The Breathing App

Name: The Breathing App
Rating: 4.72388 (268 reviews)

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The Breathing App

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Edwin Stern

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User Reviews for The Breathing App

❤️ this app!

I love almost everything about this app! The UI is uncomplicated. There is nothing frustrating about using the app, which is is nice, ya know since it is an app that’s supposed to help elicit calmness. The app nails it on that front!It has two visualization options: one is a ball enlarging and shrinking to match inhale and exhale. The other is a still of a starlit night with a mountain and river/lake. The session can be set from 1 minute to thirty minutes.There are two musical notes that play during the session. The higher note is for the inhale, and the lower note is for the exhale. The high note isn’t really high, only higher than the note for exhaling. The sounds are pleasant.My only complaint is I wish that the inhale/exhale time was fine tunable. As it sits, there are six preset options. The longest is 5 seconds in and 7 seconds out. I have to speed up my breathing to keep the pace of the tone. I would like it if they kept the presets and also offered a slider for those of us who fall outside of the norms so that we can fine tune the times and customize the inhale/exhale to better suit individual needs.Overall, this is a great app🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

1H.2L, May 23, 2022

Breathing app review

Meditation and guided breathing apps can be helpful in moments of mild to moderate anxiety when it’s harder to hear your own inner guide. This app use methods that are helpful but,using a breathing sound, when you inhale that higher the sound gets and when you exhale the lower the sound gets. One thing that I liked was that the app also gave a visual of a ball that you follow during the practice. The visual of the ball is when the ball gets bigger you in inhale when I get smaller you exhale. These apps work by clearing your mind if someone is having trouble managing their anxiety or having a panic attack, they can use this app to calm their breathing. Also this app can be useful for someone that is having panic attacks they might be worried about having another one. These breathing apps are made to prevent you worrying about having another one and calm to relax your body.

abnormal girly, Mar 25, 2022

5 stars because it’s free, ad free, and pretty great, but could be perfect with a few tweaks!

Hard to complain about a free, ad free app. This is beautiful and the best I’ve found so far. The resonant tones for in/out are perfect and miles above every other chime and other cue I’ve heard/seen (visual cues are a no go for me). I also love that it keeps playing when you exit the app so you can have it on in the background to cue your breathing while doing other things. If you could just set the inhale and exhale times yourself (and maybe pauses), it would be absolutely perfect.

Baby Carrots, Sep 11, 2021

Really good

I actually really enjoyed using this app and I'm definitely going to keep using it. In my Abnormal Psychology class my teacher walked us through how to breath correctly I order to calm yourself down and relieve some anxiety. The timing of the breathing was almost exactly the same as what she suggests and that’s the most important part in my opinion. However a signal saying sit/stand up straight or something like clear your mind would also help the person know to calm down. All these steps will successfully help relax your nerves and make even slow your heart beat down a little if you’re really worked up.

bigfella616, Nov 16, 2020

It's easy, it works, and it's free

Thank you so much for this app! The title of the review says it all. I use this app for a calming, restorative break during the day and best...to calm my thoughts so I can fall asleep at night. Being able to close my eyes and breathe with the sound is so helpful. I'm usually asleep before it gets to the end of the 15-minute session. One request to the developer: When a session is finished can the screen be programmed to turn off? It stays on all night and I'm afraid the green ball will eventually be burned into my screen. Thank you so much!

cbrown78501, Apr 20, 2021

Just right

I tried 7 different apps for breathing, and this is one of the two I will keep for everyday use. It is straightforward and easy. I like the tone guidance- not jarring like a ding, not a voice repeatedly saying inhale/exhale- which is anything but relaxing. This app has the best audio option, and the best visual option for timing/guiding breaths in the least intrusive and most effective way. Some days I concentrate on yogic breaths and other days it is just regular breaths, but the guide works effectively for either. The other app I am keeping is for box breathing, which paces you to hold your breath for intervals. So if you added that kind of box or other types of hold your breath at intervals option, this excellent app would be even better. Thanks

ClubEd, Apr 16, 2021

Simplicity takes the cake!

After trying several apps in the AppStore to help on my resonant breathing practice, I can easily say this is the best one. Key reasons: 1: simple and clean user interface, 2: it works on the background! Even while other apps are working on the foreground, this is important for me.Dev team, only one request if possible, please add “+” “-“ buttons, or a slider to manually select the inhale and exhale interval seconds, with decimals. Maybe a toggle button can work to switch between ratios or manual selection. That would bring so much more flexibility!Thanks for a useful app and work.

Hyeronymos, Jan 21, 2021

Much love for this app.

