Universal Breathing App Reviews

Bought app to practice breathing exercises. Was able to set up custom exercises. Not able to get music or sound to work.

I like the app but once it is open on my iPhone X it won’t close. A bit of bother. Fix it and it will rate 5 stars.

This app is great for teaching and guiding breathing for health. Pros: It has a ton of settings, so any level user can begin the app and work up to advanced breathing. There are 3 levels. Each level has 3 stages and each stage has 2 options for a total of 18 preset programs. Even better, these preset programs can be played for 5-60 minutes, your choice. You can also customize a program. The customization allows a lot of user control over the features: time, inhale length, exhale length, and hold lengths. It also allows you to set progressive increments of programs. I do this to build up to the advanced levels of breathing in a single session. There is also a lot of concise educational information right here in the app with links to more. Cons: I wish I could give it 4.75 stars because my con list is not worth a full star deduction. Here are the cons: 1. The app pauses if it is sent to the background. It needs to be able to run in the background. 2. It would be great if it could be programmed to open several times per day. 3. The tracking feature is off by one, so it tracks the wrong data. It also does not track 9 of the preset programs and it should. 4. There's no way to track customized sessions. This feature should be added, especially when the customized breathing programs follow the ratios from the standard preset programs. 5. There's no contact information in the help section.

I originally heard about this app from Commander Mark Devine and the box breathing he teaches. It works great. With the full version of this app you can adjust the settings and label custom exercises. I set it to inhale 6 seconds; sustain (hold) 6 seconds; exhale 6 seconds; sustain 6 seconds. I labeled it “box breathing” and set the timer for 20 minutes as Devine suggests 5-20 minutes a day. It has a different tone for each portion of the cycle. As you get used to the different tones you can close your eyes and still stay on track with the cycle. I like to do this exercises sitting in the dark with my eyes closed. By now I know what part of the cycle I’m on based on the tone that it makes. I like to flip my phone upside down as the screen is really bright. (I suppose that would be my only suggestion to the developers is that you could turn the screen off while using this app.) After the 20 min of box breathing I follow up with a 15 min gratitude meditation from a different app. It is a bit time consuming but well worth the effort. It is a game changer when facing the day with clarity. Because I’m in a calm present state, over time it has significantly reduced anxiety and helped me connect and communicate with others. After I enjoyed the app for a while I explored it deeper and read all the suggestions for better breathing techniques. I have integrated these techniques into the “box breathing” with even better results. Thank you for this app!

Good

Would be glad if included sound cause I like it with eyes closed

This app used to be great... I say used to be because now there is no sound what so ever. Highly disappointed

I’ve use this app for years, and recommended it to many friends. However, when I bring it up now it freezes my phone. Still works, but I can’t get it off the screen without shutting down the phone. This is an XR with the latest iOS. Please fix!! The developer meanwhile has frozen his contact options, you cannot get to him to ask for help in any way as far as I can tail.

This app cured what mooed me. The graphics are very sharp, but the sounds are really where the difference comes in. Sometimes I become too relaxed and fall asleep - any time of the day! Buckaroo.

Relaxing and good for beginners. Unfortunately unable to create a cleansing breath between reps.

I like this App a lot. It could be improved by: 1) turning off after the session is done. It stays on the screen and will completely drain the battery unless you remember to press the power switch. 2) running in the background, so I can hear the cues while I'm reading a news app or emailing...

This is a great app. I use it every day. As others have written, the biggest flaw in this app is that it will not continue to run if you lock your screen or open a different app.

I have used much better breathing apps. This one has freaky graphics, weird invisibility option, bad music, and a little un-relaxing to me to have a stop breathing button.

So I really like the idea here, but I personally bought this app, and first thing I see upon opening is a message saying that this app may not work with my iOS, idk what that's about. Pranayama is a great breathing exercise an all I want is a sure fire app that will be reliable. So how about that update?

I really wish it could run in the background. I would like to use this App in combination with my own music, or just to fall asleep to, but it doesn't run in the background.

Use it daily to meditate, best pranayama app. Perfect for yogis of all levels.

Very annoying to find out that this company offers a better version of the same app, under a different name, at a cheaper price.

I enjoy the breathing exercises this app provides and get much benefit out of them but I also agree with one of the previous reviewers that the retention or sustained breaths should come after inhaling and before exhaling in beginner mode. The developers of this app make another app that is almost identical to this one for a dollar cheaper that has the retention flipped the correct way. It boggles my mind why they even have two apps so similar at different prices to begin with. Perhaps they should combine their efforts into one solid app. I bought this app over the other app (after trying the free versions of both) because it said it had support for the Retina display on the new iPad but it doesn't. I'd even go so far as to say that while neither of the two apps are truly taking advantage of the Retina display, the other app actually looks better on it while this is the one that claims to be updated to take advantage of it. That's the part I find most disingenuous. I want to love this app and give it five stars but the developers have me scratching my head and questioning their true motives by some of their choices and actions.

