Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CalmBreath
A minimalist breathing app with animations for relaxation.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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Unwind 2▲172Deep mindful breathing exercises from your phone and watch.
2020 · apps.apple.com · 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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Unwind 3.0▲258Relieve stress and anxiety, sleep better, and improve focus
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ChillScape▲80An interactive sound therapy app for meditation
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Calmaria▲178Breathing exercise for you to relax during this rough time
2020 · calmaria.app · its alternatives →
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Your daily 2 minutes of peace
2024 · shutupandbreathe.vercel.app · 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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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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Simple breathing exercises without the complexity
2025 · didyoubreathe.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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