Magnesium Counter and Tracker vs BreathLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magnesium Counter and Tracker
This app helps you track your daily magnesium intake to avoid deficiency and its associated health risks. It allows you to set personalized targets, log food and beverages, and monitor your progress over time. You can also add custom foods and recipes, and access nutritional information to support a healthy diet.
- Personalized daily magnesium targets
- Log food and beverages via dictation or search
- Customizable food database
- Monitor daily and long-term progress
- Export data for healthcare providers
- Integrates with Apple's HealthKit
- Nutritional information and FODMAP data
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Use this app to avoid magnesium deficiency to lower your risk of type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, migraine headache, chronic inflammatory diseases and infections. Set your target daily magnesium intake based on guidance provided in the app and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz). Record food and beverage consumption using dictation, search, or by favoriting foods, and using the serving sizes provided, which can be changed at any time. Tap the notepad to add notes. Compare the magnesium content of different foods by tapping the Compare button on the "Foods" screen. Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronize data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit. Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the app's 400-item database for you. All food and beverage popups indicate whether the item is a plant, good prebiotic, probiotic or ultra-processed food (UPF) to inform a healthy diet and whether they are high or low FODMAP per serving where data are available to support people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Useful lists show magnesium content of foods per 1oz or 100g and serving, which can be toggled from high to low & low to high. Also useful UPF, unprocessed plant, prebiotic, probiotic, high & low FODMAP food lists.
BreathLoop
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BreathLoop turns your iPhone or iPad into a breathing pacer. A full screen circle grows as you inhale, rests on the hold, and settles as you exhale, while gentle haptic taps keep the rhythm for you. Pick a pattern, pick a length from 1 to 20 minutes, and follow. No counting, no guesswork. The circle and the taps carry the rhythm, so you can breathe with your eyes open or closed. WHAT YOU GET - Guided visual breathing: a calm animated circle paces every inhale, hold, and exhale - Proven patterns built in: Box 4-4-4-4, 4-7-8, Coherent 5.5-5.5, and Calm 4-6 - Haptic pacing: a distinct tap for each phase change - Pause and resume any live session without losing practiced time - Mood check before and after each session, with self-reported movement computed from your own data - Optional check-in free practice for immediate starts and automatic saving - Session history: minutes per day and mood movement on clean charts - Daily reminder: one gentle nudge at the time you choose - Guided moments: quick reset, focus break, and wind down routines - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for one tap free breathing sessions - Weekly pulse: practice days, minutes, sessions, and a Pro comparison with last week - Local backup and additive restore in a JSON file you control - Personal pattern coach based only on rhythms with at least three complete mood check-ins (Pro) - Completion insight comparing planned and practiced minutes, including partial sessions (Pro) - Custom patterns: design your own rhythm, each phase from 0 to 15 seconds (Pro) - Voice guidance: spoken cues at every phase for eyes-closed practice, generated on your device (Pro) - Calm calendar: four weeks of practice as a heat grid, darker means more minutes (Pro) - Daily calm goal: pick a minutes goal and watch the ring fill as today adds up - Start again: one tap repeats your last pattern and length - Session notes: a word about how it went, kept with each session - Monthly calm report: a shareable PDF of your sessions, minutes, and mood trend (Pro) FREE AND PRO Free includes Box, 4-7-8, and Coherent breathing, sessions up to 5 minutes, quick reset and focus break routines, widgets, local backup and restore, mood checks, session notes, the daily goal ring, daily reminders, and your last 7 days of history. Pro unlocks custom patterns, the Calm 4-6 pattern, wind down, sessions up to 20 minutes, your full history, weekly comparisons, the calm calendar, voice guidance, and the monthly calm report PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. BreathLoop is a relaxation and personal logging tool, not a medical device, and it does not provide medical advice. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS BreathLoop Pro is available as monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscriptions, or as a one time lifetime purchase. The current price for your storefront appears in the purchase screen before confirmation. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BreathLoop at Free against Magnesium Counter and Tracker's $2.99. BreathLoop also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). Magnesium Counter and Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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
BreathLoop is free to download; Magnesium Counter and Tracker costs $2.99 up front. BreathLoop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Magnesium Counter and Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Magnesium Counter and Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, BreathLoop every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magnesium Counter and Tracker | BreathLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | First Line Medical Communications Ltd | InnovaLabWorks |
In-app purchases
Magnesium Counter and Tracker
No in-app purchases
BreathLoop
- BreathLoop Pro$4.991 Month
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- BreathLoop Pro$29.991 Year
- BreathLoop Lifetime$49.99
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