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BellyBio Interactive Breathing app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 5664 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: RelaxLine
Free
Current version: 1.1.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 20 Feb 2010
App size: 198.96 Mb

Put the iPhone on your stomach. Breathe deeply. Enjoy...

FOR ADVANCED BELLY-BREATHERS ONLY

BellyBio (Belly Biofeedback) is a triple innovation in deep abdominal breathing, biofeedback and music:

1 – DEEP BREATHING GETS ADDICTIVE
BellyBio generates beautiful music & light perfectly synchronized to your deep abdominal breathing movements, making deep breathing more pleasant and rewarding than ever. Youre going to love playing with your inner balloon.

2 – BIOFEEDBACK GETS SIMPLE
BellyBio turns your iPhone/iPod Touch into a highly-sensitive deep breathing sensor providing a real-time, objective stress-level index based on your breathing pattern. Biofeedback thus becomes more simple and powerful --not to mention affordable-- than ever, so you can now know for sure whos the coolest dude in the neighborhood.

3 – MUSIC GETS BREATHABLE
The first "Abdominal Music Player", BellyBio makes music play in sync with your breathing, which in return makes your breathing calm down. Is it you who follow the music or the music that follows you? You dont listen to music anymore, you merge with it.

IMPORTANT NOTICE -- Practicing BellyBio will require you to:

a) BE ABLE TO NATURALLY BREATHE DEEPLY AND SLOWLY FROM YOUR BELLY, meaning your belly --and not your chest-- must significantly and effortlessly inflate when you inhale and deflate when you exhale. If you cant, youd probably better not download this app since nothing is more annoying and ineffective than struggling to achieve deep abdominal breathing (and by the way this will perhaps avoid somewhat angry customer ratings... ;-))

b) PROPERLY POSITION THE iPHONE ON YOUR PELVIS, FACE UP, SO AS TO MAKE IT TILT BACK & FORTH when you breathe deeply in & out from your belly (BellyBio measures the increase/decrease of the angle between the iPhone and your body). The bottom of the iPhone should rest still on your pelvis while the top moves up and down with your lower belly as you breathe in & out.

WATCH THE IN-APP DEMO to see how it works (www.youtube.com/bellybio).

The app is quite heavy (170 Mo) due to the multiformat music base. Wifi is required to download it.

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FEATURES
- Several interactive musical themes you can breathe deeply in and out (i.e. have BellyBio play in sync with your deep abdominal breathing)
- One of those themes (“Calmitude pitch”) provides you with a direct audio stress-level feedback through the pitch of the inhaling tone (the lower the stress, the lower the pitch)
- Choice of breathing colors displayed in sync with each in- and out-breath
- Graph showing real-time breathing and stress curves
- Log (date, duration of use, minimum stress, minimum breathrate, Qi production)
- 3D-earth animation showing all BellyBio users on the planet
- Whether you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, the main home button must always be close to your lap, not to your chest.
- Child-proof (successfully tested on 5-year-old with adult assistance)

QUOTES (sort of)
- "All thumbs and navels up!!!" (Buddha, India)
- "BellyBio rests on the belly just like the leaf floats on the sea." (Lao Tzu, China)
- "Bellissimo BellyBio!" (L. Da Vinci, Italy)
- "To breathe or not to breathe? To breathe, period. With BellyBio!" (W. Shakespeare, UK)
- "I play BellyBio, therefore I stop thinking, therefore I am." (R. Descartes, France)
- "So cool!" (I. Newton, UK)
- "Makes me wanna compose a dozen sonatas and concertos for BellyBio! Please give me 10 minutes." (W. A. Mozart, Austria)
- "Even with only one ear, this thing just blew my mind!" (V. Van Gogh, Netherlands)
- "Undoubtedly absolute." (A. Einstein, Germany)
- "Why didnt they call it iBelly?" (S. Jobs, USA)

WARNING
This application is not meant to substitute for medical diagnosis and/or treatment. Should you feel any pain or discomfort, please stop immediately and consult your physician or health professional.

Pros and cons of BellyBio Interactive Breathing app for iPhone and iPad

BellyBio Interactive Breathing app good for

I was well impressed by this meditation tool. You put it on your lower abdomen (belly) and breathe in and out deeply. This enables you to train your mind to use belly breathing we should use, instead of upper chest breathing which causes stress and poor oxygenation. After a while of wave sounds (on a beach) turn into music to let you know you have entered into a proper deep breathing state. I like to use the waves. This uses the tilt sense of the device, hence the pants thing. You can select from three musics, or buy new ones if you wish. I have no idea why it gets so low ratings, because its a great tool to meditate to and to take a look at your breathing rate... As well as a wonderful way to breathe out stress and panic. Many applications. There is a great readout feature to peruse your breathing rate.
I’m a psychotherapist and I teach my patients deep belly breathing to help them lower anxiety and become more grounded. The Belly Biofeedback application is a fabulous accompaniment and I recommend that my patients download the application and use it as part of their relaxation strategy.

Some bad moments

Perhaps it is my fault since this is an iPhone app. But I thought I would try (most iphone apps work on the ipad) as it sounds so cool. It opens and has the warning of how not to use this and then nothing is operable. I had to reboot my iPad.
I upgraded to iPhone 7 and there is no sound. Its so disappointing because this app was fantastic and now I cant use it. I will give it a 5 star rating if they fix the issue.
This is ridiculous and doesnt work. The amount of effort it takes to get the positioning right cancels out any tranquility this app would actually provide.
Seriously great app with a quirky sense of humor as well. Ill use it often.
Im a retired doc with mildly elevated blood pressure. I have been using a stand alone similar device ($200+) which is quite effective in reducing stress and bp. But this app is equally effective, free, gives better data and always with me. Im embarassed to say how many apps I have, but lets just say this is #1 out of 225! The big caveat is you do have to be comfortable with diaphragmatic or belly breathing. Id just like to see a timer on the app, although each segment seems to be about 6 minutes. And I like the humor. GREAT JOB
After three years wit iPod touch this is my first review because this app deserves it. If you truly know how to belly breath this app is for you. If you dont you will learn how

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