Best Breath Holding Apps

237+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.7 avg rating
19 free apps
Updated July 2026

With an average user rating of 4.7β˜…, the breath holding category is one of the App Store's strongest. Browse all 237+ apps we track, sorted so the most loved ones surface first.

Top Picks for Breath Holding

STAmina Apnea Trainer#1

STAmina Apnea Trainer by Squarecrowd Apps SIA

Freediving, Spearfishing coach
Editor's Choice
⚽ Sports
4.9😊(5.4K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app helps users improve their breath-holding capabilities for activities like freediving, spearfishing, and other water sports. It offers various training tables and personalized programs to enhance physical and mental endurance underwater.

What We Love

  • πŸš€ Easy to use
  • πŸ‘ Helps improve breath hold
  • πŸš€ Customizable tables
  • πŸ‘ Tracks progress

Room to Improve

  • πŸ› Glitchy UI when switching devices
  • πŸ› Unreliable Apple Watch sync
  • πŸ› Buggy watch app
Apnea Freediving Exercises#2

Apnea Freediving Exercises by SleepyBytes SIA

Breathe Hold Stamina Training
Strong Contender
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
4.8😊(2.9K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Enhance your freediving, apnea, and diving abilities with a four-week training program. This app helps you increase breath-hold time, dive deeper, and explore more of the underwater world. Regular practice improves your apnea skills and overall diving performance.

What We Love

  • πŸš€ Effective for improving breath hold
  • πŸ‘ Simple and easy to use
  • 🀯 Significant improvement in breath hold time
  • πŸ§˜β€β™€οΈ Helps with meditation and relaxation

Room to Improve

  • πŸ› App crashes or loses progress when switching apps
  • πŸ”• Lack of audio/vibration cues for breathing
  • πŸ•°οΈ Preset timers not customizable
Freediving Apnea Trainer#3

Freediving Apnea Trainer by Maksim Pipkin

Improve your apnea and stamina
Worth Considering
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
4.7(256 ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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This app helps improve breath-holding capabilities for freediving, underwater hunting, and yoga. It calculates personalized training tables based on your maximum breath-hold time and offers various exercises to enhance stamina and control. Track your progress with statistics and charts, and utilize customizable timers with voice and vibration notifications.

More Breath Holding apps to explore

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H2O Breath Hold Trainer
H2O Breath Hold Trainer
H2O Breath Hold Trainer
Increase lung capacity!
Free

Enhance your breath control, lung capacity, and mental resilience. This app provides customizable training tables, performance tracking, and personalized assessments to help you improve your breath-holding abilities for freediving, athletics, or general well-being.

Customizable CO2 & O2 training tablesPerformance tracking and insightsDynamic training modes
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(15)
free with in-app purchases
5
Dive Hard Freediving Trainer
Dive Hard Freediving Trainer
Dive Hard Freediving Trainer
Improve breath hold capacity
Free

Enhance your underwater endurance and performance with this training app. It utilizes proven CO2 and O2 tables, along with box breathing techniques, to help you master your breath-hold. Ideal for freedivers, swimmers, and military personnel.

CO2 & O2 TablesBox BreathingAudio Cues
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(9)
free with in-app purchases
6
Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises
Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises
Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises
Stress, Sleep, Focus, Breathe
Free

Improve your mental and physical well-being with neuroscience-based breathing exercises. This app offers guided sessions for sleep, stress, focus, and energy, with customizable sensory experiences and habit tracking.

100s of guided exercises and classesDaily updated classesHabit tracking and reminders
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(18K)
free with in-app purchases
7
Wim Hof Method: Breathwork
Wim Hof Method: Breathwork
Wim Hof Method: Breathwork
Breathing Exercise, Meditation
Free

This comprehensive wellness tool guides you through daily breathing exercises, cold exposure, and mind-powering practices. Experience increased energy, reduced stress, better sleep, and enhanced resilience through scientifically validated techniques.

Guided breathing exercisesCold water therapy practicesMind power exercises
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(13K)
free with in-app purchases
8
iBreathe – Relax and Breathe
iBreathe – Relax and Breathe
iBreathe – Relax and Breathe
Simple Guided Breathing
Free

This app offers guided deep breathing exercises to help manage stress, anxiety, and insomnia. Its simple interface allows for pre-defined or custom breathing routines, with features like reminders and Apple Health integration. It also provides educational content on breathwork.

Guided deep breathing exercisesCustomizable breathing routinesStress and anxiety relief programs
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(17K)
free with in-app purchases
9
Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper
Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper
Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper
Personalized Course & Music
Free

This app offers a personalized sleep plan developed by therapists to help you fall asleep, stay asleep, and improve sleep quality. It provides a digital assistant for relaxation and a variety of content like stories, ASMR, meditations, and nature sounds to aid sleep.

