Awesome Breathing: Pacer Timer

Name: Awesome Breathing: Pacer Timer
Rating: 4.9 (1353 reviews)
Author: Awesome Labs LLC

Breathe for sleep calm anxiety

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

1.4K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Awesome Labs LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

103
MB

Awesome Breathing is a simple, elegant tool to guide and visualize your breathing. Use it daily to help with meditation, sleep, stress, anxiety, focus, or to simply bring a few moments of calm and mindfulness to your day. The perfect breathwork app. Simple, unobtrusive, and best of all, free to use anytime! Set your own pace, follow the calming animated pacer, and enjoy guided breathing exercises for relaxation, stress and anxiety relief, better sleep, and focus. Don't take our word for it: ** 4.9 stars, over 3,700 ratings ** "Two thumbs up, three if I had them. Works exactly as advertised and is super easy to use. Free to use if you want! I happily sent them support and could choose my own amount. As they say in the app name, AWESOME!" "Beautiful and responsive UI with customizable breathing patterns." "I have tested at least a dozen breathing apps. This one is BY FAR the best one I've used. Simple layout, real voice cues, custom programs, and a menu that is relaxing and intuitive. Get it!" "Excellent app, simple to use. As a psychotherapist I am using it myself and recommending it to clients who might benefit." Features: • Clean, simple interface for an uncluttered and calming breathing experience • Fully customizable inhale, exhale, and optional hold (pause) durations, so you can build any breathing exercise or technique you like • Choose from fifteen included programs, such as Box Breathing, Relaxing Breathing (4-7-8), Equal Breathing, Measured Breathing, and Triangle Breathing, plus patterns for focus, running, and performance • Create and save your own custom breathing programs • Sessions can be free-form (no set duration) or timed, by duration or by number of breaths • Optional pre-session countdown timer gives you a few moments to settle in before your session begins • Choose from several beautiful pacer color themes • Ambient background soundscapes to relax and breathe along to • Optional guided voice and tone cues signal when to inhale, hold, and exhale, so you can breathe with your eyes closed and without looking at your device, each with its own volume • Start and end bells can be enabled to signal the beginning and end of your sessions • Vibration mode allows for silent, eyes closed breathing sessions • Playback continues when your screen is locked or the app is in the background, so your cues never stop • Save your sessions as Mindful Minutes in the Apple Health app • Customizable reminder notifications alert you when it's time to take a moment out of your day to breathe A few of the included programs: Box Breathing (4-4-4-4) Also known as Navy SEAL or tactical breathing. A simple, effective way to regain calm and control under stress. Inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4. All through your nose. Relaxing Breathing (4-7-8) Trouble falling asleep? Inhale for 4 through your nose, hold for 7, exhale for 8 out of your mouth. Equal Breathing (4-4) A pranayama practice called Sama Vritti that helps quiet racing thoughts. Inhale for 4, exhale for 4, all through your nose. Try a 6 or 8 count once it feels comfortable. Measured Breathing (4-1-7) A handy stress reducer you can do anywhere. Inhale for 4, hold for 1, exhale for 7. All through your nose. Triangle Breathing (4-4-4) Picture a triangle with equal sides. Inhale for 4, exhale for 4, pause for 4. Repeat. Plus Coherent Breathing, Breathing for Meditation, Yoga Pranayama, and dedicated programs for runners, swimmers, athletes, and endurance. We hope Awesome Breathing helps you reach your goals, and we look forward to being part of your journey. We would love to hear your reviews and feedback. ------ Terms of Service: https://isjustawesome.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://isjustawesome.com/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

1.4K Ratings

Simple and exactly what I needed
09/05/2021
judyy18
Breath work really helps me to manage my anxiety. I have been using the breathing exercise that comes in a meditation app (Sanvello is great) for the past 3 years. Over time I found myself scrolling through all of the various features and exercises that Ive stopped using regularly just to get to breathing exercise, which got annoying and deterred me from opening the app. Love that I can just open this app right up and get started with breath work. I like the audio options, especially the starting and stopping bell sound. One thing I truly miss about Sanvello and haven’t found in another app yet is having a audio sound of someone breathing deeply (with adjustable pacing) than I can listen to and follow along with. It was great and truly calming! Please please consider adding this to the app, it would make the app a 12/10! ☺️
Simple and exactly what I needed
09/05/2021
judyy18

