stillpoint - Breathing & Sleep

Free to download. The 4-7-8 technique can help you fall asleep in minutes. One price unlocks 16 breathing techniques, 8 guided routines, and 5 themes. No subscription.

A breathing app that feels like a deep breath looks. Fifteen techniques across five categories. Eight guided routines that sequence them together. Five visualizations that move with your breath. Core breathing is always free. stillpoint helps you fall asleep faster, quiet a racing mind, and reset during stressful days. Open the app, pick a pattern, breathe.

WHAT'S INSIDE Breaths Fifteen breathing protocols across five categories, each matched to a specific moment: Sleep & Deep Rest — 4-7-8, slow nasal breathing, extended exhale. Long exhales that wind your body down for sleep. Calm & Regulate — physiological sigh, resonance breathing, humming breath. The fastest ways to bring stress down in real time. Recovery & Performance — resonance and nasal breathing patterns that build long-term heart rate variability and recovery. Energy & Focus — box breathing, bellows breath, breath of fire, and more. Sharpens attention without caffeine. Digestion & Gut — diaphragmatic and slow breathing patterns that support digestion after meals. Custom patterns. Set your own inhale, exhale, and hold times.

Routines Eight guided sessions that move through multiple techniques in sequence. Pick a goal, press start, and the app walks you through each step. Sleep Onset (5 min) — Slow nasal breathing into 4-7-8. For when you need to fall asleep. Stillpoint Reset (3 min) — A physiological sigh into extended exhale. Three minutes to come back down. Find Your Focus (4 min) — Box breathing into resonance. Before deep work or a hard conversation. Elevate HRV (10 min) — Ten minutes of resonance breathing. The long game for stress resilience. Plus Boost Energy, Spark Digestion, Cool Down, and Deep Balance. Custom routines. Build your own sequences from any of the 15 techniques.

Visualizations Five ways to watch your breath: Solid Orb — a soft sphere that breathes with you Enso Circle — inspired by Japanese calligraphy Concentric Rings — expanding and contracting in rhythm Waveform — a rolling wave that follows your pace Dot Matrix — a grid of light that pulses with each breath Pick the one that helps you focus. Or close your eyes and let haptic pulses guide you instead.

Themes Five visual themes: Fog, Dusk, Warm Stone, Sage, and Kuro.

Your Practice A monthly calendar that shows your sessions at a glance. Gentle streaks that encourage without pressuring. A feeling check after every breath so you can see what's working.

Reminders Set quiet nudges for morning, evening, or whenever you need them. Not the "you're falling behind" kind.

Apple Health Syncs mindful minutes automatically.

NO SUBSCRIPTION Other breathing apps charge $50–70 per year. stillpoint's core breathing is free. When you're ready, one purchase gives you every technique, every routine, every visualization, every theme, and every future update. No recurring charges. No trial that quietly starts billing you. There's nothing calm about a subscription.

WHY STILLPOINT Built for people who want a quiet tool, not a lifestyle platform. No 47-step onboarding. No content library you'll never finish. No streak counters that make you feel guilty for missing a day. Just open the app, pick a pattern, and breathe. Every technique selected and sequenced with a trained yoga teacher and public health professional. Designed with Japandi-inspired aesthetics — Japanese minimalism meets Scandinavian warmth. Every element earns its place.