Unwind: Breathing Exercises Apple

Unwind: Breathing Exercises

Stress Sleep Focus Breathwork

Features & Capabilities

Unwind is a refreshing, distraction-free mindful breathing companion to help you with meditation and carry you through the day. It combines beautiful illustrations with background ambiances to create an atmosphere perfect for mindful breathing. Core guided exercises include Start your day fresh, Relax and unwind, and Sleep better and faster.

It also features Mindfulness History, Stats and Insights, Widgets for iOS 17, over 30 background ambiances, a Breathing Companion animation, Voice Prompts, haptics, Daily Reminders, and Daily Mindfulness Quotes. You can also enable Sync to Apple Health and iCloud to back up data across devices.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Developed by:
Mystical Bits, LLC
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwind-breathing-exercises/id1470613384
Website:
https://unwind.to/

User Reviews

Users largely praise Unwind for its simplicity, design, and customization, with strong Apple Watch support and heart-rate metrics. It helps reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and provides calming visuals and haptic feedback. Key strengths include a minimal, intuitive interface and highly tunable breathing exercises. Common drawbacks are performance lag on Apple Watch, pricing with restore-purchase friction, privacy concerns from trackers, missing heart-rate data in some summaries, and restrictions/quality issues with audio (not able to play personal music and occasional high-pitch squeals). Overall, it’s an effective breathwork tool, but improvements in performance, privacy controls, and pricing would broaden appeal.
Pros
  • Simple, minimalistic design with plenty of breathing options without feeling overwhelming.
  • Beautiful, calming visuals and sounds plus intuitive navigation.
  • Excellent Apple Watch experience with real metrics like heart-rate comparison.
  • Highly customizable breathing exercises and prompts.
  • Helpful for anxiety and sleep; easy to maintain a regular meditation habit.
Cons
  • Laggy inhale/exhale annotations on Apple Watch, especially on newer models.
  • Pricing is high and restore-purchase friction makes continued use feel expensive.
  • Privacy concerns due to trackers in updates (e.g., Facebook trackers).
  • Heart-rate data sometimes missing or not tracked in summaries.
  • Audio restrictions and quality issues, including not being able to listen to own music and occasional high-pitch squeals.
Recent reviews
I got sick of searching through enormously bloated meditation and breathing apps and was looking for something simpler and this is it! This app has the perfect balance between plenty of options without so many that it becomes overwhelming. It’s also beautifully designed and totally intuitive to use and navigate. Love it. I really hope the developer doesn’t fall into the trap of constant growth, this is perfect as is!
by ra*****, 2026-03-15

What a helpful amazing app!
by Ge*****, 2026-03-02

I’ve enjoyed this breathing app, the animations provide good guidance and it’s very user friendly. My one complaint is that it does not track heart rate changes before and after a breathing session. After a session on my iwatch, the Summary begins with Heart rate change, but there is No data. The app is allowed to access my Health and add mindfulness minutes, but there is no option to allow it to access my heart rate.
by Iv*****, 2026-02-27
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