Breath work really helps me to manage my anxiety. I have been using the breathing exercise that comes in a meditation app (Sanvello is great) for the past 3 years. Over time I found myself scrolling through all of the various features and exercises that Ive stopped using regularly just to get to breathing exercise, which got annoying and deterred me from opening the app. Love that I can just open this app right up and get started with breath work. I like the audio options, especially the starting and stopping bell sound. One thing I truly miss about Sanvello and haven’t found in another app yet is having a audio sound of someone breathing deeply (with adjustable pacing) than I can listen to and follow along with. It was great and truly calming! Please please consider adding this to the app, it would make the app a 12/10! ☺️
Some problems
08/30/2024
simplify99
Could be very good but sound doesn’t work without the screen being on…and continues to run indefinitely after the time has finished in some cases for whatever reason. Would not have known and would’ve continued with the breathing except I added an end of program bell that is not on by default. That term did go off but the app kept going otherwise. In line with it not working without the screen being on as one would expect it will also not work if one navigates to another app. Obviously being engaged with the phone and flipping to another app is not a great idea if you are doing breathing practices, but sometimes one has to clear something or otherwise engage for a moment and even though one could continue uninterrupted with the breathing exercise for continuity during the time it takes to do this it will of course not work. Found these things in the first couple of uses so maybe there is more. I would like to express the app could be really good for breathing exercises with at least fixing being able to shut off the screen, and avoiding any sort of continuation after the timer is finished. All that said I donated to the development effort.
Some problems
08/30/2024
simplify99

Could be very good but sound doesn’t work without the screen being on…and continues to run indefinitely after the time has finished in some cases for whatever reason. Would not have known and would’ve continued with the breathing except I added an end of program bell that is not on by default. That term did go off but the app kept going otherwise. In line with it not working without the screen being on as one would expect it will also not work if one navigates to another app. Obviously being engaged with the phone and flipping to another app is not a great idea if you are doing breathing practices, but sometimes one has to clear something or otherwise engage for a moment and even though one could continue uninterrupted with the breathing exercise for continuity during the time it takes to do this it will of course not work. Found these things in the first couple of uses so maybe there is more. I would like to express the app could be really good for breathing exercises with at least fixing being able to shut off the screen, and avoiding any sort of continuation after the timer is finished. All that said I donated to the development effort.
Great free app! Pls add vol. sliders
11/25/2025
johnnyappleseed001
It’s an awesome breathing app! It includes many premade breathing programs and the ability to create your own that fit your individual in and out breaths that you can save for later use. I love how this developer has made the app free and has given us the ability to make voluntarycontributions to the team. I really like this idea because it makes it about giving instead of taking. I hope the developer makes plenty of money from the generosity of very satisfied users.Suggestions:Would be nice to have individual volume sliders for the various sounds, but especially for the voices and bells. I like to close my eyes while using the Awesome Breathing App and I find the voices a little too loud and distracting. I would like to lower their volumes while keeping the music volume set higher. Also, I suggest adding some more voice options that sound a little dreamier to match the music. Thanks you!
Great free app! Pls add vol. sliders
11/25/2025
johnnyappleseed001

It’s an awesome breathing app! It includes many premade breathing programs and the ability to create your own that fit your individual in and out breaths that you can save for later use. I love how this developer has made the app free and has given us the ability to make voluntarycontributions to the team. I really like this idea because it makes it about giving instead of taking. I hope the developer makes plenty of money from the generosity of very satisfied users.Suggestions:Would be nice to have individual volume sliders for the various sounds, but especially for the voices and bells. I like to close my eyes while using the Awesome Breathing App and I find the voices a little too loud and distracting. I would like to lower their volumes while keeping the music volume set higher. Also, I suggest adding some more voice options that sound a little dreamier to match the music. Thanks you!
I love this app!
06/23/2022
rge3
It is indeed simple, and the ability to ‘tune’ the intervals to 10ths of a second is very helpful. I’m spoiled by the variety of sounds (Tibetan bowls, etc.) available on other apps, but they tend to be set up for timing sessions, not breaths. I just discovered, quite by accident, that I can play music in the background on my iphone and run the app at the same time. I can hear it more clearly on extension speaker than on the phone by itself. The possibilities of breathing/meditating with chant in the background opens up a wide range of possibilities.Thank you.
I love this app!
06/23/2022
rge3

It is indeed simple, and the ability to ‘tune’ the intervals to 10ths of a second is very helpful. I’m spoiled by the variety of sounds (Tibetan bowls, etc.) available on other apps, but they tend to be set up for timing sessions, not breaths. I just discovered, quite by accident, that I can play music in the background on my iphone and run the app at the same time. I can hear it more clearly on extension speaker than on the phone by itself. The possibilities of breathing/meditating with chant in the background opens up a wide range of possibilities.Thank you.

Awesome Breathing has been rebuilt from the ground up! We took everything you loved about the original and remade it from scratch, faster, smoother, and more capable, while keeping the calm, uncluttered feel you know. New in this version: • A beautifully redrawn pacer with smoother animation and several new themes • More breathing programs, from Box Breathing and 4-7-8 to focus, running, and performance patterns • Time your sessions by duration or by number of breaths • Ambient background soundscapes, audio cues, and start/end sounds now have their own volume controls • Save your Mindful Minutes to the Apple Health app Thank you for breathing with us over the years. Happy breathing!

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Seller: Awesome Labs LLC
Size: 103 MB
Category: Health & Fitness
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.4 or later.

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Requires iOS 16.4 or later.

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Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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