FAQ

A browser page that paces your breath with a growing and settling bubble. You choose a pattern, a length, optional voice cues, optional sound, and an on-screen atmosphere. Then you follow the bubble — or ignore the labels and just breathe with the scale of it.

No. It is a timer and a visual companion. We do not assess you, store a clinical history, or claim outcomes. If a clinician has given you a breathing plan, this can be a metronome for that plan. It is not the plan, and it is not care.

Anyone who wants a simple paced-breathing object on a phone or desktop. It is built for ordinary relaxation and for paying a little more attention to the next minute. It is not designed for emergency use, for unsupervised breath-hold training, or for people who have been told to avoid this kind of exercise.

Different nervous systems like different rooms. A still gradient can feel like rest. A busier field — rain, sparks, drifting space, loud colour — can give the eyes a job. While vision stays occupied with slow motion, the breath pattern can sit in the background instead of being stared at.

That is a design idea about attention and comfort, not a scientific treatment. Use the quiet themes if the loud ones wind you up. That is a valid way to use the tool.

It tucks the menus away so you can sit with the bubble and the background only. Tap Show UI (or the screen, on the hidden overlay) when you want the controls back. Phase and count stay visible so you are not guessing the breath.

Pick Calm or Energised, or set custom inhale / exhale / hold times. Choose a session length or leave it indefinite. Press Start. On a phone, the first tap also unlocks sound — browsers block audio until you touch the page.

For the short nasal program, keep the mouth closed and stay with the nose. For most other sessions, use whatever lets the breath move without strain. An open mouth is fine during a practice. Everyday life is a different question; we are not telling you how to breathe at the shops.

Each heart is a session you finished since this tab opened. They reset when you close it. They are a small tally for the visit, not a score and not a streak you can fail.

Mobile browsers refuse unmuted audio until there is a gesture. Scroll or tap once. After that, music, sound beds, and voice cues can play. You can mute any of them from the menus.

Stop if you feel dizzy, tingling in a way that worries you, chest pain, panic rising, or anything you would not want to keep doing. Sit or lie down before you start long holds. Breathe normally afterward. Do not practice in water, while driving, or anywhere a faint would be dangerous.

Talk to a clinician first if you are pregnant, have heart or lung disease, uncontrolled blood pressure, a history of fainting, seizures, or panic attacks that have been linked to breathing work, or if a doctor has limited how you should breathe or hold your breath. The Charge-style rounds and long holds are optional. You can live entirely in the calmer presets.

No health profile is created. Session hearts live in the page for this visit only. See the Privacy page for cookies, analytics, and advertising notes on the live site.

The tool on this site is free to use. If the page ever shows ads or a tip link, they are how the lights stay on — they are not part of the practice.

Yes, as a public web tool, as long as you do not present it as a medical device or as our endorsement of a treatment. Credit the name if you put it on a projector. You are responsible for the people in the room.

About is the longer version of the idea. The app is the practice. If something on the page is broken, that is a software problem, not a reflection of how you are breathing.