Breathing Zone: Breathwork

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   You took away resonance breathing. So I will look for a new app. Please reinstate.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Poor design. This app has potential but it’s so poorly designed you can barely see the line indicating when to breathe in and out. What’s the point of the app except to be a guide? If I’m still having to count in my head the app is pointless.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Czas. Czas w sekundach się nie zgadza

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Freezes. This app now freezes after 2 breaths.. unusable

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Doesn’t work. Just get a blank screen.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Faulty App. This app doesn’t follow the settings of your choice. I chose to have the breath the same length in and out. It does 5 seconds in, 8 seconds out. Then it switches to something else. Can’t get in a rhythm if it won’t do what I set it to do. I sent an email for help. ZERO RESPONSE. No customer service. This app is garbage.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Pointless! Waste of $4. Spent money on this app so I could customize the breaths per minute. However it’s completely useless when the 5.5bpm and the 9.0bpm or the exact same pace! Save your money and stay away!!!

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Bought app and now I can’t get it to open on my iPhone XS. Please advise me on how to get it to open.

9. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

   was great, new update ruined.. this was a favorite app that i recommended to many many people. the new update is a disaster. cumbersome, annoying text on the screen that you can’t get rid of, a distracting white line on the side. unbelievable!

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Annoying app keeps asking for reviews. If your stinking app is good you don’t have to pest people for a review

11. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    Was perfect, but 12/2017 update ruined it. This app WAS beautifully relaxing. It was perfect. But since the late 2017 update it is just awful. It has static clicks. The breaking rate, no matter how I set it, is inconsistent. The most important settings are gone. It's impossible to relax while listening to the current version. I'm just brokenhearted.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Stop removing features. I used to be able to set the breathing rate at the start, now I can only set the end rate. Also swiping up and down to change the rate isn’t helpful since that’s also the only way to see the rate. This app is just too unintuitive and frustrating to continue using.

13. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    Was Excellent. Now Not So Much.. Do not get this app. I used to love this app, but the update ruined it. One of my favorite apps went from 5 stars to 1. Bring back the old version!

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bring back the older version. I would gladly trade pretty new graphics (I close my eyes when using this app anyhow) for the old functions of starting vs. ending breath, rates in between rounded numbers (i.e. 2.3) and rates below 2.0. I’m glad I have an old iPad that can’t update or that I haven’t updated to the “improved” version.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great product made terrible. This was a fantastic app that I used all the time. Then, around December 20 or so, the makers released a new version that took away all of the functions that made the product so excellent. I am stunned and frustrated. They turned a gem into garbage. Avoid this new version!

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Formerly my fave app. 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.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    .. Not at all what I expected. The analyzer could barely distinguish between inhale and exhale coming up with a wide range between attempts. Basically no adjustments for timing, pauses or breath holds. Simple breath in breath out with slowing rate. I'm sorry to have wasted my time and money.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not happy at all. There are not many settings or changes one can take. There are shortcuts they don't tell me anything. I wanted to have a 4-4-4 cound. 4 sec breath in, 4 sec hold, and 4 sec out...but the app totally misses the point of keeping the air in the lung. It is just breath in and out. A wast of my money and the interface looks also pretty poor. I go back to counting in my head and delete the app

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Why did I pay for this!?. But it IS funny I paid some app developer to tell me to breathe - joke's on me, I guess!

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Breathing app, hahaha. Terrible app. Don't waste your money or time. What a gimmick if I ever saw one.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Learn how to breathe?. The following is a complete description of what the app does: you press a play button, and a voice says "breathe in... breathe out..." over and over while a piano note is struck and a colorful circle gets larger and smaller. I can see this app being useful for people who never learned how to breathe. For those of us who learned to do so at birth, it's a waste of time.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Unfortunate Update. The latest update adds a distracting hum to the background of every sound, severely damaging usability. I completely agree with the review below: This app was great when there was nothing but silence behind the sounds, but now I may actually pursue a refund. An addition like this should have been made optional, able to be turned on or off as desired by the user.

23. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Can't change breath rate. - The app has some cheese sound effects. Needs nicer sounds. - graphics are nice. - Changing the breath rate in settings or while using the app does not work. It keeps flipping back to a super slow setting. - Don't buy until this is fixed.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    BB. NO ME GUSTO!!! NO LIKE ME.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No sound. What a waste of my money!!! No sound and no help guide. Beware and do not download it does not work as stated.

26. ★★★★★support does not respond or resolve the issue

    Could be good but... No sound and no response from my email sent to them asking for help

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Help. Can't get any sound!

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Worst app ever. Many Better Options. "Breathing" is the worst app I've ever purchased. Annoying & poor synthesizer sounds and vocal. Not at all helpful for slowing respiration rate or relaxation of body/mind. Buy (on iTunes) Emmett Miller MD's & Steve Halpern's (1982) long proven & medically recommended recording of various progressive deep breathing techniques w/ additional body / mind relaxation guided therapies with quality music & sound background...especially the tracks: Autogenic & Trip To The Beach.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Waste of money. The app has no introduction or help on what settings I should use. No help at all that I could find. Following along with the default settings made me feel lightheaded and I stopped when I felt like I would pass out.

30. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Failure. I need more instructions please. What are the goal need to be? Do I need the breath analyzer and at what point in the process. The web site does not explain anything. Waste of my money.