Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lungy
Spatial computing app for stress & relaxation
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lungy launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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Lungy▲92Next-gen breathing exercises that respond to every breath
2022 · 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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Breather (iOS)▲125Peace & quiet, on-demand. Reserve a private space on the go.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Gym Spatial▲115Run or train in immersive environments on Apple Vision Pro
2025 · 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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Unwind 3.0▲258Relieve stress and anxiety, sleep better, and improve focus
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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💪 Helm is an app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management in an actionable manner to provide relief. - chuabingquan/helm
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mindspace▲57The simplest wellness app for great sleeping and meditation
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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FocusRoom▲139Turn your tasks into calming space missions
Dec 2025 · usefocusroom.app · its alternatives →
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Breathable▲73An air quality index widget for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
2021 · breathable.app · its alternatives →
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Breather 2.0▲154Find a space of your own faster, w/ more flexible scheduling
2015 · breather.com · its alternatives →
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FlowVR▲76Virtual reality app with highly effective guided meditations
2019 · flow.is · its alternatives →
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