Box Breathing Pacer
“Pace my breathing 4-4-4-4 with a circle I can follow.”
A breathing pacer you can follow with your eyes shut — and the only one that tells you where box breathing actually came from. The Navy SEAL story traces to one man who says he coined it himself. The thing with real physiological evidence is simply breathing at about six a minute, and that's a preset here too.
- A dot that travels one side of the square per phase, with a chime at each corner
- All four numbers adjustable — you are not locked into 4-4-4-4
- Tells you your rate and which parts of your pattern have evidence behind them
- The NHS pattern and the evidenced six-a-minute rate as one-tap presets
- Chimes built from tones by the browser — no audio files, works offline
- This one is finished and tested — not on the build list
- It will be $9, same as every other tool
- One email when it goes up, no list, no spam
Three steps, then you're done
Or leave it on the classic square and press go.
Round the square, one side per phase. Chime at every corner.
Your rate, and an honest note on which bits the research supports.
Questions
Do I need to install anything?
No. Each tool is a single file. Double-click it and it opens in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox — whichever you already have. No account, no password, no software.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Your numbers and files never leave your computer — the tools have no way to send them and no internet connection is needed to run them. You can switch your wi-fi off and they still work.
I'm not good with computers. Is this too hard?
The first thing every tool does is walk you through it in five short screens with pictures. Then there's a button that fills it with example numbers so you can watch it work before touching anything.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes. Email yourself the file and open the attachment, or drop the files in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Google Drive and open them from there — then they're on every device you own.