Breathwork Tracker vs Breath

Breath is a guided breathwork timer and practice journal. Pick a technique, follow the circle as it grows on the inhale and shrinks on the exhale, and save each session with your breath holds, notes and how you felt before and after. 10 TECHNIQUES - Power Breathing and Tummo: choose 1 to 10 rounds of 10 to 60 breaths. After the last breath, the hold timer runs until you tap to breathe in, then a 15-second recovery hold leads into the next round. Each round's hold time is recorded. - Box Breathing: 2 to 12 seconds per side, up to 20 cycles - 4-7-8 Breathing: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7, exhale for 8, up to 20 cycles - Coherent Breathing: 5.5 seconds in, 5.5 seconds out - Cyclic Sighing, Pranayama, Connected Breathing, Custom and Just Breathe: a simple paced timer with a longer exhale that runs until you end the session - Haptic cues follow the rhythm; set them to Off, Subtle, Standard or Strong YOUR PRACTICE LOG - Rate calm, energy and clarity from 1 to 10 before a session (optional) and after it, and see the change - Each saved session keeps the technique, length, rounds or cycles, hold times and your notes - Home shows this week, this month, total hours, your last session and your day streak - Progress shows your sessions, minutes and best hold, a 30-day activity chart and your recent sessions - An optional daily reminder BREATH PRO - Unlimited sessions (free: your first 7 sessions, with every technique) - Hold Progression: a chart of your best hold in each session over time - State Shift: your average change in calm, energy and clarity per session - Technique Comparison: sessions, average length, average hold and average calm and energy change for each technique - AI Coach: ask breathwork questions in your own words, up to 30 a day. To answer, the app sends your question and a short summary of your last five sessions (technique, minutes, best hold) to an AI service. Answers are general information, not medical advice. - 3 alternate app icons SAFETY Breath is a timer and journal, not a medical device. Before Power Breathing and Tummo sessions the app reminds you: never practice in water or while driving, always sit or lie down, and stop if you feel faint. For Connected Breathing sessions it advises supervision, and not to practice with a cardiovascular condition, epilepsy or during pregnancy. In the US, Breath Pro is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year (US prices; other countries see their own price in the app). Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Breath is a guided breathing timer for one practice: slow, even breathing at about 5.5 breaths a minute. That rate is known as resonance breathing, or coherent breathing, and it is the pace used in HRV biofeedback. Two audio tracks ship inside the app, one short and one long. You open the app, tap one of two circles, and it begins. There is nothing to configure. HOW A SESSION GOES Each breath cycle lasts 11 seconds, about five and a half seconds in and five and a half out, cued by soft tones over an ambient bed. The audio keeps the rhythm, so there is nothing to count. Tap once during a session and the screen fades to black while the audio and the timer keep running. Eyes shut, or the phone face down. Tap again and it comes back, slowly. Audio continues when you lock the phone or switch apps. END finishes early, fading the audio out. A session under one minute is discarded. WHAT IT KEEPS Six weeks of practice as a quiet grid of dots, with your current streak, your total minutes, and your recent sessions. With your permission, each session is written to Apple Health as a Mindful Session. The Health permission is write-only. Breath asks for no read access at all, so it cannot see your heart rate, your heart rate variability, or anything else in Health. PRIVACY Breath collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party code, and the app makes no network requests of any kind. Both tracks are bundled inside the app, so it works in airplane mode. Your practice records stay in the app's own storage on your device. ABOUT THE RHYTHM Your heart rate already rises and falls with every breath you take. Breathing at about one cycle every eleven seconds, roughly 0.09 Hz, puts each breath in time with a rhythm the body already has, and the amplitude of heart rate variation reaches its maximum right there. That much is measurable, and it is why paced breathing at this frequency underlies HRV biofeedback. Whether it produces lasting change is a separate and less settled question. Breath keeps the rhythm and leaves that open. Breath is a breathing timer. It makes no medical claims, and it does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.