I downloaded today and appreciate the simplicity in that I don’t have to muddle through a barrage of other features or decisions. The resonant audio is memorable enough to stay with me even after I’ve finished a session and stays with me when I move onto something else. The directions to swipe right to change screens could use a little more clarification, it’s not a negative would just improve user experience. Only other question is if there is an intentionally to pairing the ascending tones with inhale and the descending tones with the exhale? Just a personal preference on my part perhaps and I can make it work for me either way. Thanks for this!!! As expressed by a precious reviewer, this is a great tool for managing what can be a very hard world.

k•mage, Mar 07, 2021

Amazing!

Because I have some trauma in my past and because I deal with the daily cumulative trauma that comes from being a WOC in this society, as well as the inter-generational kind, I have really reactive sympathetic responses which I’ve been working very hard for a few years to change. I’ve been re-educating my nervous system to support more parasympathetic states such as rest and relaxation/connection. I also practice Ashtanga yoga. This app had helped me tremendously to tell my brain that it is ok to be centered and calm, and thus my body. It helps me come back to feeling safe in my body, my skin, this moment. I also suffer from visual motion sensitivity and I cannot tolerate that ball growing and shrinking without feeling motion sick. If the sound option was not available I couldn’t use it. I love this app. It has changed my life, for free. I got my Mom, who suffers from depression and anxiety and bradycardia on it. I have my step Mom who has anxiety on it. A few co-workers with anxiety and stress on it. It helps stop a panic attack in its tracks for some of us. I also recommend it to my students. All of whom are BIWOC.

Moonatic, Dec 03, 2020

Nearly 5 ⭐️

This app is better than any others I’ve tried. Most are too busy w visuals and sounds and not great cuing by the sounds used. So it’s great that the visual of the ball is so calm in color and form. The sound is more meditative. I would like to suggest the addition of an option that has no visual and uses a simple soft tone to indicate the start of each inhalation and exhalation and maybe a different tone just for the end of the cycle. It would allow for those w stimulus sensitivities to use it. I find the constant sound brings the breathing focus outward vs inward. If you could add this, it would be 5 ⭐️ for me! Still kudos for how simple and less “hyper” it already is!!!

Waterhythms, Feb 24, 2020

Description

The Breathing App (TBA) is inspired by the resonance, the scientific name that describes what happens when our heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, and brainwave function come into a coherent frequency. It occurs spontaneously when we breathe at a rate of five to seven breaths per minute (instead of our usual 15-18). It results in a calm, restful alertness, and many other benefits.

About Resonance The effects of resonance support the innate ability of our body, nervous system, and emotions to restore themselves through the balancing of the complementary branches of our autonomic nervous system, which control our heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, respiration, and many other automatic functions of the body. There have been hundreds of scientific studies performed on resonant breathing, which show a wide array of benefits, including reduction of inflammation, reduction of stress, improved sleep, improved resiliency, and strengthening of cardiovascular function. How is it possible for one breathing technique to do so much? The answer lies within our nervous system. By breathing at resonance, we enter into an even balance between the two branches of our autonomic nervous system, the sympathetic (which moves us towards activity) and the parasympathetic, which moves us towards rest. The sympathetic branch is our accelerator and speeds us up. The parasympathetic is our braking system, which slows us down. We alternate between these two every second of the day, with each breath we take. However, in our fast-paced, information-heavy world, we often lean towards acceleration. Spending just a few minutes consciously breathing sends signals of balance to our brain, telling us that we are ok, and brings us out from the part of our brain that makes us feel overwhelmed, into a state of calm. With resonant breathing, you learn how to apply your brake at will, rather than being sidelined by anxiety, distractedness, or excess stress. Our world is very much in sympathetic overdrive: we are overly active, overly plugged in, and live in a world of both heated politics and climate. It’s important to learn to cool down, so that we can be as effective in our lives as possible, and conscious breathing is one of the best ways to do that. The Breathing App, by virtue of toning the vagus nerve, reduces inflammation and induces a state of restful alertness and mental clarity. Resonant breathing is like a stress reset button. About Creators Eddie Stern, a yoga teacher, author, and lecturer from New York, created the concept, and drew the blueprint for the app. Moby, a musician, DJ, author, and photographer born in New York City, who has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, developed the breathing cue sounds. Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, NYT bestselling author of over 85 books, founder of the Chopra Center and Jiyo.com, guided the science and context behind the app. Sergey Varichev, an app developer and coder from Belarus, currently living in Amsterdam, did the coding, and co-designed the app. Keep in touch, https://www.instagram.com/thebreathingapp/ https://www.facebook.com/thebreathingapp/