Personalized Sleep PlanDigital Sleep AssistantSleep Stories
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(1.2K)
free with in-app purchases
10
Apnea Training for Freediving
Apnea Training for Freediving
Apnea Training for Freediving
Diving Breath Holding Trainer
Free

Enhance your breath-holding capabilities for freediving with specialized CO2 and O2 training tables. Track your progress, create custom workouts, and receive daily reminders to consistently improve your freediving skills.

CO2 & O2 training tablesProgress trackingCustomizable workouts
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(2)
freemium
11
FivePointFive: Breathwork
FivePointFive: Breathwork
FivePointFive: Breathwork
Athlete Breathing Exercises
Free

Enhance athletic performance and recovery with science-backed breathwork exercises. This app offers guided sessions to improve focus, reduce stress, and deepen sleep, with real-time heart rate monitoring and personalized coaching insights.

Guided breathwork sessionsLive heart-rate monitoringAI Performance Coach
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(2.7K)
free with in-app purchases
12
Freediving hold breath + Apnea
Freediving hold breath + Apnea
Freediving hold breath + Apnea
Breathing exercises for divers
Free
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(0)
13
Breethe: Sleep & Meditation
Breethe: Sleep & Meditation
Breethe: Sleep & Meditation
Breathe to Calm Anxiety Stress
Free

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools to help you relax, reduce anxiety, and improve sleep. It provides personalized recommendations, guided meditations, hypnotherapy, sleep stories, music, and AI coaching to support your mental wellness journey.

Personalized content recommendations2,500+ meditations and hypnotherapySleep stories and soundscapes
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(7.5K)
free with in-app purchases
14
BreathHRV: Breath Meditation
BreathHRV: Breath Meditation
BreathHRV: Breath Meditation
Breath your way into the now
$2.99

This app guides users through personalized Heart Rate Variability (HRV) resonance sessions to enhance meditation and balance the nervous system. It offers a customizable timer and syncs heart rate with breath for physiological balance and mindfulness.

Customizable timerHRV resonance synchronizationResonant breathing techniques
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(1)
paid
15
Freedive Apnea Breath Trainer
Freedive Apnea Breath Trainer
Freedive Apnea Breath Trainer
Breathing exercises and tables
Free

This app helps you improve freediving skills and lung capacity through personalized breath-holding training programs. It offers audio and visual notifications to guide your sessions, with benefits extending to stress reduction and mental calmness in daily life.

Personalized training programsBreath holding testsAudio and visual notifications
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(25)
free with in-app purchases
16
Breathing Exercises: Breathe+
Breathing Exercises: Breathe+
Breathing Exercises: Breathe+
Guided Patterns Box Breath 478
Free

This app offers guided breathing patterns for relaxation, meditation, and breath training. Visualize your breath with customizable inhale, exhale, and hold times. Track your progress and integrate with HealthKit for mindful minutes.

Full screen breath visualizationGuided and free-form sessionsCustomizable inhale/exhale/hold times
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(3.4K)
free with in-app purchases
17
Health through Breath - Pranayama Lite
Health through Breath - Pranayama Lite
Health through Breath - Pranayama Lite
by Saagara
Free

This app offers a guided approach to deep breathing exercises based on yoga principles to help reduce stress and promote relaxation. It uses music and animated visuals to guide users through slower, deeper breathing techniques, aiming to improve overall well-being and energy levels.

Progressive breathing courseMusic cues for breathing phasesStructured course to reduce breathing rate
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(3)
free
18
Freedive
Freedive
Freedive
by Luca Naterop
Free

This app helps freedivers improve their breath-holding abilities with customizable training tables and performance tracking. It offers automated CO2 tolerance and O2 deprivation tables, along with the ability to create personalized sessions. Track your progress and receive notifications during your training.

Auto-generated CO2 tolerance tablesAuto-generated O2 deprivation tablesCustomizable table creation
πŸ”§ Utilities
(14)
free
19
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax
by Defense Health Agency
Free

Learn diaphragmatic breathing for stress management. This app offers detailed information on stress's effects and guided exercises to improve mood, control anger, and manage anxiety. It integrates with Apple Watch to track heart rate during sessions.

Stress management informationDiaphragmatic breathing exercisesMood stabilization
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(313)
free
20
Othership: Guided Breathwork
Othership: Guided Breathwork
Othership: Guided Breathwork
Mindful Breathing Exercises
Free

This app uses music-driven guided breathwork sessions to help you regulate your nervous system and shift your state. Explore various breathing styles and guided meditations for energy, focus, relaxation, or emotional release.

Music-driven guided breathwork sessionsDaily UP and DOWN sessionsCurated weekly transformative journeys
πŸ’ͺ Health & Fitness
(2.1K)
free with in-app purchases

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