Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SPHERE
Touch a living fidget made of 5,000 breathing particles
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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Fidget Cube▲428An unusually addicting, high-quality desk toy
2016 · antsylabs.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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Box Breathing▲155Breathe in sync with this to calm yourself down
2017 · quietkit.com · its alternatives →
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ZenPod▲169Make your Airpods case into a fidget spinner
2019 · airvinyldesign.com · its alternatives →
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Fidgetable▲206A simple, elegant fidget app that's 100% free
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Your daily 2 minutes of peace
2024 · shutupandbreathe.vercel.app · 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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Fidgets to play with on your iPhone
Apr 2026 · tapticfidget.github.io · its alternatives →
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Your favorite distraction is now digital ✨
2017 · fidgetspin.xyz · its alternatives →
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Calm your fidget cravings! A fidget toy on your phone.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The music-guided meditation experience you can feel
2019 · wavemeditation.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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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 60-second group meditation experience
2019 · connectedbreath.co · its alternatives →
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Relieve stress, relax, focus, ease anxiety and meditate
2018 · toucheys.com · its alternatives →
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My motivation was pretty simple: every “spinning ring” I tried felt a bit fake. They don’t actually spin — not like a real bearing. So I wanted to see if I could make one that truly does. At the end of the day it’s still just a ring. A small, minimal piece of jewelry. But it happens to hide a tiny bearing that can hit around 800 RPM with a single flick. That contrast is what makes it fun. The way I think about it is this: it’s like a normal-looking car that quietly turns out to fly. Nothing loud or showy — until you decide to reveal what it can actually do. If you’ve used a good fidget…
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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Enliven▲69Breathing for wellness with visually delightful interactions
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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