The Breathing App 4+

Breathing app review

Meditation and guided breathing apps can be helpful in moments of mild to moderate anxiety when it’s harder to hear your own inner guide. This app use methods that are helpful but,using a breathing sound, when you inhale that higher the sound gets and when you exhale the lower the sound gets. One thing that I liked was that the app also gave a visual of a ball that you follow during the practice. The visual of the ball is when the ball gets bigger you in inhale when I get smaller you exhale. These apps work by clearing your mind if someone is having trouble managing their anxiety or having a panic attack, they can use this app to calm their breathing. Also this app can be useful for someone that is having panic attacks they might be worried about having another one. These breathing apps are made to prevent you worrying about having another one and calm to relax your body.

Developer Response ,

Hey Abnormal Girly,

Thank you so much for the great review! We're happy to hear that our app is helping you to calm down, manage anxiety, better control of panic attacks. I know how it feels to have a panic attack. The breathing is the tool which always with you. In addition to breathing, you can try muscles relaxation technic https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety-exercises#muscle-tension. And eye movements (EMDR) practice. It helps to stop 'Amygdala hijack'. The amygdala is primarily involved in the processing of emotions and memories associated with fear.
You're awesome!!!

Calm and happy breathing,
Sergey

Just right

I tried 7 different apps for breathing, and this is one of the two I will keep for everyday use. It is straightforward and easy. I like the tone guidance- not jarring like a ding, not a voice repeatedly saying inhale/exhale- which is anything but relaxing. This app has the best audio option, and the best visual option for timing/guiding breaths in the least intrusive and most effective way. Some days I concentrate on yogic breaths and other days it is just regular breaths, but the guide works effectively for either. The other app I am keeping is for box breathing, which paces you to hold your breath for intervals. So if you added that kind of box or other types of hold your breath at intervals option, this excellent app would be even better. Thanks

❤️ this app!

I love almost everything about this app! The UI is uncomplicated. There is nothing frustrating about using the app, which is is nice, ya know since it is an app that’s supposed to help elicit calmness. The app nails it on that front!

It has two visualization options: one is a ball enlarging and shrinking to match inhale and exhale. The other is a still of a starlit night with a mountain and river/lake.

The session can be set from 1 minute to thirty minutes.

There are two musical notes that play during the session. The higher note is for the inhale, and the lower note is for the exhale. The high note isn’t really high, only higher than the note for exhaling. The sounds are pleasant.

My only complaint is I wish that the inhale/exhale time was fine tunable. As it sits, there are six preset options. The longest is 5 seconds in and 7 seconds out. I have to speed up my breathing to keep the pace of the tone. I would like it if they kept the presets and also offered a slider for those of us who fall outside of the norms so that we can fine tune the times and customize the inhale/exhale to better suit individual needs.

Overall, this is a great app🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Developer Response ,

Hey,
Thanks for the review! We're very happy to hear such warm words. Indeed, our focus was/is on the simplicity ❤️
We're working on a new version of the app with more ratios and different types of breathing practices.

Let me know what is your comfortable breathing ratio? If you are interested in testing new designs please ping me at hi@breathing.app

Thanks and happy breathing,
Sergey