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Essential Breathing
A minimal breathing timer for calm pauses
Essential Breathing is a tiny open-source breathing app for simple, quiet pauses. It shows a smooth visual inhale/exhale rhythm, lets you adjust breath and session duration, and works directly in the browser as a lightweight PWA. No account, no clutter, no coaching noise — just a calm timer to help you slow down for a few minutes.
I built Essential Breathing because I wanted a very simple breathing app — and most of the ones I found on Android felt too complicated, required an account, had subscriptions, or included ads.
So I made the opposite: a tiny, quiet breathing timer with no account, no ads, no subscription, and no unnecessary features. You open it, press play, and follow a smooth visual inhale/exhale rhythm.
The project started as a small Godot mobile app. I originally wanted to publish it on the Android store, but the release process felt too heavy for such a simple tool, so I made a lightweight web/PWA version that anyone can use directly in the browser.
I’d love to hear your feedback, especially on whether it feels simple, calm, and useful enough for short pauses during the day.
About Essential Breathing on Product Hunt
“A minimal breathing timer for calm pauses”
Essential Breathing was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. Essential Breathing is a tiny open-source breathing app for simple, quiet pauses. It shows a smooth visual inhale/exhale rhythm, lets you adjust breath and session duration, and works directly in the browser as a lightweight PWA. No account, no clutter, no coaching noise — just a calm timer to help you slow down for a few minutes.
On the analytics side, Essential Breathing competes within Health & Fitness, Open Source, Meditation and GitHub — topics that collectively have 205.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Essential Breathing performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Essential Breathing?
Essential Breathing was hunted by Philippe De Pol. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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