About ATHA
ATHA means now
Not tomorrow. Not when work calms down. Not once you’ve built the perfect routine. The app is named after the only moment a breath can actually happen.
Why
Most wellbeing apps ask for too much
They want a twenty-minute session, a course to complete, a streak to defend, a profile to fill in, and an account before you’ve even seen what’s inside. On a good day that’s fine. On the day you actually need it (three in the morning, between two meetings, after a conversation that didn’t go well) it’s far too much friction, and the app stays closed.
ATHA was built around the opposite assumption: the best practice is the one short enough that you still do it on your worst day. Sixty seconds counts. One or two taps to start. Nothing to set up, nothing to finish, nothing to lose if you skip a week.
Everything else follows from that. Eyes-closed mode exists for the moments you can’t, or don’t want to, look at a screen. The haptics exist so a session works with your eyes shut. The Garden grows rather than scores, because a number that goes down when you miss a day is a reason to avoid opening the app, not a reason to breathe.
Principles
Four decisions that shaped everything
Short beats thoroughA minute you actually do is worth more than twenty minutes you plan. Every screen is designed to get out of the way.
Calm is a design constraint, not a themeNo red badges, no urgency, no dashboard of numbers demanding interpretation. If a screen raises your heart rate, it has failed at its job.
Your practice is yoursNo account, no server, no analytics: the app makes no network requests, and Apple’s privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”. Privacy is built into how ATHA works: there is no server for your data to go to.
Honest about what breathing isATHA guides breathing. It does not diagnose, treat or cure anything, and it will never imply otherwise to win a download.
Who
Built by one person
ATHA is designed, coded, tested, written and supported by Gül Eda Aydemir, an independent iOS developer (“Gul Eda Aydemir” on the App Store). There is no team, no investor and no growth department deciding which dark pattern to test this quarter.
That has real trade-offs. Features arrive slowly, and some things you’d expect from a large app aren’t there yet. But every decision in ATHA was made by someone who has to live with it, and the person who wrote the code is the person who reads your support email.
ATHA is one of five iOS apps by the same developer; the others are listed at the bottom of every page and on the More apps by Gül Eda page.
Money
ATHA is free
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No advertising. No data collected, so none to sell. There is no paid tier that the free version is quietly a demo of.
This matters more than it sounds. An app funded by advertising needs your attention, so it is built to hold you. An app funded by data needs your behaviour, so it is built to record you. ATHA has neither pressure, which is why nothing in it is designed to keep you there longer than the breath takes.
If that ever changes, it will be stated plainly on the features page before the update that changes it.
Inside
What’s actually in it
10 breathing patterns
Box, 4-7-8, Coherence, Extended Exhale and more, plus your own custom patterns.
Eyes-closed mode
The screen dims; haptic taps and optional soft tones carry the rhythm.
Pick your moment
Before a meeting, before sleep, after a hard day: ATHA picks the breath.
The Garden
Your minutes grow a scene from seed to forest. Streak freezes forgive a missed day.
Insights from your own ratings
See which practices help you most, worked out on your phone.
Watch, widgets, Siri, Health
Haptics on your wrist, Lock Screen widgets (iOS 26.1+), “Breathe now with ATHA” and optional Mindful Minutes.
Writing
Guides, written for the moment you need them
Free to read, no app required.
Questions
Things people ask
What does ATHA mean?
Now. The app is named after the only moment a breathing practice can actually happen: not tomorrow, not once things calm down.
Who makes ATHA?
Gül Eda Aydemir, an independent iOS developer. No team, no investors, no growth department. The person who writes the code answers the support email.
Is ATHA really free?
Yes. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, and no data collected. Nothing is locked behind a payment, which also means nothing in it is designed to keep you there longer than the breath takes.
Can I suggest a feature?
Yes, and it gets read by the person who would build it. Email the idea. The most useful ones describe the moment you were in, not the feature you want.
Which languages is ATHA available in?
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Turkish, changeable inside the app.
Where can I read the legal detail?
The Privacy Policy covers data (in short: ATHA collects none), and the Terms of Use cover the licence and the health disclaimer.
ATHA means now.
You’ve read enough about it. One breath is a better introduction.
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