Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into
Building Grove is a set of interactive biofeedback trees that respond to a user's breathing. Created by Samuel Clay, a Harvard design and engineering graduate student, the project combines physical interaction with… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Grove Ecosystem▲233Helps you grow fresh herbs, lettuce & fruit indoors all year
2015 · landsharkspizza.com · 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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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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Grove▲128A smart in-home farming appliance (pre-launch)
2014 · landsharkspizza.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I am Felix, a famliy doctor from ZH, Switzerland. A couple of month ago I started this little project called shii • haa, a breathing app that uses the phone`s microphone for live biofeedback My prior work in emergency medicine and intensive care was closesly linked to breathing, mostly in critical situations... and let me to reevaluate my own way of breathing. over time one question popped into my mind: can medical knowledge and biofeedback make an app actually promote self-awareness instead of attaching your goals to the award system of the app. it combines signal processing, a…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Breathhh▲204Personal mental shield against stress and anxiety
2022 · breathhh.app · its alternatives →
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Meditation and breathing exercises
2018 · oakmeditation.com · its alternatives →
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Flowly▲137VR & biofeedback to take control of body because pain sucks
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an iOS app that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been two years since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) and it's had a huge update and complete redesign. We rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs /…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Flora Beta▲117Get rewarded for building better habits by Kehlani 🏆
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A bit more context - the cloth sim is part of my app, Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). It's designed to be an active meditation / relaxation app, so you can play relaxing instruments in space and immersive breathing exercises. The original Lungy is a breathing app available for iOS, that uses real-time breathing with interactive visuals. The cloth sim is a Verlet integration, running on a regular grid. For now, I have tried a couple of different cloth scenes - a sort of touch reactive 'pad', where different parts of the cloth are mapped to different sounds and a cloth that blows…
2024 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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omscillate▲90A unique meditation app that focuses on vibration patterns
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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RapidReg LTD▲72Forms, bookings & scheduler with no limits that plants trees
2021 · ltd.rapidreg.com · its alternatives →
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I built a terminal app that paces slow breathing at 6 breaths per minute for vagal tone training. It's a single Python file, stdlib only, no dependencies — just run breathe and follow the bar. I'm a cardiology patient (HFrEF). Slow breathing at resonance frequency is one of the few non-pharmacological interventions shown to improve cardiac vagal tone and baroreflex sensitivity (Bernardi et al., Circulation 2002; Lancet 1998). I wanted a frictionless daily habit tool — no app store, no account, no subscription, just open terminal and go. Design constraints, all grounded in the clinical…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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