Contact Breathing Zone Support

I used to love this app! I used it every day for mindfulness. The app was very simple and well designed. My favorite feature was that it would automatically adjust the breathing rate down as you used it. That is no longer this app, and I really really regret updating it. It seems now to be focused on gamification/metrics and no longer focused on mindfulness. These features that are designed to get the user more engaged with the app and spend more time in the app completely defeat the entire purpose of downloading it. I recommended this app to many friends/family/colleagues/etc, and it is very unfortunate that the app has taken this step backward in functionality. Another example of this is the fact that the transitions between breathing rates now sound much rougher and unpleasant than before. Really really baffled with this one. Will keep an eye on the comments to see if anyone has another app to recommend - a functional clone of the old Breathing Zone would be ideal! I’m rating it 1 star because a previously extremely useful app has fallen victim to app trends that do nothing for the end user. I appreciate the beautiful new animations, but all the other additions (and the extremely baffling removal of good features) are pretty frustrating. I miss the simplicity of BZ.

I’m not happy with the update. At first, I was excited by the additional sound options, but they weren’t what I expected. My biggest complaint is that the breathing rhythm has changed. The breath in is now quick with a very slow breath out. Previously the breath in was equal in length to the breath out, the way I learned from “The Healing Power of the Breath.” There are many styles of breathing for health and mindfulness. It would be nice to have the option to choose the rhythm of breaths in and out.

I like that it is a breathing app, not a “guided meditation “ app. I like the 4 7 8 setting a *lot*! I like that I can turn all audio feedback off and just let it quietly tap my wrist on Apple Watch. Last thing it needs is to sync with iPhone app and Health app. The watch is trying to sync, and returns a message that I need to allow sync with Health app, but there is no option to allow sync, either in iPhone BZ or in Health app. My sessions are not recognized in either iPhone app and both BZ and Health say I have completed no minutes.