Breathe: Box Breathing — a box breathing app for iPhone

Four counts in, four held, four out, four held — a light is tracing the edge of this page right now.

BREATHE IN

Calm, in four counts

A box is four counts in, four held, four out, four held. This app draws that box around the edge of your screen and asks you to follow a light along it.

There is nothing else on the screen. No buttons, no counters, no rings to close.

Tap here to begin.

WHY A BOX

Four counts,
on purpose

Slow, even breathing tells your nervous system the danger has passed. Your heart rate settles, the exhale lengthens, and your mind gets one simple thing to hold on to instead of everything it was racing through.

The pattern is old — yogis call it sama vritti, the equal breath — and it earned its modern name with Navy SEALs, who use it to stay steady under real pressure. It needs no equipment, no experience, and no belief.

Steady in, steady out.
That’s the whole practice.

HOLD

Made to be followed
with your eyes shut

  • A spoken voice, or a singing bowl, or neither
  • Firm taps for breaths, soft ones for holds
  • A lead-in before the first breath, so it doesn’t start under your finger
  • The screen stays awake for as long as you do

BREATHE OUT

Your own kind of night

DEEP FIELD

Five skies. A swipe changes yours.

HOLD

A reflection,
not a scoreboard

Every day you breathe becomes a star; a month becomes a constellation. No streaks, no goals, and nothing marks a missed day — an absence is not an event.

Sessions can be written to Apple Health as mindful minutes.

PRO

One unlock.
Yours for good.

FREE, FOREVER

  • Box breathing, 4–4–4–4
  • Three skies
  • The singing bowl
  • A voice to guide you
  • Haptics, targets & activity

PRO, ONCE

  • Relaxed, 4–7–8 & Coherent
  • Build your own rhythm
  • The Aurora & Ember skies
  • A second voice
  • Apple Health logging

A single one-time purchase — no subscription

 

COMPLETE

Four sides, closed. The rest is practice.

DOWNLOAD ON THE APP STORE

Free · iPhone