Features
Everything ATHA does, all of it free
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account. Here is what’s inside version 2.1, and a short list of things it deliberately doesn’t do.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera to open the App Store.
Practice
Start breathing in one or two taps
10 guided breathing patterns
Box, 4-7-8, Coherence (5-5), Extended Exhale (4-6), Slow Breathing (6-8) and five more, each with exact timings. See them all →
Pick your moment
Tap Breathe now, check in with how you feel (Calm, Stressed, Tired, Anxious, Unfocused, Overwhelmed, Happy) or choose a moment like Before a meeting, Before sleep or After a hard day.
“I need a moment”
A 3-second settle-in, then a short guided breath. Nothing to choose.
Eyes-closed and Minimal views
Eyes closed dims the screen while haptic taps, and optional voice cues or phase tones, carry the rhythm. The screen stays on while a breath is guided. Minimal view keeps just the visual, the instruction and the time.
Create your own pattern
Set inhale, hold, exhale and hold-out; any phase can be 0. Name it, save it and run it for 1 to 60 minutes.
10 ambient visuals
Aura, Orb, Box, Glow, Ripple, Wave, Liquid, Aurora, Flower and Particles, all moving with the same breath.
Haptics and sound
Haptics in three strengths (or off), an optional soft tone at each phase (Full Guided Mode: Chime, Marimba, Bowl, Drop or Pulse) and a choice of completion sounds.
Spoken voice cues
A short cue at each phase, in 7 languages with 5 voices: Calm, Deep, Soft, Warm and Whisper.
Ambient sounds
Forest, Ocean, Rain, Fairy Night or Tone behind your breath.
Fairy Forest sleep session
The breath slows from six to four a minute, guidance fades and the screen darkens.
Forest Paths programs
7-Day Anxiety Reset, Sleep Better in 14 Days and 5-Day Clear Mind. Wellness exercises, not treatment.
SOS
A button on Home, a widget and a “Calm Down Now” shortcut start a two-minute calming breath with no choices to make.
Routines and reminders
Pick a practice, a time and the days. A quiet local reminder brings you back.
Daily Breath
One suggested practice each day, so there is nothing to decide in the morning.
Progress
See it add up, without a scoreboard
The Garden
Your minutes grow a scene from seed to sprout, plant, tree, garden and forest, with an estimate of the air you’ve breathed. A metaphor, not a claim.
Gentle streaks
Streak freezes cover a missed day. If a streak ends: “A new streak can begin today. One minute is enough.”
Insights and recaps
Mindful minutes, sessions, active days, streaks and completion rate over 7 days to all time, plus weekly and monthly recaps.
What works for you
After a few sessions, ATHA shows which practices you rated as helping most, and your best time and length. Worked out on your phone from your own ratings.
Goals and milestones
Daily and weekly minute goals kept separate from your streak, and quiet milestones from ten minutes to one hundred hours.
Share card
Square or Story format with minutes, sessions and streak only. Your moods and notes stay on your phone.
Apple platform
Made for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Apple Watch
Haptic guidance that keeps running with your wrist down; sessions sync back to your iPhone history. watchOS 10.6 or later.
Widgets and Live Activity
Quick Breath, Streak, Daily Progress, Check In and SOS widgets. Sessions of 3 minutes or more show on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Widgets and the Live Activity need iOS 26.1 or later.
Siri and Shortcuts
“Breathe now with ATHA”, “Quick reset with ATHA”, “Start my daily breath in ATHA”, or a Shortcut with your chosen practice and length.
Apple Health, optional
Save sessions as Mindful Minutes and share reflections as State of Mind. Write-only: ATHA reads nothing. Set it up →
Themes and appearance
Eight themes (ATHA, Ocean, Sunset, Forest, Lavender, Midnight, Aurora, Sand) with System, Light or Dark appearance.
Accessibility
VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support. Haptic taps, plus optional voice cues or tones, make every session work without looking.
Seven languages
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Turkish, switchable inside the app.
Pricing
What it costs: nothing
There is no paid tier to compare against. Everything above is in the free download.
| Capability | Included |
|---|---|
| All 10 breathing patterns and custom patterns | ● |
| Voice cues, ambient sounds, Sleep, programs and SOS | ● |
| Every visual, theme and sound | ● |
| Routines, reminders and Daily Breath | ● |
| Streak freezes, goals and the Garden | ● |
| Full history, insights and recaps | ● |
| Apple Health, widgets, Watch and Siri | ● |
| Subscription or in-app purchase | — |
| Ads | — |
| Account required | — |
If that ever changes, it will be announced on this page before the update that changes it. Questions: Support.
By design
What ATHA deliberately doesn’t do
These are decisions, not missing features.
No account, no server, no analyticsThe app makes no network requests and contains no analytics or advertising SDKs. Apple’s privacy label for ATHA reads “Data Not Collected”.
No adsNot on the home screen, not between sessions, not on the completion screen.
No paywall in the middle of a breathNothing is locked, so you won’t open ATHA in a difficult moment and find what you need behind a purchase.
No medical claimsATHA does not diagnose, treat or cure anything. It guides breathing and records what you choose to record.
No guilt mechanicsReminders are gentle and optional. The streak reminder can be switched off in Settings › Notifications, and streak freezes and “begin again” make a missed day painless.
What it does insteadOpens fast, starts in one or two taps, keeps the count and gets out of the way. See the breathing techniques →
Questions
Quick answers
Is ATHA free?
Yes, entirely. There is no subscription and no in-app purchase. Every pattern, visual, theme, sound, routine, insight and integration (Apple Health, widgets, Apple Watch, Siri) is included, with no ads and no account.
Does ATHA need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no ATHA server. Your sessions, reflections, streaks and settings are stored on your device, and the app makes no network requests.
Does ATHA work on Apple Watch?
Yes. ATHA includes an Apple Watch app (watchOS 10.6 or later) with haptic breathing guidance, plus Home and Lock Screen widgets, a Live Activity (both need iOS 26.1 or later) and Siri shortcuts to start a session without opening the app.
Is ATHA available on iPad?
Yes. ATHA is one free download for iPhone and iPad, on iOS 18.6 or later.
Where to start
Pick a problem, not a feature
ATHA means now.
Not when you’ve read every feature. Now.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera to open the App Store.