The breathing app that finds you before you react

Before you react. Breathe first.

Breathfirst puts one guided minute between what happens and what you do next. One tap from your Lock Screen or Control Center starts it, and on iPhone it can even catch you opening Instagram on autopilot.

Download free for iPhone Try a 30-second pause

Also on Android. Calm waits for you to open it. Breathfirst is already there when the message lands.

Pip exhales one long, slow breath that wraps around a buzzing phone and softens the angry message on it.

One minute.
Start to finish.

No app to remember, no menu to pick from. The pause starts where the moment happens.

  1. Something happens

    A message lands. Your thumb is already typing.

  2. One tap

    Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action Button.

  3. Breathe with Pip

    Two quick breaths in, one long breath out. Eyes closed if you like.

  4. You choose what's next

    Still annoyed? That's fine. You just got to choose.

Every app wants your next minute. This one gives it back.

Four moments.
A breath made for each.

The difference

It finds you.

Nobody opens a breathing app mid-argument. So Breathfirst waits where your thumb already goes, and starts breathing in under two seconds.

A phone lying on a desk shows Pip breathing in, with soft ripples around it.

Haptic breathing

You can do this one with your eyes closed.

Put the phone down, or keep it in your hand. You'll feel the rhythm, tuned to be like breathing next to someone calm.

A rising hum
as you breathe in
A falling hum
as you let it go
Two soft taps
when you're done

The breathing

Slow exhales help your body settle.

Three patterns used in breathing research. No breath holds, nothing fast.

Cyclic sighing: Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine, 2023. Read the sources

Try 30 seconds. Right here.

No download. Turn your sound on if you like. Or send one to someone who could use a minute.

“Want to take a minute together?”

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