The Breathing App: Calm Daily

This is my favorite of the many breathing apps I've tried! Very effective, wonderful sounds and not too many choices to get distracted by. However, when I first downloaded it a few months ago there were multiple backgrounds and visual styles to choose from, and I do miss the variety in that regard. Now it seems to be stuck on a night scene which is pretty but feels off if I'm using the app during the day. Would love to have some other options but overall very grateful!

This app is better than any others I’ve tried. Most are too busy w visuals and sounds and not great cuing by the sounds used. So it’s great that the visual of the ball is so calm in color and form. The sound is more meditative. I would like to suggest the addition of an option that has no visual and uses a simple soft tone to indicate the start of each inhalation and exhalation and maybe a different tone just for the end of the cycle. It would allow for those w stimulus sensitivities to use it. I find the constant sound brings the breathing focus outward vs inward. If you could add this, it would be 5 ⭐️ for me! Still kudos for how simple and less “hyper” it already is!!!

I really like this breathing app. The visual is the most soothing of the breathing apps I’ve seen. I love that there is not a number count down which I find stressful and that the color scheme is monotone not bright. Other colors could be nice if they were soft, earth kind of tones but like this far more than some of the other vibrant apps I’ve seen. I only wish you could specifically set the amount of seconds for inhale, hold and exhale, that would make this app perfect. There’s no hold option currently. There’s another app that does this, included an option to hold the exhale too, but I’m not fond of the visual.

So simple and so effective. Even two minutes has an impact on my day. I especially like that there are options for the different senses; sounds that direct you when to breathe in and when to breathe out so that you can close your eyes or the option to follow along to a bubble, if you prefer no sounds.

I love this app, but there’s one glitch: the audio timer page is not accurately paced. I like to do 5-5 coherence breathing. I timed the inhale and exhale with a separate stopwatch and noticed that the audio cues are off pace (longer I think). I then used a coherence monitor with heart rate monitor and it showed the same thing on their spectrum chart. It’s a pity, because I would really like to close my eyes and just listen to the awesome sound. I tried to report this in the support page, but the link is dead. Here’s hoping the developer sees this post!