Box Breathing vs Tide

Box breathing, guided in real time. Follow the expanding box, breathe with the rhythm, and feel your nervous system settle in a few slow cycles. Most breathing apps bury the technique inside long meditations. BreathBox does one thing well: it paces your inhale, hold, exhale and rest with a calm animated visualizer, gentle haptic taps and soft chimes — so you can close your eyes and just breathe, no reading required. WHAT YOU GET - A live box visualizer that grows and shrinks so you always know when to breathe in, hold, and let go - Proven patterns built in: Box 4-4-4-4, 4-7-8 for sleep, Calm Down, Energize, and Coherent 5-5 resonance - Gentle haptic cues and soft tones that guide each phase, so you can practice with your eyes shut - Set your session length in minutes and let the timer run the full cycle count for you - A calm streak, total minutes and full session history that keep you coming back - An after-session mood check so you can watch your calm trend build over the week PERFECT FOR - Anyone who wants to slow a racing mind before bed or a big moment - People managing everyday stress and anxious spikes - Focus and reset breaks during a busy work day - Beginners who want structured breathwork without a long course WHY NOT JUST HOLD YOUR BREATH AND COUNT? Counting in your head keeps your mind busy and the timing drifts. BreathBox holds the rhythm for you with visual, haptic and sound cues, so you can actually let go and let the pattern do the work. PRIVACY Your sessions, streak and moods stay on your device. No account, no sign-up, nothing to leak. FULL ACCESS BreathBox is free to start with Box breathing. Unlock every guided pattern (4-7-8, Calm Down, Energize, Coherent) plus the custom builder to dial in your own inhale, hold and exhale timing. Full access is available as a weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Open BreathBox, pick a pattern, and take one slow minute right now. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

Tide is a breathing timer, built around your own rhythm. Build a pattern from scratch: set your own hold times, chain together repeatable step sets, and choose whether a session ends after a set number of rounds or after a fixed length of time. Once it's saved, it works exactly like any other pattern in the app. Not sure where to start? Three patterns are ready to go: Box breathing (4-4-4-4): used to reset under pressure. Equal parts inhale, hold, exhale, hold. 4-7-8: a technique for unwinding. A long exhale that signals to your nervous system that it's safe to slow down. Calm (3-2-5-2): a gentle everyday pattern. Slightly longer exhale than inhale, designed for quiet moments and transitions. Tide also runs on Apple Watch. Start a session from your wrist with quick-start presets and rounds mode. Chime and haptic settings sync automatically between your phone and watch. No narration. No scores. Just the rhythm you choose. Tide is made by Quiet Leaf LLC. See what else we're building at quietleaf.dev.