Guided breathing for iPhone

Calm anxiety
in 60 seconds.

Pick how you want to feel and follow the ring: breathe in while it fills, hold, let it go. A quiet voice and gentle haptics count every second for you, before a hard call, at night, or whenever your thoughts won't slow down.

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Free to start: one full session a day. No account. 31 languages.

Features

A quiet tool for loud moments

Four breathing practices and just enough around them to make each one easy to follow. No lectures, no feed, no account.

Four practices, by how you feel

Focus is box breathing, 4-4-4-4. Energize is 4-2-2. Unwind is the 4-7-8 breath for sleep. Balance is resonant breathing at 5-5, about six breaths a minute.

Short, standard or long

Every practice comes in three lengths. Focus runs 2, 3 or 6 minutes, and a short Unwind takes about one.

A quiet voice to follow

Spoken cues for every inhale, hold and exhale, in English or Russian. Close your eyes and listen, or switch the voice off.

Haptics you can breathe to

The phone swells in your hand on the inhale, beats softly like a heart on the holds and goes still on the exhale.

Ambient sound and a round bell

Two soundscapes to breathe over, Stillness and Crystal Piano, and a soft bell that marks the end of each round.

Keeps going with the screen locked

Lock the phone or put it face down. The session carries on, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island shows the phase and the seconds left.

Your own practices

Build a rhythm step by step, set the rounds, give it an icon and a colour. It sits on Home next to the built-in four. Part of Premium.

Progress and Apple Health

A day streak, your minutes and a month calendar. Every session can be saved to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes.

Two daily reminders

One for the morning, one for the evening, at the times you pick. Both are local notifications and free for everyone.

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Breathe with the ring

This is the rhythm Hale guides you through. Pick a practice and follow the circle for a few rounds: breathe in as it grows, hold while it rests, breathe out as it shrinks.

Focus

Sharpen attention and clarity

Box Breathing · 16 s per round

In the app the same ring comes with a spoken cue for every phase, a bell between rounds and haptics you can feel with your eyes closed, and it keeps going with the screen locked.

Focus practice screen: the Box Breathing rhythm as four 4-second groups of ticks, a 2, 3 or 6 minute length picker, and switches for voice guide, ambient sound and round bell

Every practice

Every second, counted

Each practice shows its rhythm as one tick per second, so 4-7-8 is literally four, seven and eight. Choose a length and the sound you want, then start.

Short, standard or long, with the rounds behind each option
Voice guide, ambient sound, round bell and haptics, each with its own switch
A three-second countdown before the first breath, tap to skip it
Pause and resume from the Lock Screen while the phone stays in your pocket

Premium

Build your own rhythm

Put inhale, hold and exhale steps in any order, set each one to the second and choose how many rounds. Hale shows the total length while you edit.

Any sequence of inhale, hold and exhale steps
Rounds, an icon and a colour of your choice
Saved under Your practices on Home, ready to start like the built-in four

Create practice screen: a custom Evening wind-down with a 4-second inhale and a 4-second exhale, 8 rounds for 1 minute 4 seconds, and rows of icons and colours to pick from

Progress

A month of practice at a glance

No scores and no badges. Just the days you showed up, coloured by the practice you chose, and how long you breathed.

Your day streak and your best one
Active days, minutes and sessions, month by month
Every session listed with its time and length
Saved to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes, if you allow it

Light and dark

Night violet or warm cream

Hale follows the system theme, or you pick light or dark in Settings. Sessions always run on the dark screen, so the ring stays easy on the eyes at night. The app language is yours to choose too, separately from the phone's.

The Hale home screen in the light theme: cream background, the week strip, Balance suggested for this evening and the four practice cards

FAQ

Questions, answered

Is Hale free?

Yes, to start. Every day you get one full session of any of the four practices; the count resets at midnight. Premium removes the limit and adds your own practices. It is a monthly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. The App Store shows the price in your currency.

Which practice should I start with?

Unwind (4-7-8) before sleep, Focus (box breathing) when your head is busy, Energize in the morning or before work, Balance whenever you need to settle. Home also suggests one for the time of day.

Does it keep working with the screen locked?

Yes. The voice, haptics and ambient sound carry on in the background, and you can pause or resume from the Lock Screen. The Live Activity shows the phase, the seconds left and the round.

Why does my music stop when a session starts?

Hale takes over the audio so the voice cues and the Lock Screen controls work, the same way other meditation apps do. If you want something underneath your breathing, switch on one of Hale's ambient soundscapes.

Does Hale save sessions to Apple Health?

If you allow it, every session is written to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes. A session you end early still counts once it has lasted a minute or half of its rounds.

Do I need an account? What do you collect?

No account, no email, no ads. Your session history is stored on your device and in your private iCloud. Hale sends anonymous usage stats through TelemetryDeck (for example, that a session started) to see which features matter. Details are in the privacy policy.

Which languages does Hale speak?

The app is translated into 31 languages, and you can pick one in Settings separately from your phone's language. The voice cues are in English and Russian.

Does it work on iPad?

Yes. Hale runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17.2 or later, and your history syncs between them through iCloud.

Is Hale a treatment for anxiety?

No. Hale is a breathing guide that helps you slow down in the moment. If anxiety, panic or sleep problems are getting in the way of your life, please talk to a doctor.

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