Updates / Status

UPDATED: May-2, 2024

SPECIAL RELEASE: Standalone ‘Pro’ App v2.4.4 — Released May-2, 2024

The standalone ‘Pro’ app on Android is being sunset (more info). This is the one last update to help users switch to the main Android app.

v3.6.1 — Released Apr-28, 2024

Android: publicly available as of Apr-28
iOS: publicly available as of Apr-27

What to expect

Fix: no PacedBreathing+ granted to former ‘Pro’ app users that tried to migrate
Fix: Profile titles cut-off due to excessive spacing between profiles and large font

v3.6.0 — Released Apr-25, 2024

Android: publicly available as of Apr-25
iOS: publicly available as of Apr-22

What to expect

Add: iOS Background Playback: iPhone + iPad users rejoice, you can now keep your Paced Breathing session going when you leave the app!
Fix: blank space below graphic: Some users saw a big ol’ blank space below the graphic and had no way to change their breathing times.
Fix: can’t change times: No bottom sheet came up to let you change breathing times or sound settings. (if you turned off “Reduce Animations” to work around this problem, you can now change that setting back!)
Fix: app frozen / laggy: Some users weren’t able to change their breathing times or start a session.
Fix: jumpy UI: Some users had their UI jumping / flashing non-stop.
Fix: migrating failed: Some ‘Pro’ app users that were migrating had issues with profile names that had special characters.

v3.5.0 — Released Apr-12, 2024

Android: available to everyone as of Apr-12!
iOS: available to everyone as of Apr-10!

What to expect

Add: migrate profiles from “Paced Breathing Pro” app: there was a standalone android app called “Paced Breathing Pro” that had all the ads, billing, and analytics code ripped out to be a smaller app and for reducing permissions. This isn’t really a thing people are asking for anymore and it’s a pain to maintain, so I’ve made a path for those Pro users to migrate easily. This is going to be the backbone of a backup/restore systems for all users to be able to transfer their profiles between devices; I’m aiming to have that out in 2-3 weeks
UI: I moved the profile list to be just below the graph along with a bit of UI polish. People complained that it was too easy to accidentally swipe out of the app when they wanted to swipe between profiles
Fix: no sound: some users reported that the last update resulted in them not always hearing sounds during their sessions
- caused by 2 bugs:
  - 1. sounds weren’t being reset properly. I fixed that issue, so in this new release sounds should work and crashes should stay reduced as in v3.4.0
  - 2. Android was going to sleep when the screen was turned off
Fix: no vibrations: vibrations sometimes wouldn’t work with the screen off
- caused by Android going to sleep when the screen was turned off
Fix: notifications: the artwork is better, the stop button is gone which people said was in the way, the times for each breath phase is now correct

v3.4.0 — Released Feb-29, 2024

This one adds notifications and better vibration options:

Android: available to everyone as of Feb-26!
iOS: available to everyone as of Feb-29!

What’s New

Add: notifications: get daily reminders to do a breathing session! Let me know if you want more options, this is just the 1st version! (available under settings, requires PacedBreathing+)
Add Vibration strength setting: if you think the vibrations are too weak, you can now go to settings and turn it to ‘high’
Fixed crash: saw an increase in crashes on Android due to a bug in the sound player library we use, fixed it which reduced Android crashes by 84%.

v3.3.0 — Released Feb-15, 2024

Smaller fixes and features:

Android: went public Feb-16
iOS: went public Feb-15

if you have any issues, let me know: hello@pacedbrething.app

What’s new

Add: disable countdown setting: if you want to jump straight into your session, you can now disable the countdown in the settings page (use side menu to access)
Add: disable end sound setting: if you don’t like the ding sound played at the end of the session, you can now disable it in the settings page. More sound options coming soon!
Fix Attempt: forever ‘Loading’: occasionally, the green text would be stuck on “Loading” forever, this should be fixed
Fix Attempt: subscribe pop-up: the subscription pop-up would sometimes pop-up when trying to do things that don’t require subscribing; this *might* be fixed now
Fix Attempt: huge font: the app looked absolutely terrible for users using a larger font on their device; should look better now
Fix: binaural beats: before neither side used pure tones, and the right side actively sounded wrong. Now left side inhale is 261.63Hz (C4 in music) and exhale is 196Hz (G3 in music). The right side is 4.5hz higher. More options to adjust these, coming soon!
Fix: delayed sound: fixed the delay in the 1st inhale sound of a session
Fix: sudden session end: before if the timer ran out and you were more than 10 sec away from finishing a breath, the session would suddenly end. Now your current breath will finish
Fix: zoomed out graph: many devices would see a slightly zoomed out graph visual; so at the end of exhale hold, the dot wasn’t at the end of the screen; now it should go right up to the edge
Fix: update crash: users that updated from certain versions of the app would previously crash or notice strange behavior

v3.2.0 — Released Jan-9, 2024

This built upon v3.1.13, fixing smaller bugs and adding background playback on Android:

