Tide: Breathwork & Sleep
Wim Hof, 4-7-8 & Box Timer
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Any inhale, hold and exhale you want to set — plus Wim Hof with a safety note that actually says what can happen.
Tide is a breathing timer that opens ready to go, and lets you set anything you like.
Resonance — even in, even out, no holding. The calm baseline.
4-7-8 — in for four, hold for seven, out for eight. A strong downshift.
Box — equal on all four sides. Steady and level.
Extended exhale — out for longer than in.
Wim Hof — thirty deep breaths, then holding on a full one, over several rounds.
Sit — nothing paced and nothing counted, for when you want no instruction.
YOUR OWN PATTERN
Set the inhale, the hold, the exhale and the second hold to any whole number of seconds you want, and it becomes a protocol like any other — same figure, same tone, same timer. Several of the best-known breathing apps put their patterns behind a subscription. These are decades-old public techniques with numbers for names. Nothing here is behind anything.
WIM HOF, HANDLED PROPERLY
Most breathing apps stop at box and 4-7-8. Tide includes the Wim Hof method, and puts a safety note in front of it that you have to read: never in or near water, never while driving, sit or lie down first, stop whenever you want. It says plainly that the breathing will probably make you light-headed and tingly, and that some people faint. If you are pregnant, or have a heart condition, epilepsy or high blood pressure, it tells you to speak to a doctor.
WHAT EACH ONE DOES
A Practice tab explains the mechanism behind every protocol — why a long exhale does the work in 4-7-8, why around six breaths a minute is where heart rate and breath fall into step. It describes what happens physiologically. It does not promise you an outcome, because nobody can.
THE FIGURE
You follow a figure of nine strata of light that rises as you breathe in and settles as you breathe out — not another expanding circle. You can run a session with your eyes shut and follow the sound alone.
SOUND
An optional guide tone marks each phase, and three field recordings can play underneath: rain, waves, and an open hearth. A struck singing bowl marks the couple of moments in a session that earn one. All are public-domain recordings, bundled with the app, with their provenance recorded in the app itself.
QUIET BY DESIGN
There is no streak to break, no notification telling you that you missed a session, and no library to work through. A session ends and closes rather than selling you the next one. Everything runs on the device, with no account and no connection required.
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Sessions now keep playing with the screen locked. The guide is prepared before the first breath and plays like any other audio, so the phone can go face down.
The app is now three tabs:
• Breathe: pick a pattern, set the number of breaths, choose a soundscape, begin.
• Protocols: every pattern with its timing. The one you pick explains how it works.
• Practice: the last four weeks at a glance, and your recent sessions.
Sound
• Holds are silent.
• On the phone's own speaker the low bed is left out. With headphones it is still there.
Also
• Begin no longer waits several seconds before a session starts.
• Pause works while the guide is being prepared.
• The Wim Hof safety screen's buttons can be reached on smaller screens.
• Sliders can be dragged as well as tapped.
The developer, Alexander Olsen, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Alexander Olsen
- Size
- 9.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © 2026 Tide
