breathe

A macOS menu bar breathing pacer. 5.5s inhale, 5.5s exhale — the resonant breathing rate from James Nestor's Breath.

A pulsing circle lives in your menu bar. Click it for a larger view with a countdown timer.

install

Download Breathe-v1.1.0-macos.zip from the latest release, unzip it, and move Breathe.app to your Applications folder.

Then remove the quarantine flag (required since the app isn't code-signed):

xattr -cr /Applications/Breathe.app

Open Breathe.app and you're good to go.

build from source

git clone https://github.com/jcstein/breathe.git
cd breathe
swift build -c release
cp .build/release/Breathe /usr/local/bin/breathe

auto-launch on login

System Settings → General → Login Items → "+" → select Breathe from Applications.

requirements

• macOS 13+
• Apple Silicon (arm64)