Paced Breathing app

An app to help you improve your breathing.
Paced Breathing By Trex LLC
Features
  • Custom breathing profiles
  • Adjustable session times
  • Audio, visual and haptic (vibrate) cues 

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Country of origin USA
Clinical review 

  


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Security and privacy Does the app:
  • collect medical information? No
  • require a login? No
  • have password protection? No
  • have a privacy policy? No
  • require internet access? No
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Cost Free
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What does the app do?

Paced Breathing allows the user to focus on timed deep breathing exercises. Users simply set their inhale, exhale, and hold times to whatever they want, and the app will give cues for when to start inhaling and exhaling. There is a simple graphic wave length guiding your breathing, or you can simply follow the different sounds. You can set up different profiles to use for different activities or for different family/whānau members. There is an option to have a voice instructing you to breathe in or out, and also to ramp up or change the rate of your breathing over the set time of your breathing exercises. This should not be used by someone who is acutely unwell or short of breath without instruction. 

For the complete app description, go to Google Play(external link) or, for a more detailed review, see Reviews.

PROS CONS 

✔ Simple design, easy to use.

✔ Allows users to create a profile to save their settings. i.e. meditation breath times vs relaxation. 

✔ Session can be timed and have a change to the rate using the ‘ramp function’. 

✘ No diary on how you managed.

✘ No feedback if you are actually breathing to the rate set.

✘ Ads unless you purchase an in app purchase. 

Review details

Date of review: January 2022
Platform reviewed: Android
Version: 2.1 

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Credits: Healthify Editorial Team

Reviewed by: Victoria Lai, Advanced Clinician ICU (Physiotherapist), PNZ Cardiorespiratory Special Interest Group; WDHB

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