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24 alternatives to Box Breath – A simple breathing exercise
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Box Breath – A simple breathing exercise launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Box Breathing▲155Breathe in sync with this to calm yourself down
2017 · quietkit.com · its alternatives →
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- 4BT
2020 · breathing.tips · its alternatives →
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Calm your mind in between tabs
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (https://www.pi-a.io) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were…
2023 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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Get Calmer▲11Practice Box Breathing technique to reduce anxiety & stress
2025 · gethappier.framer.website · its alternatives →
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Squair▲162I built Squair because my phone was giving me anxiety - and it was also the only thing in my pocket when anxiety hit. The problem: 4 cups of coffee just to focus. Then the anxiety kicks in. Chest tight. Racing thoughts. Scrolling reels to "calm down" made it worse. I Googled "anxiety relief" at 2am and found box breathing — same technique Navy SEALs use in combat. First time I tried it, I felt the difference within 2 minutes. No crash. No pills. Just breathing. So I built an app around it. 6 months. Solo dev with a full-time job. 112 builds. 2 App Store rejections. Finally live. What it…
Jan 2026 · squair.app · its alternatives →
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Not AI-powered. Built for my wife. Simple & Science-backed.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A distraction-free breathing app for labor preparation
Jul 2026 · lebene.pl · its alternatives →
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Got Stress? Box Breathing to the Rescue!
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sigh▲76Reduce overall stress in 5 minutes with cyclic breathing
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Lungy▲92Next-gen breathing exercises that respond to every breath
2022 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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Four7Eleven▲70The healthy 4-7-11 method app for calm breathing
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Breathwrk▲100Learn and master breathwork with guided breathing exercises
2020 · breathwrk.com · its alternatives →
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Huma Breath▲135Quick and effective breathing exercises to alleviate anxiety
2021 · its alternatives →
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Breathe to become calm and regain focus
2020 · mindfuldevmag.com · its alternatives →
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A 4-7-8 breathing exercise ready in every new tab
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A virtual tool to help with breathing exercises and anxiety.
2020 · breathemachine.com · its alternatives →
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