Aerio: Guided Breathing
Breathwork & Live Heart Rate
Free · In‑App Purchases
Box breathing, 4-7-8 and more, guided by circle and haptics on iPhone and Apple Watch. Six techniques free. Premium adds heart-rate feedback and 12 more.
Most breathing apps give you a timer and a circle. Aerio guides every breath with a calm animation and a distinct haptic cue for each phase, on iPhone and on Apple Watch. With Premium, your Apple Watch also shows how your heart rate settles while you breathe.
18 TECHNIQUES, 6 OF THEM FREE
Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Coherent Breathing, Belly Breathing, Physiological Sigh and Lion's Breath are free, with no account. Every technique comes with exact timing and a short how-to.
PICK BY PURPOSE
Techniques are grouped by what you need right now: fall asleep, focus, stress relief or energy.
ON YOUR WRIST
A full Apple Watch app with its own session flow. Inhale, exhale and hold each feel different, so you can breathe with your eyes closed. No iPhone needed nearby. A complication shows your streak.
MINDFUL MINUTES
With your permission, every session is saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes.
PROGRAMS AND COLLECTIONS
7 Days Calm and 5 Days Focus take you through it day by day; days that use a Premium technique are marked. Collections for getting started, quick calm and bedtime.
ALWAYS AT HAND
Home and lock screen widgets, a Live Activity during the session, a Control Center button and Shortcuts. Optional sound cues, background sound, spoken phases, a gentle start and finish, and a daily reminder. Your history syncs through your private iCloud. Heart-rate data stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch.
YOUR PROGRESS
Streak, sessions and minutes per week, and a weekly chart.
AERIO PREMIUM
• All 18 techniques, including Nadi Shodhana, Ujjayi, Kapalabhati and Buteyko
• Live heart rate during Apple Watch sessions, and a calm score (0–100) afterwards
• Find your resonance rate, and an adaptive pace that follows your pulse
• Three longer programs: 14-Day Sleep Reset, 10-Day HRV Training, 21-Day Mindfulness
• Your own protocols: seconds per phase, cycles or a target duration, import from a file
• Advanced statistics: weekday average, 30-day history, CSV export
• Reminder schedules with your own times for each weekday
Heart-rate features need an Apple Watch. Intense techniques show a safety note and ask you to confirm before the first start.
Aerio is a practice app, not a medical product. It does not diagnose or treat anything; the calm score is a wellness hint, not a medical value.
Terms of Use
By using this app, you agree to Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA), available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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• Aerio now speaks 45 languages.
• Heart-rate data stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch and is no longer stored in iCloud.
• Crash reports are sent only if you turn them on in Settings. Aerio no longer includes analytics.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
The developer, Alexander Nikonov22270669431, 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:
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Information
- Seller
- Alexander Nikonov
- Size
- 33.7 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 41 more
- English, Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Weekly $0.99
- Annual $12.99
- Monthly $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alexander Nikonov
