Ten Breaths
Breathe before you're on
Only for Mac
$4.99
Mac
A breathing guide that floats over your screen for the nervous minutes before a meeting or interview, or in the middle of one. Nobody on the call can tell.
Ten Breaths is a breathing guide that floats over your screen, for the moments your nerves show up at your desk. Before the interview, the sales call, or the 1-1 with your manager. Or in the middle of one, when a question lands and you still need to look composed on camera. A soft circle expands and contracts with the breath, on top of whatever you are doing, and nobody on the other side can see it.
MOMENTS IT IS FOR
The interview that starts in six minutes. Your turn to present, three slides from now. The salary conversation. The demo that is going sideways while you keep talking. The thirty seconds before you unmute to disagree. In all of them you are at your Mac and you cannot step away. That is where Ten Breaths lives.
WHAT IT DOES
- Floats over any app, including full-screen ones and video calls. Drag it wherever it does not get in the way, or make it click-through and keep working while you breathe.
- Sessions are counted in breaths, not minutes: five, ten, twenty, or open-ended while you wait in the lobby.
- Ends with one short line drawn from research on performing under pressure. Your cue to walk in.
BEFORE A MEETING
Turn on calendar access and the menu shows what is next. When a meeting is two to ten minutes away, one click fits a session to the gap, and it ends exactly when the meeting starts. No notifications, no nagging; your calendar already does that. The calendar is read on this Mac only and never changes anything.
THREE TECHNIQUES, ALL WITH TRIAL EVIDENCE
- Calm Down: box breathing, four counts in, hold, out, hold. The default, because in a 2026 real-life study one minute of it reduced acute anxiety as much as any other technique and was rated the easiest to follow under stress.
- Settle: slow breathing, five in and five out. No holds.
- Lift: cyclic sighing, a double inhale and a long exhale, from the 2023 Stanford trial.
The studies behind every choice are listed at tenbreaths.app/science.
START IT YOUR WAY
- The dragonfly in your menu bar. No Dock icon, no windows to manage.
- A keyboard shortcut from any app (Control-Option-B by default, yours to change).
- Shortcuts and Siri: "Breathe with Ten Breaths". Works from Raycast and any automation.
- A URL scheme for scripts: open tenbreaths://start
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR MAC
No account, no analytics, no network calls. Your calendar and your name (used for one line on the end card) are read locally and never stored or sent anywhere. The privacy policy is three paragraphs.
ONE PRICE
Buy it once and it is yours, updates included. No subscription, no trial that turns into a plan.
MADE BY ONE PERSON
I built Ten Breaths because I needed it before my own calls. It is made by a small independent company in Norway, with no investors and no ads.
NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE
Ten Breaths is a wellness tool that guides paced breathing. Slow breathing can make some people light-headed: stay seated, stop if you feel unwell, and talk to a doctor first if you have a respiratory, cardiovascular, or neurological condition.
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The developer, Do Not Panic AS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Do Not Panic AS
- Size
- 413.4 KB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.2 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.2 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © Do Not Panic AS
