Reset vs BreathBuzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reset
This app guides you through various breathing techniques using visual, haptic, and auditory cues. It offers customizable sessions and optional heart rate biofeedback for enhanced relaxation and wellness.
- Multiple breathing techniques (Resonance, Box, Sigh)
- Multi-sensory guidance (visual, haptic, audio)
- Customizable breath phase durations
- Optional Bluetooth heart rate strap integration
- Live HRV biofeedback and coherence gauge
- Session summaries and trend tracking
- Ad-free and privacy-focused design
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Reset turns a few quiet minutes of slow breathing into a practice you can feel. Pick a protocol, press Begin, and follow along — the app does the counting. THREE WAYS TO BREATHE • Resonance — slow, even breathing near six breaths a minute. The daily practice. • Box — inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Steadiness on demand. • Sigh — two inhales, one long exhale. A quick reset when you're keyed up. GUIDED BY EVERY SENSE A living orb swells and empties with your breath. Haptic waves let you close your eyes and follow by touch — a crisp tap to breathe in, a long fade to breathe out. With headphones, binaural beats carry the same rhythm. MAKE IT YOURS Every phase has its own slider — inhale, exhale, holds. Balanced presets from 4.5 to 6.0 breaths a minute, timed sessions of 2, 5, or 10 minutes, and a first-launch tour that shows you around. SEE YOUR HEART RESPOND (OPTIONAL) Pair a Bluetooth heart-rate strap — Polar, or WHOOP with Broadcast Heart Rate — for live HRV biofeedback: heart rate, rMSSD, and a coherence gauge that climbs as you settle into rhythm. Capture 30-second before-and-after baselines and see each session's summary and trend. No sensor? Everything still works; the metrics simply stay blank. Reset never invents data. YOURS, PRIVATELY No ads, no tracking, no account required. Sessions stay on your device unless you choose to sign in with Apple, Google, or email and sync with the companion web app. Export your history as CSV or JSON anytime, and delete your account — and every synced session — from inside the app. Reset supports relaxation and general wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.
BreathBuzz
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BreathBuzz makes calm something you feel instead of something you watch: breathing exercises led by vibration, with your eyes shut. Most breathing apps ask you to stare at a circle on a bright screen. BreathBuzz leads the rhythm with vibration, so you can breathe with the phone in your pocket. At two in the morning, when anxiety has you wide awake, that is the whole difference. SEVEN-DAY PLANS, NOT A PILE OF PATTERNS Four guided plans, every day written out: Calm in 7 Days, Sleep Better, Focus Reset, and a Tense Moments toolkit. Four to five minutes a day. Day 1 is slow belly breathing; by Day 5 you are finding the pace your own heart rate responds to. You always know what today is for, instead of opening a menu and guessing. ONE TAP WHEN IT'S BAD SOS starts the moment you open the app. No countdown, no setup, nothing to choose. Put the phone in your pocket and follow the buzz until the panic passes. Calm you can reach for with shaking hands. MOOD CHECK-IN, BEFORE AND AFTER Mark how you feel before the session, mark again after. A month in, your mood history shows which breathing pattern actually moves the number, what time of day the stress tends to hit, and what the trigger usually was. This is a mood tracker that records the thing you did about it, not just the feeling. EIGHT PATTERNS, EACH WITH ITS OWN FEEL 4-7-8, Box, Coherence 5-5, Triangle, Physiological Sigh, Relax and more. Every breathing pattern carries its own haptic texture, so you learn them by feel instead of by reading. Box breathing feels nothing like a physiological sigh, and after a week your hand knows which is which. BREATH HOLD AND WIM HOF ROUNDS Guided by vibration alone: one pulse every 15 seconds, two when it is time to exhale. Your eyes stay closed, because nobody watches a screen while holding their breath. Rounds, recovery, and a personal record you can actually beat. AN EVENING THAT ENDS IN SILENCE Pick 10, 20 or 30 minutes of sleep breathing. The pace eases down on its own, the vibration fades out, the screen dims, and the session ends quietly. No voice telling you to relax, no rain loop, no sleep sound library to subscribe to. It lets go of you instead of waking you at the end. FIND YOUR RESONANT PACE Resonant breathing sits at a different tempo for every body. BreathBuzz measures which pace your heart rate actually responds to and saves it as your own rhythm, so your coherence breathing is yours and not a default. MAKE YOUR OWN Set your own inhale, hold, exhale and pause. Choose how strong the vibration is and what it feels like: smooth, wave or heartbeat. Save it and it is yours. FOR STRESS AND ANXIETY, WHERE THEY ACTUALLY HAPPEN Stress does not wait for a quiet room, and anxiety rarely picks a convenient moment. Vibration-led breathing works in an elevator, in a waiting room, in a parking lot before you walk in. Anxiety relief and stress relief that fit the ninety seconds you actually have. NO SOUND NEEDED No voice. No music. No rain. These are breathing exercises you can do in a meeting, on a plane, or in bed next to someone asleep. Nobody around you knows. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up wall. No ads. No third-party analytics. Your mood history and everything else stays on your phone. Home-screen widget. Live Activity on the Lock Screen. Backup and restore to a file you keep. Light and dark. Seven languages. Full reduced-motion support. BreathBuzz: calm you feel with your hand, not your eyes. Breathing exercises are not medical treatment. If you have a health condition, speak to a clinician. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trypocketleaf.com/hapticbreathing/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reset at none against BreathBuzz's 5. BreathBuzz's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). 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. BreathBuzz sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per 7 days. Reset asks for nothing beyond the download.
Reset ships an update monthly, BreathBuzz every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reset | BreathBuzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Presby | Kyrylo Niesmielov |
In-app purchases
Reset
No in-app purchases
BreathBuzz
- Weekly$2.497 Days
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$37.991 Year
- Lifetime Offer$37.99
- Lifetime$54.99