I use this every night before I go to sleep to wind down. I'd rate it 5 stars if it enabled multitasking so that it could run on the background :D

Esta aplicación funciona perfectamente en mi iPad 3,

It's not perfect, what in life is? Custom settings allow me to get the ratios dialed in just as I like. I enjoy the music, tones and animations. Thanks for making this, I'm sure minor tweaks and improvements are on the way :)

It would be great if the app can vibrate the phone after each inhale/hold/exhale (when in silent mode at work or wherever you don't need the sound)

I've struggled for years to develop the concentration necessary to meditate. This app has solved the problem. It has visual and audio cues to help you regulate your breathing, and can adjust it for several different breaths-per-minute rates, and of course for the desired session length. One thing I'd change: The graphic design/art/fonts are terrible. Pseudo-Buddhist/Asian exotica. Nothing about the meditation method is particularly Asian or Buddhist. So a cleaner, more neutral, more western look would be more appropriate and less distracting.

Really great breathing technique instruction

everything about this app is well-designed. The colors, the music...it helps me relax and strengthen my diaphragm so I can run better. Great app to use in the morning before a workout!

I just received a notification that as of 07/05/2017 the app needs to be updated to work with the new apple ios! Update this please!

I've used this app for a year at night to help me sleep and reduce stress. I couldn't be happier. My 6 year old son was having issues sleeping and was getting into trouble at school. I've started doing five minute sessions at night with him and he is happier and in more control of himself at school.

This app is good and I use it everyday. But this app may stop working very soon once there is a new iOS update release. Currently it is 32-bit and needs to be updates to 64-bit. Please update this app to 64-bit else it will stop working. I get a warning message every time I open this app. Please update this app.

Favorite app. Very useful for relaxation and at night to help with insomnia.

I paid $7.99 for this app. The latest update has advertisements when it opens up. Why?

the sounds don't play when the app is in the background. I want to be able to hear it when I turn the screen off or am doing other things on my phone. I forgot about this in the trial version before paying the high price for the full version. If this feature is added I'd gladly give a 5 star rating.

the sounds don't play when the app is in the background. I want to be able to hear it when I turn the screen off or am doing other things on my phone. I forgot about this in the trial version before paying the high price for the full version. If this feature is added I'd gladly give a 5 star rating.

I really love using this app. I would give it five stars, but I wish that it would run in the background so I didn't have to leave the screen on and waste battery life. I only use the audio cues, so I have no need to look at the screen while it's running.

Love this app, except...I wish it would continue to play when the screen is asleep. Your other app apparently has this feature, but I already bought this one. It would warrant 5 stars with this simple fix.

Great features for breathing exercises. The animation of the man breathing might be nice, but is essentially useless. I really wish you could run the app in the background so I could do my breathing exercises while reading or meditating (with a locked screen), and just following the audio cues. That would be 5 stars.

Great meditation app. I am new to meditation, so the different levels are very helpful. I especially like that I can create my own custom session. Helps me relax after a stressful work day. :)

Love this! It would be great if you had a version for young children. They are following along with me, but the breaths are a little too long for their smaller lungs.

Great

This is a great app! You can hear the soft sounds to guide your breath even with your eyes closed (for visual kriya pranayama for example) Just be sure your phone is not on vibrate mode.

I have used this app once only, but I can already see I'm going to use it daily! It is great and the sound is soothing but powerful. I love this app!!!!

Doesn't teach you anything. Just demonstrates 2 or 3 techniques and times it for you. That's it. Left me with more questions than answers. As a tutorial its useless. As a glorified stopwatch it's just ok. This app should be .99. It doesn't do anything to merit its price tag. I really regret wasting the money. Don't make the same mistake.

This app is good if you down load the full version for making your own ratios. The issue with this app is that the ratios given in the free version and the full are incorrect. You would have to change the retention on the exhale to advanced and retention on the inhale to beginner. basically, inhale, retain then exhale, "beginner". Advanced would be, inhale, retain, exhale, retain. For the price you pay, you do not get guidance on Kapalbhati, Bhastrika, sheetali, seetkari and a basic ujjayi pranayama.

Amazing

Sound does not work.

There is an easy answer on the developer website.

This App is nice and very useful for people looking to improve their breathing and health in general. But to get better results you should do it more then once a day, the problem is with everything going on around us we don’t remember to do it, so can you please add the possibility of Notifications or Reminders, this way we can set how times per day we would like to practice and the App will remind us when time comes for practicing .

I love this app for training my breathing. Please develop the Apple Watch app that would compliment such a already wonderful app.