Why is it a subscription?

* Why am I in gray? It's a reasonable thing to ask about an app with no server-side expenses.

Any plans for an Android version? I'd love to try it, but I'm on the other side of the Apple App Store wall :(

A friend of mine was working on this exact thing about 2 years ago in collaboration with the NHS before Google pulled half their stack out from under them. Incredibly sad on the whole but glad that it's happening in some form.

> We’re also close to finishing the medical device version - http://lungy.health - designed as a pulmonary rehab platform for patients with asthma, it should hopefully undergo early trials in the UK in 2026.

This sounds great. Maybe there could also be something to help people support an asthma attack, or a beginning one. Breathing can be hard folks.

Mostly saying this, because this brought up memories of a situation where a woman on a bus had the beginnings of an asthmatic attack and then realized she didn't have her inhalator on her and started to stress out. The poor bus driver had no idea what do to and also started to panic. So I ended up just being here, helping her remember techniques like the coachman seat, pursed lip breathing, all while I was kinda fighting that on one hand, my inhalator is an entirely standard inhalator, but on the same time, handing out prescription medication like that can be really, really dangerous.

Give this[1] a read, it's good to now :)

1: https://www.pari.com/int/blog/breathing-excercise-asthma/

Why are you linking your app to anxiety and stress for V2? The earlier launch post had no mention of that.

I recall the original post about Lungy.

Having had an incentive spirometer prescribed for post-surgical use after being on bypass, my experience was that it seemed boring and like a waste of time, so anything that makes breathing exercises more engaging and feel more worthwhile is a win.

What medical research is this based on? Isn't general breathing exercises, generally bunk?

edit: Having any medical-adjacent app collect any data for the use of advertising (according to the app page) seems really wrong.

Me and my brethren have been using this tons :) I could most respectfully request a breathholding feature, hyping one up to hold ones breath for a minute and reminding to pass it left

How would you compare to a general meditation app like “Waking Up” curious if you’ve used it.

I remember this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hakjav.hel...

When I was a boy they called that “biofeedback”. Damn kids ruin everything.

What would be the advantages of this over, say, setting a timer and doing box breathing?

I tried this when it first came out but it always felt gimmicky and didn’t work randomly Will give it another try

Great idea and ux

FDA approval pending?

Hey,i'm trying it and just a sidenote : the french translation is atrocious (to the point where you may completely misunderstand the feature). I had to translate back to english in my head to try and find the original meaning.

A quick example : "detection de l'haleine" instead of "detection du souffle".

"Haleine" in french is mostly used to mean the "smell" of the breath. And i found examples like this in almost every screen.

Thanks for the reminder, I used to use Lungy a lot. Forgot about it.

I just tried v1 again, it blocks me from using it because it wants the microphone but I don’t want to give access. Can you make it optional in settings? Just following the visual is enough for me.

Don’t think it needed it when I used it. Does v2 also have the same issue?

I'm working on a meditation app, using an llm as a guide. It tracks your heart rate using the main camera of the phone, later will add breathing. Soon to be released.