Downshift: Breathing Exercises

Nervous System & Breathwork

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Feeling tense and wired? Downshift guides your breath with simple, evidence-informed techniques. Private by design — no ads, no account. Downshift offers guided breathing exercises for the moments you feel tense or stressed — box breathing, 4-7-8, resonance breathing and the physiological sigh — plus progressive muscle relaxation, a body scan and, with a watch or tracker, a daily nervous-system reading from your Apple Health data. Breathe along. Follow the animated orb through guided patterns: the Physiological Sigh, Resonance breathing, Box, 4-7-8, and more. Gentle haptics mark every inhale and exhale, so you can do it with your eyes closed. Build a daily rhythm. A simple daily checklist of evidence-based habits — morning light, movement, a caffeine cutoff, a steady bedtime — with a streak to keep you going. See your progress. Log your tension morning and evening and watch the trend over time. Let go of physical tension. Guided progressive muscle relaxation walks you head-to-toe. On your wrist and your Home Screen. A standalone Apple Watch app with guided breathing, complications, and your reading at a glance — plus Home and Lock Screen widgets. Yours, and private. Your Apple Health data stays on your device. Your notes sync privately through your own iCloud — no account with us, no servers of ours, no tracking. Ever. Free to download and use. No ads. Downshift supports everyday wellbeing and is not a medical device or a substitute for professional care.

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• History is now one calendar. Each day can show your reading, your practice and your notes, with a legend. Find it on the You tab, under Your stats. • What's new: a short sheet after an update, and "What Downshift can do" in Settings > Learn lists everything in the app. • One small thing: on the Today tab, plan one thing you'd enjoy, for later today or tomorrow. • Background sounds: Rain, Ocean, Forest, Stream, Night and Wind, field recordings in the public domain. Choose one in Settings > Sound & haptics, or from any session. • Downshift now runs on iPad. • The session list, now called All sessions, loads page by page. Clearer tension wording in Spanish, French, Romanian and Italian. Smaller fixes.

The developer, Ioan-Cristian Vezure, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Diagnostics

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  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Larger Text

    • Dark Interface

    • Reduced Motion

Seller
Ioan-Cristian Vezure
Size
40.4 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
  • English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+
  • Infrequent
    Medical Treatment information

    Contains
    Health or Wellness Topics
Copyright
© 2026 Cristian Vezure