Guided breathing, box breathing, breath holds, Wim Hof… Here are 10 apps compared on verifiable facts: what they measure, what they cost, where they run and in which language.
Updated October 26, 2026 · every fact is taken from the app's official listing or website, source linked.
Which one to pick, depending on what you need
Measure your breathing and follow a path set to your level, in English or French: BreathLife (the only one in this list that turns its test into a breathing age, based on the listings and websites checked).
The biggest library of exercises and classes: Breathwrk.
Longer music-led sessions: Othership.
Lots of measurements and settings, on Android: Prana Breath.
On Apple Watch: One Deep Breath, iBreathe or Breathing Zone.
No subscription: Breathing Zone (free) or iBreathe (one-time purchase).
Meditation and sleep first: Calm or Headspace.
At a glance
App
Breath test
Session without installing
In French
Free trial
Yearly
Platforms
BreathLifeOur app
Yes: breathing age
Yes (after the test, free account)
7 days
$39.99
iOS · Android · Web
Breathwrk
Yes: lung score, exhale tests
not found
7 days
$49–69 (site, 2 prices)
iOS · Android
Othership
Yes: benchmark breathing tests
not found
14 days (yearly), 7 (monthly)
$99.99–129.99
iOS · Android
Prana Breath
Yes: 10 measurements, incl. breath hold
not found
not found
not found
not found
Android
One Deep Breath
Breath-hold time tracking
not found
yes (length not stated)
$29.99–47.99
iOS · Android · Watch
Wim Hof Method
not found
not found
7 days (yearly)
$42.99
iOS · Android · Watch
iBreathe
not found
not found
n/a
one-time $3.99
iOS · Watch · Apple TV
Breathing Zone
not found
not found
n/a
free (ads)
iOS · Android · Watch
Calm
not found
Yes: one exercise at calm.com/breathe
not found
not found
iOS · Android · Web · Watch
Headspace
not found
not found
14 days (yearly), 7 (monthly)
$69.99
iOS · Android · Watch
1. BreathLife
Our app. It starts with a 60-second breath-hold test (after a normal exhale) that places you on 5 levels and turns the result into a breathing age, then a 28-day voice-guided path set to that level.
Strengths
Free test on the website, no install, then a first guided session in the browser
Breathing age and a weekly re-test to track your breath hold
English and French (voice and captions)
Good to know
· A young app: 4 ratings on the French App Store (5.0), none yet on the US App Store
· 10 exercises, fewer than the big libraries
· No Apple Watch app
A good pick if… you want to measure your breathing, know where to start and track your progress, in English or French.
On October 26, 2026, we checked each app's App Store listing (US and France), Google Play listing and official website: platforms, listed prices, free trial, ratings, listed languages, and whether there is a breath test, a session you can do in the browser, and a web purchase. Anything not visible on those sources is marked “not found”. We did not install competing apps: their in-app features may go beyond what their listings show.
Disclosure: this page is published by BreathLife, one of the apps compared. We have a stake in it, which is why every fact is dated and sourced, and every app's strengths are listed.
Measure your breathing before you choose
The BreathLife test is free and runs right here, in 60 seconds: your level out of 5 and your breathing age.
It depends on your goal: measuring and improving your breathing (BreathLife), a large library (Breathwrk), music-led sessions (Othership), a free app (Breathing Zone) or meditation and sleep (Calm, Headspace). The table above sums up the differences.
Yes: Breathing Zone is free (with ads), and iBreathe is a one-time purchase. With BreathLife, the test and your breathing age are free; the 28-day path comes with a 7-day trial.
According to the App Store Languages section on October 26, 2026, only BreathLife and Calm list French among the 10 apps compared here. Prana Breath mentions “more than 30 languages” on Google Play without naming French.