Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lungy
Next-gen breathing exercises that respond to every breath
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 2022; 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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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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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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Breathwrk▲100Learn and master breathwork with guided breathing exercises
2020 · breathwrk.com · 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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Breathhh▲204Personal mental shield against stress and anxiety
2022 · breathhh.app · 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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Yoga breathing exercises, pranayamas
2023 · universalbreath.app · its alternatives →
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Download Lungy: Breathing & Anxiety by Pi-A on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Lungy: Breathing & Anxiety.
2024 · apps.apple.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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Breather (iOS)▲125Peace & quiet, on-demand. Reserve a private space on the go.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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PreggyBreath▲77App for practicing breathing exercises during a labor
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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