Breathe in Truth.
Breathe out Anxiety.

Most deep breathing apps help calm your body and tell you to empty your mind, but what about the intrusive thoughts that so quickly return and feed anxiety? Breathe Hope is different. It’s a deep breathing app designed to fight anxiety through science-backed breathing and deep truths that anchor your heart to hope.

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Why Breathe Hope?

Anchor your heart in truth.

You need more than just a breathing exercise. Guided sessions pair proven respiratory techniques with specific promises from Scripture that help you center your heart on truth and hope.

Effortless adaptive breathing.

Say goodbye to apps that aren’t paced for you or require complex settings. Breathing sessions start at your current breathing pace and gently guide you toward an ideal resonant breathing rate. Just start and let the app do the rest.

Completely free, privacy first.

No cost, no ads, no locked features, and no subscriptions. The Breathe Hope app is meant to make resources for fighting anxiety and building hope free and accessible to anyone. Plus, no personal information is collected or stored.

How It Works

A calming, distraction-free experience

From the moment you open the app.

Breathe Hope session setup screen

Set up in seconds

Choose your session length and pick a background. Then use one breath to give the app your baseline breathing rate. No complex settings, just an immersive, simple interface that adapts to you and helps calm your body, mind, and heart.

Breathe Hope breathing session with animated sphere

Let the app guide you

An animated sphere moves naturally to guide your breaths in and out. You’ll gradually move to an ideal breathing rate as the session progresses while Bible verses give you promises, hope, and truth to center your heart.

Breathe Hope session complete screen

Reflect and meditate

After a session, you have a chance to review the verses that appeared while you were breathing. These are powerful promises and truths to help you continue to displace anxious thoughts and find peace and hope for your day.

What Users Are Saying

“The app helped me find peace and calm while I felt like I was out of control.”

— NameA

“I love the beautiful imagery, ambient sounds, and powerful verses. This is my favorite breathing app to date.”

— NameB

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Common Questions

Yes, the Breathe Hope app is 100% free. There are no subscriptions, no locked features, and no ads. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit and designed the app to make beautiful, helpful resources available to anyone.
Multiple scientific studies show that breathing techniques can lower anxiety and stress. While there are different breathing techniques available, resonant breathing is simple to follow and designed to activate your body’s natural calm response by synchronizing your breath rate to your heart rate variability.

Since anxiety typically increases breathing rates significantly, it can be a frustrating experience to try to match a slow guided breathing rate. The app calibrates to the user’s current breathing rate so each session begins at a pace the user feels comfortable with. As the session progresses, the app eases the user to an ideal resonant breathing rate.

If you’d like to read more, check out either of these studies:
The app is designed to be usable while anxiety is high or during a relaxed state. Studies show that 10 to 20 minutes of breathing exercises per day can significantly reduce anxiety and stress levels. So, schedule time for breathing sessions or use the app to help you find calm based on what you need.
Yes! The app can be used when anxiety or worry arises, and it can also be used to help you practice calming and recentering throughout your day. The app includes a simple reminder feature to give you gentle nudges at times that work best for you.
The app is designed with accessibility in mind, including optional high-contrast mode, haptic feedback modes, and compatibility with tools like VoiceOver and TalkBack.
The Breathe Hope app displays Bible verses during breathing sessions to help users focus on hope-filled truth. Whether you are a Christian or you are exploring faith, this app is a great place to calm your body, still your mind, and center on promises that are filled with hope.
This app was created by helloHOPE, a non-profit organization that helps families facing a childhood diagnosis fight for hope. Anxiety is becoming a more common battle across all ages and seasons, so this app was created as a resource to help anyone fighting anxiety and seeking more peace, calm, and hope in their life.