Breathe Hope

Breathe Hope is a deep breathing app designed to fight anxiety through science-backed breathing and deep truths that anchor your heart to hope.

Breathe in Truth. Breathe out Anxiety.

Most deep breathing apps help calm your body and tell you to empty your mind, but what about the intrusive thoughts that so quickly return and feed anxiety? Breathe Hope is different. It’s a deep breathing app designed to fight anxiety through science-backed breathing and deep truths that anchor your heart to hope.

Three reasons to try Breathe Hope:

1. Anchor your heart in truth: You need more than just a breathing exercise. Guided sessions pair proven respiratory techniques with specific promises from Scripture that help you center your heart on truth and hope.

2. Effortless adaptive breathing: Say goodbye to apps that aren’t paced for you or require complex settings. Breathing sessions start at your current breathing pace and gently guide you toward an ideal resonant breathing rate. Just start and let the app do the rest.

3. Completely free, privacy first: No cost, no ads, no locked features, and no subscriptions. The Breathe Hope app is meant to make resources for fighting anxiety and building hope free and accessible to anyone. Plus, no personal information is collected or stored.

How the App Works:

• Set up in seconds: Choose your session length and pick a background. Then use one breath to give the app your baseline breathing rate. No complex settings, just an immersive, simple interface that adapts to you and helps calm your body, mind, and heart.

• Let the app guide you: An animation moves naturally to guide your breaths in and out. You’ll gradually move to an ideal breathing rate as the session progresses while Bible verses give you promises, hope, and truth to center your heart.

• Reflect and meditate: After a session, you have a chance to review the verses that appeared while you were breathing. These are powerful promises and truths to help you continue to displace anxious thoughts and find peace and hope for your day.

Additional Features:

• 15 immersive visuals to choose from.
• Haptic feedback options to help guide breathing.
• Ambient sounds to increase focus and calm.
• Customizable reminders to easily schedule breathing sessions throughout your day.
• High contrast mode for accessibility.

Common questions:

• What is “adaptive resonant breathing?” Multiple scientific studies show that breathing techniques can lower anxiety and stress. While there are different breathing techniques available, resonant breathing is simple to follow and designed to activate your body’s natural calm response by synchronizing your breath rate to your heart rate variability.

Since anxiety typically increases breathing rates significantly, it can be a frustrating experience to try to match a slow guided breathing rate. The app calibrates to the user’s current breathing rate so each session begins at a pace the user feels comfortable with. As the session progresses, the app eases the user to an ideal resonant breathing rate.

• How long and how often should I do breathing sessions? The app is designed to be usable while anxiety is high or during a relaxed state. Studies show that 10 to 20 minutes of breathing exercises per day can significantly reduce anxiety and stress levels. So, schedule time for breathing sessions or use the app to help you find calm based on what you need.

Breathe Hope is a resource provided by helloHOPE a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.