The best breathing app is the one you actually use consistently. Most paid breathing apps share a common failure mode: people download them enthusiastically, use them for a week, and then never open them again. The barrier of finding the app, opening it, and navigating menus creates just enough friction to kill the habit. A browser-based breathing timer eliminates this friction — bookmark it, tap, and breathe.
Breathwork Tools is a free, browser-based breathing timer that includes all the major breathing patterns: box breathing, 4-7-8, coherence, physiological sigh, extended exhale, triangle breathing, and more. It works on any device with a browser — phone, tablet, laptop, desktop — with no download, no account, and no subscription. Visual pacing, audio cues, and customizable duration are all included at zero cost.
The paid breathing app market charges $10-15/month for features that a well-designed free tool provides equally well. The breathing pattern is the same whether you pay for it or not — the value is in the practice, not the software. Save your money, bookmark this tool, and invest your energy in consistent daily practice rather than app-shopping.