# The Breathing App: Calm Daily

> Simple Breath to Focus & Sleep

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1285982210](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1285982210)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1285982210`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Breathing App, LLC
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (1,298 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.5.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-12
- **First published:** 2017-10-03
- **Size:** 175 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-breathing-app-calm-daily/id1285982210)
- **Website:** [https://www.thebreathing.app/og](https://www.thebreathing.app/og)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://thebreathing.app/privacy](http://thebreathing.app/privacy)

## Description

**The Breathing App: Calm Daily** offers simple guided breathing exercises to help reduce stress, improve focus, support better sleep, and restore emotional balance. Follow calming sounds with your eyes closed or use the app in the background with the screen off.

Choose from resonance breathing, box breathing, calming, grounding, energizing, alternate-nostril, and 4-7-8 techniques. Free features include Kids and Resonance Frequency ratios with sessions up to 20 minutes, while Premium unlocks advanced ratios, unlimited timers, guided sound breathing, and a deeper sonic experience. No ads or account required.

## Rankings

- #48,478 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise its simple, calming UI and effective breathing guidance that helps reduce stress and support daily meditation. The clean visuals, distraction-free focus, and quick access via shortcuts are frequent positives. However, repeated complaints target the recent UI overhaul, with many missing the original simple experience, plus paywalls for customizing breath settings. Some users feel the app has become less intuitive and clunky after updates. Overall, it's a solid, lightweight breathing tool, but UX changes and pricing are common drawbacks for longtime users.

### Pros

- Simple, clean, calming UI; easy to use with no unnecessary extras.
- Effective breathing tool that helps reduce stress and supports wellbeing and meditation.
- Quick access features like shortcuts and iPhone Action button for instant breathwork.
- Visual and auditory cues (orb/sphere and sounds) to focus on breathing.
- Free version is valued; lightweight and non-intrusive.

### Cons

- UI overhaul removed the familiar simple UI; users want the original back.
- Paywall and pricing gating for customization/features; perceived as expensive.
- Recent updates make usability feel less intuitive and clunky; not as smooth as before.

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