Comparison

Simple Breathing App vs Weights Check

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

Head to head
About

Simple Breathing App

This app offers guided breathing and meditation exercises designed for relaxation and focus. It features various techniques like box and triangle breathing, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. The clean interface makes it easy to start sessions for daily recovery and mental calm.

Highlights
  • Meditation timer
  • Breath control exercises
  • Box breathing
  • Triangle breathing
  • Relaxation breathing
  • Build breathing awareness
Features
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The Simple Breathing App gives you simple breathing and meditation exercises with a clean, easy-to-use design. Developed as a simpler and easier-to-use version of the Apnea Assistant, developed by the instructor team of the Freedive Academy Panglao. Open the app and start breathing. Features: • Meditation timer • Breath control breathing • Box breathing • Triangle breathing • Relaxation breathing • Equal breathing Use breathing sessions to: • Relax your body • Calm your mind • Improve focus • Build breathing awareness • Support daily recovery The Simple Breathing App works for beginners and experienced users alike. Sessions are easy to follow and built for daily use. For more logging and account options, more tables, knowledge articles, and breath-holding exercises, explore the training tools within the Apnea Assistant app.

About

Weights Check

This app helps divers meticulously plan their lead requirements and buoyancy for dives. It allows users to build and save custom dive rigs with their own gear, then simulate and record actual dive conditions to refine future dives. It serves as a digital logbook for dive weighting and buoyancy, moving beyond memory to data-driven planning.

Highlights
  • Build custom dive rigs with personal gear
  • Simulate dive conditions and buoyancy
  • Record actual dive weighting and performance
  • Digital library of dive equipment
  • Visualize balance at stop and depth
  • Itemized rig breakdown
Features
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A diver's lead is not one number. It moves with the water, the suit, the cylinders and the year — and most divers carry it in their head, or work it out again badly at every new destination. Weights Check keeps the record instead: build a rig once from your own gear, record what you actually wore and how it went, and the next dive starts from evidence rather than memory. It is a library, not a calculator and not a verdict on your rig. The arithmetic exists to make the library worth keeping. YOUR GEAR, ENTERED ONCE Cylinders, suits, wings, backplates, regulators, lights and stages go in once, across the seven categories My gear keeps. Lead is not owned but fitted, so it belongs to a rig rather than to the library. Build a configuration by picking from that library, and the tenth rig takes less than the second. First launch builds a sample rig from three questions, to look at before you build your own. PLAY WITH A RIG BEFORE YOU DIVE IT Copy a configuration and change one thing: the suit, the water, single to doubles or sidemount, a stage added, the lead moved from belt to plate. Everything follows — pick a mounting and the hardware it implies is fitted with it — and the copy is yours to change until you dive it and record a check against it. THE BALANCE, DRAWN Every configuration opens on the balance, in two columns. On the left, the 3 m stop with 50 bar left in every bottle: one signed figure on a bar running sinks to floats, with the estimate's band on it. On the right, the same rig at depth: what it would take to swim up if the wing failed, and whether the wing you fitted has the lift. A tag says what the figures stand on — your own check and its date, a check borrowed from another rig, or a plan. THE RIG, ITEM BY ITEM Under the balance, the same dive itemised: every item of the rig, what it is worth at the stop and at depth, the gas in the back cylinders and in every stage, the totals with and without the lead you fitted, and one line of what to do about it. ESTIMATES UNTIL YOU CHECK, MEASUREMENTS AFTERWARDS Before you have recorded a weight check, a suit's buoyancy comes from a published-material estimate, your body from your weight, height and sex, and the answer prints as a range it says is an estimate. Record one real weight check — 3 m, 50 bar in every bottle, and the lead you finished the check with — and the range narrows around what your own rig actually did. Recording checks is what turns the estimates into your numbers; nothing else does. WHERE IT STOPS It does not replace the weight check you do in the water — that check is the authority, and the app exists to remember it, not to stand in for it. It is not a dive computer, it runs no decompression calculation, and it is not a substitute for training. Where it cannot answer, it says so rather than printing a number with a caution underneath: a stage bottle that has not said what size it is, what it is filled to or what is in it is refused outright and explained rather than guessed at. Above a load you set for yourself it warns. Below that load it shows you the signed number and nothing more. There is no verdict on a diver anywhere in this app. EVERYTHING ELSE • Weight positioning recorded — where the lead sits, and what is ditchable • Every check kept, newest first, with what you entered on each one • Metric and imperial, switched app-wide, converted at the point of display • A dived-but-unrecorded rig waits at the top of the library • Deleted gear waits in Settings until you clear it out yourself — nothing empties itself • Equipment figures come from a maintained, sourced reference table • No account, no ads, no analytics. Works with no signal at all, and syncs through your own iCloud to your other devices and the Diver.Today apps Your training and your own weight check in the water decide what you dive. Weights Check keeps the record and does the arithmetic beforehand.

Screenshots

Simple Breathing App4 screens
Weights Check4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Weights Check at every 3 days against Simple Breathing App's monthly. Simple Breathing App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Breathing App against 5.0 for Weights Check. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Breathing App ships an update monthly, Weights Check every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Simple Breathing App versus Weights Check: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Breathing AppWeights Check
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApnea AppsRUSTAM ISMAILOV

In-app purchases

None

Simple Breathing App

No in-app purchases

None

Weights Check

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Breathing App free?
Simple Breathing App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Weights Check free?
Weights Check is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Breathing App or Weights Check?
Simple Breathing App and Weights Check are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Breathing App or Weights Check have ads?
Neither Simple Breathing App nor Weights Check shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Breathing App or Weights Check?
Simple Breathing App ships an update monthly, and Weights Check every 3 days. Most recently, Simple Breathing App was updated on October 25, 2026 and Weights Check on October 24, 2026.

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