iBreathe – Relax and Breathe 4+

Does exactly what it says. Need a timer for guided breathing? Look no further. No subscriptions, only a well priced one time IAP that costs less than a cup of coffee. Other apps require a subscription to access breathing methods, but this app just lets you take the recommended ones online and input it into the app.

My only complaint is that the Apple Watch app is kinda useless. If you move your wrist and the screen turns off, the app stops working until you turn the screen back on. You can sorta get around this by changing the tap to make behaviour from 15 seconds to 70 and not moving your wrist, but after 70 seconds it'll turn off. I'm sure the developer is aware of this, and it's probably a limitation of the Apple Watch development API, but I've seen other apps get around this by putting the device into a workout mode and reading out the intervals (interval timer does this). It might be a lot of work to do though, so I can understand the developer wanting to keep it simple.

Anyways the phone app is excellent, but I deleted the Watch app as it isn't worth the hassle.

Thanks for leaving a review! You are correct about the WatchOS app and the limitations of the API. Starting a workout does allow for the watch to stay on indefinitely, but unfortunately, “mindful minutes” is not classified as a workout. I just released a new version (6.0) that enables background processing so that even if the screen goes to sleep, the exercise will continue in the background. This is still not perfect, but hopefully a step forward until the API supports mindful minutes as a workout.

Cheers, and happy breathing! 😊

Hi,
I love how this app keeps it simple with breathing. I struggle with some anxiety and using this app has been calming. The option to turn off voices, using my phone vibration as a guide instead, all really good stuff.

I was wondering if there are ever any plans to include a simple meditation timer? I like being able to do breathing exercises before + after meditating but it is a little inconvenient to switch apps to do it, plus a regular timer isn’t logged as mindful minutes in health. It would be really cool, but I also understand keeping the app straight-to-the-point

Thank you! I’m glad you appreciate the simplicity. I haven’t thought about a meditation timer but it’s a good idea and definitely something I will consider adding in a future update! Thanks for your suggestion.

A good basic breathing app. A few changes would make it even better:

- some way of changing the defaults e.g. instead of having 5 seconds for each part of the box breathing, I might want to change them all to 6 seconds. The only way I can currently do this is by using Custom, but it's only possible to have one Custom interval

- would prefer it if changing the number of cycles in one interval-type didn't affect all the others! For example I want to do 12 mins of breath-work each morning: this is 38 cycles of 4-7-8, but then when I go into my custom interval I find that 38 cycles is going to take 15 mins 12 seconds. If I select a different interval-type to use one morning, I don't want to have to edit it before using - I want the time (or number of cycles) to be defined as part of the individual configuration.

- a choice of voices would be nice, as would a slightly more gentle marker for the seconds

- also love the suggestion someone else made about being able to slow down the breathing over the duration of the interval - that would be really useful!

Thank you for your review and suggestions! Version 6.0 was released a few days ago and addresses a few of your suggestions.

- You can have up to 5 custom intervals now
- Each interval has its own number of cycles

I’ll be working with a voice over professional to get some more sounds recorded!

Cheers, and happy breathing.