Kardia - Breath Stress Relief
Let Kardia guide your breath with sounds and the smooth movement of the sphere. Feel your body and mind relax, and your heart rate vary in harmony with your breath. This powerful and simple exercise is accessible to everyone, including kids.
Here is what users say:"Very good app. Really! And I've tested several of them. Congratulations!" François"Very useful to practice cardia coherence wherever you are. Very simple to use." Magali"Super app that helps me everyday Olivier
Uses
- Stress relief
- Calm down anxiety attacks
- Cardiac coherence
- Sleep aid: fight insomnia by focusing on deep breathing
- Relaxation
- Meditation sessions and sophrology exercises
- Concentration improvement
Features
- Breathing rate between 5.5 and 6 cycles/min, adapted to paced breathing for cardiac coherence
- Exercise duration between 1 minute and 1 hour.
- Usable without looking at the screen thanks to guiding sounds
- No ad nor user profiling
During ten days, try those exclusive features for free:
- Large choice of high quality relaxing sounds
- Breathing rate between 1 and 15 cycles/min with inhalation/exhalation ratio
- Automatically slow down or speed up breathing rate during the session
- Advanced mode, with 0.1s precision on inhalation and exhalation durations
Unlock all those features with a single in-app purchase.
HRV, paced breathing and cardiac coherenceWith Kardia, you can practice heart rate variability (HRV) training through paced breathing. By breathing at a specific rate, around 5.5 cycles/min, your HRV increases and becomes regular. This state is known as cardiac coherence, or cardio-respiratory coherence. Many scientific studies have demonstrated that it has beneficial effects on stress and anxiety level, blood pressure, depression and sleep.
The best breathing rate is different for everyone. With Kardia, you can set very precisely the exercise frequency, so you will just need a few tries to find out the value that gives you the best results.
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (30)
Amazing! I was going through what is commonly know in psychology as "fragmentation" and this application definitly played an important role in my recovery. The design is simple, but practical, and the customizations are very helpful. This is the best app for breathing exercises I've found so far. Well worth buying the premium version (which is so cheap anyway). Thank you, whoever you are, for creating this.
Far, far better functionality than the breathing sessions on my fitness watch. Fully customizable and intuitively designed with well-written instructions: the paid version of this app is well worth the money.
Great anchor when I'm having trouble settling into meditation, and I've also started using it while studying to make sure I'm not tensing up too much. (ideas for improvement: indefinite run mode, keep running with screen locked, maybe shared/synced sessions with friends)
What a great app! I recently suffered an episode of atrial fibrillation and using a custom cardiac coherence exercise I brought my rhythm back to sinus. Experiment to get the best personalised ratio to suit your preference. 5 in, 6 out suits me. There are loads of other custom options too to get the look you like. Well done and thanks!
Didn't expect breathing to have such a calming effect. Surprisingly awesome. It would be great if there were links to additional resources like books, videos or blogs about the activity and how it works and suggested ways to use the app.
Love this app for slow, resonant breathing or working with different inhale/exhale ratios. Easily customizable, easy to use. I like the gentle sound guidance so I can close my eyes & not have to watch the screen.
This is the best breathing app I've found. Have used it on IPhone for about 3 years. Now changed to using android. It's lovely for its clean relaxing format. I've used several breathing apps and this is best for visualization of lungs opening smoothly to fill and closing smoothly to expell air
This app is a wonderful deep breathing tool, is highly customizable for all and totally worth purchasing! If I had to suggest anything, it would be to build a custom reminder so I maybe reminded throughout each day 2 pause and breathe.
Great app for free. It would be perfect if there was a way to automatically detect your current breathing rate, then alter it from there. Other than that, i think this very useful 👍
I really appreciate it and intend to buy it... Is it possible to switch in french?... I use it for the most part on mode audio only...the sound to signal inhale and exhale could be more distinct specially when I use a 6-4 ratio... Thank you so much. Discovering kardia really made my day 😇🙏🌼
The best app for resonance breathing and meditation. No distracting UI, etc. Just the functionality. Fantastic app 👌
I have been having difficulty deep breathing. The doctor informed me that I had to improve my deep breathing or I would get pneumonia. In the beginning I was losing ground. But since I found this app my breathing has improved tremendously. I am not out of the woods yet but I'm on my way.
I'm in treatment for anxiety, & got this app because a similar breathing exercise posted by a mental health agency on Twitter was so helpful! I've literally stopped in mid meltdown to get out my phone & USE THIS APP!!! Thanks so much!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love the breathing exercises, app does not default to phone screen rotation preferance, screen rotates when phone screen rotation is turned off, drives me crazy.
Very well thought out and beautiful app. I love the fact that you can fall asleep to it while it lights up the ceiling, what a neat idea! :).
Hi you have a great app. One big issue though: when I background it to do something else it stops playing the sounds! Please fix. Thanks
Nice app Very very very difficult to change duration of session and cycles per minute. Swiping doesnt help. The app does not respond
Love this app! Only suggestion is to somehow lock the settings better because sometimes when you touch the screen it changes them.
Great and easy app to use. Could be nice to have a opportunity to change the vibration for a nice quiet sound.
Great app - would love to have a lock to avoid messing with exhaling and inhaling duration. A daily notification too.
The music is useful so you don't have to watch the app. The graphics are better than the other one I tried.
For those of us who deal with a persistent, underlying anxiety, this app helps get me back into a parasympathetic rhythm.
Relaxing, good way to fall asleep. I tried it with my 5 year old too for self-regulation practice. Useful for kegels too.
Simple and easy to use, nice visual and haptic feedback.
Remarkable work and definitely stands apart from other similar apps. I would give it 10 stars.
Fantastic app! It calms me down and I feel great after each session! Thanks!!!
I use it discretely in vivrate only. switching off the screen is great to save battery.
Very intuitive. Makes me look forward to my breathing exercises.
Has helped a lot to be able to do brearhwork. Very calming.
I can't even use this app because the orientation mode won't lock; the screen keeps flipping between portrait mode and landscape mode and won't respond to my phone orientation lock. My back button doesn't work either. I'm also not a huge fan of all the swiping for controls. It's too much to remember when I just want to relax.