breathe: peripheral breath trainer 💨💨

breathe is a (distraction-free) peripheral breath trainer, it helps you breathe correctly so you can stay calm and focus on what matters. Breathe's window is small and it always stays on top so you can look at it peripherally, while doing other stuff.

Features

• ✅ Custom exercises
• ✅ Custom window color for each step
• ✅ Anchoring selector
• ✅ Transport between spaces and works on fullscreen
• ✅ Progressively increase time intervals
• ✅ Open at login
• 🚧 Fluid color change between steps

Motivation

I created this project after reading some hn articles on how breathing correctly can help you focus and can calm you. I don't expect this to work for everyone but it does indeed work for me. Some of the articles:

• https://quietkit.com/box-breathing/
• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-healing-power-of-proper-breathing-11590098696

If you want to see the Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24008678

Installation

Mac

You can download the app here.

Linux

Right now breathe doesn't run on linux but @amar-laksh provided an awesome KISS solution:

• Install imv: https://github.com/eXeC64/imv (really lightweight viewer)
• Download this gif breathe.gif: https://quietkit.com/img/box-breathing-4x-v03.gif
• run imv breathe.gif
• Set it to a custom shortcut and press q to close window.

Contributing

Feel free to Contribute to this project!

Contributors

• @filipeisho
• @amar-laksh
• @guimcaballero

License

The MIT License (MIT).