iBreathe – Relax and Breathe Hack 6.7 + Redeem Codes

Update: I love this app. But, honestly, I didn’t like the tip jar button on the finish screen. However, I understand better now that the developer really does want to make the app available to the most people for the most economical price. I know it can help with day to day stress. I use it all the time. Even though I paid for the app (to remove ads) I’m also fine with giving a tip to help support the app and further development knowing now that I know my tip will make the tip jar button disappear. That part wasn’t clear to me. I appreciate the developer reaching out and explaining their rationale for tip jar. Karma points to you for wanting to help as many people as possible.

Old review: I understand you don’t want to increase the cost of the app and you say that the “tip jar button” after the session is meant to not be intrusive, but it is. And to me, after paying for the ad free version and supporting the app, the tip prompt is stressful after doing the breathing. Exactly opposite of what the app is intended for. Just raise the cost of the app. People will pay it. Honestly, I don’t even want to use the app anymore because of that tip button. I don’t have a good solution for you, but I’d pay $5 as a tip to never see the tip jar button again. I will gladly change my review if you are able to come up with a better solution than the tip jar button.

This app has been very beneficial to me leading up to finals week. I downloaded this app to see if it would help me decrease my stress levels during the two week period I spend completing my assignments for the semester, and studying for my final exams. The breathing interval of inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 5 and exhaling for 6 really helped slow my heart rate down when I began to get stressed out about different assignments. Slowing down the heart rate helps to decrease stress levels because when the heart rate is fast, your oxygen intake is lower, which can actually stress you out more. I also used this app before taking one of my tests, because I tend to get bad testing anxiety. Doing a breathing exercise prior to taking my test calmed me down quite a bit, and now I don’t think i’ll be able to test without doing it. Since I was calmer during my test, I did better on it than I had on others in the same class. Doing breathing exercises lowers anxiety levels because you can feel you’re chest tightening when you’re anxious, and taking deep breaths relieves this. Another reason why breathing exercises are beneficial is because without that anxious feeling, I am happier than usual after doing my breathing exercise.

-saw you replied, looking forward to the update! Also hope I didn’t sound too critical haha. It is a solid app. I may have sounded too harsh with my comments on the visuals. My own personal use of the app leans towards the audio and vibrations, but there are times that I have found myself dependent on the visuals (like if I’m in a public place). So it’s been a great mix. But definitely looking forward to the update!

For example. I love reading books on my phone and it would be great to be able to use this app while reading my book. Right now the breathing sessions pause when I try to use other apps. What’s important is the timer and the intervals, I don’t need to see the visual at all really. Most times I have my eyes closed anyway because I primarily switch between the inhales, exhales, holds based on the vibration or audio cues. So the intervals, audio & vibrations could be used in the background when I read my books you know what I mean? It also drives me nuts that I have to have the screen on completely to use the app. I don’t understand why it’s not like any music app, where the audios/vibrations can still operate when the screen is off.

I caught Covid two years ago, before the vaccine, and am still suffering from the long term effects. I’ve needed a breathing program to help me increase my CO2 tolerance and exercise my lungs. I’ve tried a number of them before I found iBreathe. It’s simple, effective and, best of all, easy to use. I created a custom routine for me and I’m using it multiple times a day. I use it on my iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It’s been a game changer for me. Yes, you have to pay to remove ads, but it’s a tiny fee and well worth it. What would I change? Make the count of remaining reps larger. Allow multiple customizations. I’m being picky, because this is such a great app already.
Update: I am using the update. Thanks for adding the countdown to start. It’s nice to get settled before the routine begins. The extra customizations are great. Now I can program in my entire Long Covid protocol.
Since using this program, my oxygen saturation has gone from 89-90 to 95. That is a HUGE increase, and using your program for my breathing therapy played a big part in making that happen.

Many breathing apps and meditations where they have you inhale, hold and exhale for a certain amount of time makes me nervous because the counting just makes me anxious. For example with box breathing they will count to a number, hold for a number of seconds, and exhale for a number of seconds all while counting. That makes me anxious and it makes me feel like I can't breath.

But this app is much better. It has a visual of an outline of a circle filling up or draining and there is no counting either on the screen or out loud. (There may be an option for a verbal countdown but if so I don't want it and have it off). Thus the app is very calming.

You can also customize how long you inhale, hold (if you hold at all) exhale and hold at the exhale (if you do at all) and you can customize the intervals. They do have presets like the box one and other common ones but I like that you can customize it because I've often felt like the typical breathing times for out there are too short and I feel like I'm panting and making myself more anxious. But not with this app! It's great! 5 stars!

I like the simple interface. The tone that marks the inhale and exhale is great, and you can choose to have voice commands if you like. Also nice to have options to create custom intervals and save them so you can easily choose which one to do. And the length of the session can be set by selecting the number of cycles to do. Another reviewer complained about the tip jar at the end of a session. I’d you don’t like it, it disappears once you drop some change in it.

The app works great as if is, but if the developer is bored they could add programs. I’m trying to increase my breath lengths, so it might be nice to do 5 minutes of one type of interval, the 5 minutes of another type and so on. In fact, I’ve been looking for a meditation timer that will give me a chime at 1 minute and the chimes at intervals and a final triple chime. How hard can that be?

Looked for a lot of breathing app and this one was the best. I wanted full control over the breathing pace and this has it. I can adjust the breaths by the millisecond, not just the second. I had an issue where my Apple Watch would pause after a couple breaths so I sent an email to the developer. He replied within the hour and had an update ready to go to fix it the next day. Apple had updated the watch OS and he was ready to fix the app for the update. So he’s on top of the app. The only things I could think to improve would be make the cycles left type bigger for the Apple Watch and get some alternative voices using AI to do the cycle changes. That’s more of a fun to have. I like the female voice that is currently used. And pay to get rid of the ads. It’s worth it if you want to breath right.

I am an RN and I’ve known about the virtues of deep breathing for years. It was actually the first form of Complimentary/Alternative Medicines my professor talked about in nursing school. There is tons of clinical evidence out there and any Respiratory Therapist can tell you how important breathing is- that’s why they have jobs.

This app has replaced my other deep breathing app. I customized that one after a lot of experimentation over the years, but this one was so easy to set the way I like (and the default settings did a lot of the work, if I’m being honest).

If you know anyone directly/indirectly affected by Covid, please tell them to download this app and try to use it for a few minutes at least once a day to aid in general health and maybe even keep them from ever having to worry about a ventilator.

I’ve used other apps for breathing exercises and relaxation but none of them beat this simple yet colorful app. It’s the only app that offer notifications sounds when to inhale and exhale and hold. It’s also the only app to set intervals and has true box breathing. Other apps fall short compared to this app.

Please make available for Apple Watch. This would be great if Users dont have to be attached to phones all the time. For those who have Apple Watch series 6 with the updated health specs, with cellular it’s no longer necessary to have your phone throughout the day. I have reminders set on the app so I receive notifications on my series 6 but can’t activate breathing unless I have my phone. Apple’s mindfulness app for apple watch doesn’t have box breathing. Please add Apple Watch app soon.

I just wish they’ll come out with an update to add a breathing program where you start faster and end up slower for example inhale and exhale starts with four seconds and then by the time you finish your set up program you’ll be breathing at seven seconds that would be awesome because when you use this you really want to breathe slower after a few times and you almost can’t catch up with the program because normally everyone who starts to do this kind of breathing usually the breathing becomes slower but this is not bad but I just wish I can see an update with setting you’re on program of what you start with and what you end up with and I’ll take you slowly up throughout the duration.