it plays, and it keeps going with your phone locked. Play and pause right from the lock screen. MIX YOUR OWN Layer up to four sounds, like rain over crickets with a fan underneath, and set each one's volume. Save the sounds and mixes you reach for and start them in one tap. A NIGHTLIGHT Turn your screen into a soft, even light in one of six colors, and dim it down to a faint glow. Your sound keeps playing underneath. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM Six sounds are free, with every timer and the mixer: Rainy Night, Ocean Waves, Forest Morning, Singing Bowl, Night Piano and Violin Lullaby. Premium opens all 43 sounds, the nightlight, and new sounds as they land. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan. After that it's 29.99 a year, or 3.99 a month, and you can cancel anytime. NOTHING TO SET UP No sign-up and no account. Open Drift, tap a sound, and put the phone down. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sleep Breathing at none against Drift's 2. Drift's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Drift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sleep Breathing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sleep Breathing ships an update fortnightly, Drift every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sleep Breathing | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BURAK SAHIN | Sean Trapani |
In-app purchases
Sleep Breathing
No in-app purchases
Drift
- Drift Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Drift Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year









