Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises

Used Breathwrk for 3 years. Back then was an amazing easy to use app with a nice looking interface. With this update you successfully turned it into a confusing not user friendly app with a beautiful dark layout enough to give your users major depressive disorders. And if it wasnt enough now we get bombarded with popups forcing us to buy memberships. Was good while it lasted.

They removed it in the new version. Unfortunate

I’ve just resubscribed but the app does not seem to work fully. It was a very good app but now I find it extremely frustrating. Do not recommend.

The app frequently freezes during a session on the exhale. Infuriating when you're trying to do a relaxing breathwork session. Bugs like this are unacceptable in core functionality especially when the app is so expensive: I purchased an annual subscription on a Black Friday sale for $69.99 CAD. I cannot recommend this. Also check out the version history. Update notes are frequently repeated with the same copy verbatim. It does not seem much care or attention is being put into this app.

It freezes just before or right at the end of each breath exercise. It worked for a week or so after the update but has been freezing since then every time I use it. have tried: restoring purchase, renewing paid subscription, deleting app and reinstalling. Continues happening. I will re-download when the issues have been resolved thanks! It is a great app when it works 😊

i used to use this app daily about a year ago and it was so helpful for my anxiety, sleep, etc. now everything was updated and most of the exercises require a membership. i wish the developers could focus more on helping people rather than profit.

PLEASE bring back the old interface with the colours and clear categories. The new black and gray interface with random emojis sprinkled in makes me extremely anxious and I used to love this app, it was my saving grace and I have pro. Now I have to do minutes instead of breaths for my daily goal, I can’t add a profile picture, the Candle exercise is gone and the graphics along with it, and I can’t set favourite exercises anymore. I am so upset. I knew I shouldn’t have updated my app.

I just wanted to do some box breathing for my shift that’s in 9 minutes, and I end up with these obnoxious “give us all your information” screens. Logging in with with iOS does not work. Utter garbage.

The screen freezes on Explore and I can’t access anything; can’t even shut it off or go back to the 5 minute window. It is not functional. This never happened on the original version.

Update: Breathwrk still has great exercises, bit the revamp still has all the annoying canned encouragement that tries to be warm, all the stupid in your face metrics, but has made it tricky to find the exercise instructions. So annoying. Breathwrk deserves a 5/5 review, and think these changes would do it for me: 1- A more austere, just the exercises experience of the app 2- Goal oriented progressive programs, similar to a training routine at the gym. The main attraction, the breathing techniques are great. I don’t have long Covid, but came to breathing work after hearing about the hope it was giving people with LC. If it was not for the strength of the content, my rating would be 2 out of 5. For me, personally, the gamefying of the app does nothing for me. The badges, the pop-ups at the end of an exercise, the streaks, advertising that John 1000s of KM away is also using the app. . . I find these features cloying and can’t skip them fast enough. I probably don’t use the app as much because these features. Second wish: I would be interest in more progressive goal based programs, similar to what you might find at the gym. For example, a program that is intended to develop x overf 6 weeks. Maybe these programs are there, andI have not found them yet. However, the app seems a bit too self directed. This might sound like I am talking out of both sides of my mouth, but to me, the current approach is disorganized and is based on “rewards” that bug me. The other is more organized, and something I can select b/c ot pertains to a performance goal that is of interest to me.