Breath

A contemplative app for Android, iPhone and the web

Spend a breath on someone you love.

Breath keeps a quiet count of the breaths left in your day. Hold a name, and one of them goes to someone you’re thinking of. No messages. No reply expected.

Free · No ads · No tracking · Google Play coming soon

Your day, live: each dot is a quarter hour. Each time the circle breathes out, one breath is gone — about fifteen a minute, a resting pace.

For today

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

Popularly attributed to the Buddha; from Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book (1994)
Read the idea behind Breath →

Every being is born with a fixed number of breaths.

An old yogic teaching counts a life not in years, but in breaths, and Buddhist practice returns to the breath as the most present thing we have. To notice one passing is to notice a little of a life passing with it. Breath borrows that attention, gently.

Read the idea behind Breath →

How it works

Say it without saying anything.

The invite screen with a six-letter invite code and a Share invite link button.
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Invite your people

Share a link over WhatsApp or anywhere. When they open it, you’re connected. No phone numbers, no contact uploads.

Holding a name: a ring fills around the person’s initial, with Keep holding underneath.
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Hold a name

A ring fills as you hold. Let go to cancel. Each gift costs one of your own breaths, which is what makes it sincere.

Receiving: Mom spent a breath on you, a few minutes ago. No reply needed.
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They simply know

They see that you spent a breath on them. They can just smile, or breathe one back. There is no thread to keep up.

Just a name

No email, phone number or password. Only the people you connect with can see you.

Quiet by design

No feeds, likes, streaks or ads. Nothing asks for your attention except the people you love.

Yours to control

Block anyone, and they won’t be told. Delete your account and everything with it, any time. Privacy policy

Today still has thousands of breaths in it.

Spend one well.

Download for Android Use it on iPhone or the web Free. Android 7 or newer, or any modern browser.