How can we help you breathe easier?

iPhone and iPad with iOS 18.6 or later, and Apple Watch with watchOS 10.6 or later. Widgets and the Live Activity need iOS 26.1 or later. ATHA is a free download from the App Store. It is not verified for Mac.

Open ATHA and tap Breathe now. Or tap the check-in to say how you feel, or choose a moment such as Before a meeting or Before sleep, and ATHA picks the breath. You can also browse every pattern in Explore.

ATHA is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Turkish. Open Settings in ATHA and choose Language; you can follow the system language or pick one for the app only.

1. Open ATHA’s Settings.
2. Go to Apple Health.
3. Turn on Save sessions to write completed sessions as Mindful Minutes.
4. Turn on Share reflections if you want reflections written as State of Mind.
5. Approve the permissions in the iOS sheet.

When permission is granted, the status shows Connected.

Check that at least one Health option is on in ATHA and that iOS permission was granted. If you denied permission before, turning the switch on again may not show a new prompt; change it in the Health app under Sharing › Apps.

When enabled, ATHA writes completed session time as Mindful Minutes and, if you choose, reflections as State of Mind. ATHA does not read any Health data.

Yes. Health is optional. Breathing, custom patterns, routines, the Garden and insights all work without it.

Yes. During a session, tap the eye button until you reach Eyes closed: the screen dims and haptic taps (plus a spoken cue or soft tone, if you turn one on) carry the rhythm. Keep haptics, voice cues or tones switched on, otherwise there is nothing to follow. The screen stays on while a breath is guided, so the cues keep going. iOS runs no haptics in the background, so the taps stop if you lock your iPhone yourself; Apple Watch keeps going with your wrist down. Sound still plays with the Ring/Silent switch on silent. Minimal view keeps only the visual, the instruction and the time.

Yes. Open ATHA’s Settings › Sound & voice and turn on Guided Voice: a short spoken cue marks each phase, in 7 languages with 5 voices (Calm, Deep, Soft, Warm, Whisper). Ambient sounds (Forest, Ocean, Rain, Fairy Night, Tone) are there too. Prefer no words? Turn on Full Guided Mode (“a sound marks every step of the breath”) and pick Chime, Marimba, Bowl, Drop or Pulse. Haptic strength (Off, Light, Medium or Strong) is also in Settings.

Open Explore and choose Create your own. Name the pattern, then set Inhale, Hold in, Exhale and Hold out. Holds can be 0, but a pattern needs an inhale and an exhale. Sessions can be 1 to 60 minutes.

A routine brings you back to a practice at a set time. Create one, choose the practice, time, days and length, and turn on the reminder if you want a notification.

• Check that ATHA has notification permission in iOS Settings.
• Check that the reminder or routine is switched on in ATHA.
• Check the time and your Focus settings.
• After a time-zone change, open ATHA once so reminders can reschedule.

Once notifications are allowed, ATHA sends a gentle streak reminder by default. Turn it off in ATHA’s Settings › Notifications.

Sessions shorter than 60 seconds are not added to your stats, so a mis-tap doesn’t count as practice.

Open ATHA on your iPhone once while your Watch is nearby. Your favourites (up to five), today’s Daily Breath and I need a moment then sync to the Watch; until that first sync it offers Quick Reset, Coherence and Box Breathing. To see a practice on your wrist, mark it as a favourite on your iPhone. Watch sessions run at the practice’s default length and are sent back to your iPhone history.

Quick Breath, Streak, Daily Progress, Check In (“How are you feeling?”) and SOS. Long-press the Home or Lock Screen, tap Edit or Customize, and add ATHA. Widgets need iOS 26.1 or later (the app itself runs on iOS 18.6).

“Breathe now with ATHA”, “Quick reset with ATHA”, “Start my daily breath in ATHA” or “Start a breathing session in ATHA”. You can also add these as Shortcuts.

Yes, on iOS 26.1 or later. Sessions of 3 minutes or more can show as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Mindful minutes, sessions, active days, current and longest streak, average session and completion rate, over 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, 1 year or all time, with a calendar, weekly and monthly recaps and your favourite practices.

It comes from your own ratings after sessions, for example how often you felt better after a practice. It is calculated on your phone and is a personal pattern, not a medical measurement.

Personal insights appear after at least 5 sessions, and time-of-day insights after at least 10, so ATHA doesn’t draw conclusions from one or two sessions.

A visual way to see your practice add up. As your total minutes grow, the scene moves from seed to sprout, plant, tree, garden and forest, with an estimate of the air you’ve breathed. It is a metaphor; nothing real is planted.

No. ATHA has no account and makes no network requests. It contains no analytics or advertising SDKs, so nothing about your use is sent to the developer or anyone else. Apple’s App Store privacy label for ATHA reads “Data Not Collected”. Full details: Privacy Policy.

On your device only. There is no ATHA cloud or iCloud sync; your data is included in your normal device backup, which Apple and your settings control.

In ATHA, go to Settings › Data › Reset progress. Deleting the app also removes its local data (subject to your backups). Entries already written to Apple Health stay in the Health app until you delete them there.

No. ATHA never receives your data, so there is nothing to sell, rent or share.

No. ATHA is free, with no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Every feature is included.

ATHA has no in-app purchases, so you should never see one. If you do, please email a screenshot so it can be fixed.

There is no paid tier today. If that ever changes, it will be announced on the website before the update that changes it.