Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone
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…
Shii • haa is a breathing app that uses a phone's microphone to detect and provide live biofeedback on breathing patterns. Created by a family doctor with emergency medicine background, it analyzes breath sounds… 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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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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Through controlled breathing it is possible to regulate your body's stress response. I've built an app to measure and train this effect with a Polar H10 Heart Rate monitor. With every breath you take, you can set the pace of your breathing rate, measure your breathing control with the chest accelerometer, and see how heart rate variability responds.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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World’s first AI yoga app. Now on Android
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Breathhh▲204Personal mental shield against stress and anxiety
2022 · breathhh.app · 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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Not AI-powered. Built for my wife. Simple & Science-backed.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Meto▲147Hi HN, We’re excited to introduce Meto, our metabolic health 3.0 platform that redefines personalized care. Meto leverages cutting-edge AI, real-time wearable data, and precision lab testing to optimize outcomes related to obesity, hormonal balance, and longevity. Key Highlights: • Real-time Wearable Integration: Continuous monitoring via Apple Watch, Oura Ring, and CGMs. • AI-driven Care Plans: Dynamic interventions personalized through advanced ML algorithms. • Precision Lab Testing: Tailored treatments guided by integrated metabolic and hormonal lab tests. • Insurance Covered:…
2025 · meto.co · 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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Pausa▲122Your space to breathe, reduce anxiety & stress, feel better
Oct 2025 · pausaapp.com · its alternatives →
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AI-powered breathing exercises tailored to your health data
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Train any breathing exercise & posture with sensor feedback
2023 · prana.co · its alternatives →
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Breathing app made by teenager developer
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Condition healthy posture, mindful breathing, and breaks
2020 · obvus.me · its alternatives →
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2017 · ofbrooklyn.com · its alternatives →
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I am a product designer by profession, and recently, I ventured into coding and started developing applications. Today, I'm excited to share a project I've been passionately working on. The concept is a voice-activated journal: just voice-record your thoughts, and the app will transcribe them into text. I built this to help those like me who struggle to build a journaling habit. Also has features that encourage habbit building like a streak/tracker and a threshold marker encouraging you to record a minimum amount. I used OpneAI Whisper to power the transcriptions which means you can…
2023 · main.d35lo6kdqvpjht.amplifyapp.com · its alternatives →
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