Patterns that pace you
Twelve breath patterns, from the 4-7-8 wind-down to box breathing and slow, even breaths near six a minute. The orb keeps time, so you never have to count.
Stillwater · breathing & meditation
Breathe in the quiet, let the noise drift.
Tap the orb for a guided minute.
Stillwater paces your breath with light instead of noise. Follow the orb for one quiet minute — four counts in, seven held, eight out — and let the day loosen its grip.
Features
Built around the pause between breaths.
No feeds, no badges, no scoreboard. Just a handful of tools that get out of the way the moment your shoulders drop.
Descents for sleep
Long, dimming sessions that lengthen each exhale a little as the screen fades toward black. Designed so you never hear the end.
A streak that forgives
Miss a day and nothing breaks. Stillwater counts quiet minutes, not perfect weeks, and never sends a guilt-trip notification.
Voices from the quiet
Illustrative quotes. Stillwater and its listeners are fictional.
I use the one-minute orb between patients. It is the only app on my phone that makes the phone feel quieter.
I opened it to test the aurora and stayed for twenty minutes. That has never happened with a to-do list.
Four, seven, eight. My daughter counts it with me before bed now, and she is better at the hold than I am.
No streak shaming. I did not realise how much I needed an app that was allowed to be forgotten.
Holding for seven used to feel impossible. Watching the orb hover there makes it feel like floating.
My favourite feature is that it does not have many features.
Pricing
Pay for calm, not for clutter.
Every plan keeps the orb free forever. Upgrade when you want the long descents and the whole library of patterns.
Drift
Free
Always, for everyone
The breathing orb and the basics, with nothing to unlock and nothing to nag you.
- The 4-7-8 orb and one-minute sessions
- Three core breath patterns
- Gentle, optional reminders
Tide
$7/ month
Billed monthly, cancel any time
The full library for people who want breathing to become a quiet daily habit.
- All twelve patterns and custom rhythms
- Eight sleep descents with auto-dim
- Offline sessions and soft chimes
Harbour
$12/ month
Up to five people on one plan
For households that want to wind down together, even from different rooms.
- Everything in Tide, for five
- Shared quiet hours at bedtime
- A calm-minutes garden you grow together