Android: went public Jan-12
iOS: went public on Jan-9

What’s fixed in this release

Can’t play something else at the same time (Android-only; iOS doesn’t support background mode yet)
- this was done intentionally to fix other bugs where Android would stop PB mid-session to save battery. I worked around that by making PB behave like a music player, but Android by default allows one music player to play at once; I’ve changed that default behavior and now PB still looks like a music player but it’ll play alongside other music/podcast/video apps.
Vibrate too soft or not working in some cases
- caused by using a soft vibration pattern that is a) too soft and b) doesn’t work on many Samsung devices. I switched to a stronger pattern that should be available on all Samsung devices.
Improved frame rate / animation and battery life
- caused by some bugs leading to UI updates being really heavy/slow.
Deleted profiles
- caused by mismigrated profiles from previous versions. Should only happen once when updating from a version before 3.1.13 to a version after 3.1.13.
Not all sounds were visible in picking dialog
- caused by an obscure bug in a library we use

v3.1.13 — Released Jan-4, 2024

This releases fixes major bugs in the previous update (v3.1.12, released on Dec-29):

Android: went public on Jan-4
iOS: went public on Jan-6

If you find any new bugs OR one of the things I thought I fixed aren’t actually fixed, please reach out at hello@pacedbreathing.app!

What’s fixed in these releases

Crashing on app open
- caused by spaces in profile names
Blank page on app open
- caused by slow internet on 1st open
Seeing ads when you’re supposed to be ad-free
- caused by poor/no internet on 1st app open after update
You bought an in app purchase before and it’s gone
- same cause as ads issue above
Lots of weird vertical vertical text at the bottom, ie “Matrix mode”
- caused by bug that showed all past / deleted profiles

V3.1.12 — Released Dec-29, 2023

This was a very large release where the entire app was rewritten to run on both Android and iOS!

People have reported some pretty big bugs which I unfortunately didn’t catch during testing. I’m furiously working on a fix and I’m aiming to release another update in the first week of January!

Below is the list of issues I’m working on. If a bug you’re experiencing isn’t already on the list, email me asap at hello@pacedbreathing.app

App crashes: Mostly due to us not migrating your profiles correctly from the last app version (most typically because there was a space at the end of the profile name)
- Workaround: wait and I’ll fix it properly for you; if you’re desperate you can clear app data or uninstall/reinstall (NOTE: you will lose all your profiles; whereas waiting for the update won’t!)
- FIX: fix the bug in the profile migrating code
Lots of weird vertical text at the bottom (ie Matrix mode bug): Two bugs in one: we show you all profiles you ever made (including deleted ones) and they are all jammed on screen
- Workaround: wait and I’ll fix it properly for you; if you’re desperate you can clear app data or uninstall/reinstall (NOTE: you will lose all your profiles; whereas waiting for the update won’t!)
- FIX: I’m going to automatically remove the deleted profiles and allow the profile list to scroll so if you have lots of legit profiles, they won’t crowd your screen
Can’t play something else at the same time: You used to be able to play podcasts or background music during your sessions and now you can’t. This was done on purpose to fix the bug where the app would get killed by the operating system mid-session. However this broken a lot of people’s use cases
- Workaround: none, just wait for the update!
- FIX: I’m going to change screen awake will to be: background vs multitask mode. multitask mode will work exactly like the app did before. background mode will work like it does now
Blank screen on app open: I’m looking up your purchases on the first app open after you update and if your internet isn’t good, it can show a blank screen.
- Workaround: open the app when you have good internet (only for the 1st open)
- FIX: I’ll make it so we do this work in the background!
Vibrate doesn’t work: this is due to a change in Android 13 and mostly out of our control (we were using a hack to make it work before)
- Workaround: enable “Haptic Feedback” in your phone settings
I bought an in app purchase and it’s gone:
- If you bought the ad-free in-app purchase, you should still be ad-free forever, even without PB+.
- If you bought one of the other in-app purchases, you should get 3-mo free of PB+ for every year it’s been since you made the purchase.
- If you made a donation, you should get 3-mo free of PB+ for every year since it’s been times the size of the donation (eg $5 donation 2 years ago = 5*2*3 = 30 months free
- You can see this under the “Upgrade” page from the side menu. If this isn’t shown, it’s a bug and I’m currently working on a fix.
What is PB+?: PB+ is a subscription service because I want to be able to earn an income from PB to add some of the cool features (notifications, more sounds/visuals, courses/tutorials to help share some of the really cool use cases people have found for PB, etc).